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Sara Stevano

@sarastevano.bsky.social
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Development & feminist political economist @SOAS Economics | into social reproduction, food, work and inequalities | African political economy, Mozambique, Ghana

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
💻 Upcoming webinar of our joint working group with @devcomms.bsky.social on land, labour and food "The social reproduction of agrarian change" with @feministonmarx.bsky.social Lyn Ossome & @sarastevano.bsky.social 📅 25 March ⌚ 02.00 pm CET ✅ Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-social...
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The social reproduction of agrarian change
Learn more about feminist political economy and rural transformations in the global south with a focus on agrarian change.
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Lena Gempke @lenagempke.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
📣 CfP | Social Reproduction @ IIPPE 2026 🗓️ Deadline: 15 February 2026 Come join us! The IIPPE Social Reproduction Working Group invites paper and panel submissions to the IIPPE 16th Annual Conference. 📍 Lisbon | 🗓️ 9–12 September 2026 👉 CfP in link below or by scanning the QR code
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Sara Stevano @sarastevano.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why | Amu Gib
Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel, says activist Amu Gib
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Surbhi Kesar @surbhikesar.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Enjoyed this conversation with Michael Walker @novaramedia.com on what the recent Nobel prizes in economics miss out about dynamics of development and what a decolonized lens helps mend that. @soaseconomics.bsky.social @soasdevelopment.bsky.social youtu.be/II7U4UlGaIA?...
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The Case For Decolonizing Economics
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SOAS Economics @soaseconomics.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics for a discussion with Jennifer Olmstead, Ibrahim Shikaki and Shir Hever on: 🎤 Symposium on Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in #Palestine 🇵🇸 🗓️ 8 October, 5PM 📍 SOAS, B103 info and livestream🔗 tinyurl.com/3vyrcymn
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 11/09/2025
🚨Junk food alert! For the first time ever, more kids are obese than underweight globally. A new UNICEF report warns ultra-processed foods #UPFs are overwhelming kids’ diets: cheap, adictive & deeply harmful.💔 Action on UPFs is overdue. www.theguardian.com/global-devel... #Health #Malnutrition
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Junk food leads to more children being obese than underweight for first time
Cheap ultra-processed food behind rise in overweight children, with one in 10 now obese globally, says Unicef
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Gaza West Bank Lebanon Yemen Syria Iran Iraq Tunisia Qatar All attacked and bombed by Israel in the past year. Insane. Rogue state.
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R. S. DIENG @drlandislife.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Our book « Feminism for the World » was published by Pluto Press (UK) this Wednesday 20 August. www.plutobooks.com/978074535033...
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Agenda Publishing @agendapub.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"Brilliant... the authors demonstrate how adopting a feminist political economy approach could prove liberating for students and scholars." Yazgi Genç reviews 'Feminist Political Economy' by Sara Cantillon, Odile Mackett, and @sarastevano.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #IAFFE
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Feminist Political Economy: A Global Perspective
Published in Feminist Economics (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Sara Stevano @sarastevano.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Today the photo exhibition curated by Efo Sela and based on our project on ultra-processed food in Ghana opens in Tamale. The expansion of UPFs is seen through the eyes of adolescents in northern Ghana. Soon available digitally too! www.gringhana.com/grin-blog/sw...
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PRESS RELEASE — Sweet Is Always the “Best Choice” Photo Exhibition TO Open at Nuku Studio, Tamale — grin ghana
New photographic exhibition by Efo Sela in partnership with pupils from four Junior Highs in Tamale opens June 2, 2025, spotlighting ultra-processed food environments in Ghanaian schools. Tama...
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Sara Stevano @sarastevano.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I was gifted a copy of this book, which is hot off the press, by my friend & colleague @surbhikesar.bsky.social It looks great and I look forward to delving into it. Many congratulations @devikadutt.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social & @ingridhk.bsky.social
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Surbhi Kesar @surbhikesar.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Our book is now available to order! We will be organising some book talks in the upcoming academic year to discuss these embryonic ideas on decolonising economics. @ingridhk.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @devikadutt.bsky.social
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Sara Stevano @sarastevano.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
FYI the companies that are members of the Food and Drink Federation that lobbied the UK government to change the guidance on junk food promotion are listed here: fdf.org.uk/fdf/about-fd... www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
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UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms
Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals guidance for retailers in England changed after campaign by global food firms
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The Conversation Africa @africa.theconversation.com · 18/05/2025
Food insecurity fuels terrorism in Africa, creating a vicious cycle of hunger and conflict. theconversation.com/terrorists-u... #Politics
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Terrorists use food as a weapon: how Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab exploit hunger
Terror groups use food as a tool to fight, govern and survive.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
London now. End the Genocide. #FreePalestine
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SOAS Economics @soaseconomics.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social for the Annual conference of the Progressive Economic Forum ! 🚀 Progressive economics 2025: UK economic policy in the age of Trump 🇺🇸 Info and registration 🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
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SOAS Economics @soaseconomics.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
📢 WE ARE HIRING !!! 📢 The Department of Economics of @soasuni.bsky.social is recruiting a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader in #Economics Join our prestigious academic community! Info 🔗 vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/684866
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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 29/03/2025
@adamtooze.bsky.social for @financialtimes.com on the self-defeating logic of western aid cuts on.ft.com/4ckO1a3
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Aid’s grim counter-revolution will prove self-defeating
[FREE TO READ] Arguments for slashing overseas development assistance in favour of defence fail on their own terms
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Surbhi Kesar @surbhikesar.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I had the pleasure to interview the brilliant @sarastevano.bsky.social about her fantastic work on approaches to social reproduction. Listen to her speak about her work here 👇🏽
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SOAS Economics @soaseconomics.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🎙️ New podcast episode on social reproduction, unpaid labor, and feminist political economy, featuring @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @sarastevano.bsky.social as they explore economic structures in the Global South! 🎧 Listen to the full discussion here! 🔗 🔊 shorturl.at/lFyJJ
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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🎙️New Podcast on Social Reproduction! What counts as “work,” and what gets overlooked? @sarastevano.bsky.social joins @surbhikesar.bsky.social to discuss the unpaid & paid labour that sustains life. 🎧Listen here: shorturl.at/lFyJJ @devcomms.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social
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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
📌Join Alessandra Mezzadri, Shirin Rai & @sarastevano.bsky.social for a discussion on pluralising feminist readings of the world economy and social reproduction 📅 20 March 5.15pm 📍SOAS SALT & Zoom Register➡️shorturl.at/djuB5 @surbhikesar.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
NEW from me in the FT today... The UK's university 'system' is now in freefall. How on Earth did the disaster unfold? Read all about it: www.ft.com/content/0ec7...
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The UK’s academic recession is in full swing
This university crisis is a grim scrabble for numbers
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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
📢Update: Please note this event has now been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances and rescheduled to 20 March 2025 at 5.15pm. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. @sarastevano.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
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Haroon Akram-Lodhi @ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If you have not seem "No Other Land," which just won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, there is currently a link to watch the film. Watch soon as the link is time bound and will only last for the next 48 hours. The password is AF24. vimeo.com/video/991587...
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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
📌Join Alessandra Mezzadri, Shirin Rai & @sarastevano.bsky.social for a discussion on pluralising feminist readings of the world economy and social reproduction 📅 March 6, 5pm 📍SOAS SALT & Zoom Registration ➡️shorturl.at/djuB5 @surbhikesar.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
"When Fortunati was working on The Arcana of Reproduction, her approach was iconoclastic – for, as the title of the book suggests, few social realities have been so manipulated as the sphere of reproduction, especially in Italy where years of Fascism had turned maternity into a religion."
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Silvia Federici on The Arcana of Reproduction
The Arcana of Reproduction is a unique book in the world of Marxist feminism. Generally, Marxist feminists have elaborated on the methodological significance of Marx’s work for understanding the speci...
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Naomi Hossain @naomihossain.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
@soaseconomics.bsky.social has joined us here! You need to follow them because they are easily the most exciting and innovative economics department you will find anywhere. @soasdevelopment.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social @sarastevano.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social
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luisalupo.bsky.social @luisalupo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🌟New Publication! Raksha Gopal and I examine how Rohingya and Syrian refugees negotiate survival amid multiple forms of violence in India and Turkey. We introduce a new concept—the (in)securitization of social reproductive capacities—drawing on our PhDs @gvagrad.bsky.social. 📖Displaced Lives⤵️
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Displaced lives: rethinking survival, social reproduction, and (in)security with refugees
In this article, we examine the practices of survival that Rohingya and Syrian refugees perform as they confront multiple forms of violence resulting from their forced displacement in India and Tur...
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luisalupo.bsky.social @luisalupo.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Very excited to have our paper included in this issue alongside scholars who profoundly influenced our thinking, including @feministonmarx.bsky.social @shirinmrai.bsky.social @sarastevano.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social and many others💫
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Pluralizing social reproduction approaches
The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers a rejection of productivism and the ...
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 16/02/2025
The world produces more than enough #food to feed everyone. Yet it is shamefully misallocated. BigAg firms make more profit by exporting food for animal feed, biofuels, or ultra-processed foods, than selling it to poor people. 1/3 of all food is simply wasted. ipes-food.org/only-politic...
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Only politics can end world hunger - IPES-Food
"Hunger persists because we allow injustice to endure. Food isn’t scarce but many people can’t access it.” To give people access to food, we must confront power & inequality.
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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🎬 The much-anticipated film screening is TOMORROW at 5.15pm, SOAS KLT! More information ➡️: shorturl.at/NhThq @carlosoya.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @lindacalab.bsky.social @yunnanchen.bsky.social @sarastevano.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
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Sara Stevano @sarastevano.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
UK government official: “It’s a bloody nightmare, it’s very challenging on the ground there to figure out what’s going on. [...] It’s not the environmental concerns that are the problem, it’s the volatile situation.”😳 www.ft.com/content/cacd...
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UK takes legal advice over pulling out of $20bn Total LNG project in Mozambique
Britain has pledged to halt new export finance to oil and gas developments in wake of COP26 in 2023
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Gemma Gasseau @gemmagasseau.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
During my PhD I often had to explain how I am a 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭 and at the same time researching 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫, so I ended up writing a piece about it! Reviewing five excellent books, I trace the (porous) contours of an IPE of water, and argue that it should be feminist, critical and relational.
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Bridging the international political economy of water: social reproduction, governance and non-state actors
Water governance has recently gained increasing political and academic attention. However, in many of these debates, it is often narrowly understood as a set of institutional arrangements, rather t...
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Sara Stevano @sarastevano.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
📢 For those working on social reproduction: the CfP for the next IIPPE Annual Conference in Ankara is now open! Submit your paper/panel by 1st February here: iippe.org/2025-iippe-a... @lenagempke.bsky.social
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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
📢 Join us for a talk by Shiping Tang, Professor at Fudan University, Shanghai, chaired by Elisa Van Waeyenberge! 📍SOAS, KLT & Zoom 📅 Jan 22 @ 5pm GMT Register➡️: shorturl.at/qQJCD @soasuni.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @laurahammond.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social
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Lena Gempke @lenagempke.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Making feminist economics count - Workshop @ SOAS (13th & 14th of Feb) Come join us for a two day workshop dedicated to learning & advancing quantitative methods in feminist economics. Limited spaces. Apply! ysi.ineteconomics.org/event/making...
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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
🎙️ New podcast episode unravels informal economy with Surbhi Kesar, in a thought-provoking conversation with Sara Stevano, focusing on the Indian economy Tune in for key insights! Listen here 🔊 www.soas.ac.uk/research/res... @naomihossain.bsky.social @laurahammond.bsky.social #IndianEconomy
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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
📢 SOAS Global Development Seminar Series - 2025! Join us at #SOAS for seminars on global challenges, featuring experts in development economy, migration, social reproduction and more! 📅 Next date: Jan 22 at 5pm 🔗 shorturl.at/Q8b34 @naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social
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Sara Stevano @sarastevano.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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Exiled Mozambique leader returns after months of violence in bid for power
Venâncio Mondlane holds ‘inauguration’ at airport amid fears that deadly stand-off with ruling party could destabilise region
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
‘Tiny broken bodies, rotting babies, flattened corpses, mass graves, levelled neighbourhoods. It is a spectacle of slaughter. All unfolding in plain sight, livestreamed and posted by Palestinian citizens and journalists, witnessed by outsiders, and described by Israelis themselves.’
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 17/12/2024
Very excited about Martinez vs Kraft Heinz, Mondelez, Post, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, General Mills,Nestle, Kellanova, WK Kellogg, Mars and ConAgra. A teenager is suing the food industry for ultraprocessed food, engineered for addiction, harming kids like him. www.forthepeople.com/sites/defaul...
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Sara Stevano @sarastevano.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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Mozambique’s controversial election result upheld: What next as Chapo wins?
Country’s top electoral court confirms ruling Frelimo party’s win, raising fears as opposition promises more protests.
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 14/11/2024
‘I have lost everything’: southern Africa battles hunger amid historic drought #Climate
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‘I have lost everything’: southern Africa battles hunger amid historic drought
Crops have failed in several countries, with 27m people at risk of hunger according to World Food Programme
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Beth Kitson @drbethkitson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
In awe of Gisèle Pelicot. Thinking of her and all survivors today.
court sketches of Gisèle Pelicot, pictured as she listened to the verdicts and sentences being read out this morning. court sketches of Gisèle Pelicot, pictured as she listened to the verdicts and sentences being read out this morning.
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Ghana has problems, but regular, no-fuss democratic alternation is not one of them. www.cnn.com/2024/12/08/a...
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Former Ghana leader pulls off historic comeback after crucial presidential election | CNN
Ghana’s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has conceded defeat a day after a tense presidential election, marking a historic political comeback for former one-term leader and opposition presidential cand...
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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"Amnesty International has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israeli authorities committed, and continue to commit prohibited acts under the Genocide Convention". www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...
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‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Ethnic cleansing in Northern Gaza.
Ethnic cleansing in Northern Gaza. Israel is violently displacing thousands of people.
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Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Thanks for sharing Kanishka! I've also just published some background on today's events jacobin.com/2024/12/yoon...
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South Korea’s Three-Hour Coup
Earlier today, South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law. The short-lived coup was an act of desperation by a deeply unpopular right-wing leader and has only strengthened opposition to...
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