Archive for May 2024

This shock-and-awe campaign was about smashing a rapidly expanding student movement whose bravery has captivated people around the world. It was about eliminating the threat that the pro-Palestine movement poses to business as usual. It was about showing university donors, Republicans, Democrats, and the White House that these schools knew which side they were supposed to be on. And it was about reminding these students—these kids who had the nerve to sit in tents—of who is in charge and who isn’t…. You can feel the question thrumming through the violence and repression: How dare you? Above: NYPD officers in riot gear march onto Columbia University campus

Loneliness in adulthood follows a U-shaped pattern: it’s higher in younger and older adulthood, and lowest during middle adulthood, reports a new study that examined nine longitudinal studies from around the world. The study also identified several risk factors for heightened loneliness across the whole lifespan, including social isolation, education and physical impairment.

Protesters at Melbourne’s No More anti-violence rally at the weekend hold placards of women who were killed in alleged incidents of gender-based violence.

“I believe making it illicitly is a dying practice,” says Ó Griallais. “As for why those who continue it, there is a number of reasons. We love being a bit irreverent in Ireland. As poitín-making was originally outlawed while Britain was in power, making it almost feels liberating for some of the illicit makers. It is an old kind of social justice that has continued in the form of distilling.”

The staff who handle 911 calls throughout St. Paul and Ramsey County returned to their remodeled center this week, with embedded social workers now stationed in the middle of the room. Above: Ramsey County social workers, front, from left, Pa Kou Lee, Jennifer Rockhill, Natashia Powell, and Emily Thompson occupy the newly-remodeled Ramsey County Emergency Communications Center in St. Paul

What follows is an interview with Federico Enciso (above), a 28-year-old master student in social work and the former candidate for the opposition party, PLRA (Authentic Radical Liberal Party), who just so happens to be gay

Placements are particularly a feature of feminised areas of study and work, and the government is also linking the measure to its gender equality strategy, Working for Women.