The UN is extremely cautious about declaring famine. Places where lots of people are dying of hunger are routinely characterized as “on the brink” of famine for ages. So when they say w/out hesitation that “there is famine, full-blown famine” in Gaza, it means it’s very, very bad

The oceans are being emptied of wild fish to make ... feed for farmed fish, with a 75% quantity reduction in the process.

Sometimes it feels like we're doing every last thing we possibly can to kill off the living biosphere.
finance.yahoo.com/news/world-hun…

“It is a level of repression of campuses in the United States that I have not seen in my lifetime.'

Dartmouth labor historian Annelise Orleck talks about her violent arrest--and what the 54th anniversary of Kent State feels like at US universities:
theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

Palestinian scholar Jehad Abusalim جهاد أبو سليم says Israel's destruction of all universities in the Gaza Strip and the killing of hundreds of educators must be mourned. Human rights experts have called Israel's attacks on Palestinian education a 'scholasticide.' democracynow.org/2024/4/30/jeha…

Today is May 4th, the anniversary of the massacre of students at Kent State. Important, and chilling, to remember these young lives cut short, as our students face militarized policing of their brave voices today.

Palestinian Doctor Adnan Al-Bursh Dies in Israeli Prison; Released Detainee Describes Horror of Arrest democracynow.org/2024/5/3/headl…

Joe Biden probably won't condemn these racist protestors or the Republican congressman who is praising them. It's worth asking why.

Columbia College student council: 'The misrepresentation of events perpetuated by administration has allowed them to justify extreme police force and brutality against their own students. The administration has betrayed us.'

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Once again: The UVA encampment protesting the killing of 33,000 innocent civilians in Gaza has been completely peaceful & not disruptive at all. When cops were called in today, protesters were reading, sleeping, & talking with each other. This show of force is completely unjust.

UN World Food Program Cindy McCain: “There is famine — full-blown famine — in the north of Gaza, and it’s moving its way south.”

I wrote a piece about the #StudentProtests through the lens of teaching at Princeton & faculty engagement.. theguardian.com/us-news/commen…

South Asia is sleepwalking towards climate catastrophe. It's the highest populated & among the most climate change vulnerable regions in the world, yet there's hardly any public awareness or policy discussions on the unlivable conditions, crop failures & mass migrations to come.

Unprecedented heat wave acrooss the Indian sub continent and South East Asia, the whole region has turned into a raging inferno. Rains failed in Philippines, Thailand leading to unprecedented drought like conditions. Scary situation this, just imagine 40+ temperature in Nepal,…

A week ago Mongabay published the news that a poaching gang killed 10% of the remaining Javan rhinos on Earth. A week later no one else has covered this.

How can we do anything about the mass extinction crisis if the news refuses to cover it?

news.mongabay.com/2024/04/a-sing…

Shafik offers no vision of what a university is, or what one should be. She talks about her time at the IMF and says Columbia 'can be an exemplar for a better world' and she wants 'to rebuild community.' She sounds like a banker reciting a corporate PR statement.

Great piece by Howard French
foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/02/col…

Went to an encampment and talked to some kids about the extreme disillusionment they feel about American institutions, particularly the media. newyorker.com/news/fault-lin…

Please amplify: Félix V. Matos Rodríguez is allowing the over-charging of CUNY students--many are facing felonies--while Columbia intervened for its students.