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Vasanthi Venkatesh

@drvv.bsky.social
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UWindsor law prof; @j4mw; Movements, Radical Resistance. Migration, Labour, anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism || Irreverent cynic, wanderer, many interests

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Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It’s not law’s repressive face that’s the issue here but that of academia (& its cravenness)! Using generalities like “recent events” without a single mention of Yale? Not even a call to investigate the termination of Dr. Doutaghi or how you are planning to support her through this!
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Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
In solidarity with Prof. Franke. Day of disgrace for all academia. LAW schools might as well shut down if condemning & fighting against occupation & genocide is to be censored.
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...
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Statement from Katherine Franke.pdf
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I’m genuinely at a loss for words - Katherine Franke is as brilliant as she is principled and her being forced out of a tenured position for her position on Gaza and student protests feels like a gut punch to whatever remains of academic freedom in the US.
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Columbia Professor Says She Was Pushed to Retire Because of Her Activism
Katherine Franke, a law professor and vocal advocate of pro-Palestinian students, had been under investigation over remarks she made about Israeli students.
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Ahmad Algohbary @ahmadalgohbary.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“If I get killed, don’t wear black; my heart is red, not black. Wear rainbow or pink instead.” Israel wiped out Fatima and her entire family in Beirut, dropping bunker buster bombs on their home as they slept. #JusticeForFatima
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Today marks 300 days since Israeli forces killed 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her family members, and the medics sent to save her in Gaza. For months, I have pressed the US government again and again on the killing. How they’ve responded is shocking. Watch all 300 days here: zeteo.com/p/300-days-a...
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Anti-genocide protestors have laid waste to Montreal. I toured the wreckage today: potholes everywhere, McGill's campus walk ripped up, sinister-looking construction workers playing Uno nearby, & worst of all French citizens running amok calling chocolatines "pains au chocolat."
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Please donate and share this fundraiser in support of a comrade in Canada who was arrested recently and had their apartment raided for organizing for Falastin. They will remain anonymous but they need funds to move and cover legal fees. gofund.me/ee220c7b
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Donate to Help a Black Militant Facing Political Repression., organized by She Her
A well known Black militant in Canada has gone through a series of politica… She Her needs your support for Help a Black Militant Facing Political Repression.
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Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
CSIS “objective was to keep [Canadian] Abdelrazik detained [and tortured] in Sudan” as it “felt he was a terrorist.” in 2007, the RCMP confirmed that it had no "substantive information" that he was involved in any criminal activity. Gross Islamophobic Charter violation. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“The complete dismissal of entire populations as sub-human, or not equivalent to European or Euro-American bodies, is a stark reminder that the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and colonial genocide of indigenous populations by Western empires have never left us.“
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
We are a group of autonomous writers, artists, educators and translators coming together to offer online courses and workshops to raise money for people in Gaza 🥀🥀🥀
Reddish orange background with white text workshops for Gaza cascading down the square
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Reasons why our struggles in Latin America are deeply entangled with Palestine's liberation/decolonization. Israel’s role in Indigenous/campesino genocide in Guatemala —technologies of violence imported from Israel are still used to repress the movements in Guatemala.🧵1/
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Terrill Tailfeathers @terrilltf.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Keep it going. Let’s see how much reach this place has.
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Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Must read interview of Rashid Khalidi by Tariq Ali- two intellectual powerhouses. newleftreview.org/issues/ii147... Great title too. When asked why don’t you “just talk (with Israel)”. Ghassan Kanafani answered “That is [a] kind of a conversation between the sword and the neck"
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Rashid Khalidi, The Neck and The Sword, NLR 147, May–June 2024
Rashid Khalidi and Tariq Ali discuss the political and intellectual history of the Palestinian national movement, its fraught entanglement with neighbouring Arab regimes, the realities of the ‘peace p...
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Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
"The South African Church taught us the concept of state theology defined as the theological justification of the status quo with its racism, capitalism and totalitarianism. Theology of empire is disguise for superiority, supremacy, “chosenness”, and entitlement." www.facebook.com/christmaslut...
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Christ in the Rubble A Liturgy of Lament Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac...
Christ in the Rubble A Liturgy of Lament Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church Bethlehem Saturday December 23rd, 2023 We are...
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
"Gaza is now a different colour from space" apnews.com/article/isra...
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Israel's military campaign in Gaza seen as among the most destructive in recent history, experts say
After 11 weeks of war in Gaza, the Israeli military campaign against Hamas now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in history, experts say.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
❤️❤️❤️ The Onion: "According to witnesses, South African–born Musk immediately dropped to his knees after stepping on Israeli soil, overwhelmed with joy to be back in a state segregated by race and religion."
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Everything Elon Musk Did While Visiting Israel
Facing millions in lost advertising revenue after he championed an antisemitic conspiracy theory on Twitter, Elon Musk toured Israel and met with the country’s leaders. The Onion examines everything...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss
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Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies
Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Israel’s bombing of universities and libraries is a “calculated, and often vindictive, destruction of a people’s culture, language, history, and shared sites of community…to erase all evidence of Palestinian life, Palestinian humanity, from Gaza.” lithub.com/gazas-main-p...
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Gaza’s main public library has been destroyed.
Authorities in Gaza City have condemned what they say was the deliberate destruction of the city’s main public library by Israeli forces after finding the building in ruins while a ceasefire was be�...
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 27/11/2023
Who else had no fucking clue that the KKK is considered a tax-exempt religious organization instead of a terrorist organization archive.ph/wUICX (free link to article)
Follow up tweet from achmatx with the New York Times article from 2017 opinion piece white supremacist groups don’t deserve tax exemptions
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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
ICYMI: All the Palestinian speculative you can eat. Fantasy, Sci-fi, futurism, dystopias, fabulism, horror. All lengths and shapes, with links to where to find the good stuff. Curated and kept up to date by me. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
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#ReadPalestinianSpecFic Reading List
The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…
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Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
You’re supposed to be polite in your suffering. & I completely refuse this. I refuse these politics of appeal. We are human not just because we cry when we lose our mothers, or our homes, or we have pets or hobbies. We are humans because we feel rage & disdain—because we resist” t.co/cOMiRdoIjo
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The Right to Speak for Ourselves
For far too long, Palestinians have been denied the freedom to tell our own story.
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Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
Precisely how many more people will lose work by standing AGAINST genocide???
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
This and the Houthi arrest of the NYK vehicle carrier are interesting because Iran and Yemen are targeting not the shipping company (NYK/CMA CGM), but the actual owners of the vessel, in this case Eastern Pacific Shipping, which is HQed in Singapore but owned by Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer. 1/
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An Israeli-owned ship was targeted in suspected Iranian attack in Indian Ocean, US official tells AP
A container ship owned by an Israeli billionaire came under attack by a suspected Iranian drone in the Indian Ocean as Israel wages war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
As Iranians often joke: "We have freedom of speech; but we don't have freedom AFTER speech."
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Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
Absolutely outrageous disgusting police behaviour against peace activists.
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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
Let me get this straight: the Toronto police spent $1 million dollars to dispatch several officers on early morning raids to arrest...peace activists? Who put up protest posters & washable red paint? Does this city not have other spending priorities?
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
"Many academics write on decolonizing curriculums and epistemologies but hardly engage with actual forms of undoing injustice. Do we stand against settler colonialism only when it has already succeeded and when reversing colonization is deemed impossible?" mondoweiss.net/2023/10/deco...
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Decolonizing Palestine in the time of academic metaphors
We are in an era of academic metaphors where critical recognition is divorced from recognized reality. Many academics write on decolonization but hardly engage with actual forms of undoing injustice.
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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Apropos of Bolivia breaking diplomatic ties with Israel the biggest newspaper in the country is also saying Bolivia is planning to send humanitarian aid directly. This may be the path forward for given the US’ unconscionable paralyzing of the UN eldeber.com.bo/pais/bolivia...
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Bolivia rompe relaciones diplomáticas con Israel | El Deber
Anuncian envío de ayuda humanitaria a la Franja de Gaza
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Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
Superb article: “Clinics often serve to appease and deflect opposition to the ways that law schools reproduce hierarchy. To truly live up to their radical origins, clinics must be re-politicized ……..” t.co/B2XTZhGT3c
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What Law Clinics Left Behind
Though a familiar feature of legal education today, law clinics have a complex history. In the 1960s and 1970s, when student activists demanded curricular reform, law schools embraced clinics as a way...
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Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
THIS is Modi’s India. We have a moral obligation to stand up against it and a right to do so (in Canada at least) without being labelled Hinduphobe or Khalistani and dehumanizing slurs.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 24/08/2023
I gazed into the abyss and it was way overrated. I don't really see what the big deal is.
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