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María Paula Rubiano A.

María Paula Rubiano A. is Grist’s Environmental Justice Fellow. She’s a science and environmental journalist writing about biodiversity, environmental justice, food, and sustainability for Grist, Science, Yale Environment 360, Hakai, Audubon, Atlas Obscura, The Open Notebook, and more. ....

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Amid violence, universities seek to promote dialogue


Amid violence, universities seek to promote dialogue
Science  29 May 2021
In the first week of May, hundreds of college students in Colombia turned off their webcams during online classes and shared the same profile picture, a black background with a message in capital letters: “It is difficult to study while my people are being killed.” It was their way of supporting a national strike and protests that started on 28 April and left 19 people dead in the first week, many of them apparently killed by the Colombian police and its antiriot squad, writes María Paula Rubiano A for
Science.
The webcam demonstration marked a turning point in the involvement of Colombia’s academic world in the country’s social upheaval, which has only escalated since then. More than 40 people have now died and there are more than 2,000 complaints of police brutality, including 27 cases of sexual violence; nearly 200 people are missing. Hundreds of thousands of people have take ....

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