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Description: “A Pod Called Quest” is a podcast taking on everything that people concerned about injustice care about, from the wealth gap to voting rights, to police brutality, to reparations, to health and well-being, to climate change, to state repression and much more. Sage and Science want listeners to think with them about problems of injustice, just futures, and evidence-based solutions. Derrick Darby (aka Sage) is a philosopher at Rutgers University. Christian Davenport (aka Science) is a political scientist and sociologist at the University of Michigan. Join our quest to impose logic as well as data on the struggle for justice in America and globally. Give us your time, we give you power, wealth, and culture.
NGOs, Antisemitism, and the IHRA Working Definition The Media Line Staff
Many of the NGOs that claim to promote human rights and similar ethical norms have been notably reticent to include antisemitism on their agendas, reports and campaigns. In many cases, these groups have actively contributed to anti-Zionism (rejection of the legitimacy of a Jewish nation-state), and to demonization of Israel and its Jewish supporters. In addition, a number of influential NGOs, including many funded by the EU, individual European governments and the United Nations, are actively campaigning to delegitimize the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. In this webinar, we will describe and analyze these processes, the underlying factors that explain this behavior, and the contradictions between the declaratory positions of the funders endorsing the IHRA definition, and the funding processes.
Spring 2021
Health and safety update for university community members
Welcome to this weekâs Friday Futurecast
These updates are archived on the UMaine Spring â21 website. The University of Maine at Machias also has a Spring â21 website.
Message from President Joan Ferrini-Mundy:
Dear members of the UMaine and UMM communities,
Throughout this pandemic, so many members of our UMaine and UMM communities have been at work, nonstop, doing their jobs in addition to the required COVID-19 response measures to help ensure the well-being of our communities, on and off campus. They include the members of our Emergency Operations Center and its COVID-19 Response Team, working tirelessly, often around the clock to provide health and safety guidance in collaboration with Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and in accord with civil and University of Maine System protocols.
February 24, 2021 News
Manisha Sinha, award-winning author and renowned expert in the history of slavery and abolition, and Civil War Reconstruction, will deliver the University of Maineâs 2021 Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Justice Lecture via Zoom at 5:15 p.m. on March 9.
Sinhaâs presentation, âThe Abolitionist Origins of Reconstructionâ will trace the roots of transformational constitutional changes implemented during Reconstruction. Her nonlinear approach will reveal how black citizenship became a legislative centerpiece after the Civil War and how that history connects to todayâs Black Lives Matter movement.
The annual Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Lecture honors Schonbergerâs legacy as a UMaine professor of history and an activist scholar before his death in 1991. At UMaine, his interests included U.S. foreign policy during war and periods of colonialism and imp