June 2020
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Dear friends, We are writing about H-PAD's new project, the Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights, a nonpartisan national effort to enlist faculty at all levels as public allies to students seeking to vote. Please read our “Open Letter to College and University Faculty” explaining why this network is urgently needed to challenge voter suppression amid the new…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Juneteenth: Activists Across US Inherit a Historic Battle for Racial Justice” By Kenya Evelyn, The Guardian, posted June 19 A history of the observance of Juneteenth, the holiday that, according to President Trump, “nobody had ever heard about.” “The Cops Can Be Defeated – But Not by Taking Obama's…
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H-PAD strongly supports the Poor People's Campaign, and urges its supporters to participate in the June 20 We Rise Together Assembly and Moral March on Washington! Van Gosse and Margaret Power, Co-Chairs
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Professor Samer Alatout of the Department of Community & Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison has been under attack from the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC), a notorious organization that targets faculty members due to their positions on Palestine/Israel. This May, DHFC included Professor Alatout on its list of “The Top Ten…
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H-PAD endorses this urgently-needed webinar on the connections between racialized policing and universities! Van Gosse and Margaret Power, Co-Chairs
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Historians Against Slavery stands with those protesting the brutal murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, Eleanor Bumpers, and Alberta Spruill, along with the many other Black and Brown victims of police and vigilante violence in the United States, past and present. We are an organization that mobilizes historical literacy to fight contemporary slavery as…
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H-PAD Members: H-PAD Newsletter #3 on responding to the crisis is attached. Newsletter-3-Current-Crisis-6.14..20.pdf
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Richmond's Confederate Monuments Were Used to Sell a Segregated Neighborhood” By Kevin M. Levin, The Atlantic, posted June 11 “Real Estate Developers used the statues on Monument Avenue to draw white buyers to a neighborhood where houses could not be sold 'to any person of African descent.'” The author…
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In the context of the ongoing events in the US, important pieces about the connection of militarization of police forces and the Israeli occupation in Palestine: Minnesota cops ‘trained by Israeli forces in restraint techniques’ WITH WHOM ARE MANY U.S. POLICE DEPARTMENTS TRAINING? WITH A CHRONIC HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATOR – ISRAEL North…
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H-PAD members and friends, Duke University Press has made all of issue 137 of the Radical History Review “Policing, Justice, and the Radical Imagination” freely available for a few months. Duke has updated a previously-published Police Violence Syllabus . It features the Policing issue as well as two articles from earlier issues. Also see the…