Join us for a compelling webinar on "Legal Cynicism and Contemporary Armed Conflicts," organized by the ASIL Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict. 🗓 Date: September 16, 2024 🕙 Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET 💻 Platform: Zoom Register for free: asil.org/events

The pandemic should have led to universal health care, paid sick leave, upgraded ventilation in millions of buildings, massive investment in preventive healthcare and ongoing vaccination campaigns. Instead we got $1200 and the impending criminalization of masking.

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For $2.90. A cop opened fire. For $2.90. A bystander, shot in the head, is in critical condition & another bystander and cop were shot as well. For $2.90. Let us never normalize this harm/violence. What is considered a crime is socially constructed. search.app/4hPAPibEYmh8nB…

Updated this list a bit this AM. It’s now at nearly 100 different campuses.

The NYPD spent $150 Million *extra* last year to catch people who weren't able to afford to pay the subway fare. They owed just $104,000. $150 million could buy free fares (at going rate) for 95,000 poor New Yorkers per year. Instead four people shot, including an officer.

The law of armed conflict draws our attention to discrete acts and violations in ways that obscure larger structures of violence. This leads us to focus on a specific tree and miss the entire forest on fire. ICYMI ASIL webinar: youtube.com/live/o13N1L0T-… On Legal Cynicism in War

“If you find a book that you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” - Toni Morisson

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I didn’t even allow myself to hope on this one and it still hurts deeply.

I don't really have any words. America runs on death.

Join us for a Social Justice for Data Science lecture w/Chaz Arnett, prof. of law Maryland Carey Law, Mon., 9/30, Barrister's Hall, Boston University School of Law. Topic: "The School-to-Surveillance Pipeline: Mass School Shootings, Digital Securitization, & the Struggle for Data Justice." bit.ly/4e3JcC9

We are in an uncontrolled pandemic that is creating a recognized disability and academics are busy writing think pieces about how there are too many disability accommodations.

Nothing to see here -- just an internal report by Shell from 1989 precisely predicting the "violent weather" and "deluges" that just destroyed half of Appalachia, and summing up expected climate chaos with the comment, "Civilisation could prove a fragile thing."