Marc Becker
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Medea Benjamin, medea@codepink.org, is available to speak on resisting US militarism and interventions. She is a co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and of the human rights group Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than 40 years. Described as “one of America’s most committed—and most effective—fighters for human…
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Alexander Aviña, alexander.avina@asu.edu, is available to speak on immigration, US–Latin America relations. He is an associate professor of history at Arizona State University. He researches social movements and state violence in 20th century Mexico, and his current research project explores the links between the political economy of narcotics, drug wars, and state violence in 1960s…
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Good news: *Some* of the lifetime financial penalties for failure to register for the draft have been rescinded: https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002573.html Bad news: Congress is likely to amend the law in 2021 to require young women as well as young men to register for the draft, probably starting with women born in 2005 and after: https://hasbrouck.org/draft/calendar.html…
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The higher education system in the United States is in crisis. Neoliberalism, the current phase of capitalism, has led to privatization, the decrease and/or cutting of state funds, with the resulting skyrocketing costs of education and student debt. The pandemic has both exposed and intensified the weaknesses of the public as well as the private…
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On June 18, the provost at Truman State University sent a message to department chairs ordering that “Faculty are expected to physically be on campus this fall for the majority of their teaching, advising, research, service, office hours, etc.” That mandate caused an outcry among the faculty who rightfully believed that the administration was putting…
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On August 15th, Scholars for Social Justice will host a webinar featuring several speakers. This webinar will take place via zoom at 1-2:30 pm EST. More information will be coming soon! The registration link can be found below. Speakers include: – Davarian Baldwin, author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower (forthcoming), Trinity College – Destin Jenkins, author…
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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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Colleagues, Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-Pad) is concerned with threats of invasion and regime change in Venezuela. Below is a statement from Codepink denouncing moves in this direction. While we do not need to agree on what the Venezuelan government should do, and we don’t need to endorse everything the Democrats are saying, we…
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H-Pad is happy to announce the release of its sixth broadside. In “Building a Regime of Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1840-1945,” Felice Batlan traces a century of U.S. government laws, policies, and attitudes regarding immigration. The broadside explores how ideas about race, class, religion, and the Other repeatedly led to laws restricting the immigration of those…
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“Pennsylvania was key to Trump’s presidential victory, Westmoreland County was key to Pennsylvania, and District Seven was key to Westmoreland County.” READ MORE . . . This article was posted by Political Research Associates and by the History News Network. The author, Margaret Power, grew up in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and has often returned. She teaches history at…