Archive for April 2024

Protests in and around Columbia University in support of Palestine and against Israeli occupation.

TEDx Speaker and the 2023 FFA Change Maker, Ahsley Machado says that from a young age, people in the agriculture industry are taught to use tools. Working with a lot of dairy producers, she sees how much they contribute to the local economy, but also that they’re leading the way with mental health struggles and suicide.

The program smashes through the wall between church and school, and it’s patently unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has ruled in cases like 1948’s McCollum v. Champaign that public schools could not invite preachers in. DeSantis seems to be banking on the Supreme Court’s conservative majority to back this norm-breaking law—a safe bet, given the number of court opinions in recent years that have allowed religion into public schools, including a 2020 decision that concluded that leaving religious preachers out of public schools was a kind of “discrimination.”

Dr. Joonmo Kang, assistant professor of social welfare, spent a year living in Jjokbang-chon, an extremely impoverished neighborhood in Seoul, as part of an ethnographic research project. Residents there routinely live through extreme heat and cold in tiny, 70-square-foot units about the size of a closet. Over the course of a year, he interviewed residents about their experiences and worked with local social agencies to understand how they worked with the residents.

Kirsten Muat, GMB Scotland organiser in Renfrewshire Council, said: “The scandal here is that carers in Renfrewshire were amongst the lowest paid of all local authority areas in Scotland. Had staff been graded properly years ago, they would be higher up the pay scale by now and they deserve for that to be reflected in their new salaries. Above: Home carers on the picket line at Mile End Centre in Paisley