Anna Meier
@annameier.bsky.social
Union organizer; recovering academic | Your loud queer aunt 🏳️🌈 she/her | posts in English & German | itinerant Midwesterner | annameier.substack.com
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Israel is engaged in genocide, it is a genocide materially assisted by the US, and AIPAC is the biggest lobby pushing for that material assistance to continue.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Israel is engaged in genocide, it is a genocide materially assisted by the US, and AIPAC is the biggest lobby pushing for that material assistance to continue.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
Solidarity to student workers at Syracuse, who just ratified their first union contract. They've won guaranteed wage increases, mandatory job training, and a full grievance process. 🌹
November 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Solidarity to student workers at Syracuse, who just ratified their first union contract. They've won guaranteed wage increases, mandatory job training, and a full grievance process. 🌹
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If you haven’t worked for a university, you might not know that one of the primary ways universities manage sexually violent faculty is promoting them away from students and into power.
It isn’t a coincidence. It’s the system working as designed.
It isn’t a coincidence. It’s the system working as designed.
November 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If you haven’t worked for a university, you might not know that one of the primary ways universities manage sexually violent faculty is promoting them away from students and into power.
It isn’t a coincidence. It’s the system working as designed.
It isn’t a coincidence. It’s the system working as designed.
I've never understood complaints about "students" as a blob because they are incredible. Just look at what the Student Government Association wrote in support of art profs at Tufts, entirely of students' own volition.
"The SMFA cannot survive without its faculty. Do the work. Honor their labor."
"The SMFA cannot survive without its faculty. Do the work. Honor their labor."
PoPs Letter of Support
Dear Tufts Administration and Tufts Community, The Student Government Association of the School of the Museum of Arts, fellow students, and community members write today in solidarity with the 29 Pro...
docs.google.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I've never understood complaints about "students" as a blob because they are incredible. Just look at what the Student Government Association wrote in support of art profs at Tufts, entirely of students' own volition.
"The SMFA cannot survive without its faculty. Do the work. Honor their labor."
"The SMFA cannot survive without its faculty. Do the work. Honor their labor."
Harvard custodial workers are on strike today! Allies are welcome on the picket line between 10 am and 10 pm in Harvard Yard and 10 am and 5 pm at Harvard Medical School (Longwood Medical Area). 🌹✊
November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Harvard custodial workers are on strike today! Allies are welcome on the picket line between 10 am and 10 pm in Harvard Yard and 10 am and 5 pm at Harvard Medical School (Longwood Medical Area). 🌹✊
thinking today for absolutely no reason about the (now retired) economics prof in undergrad who was kind to me as a first-year student and then, upon my return to campus the next year, greeted me with "guess who's now a sexy sophomore"
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
thinking today for absolutely no reason about the (now retired) economics prof in undergrad who was kind to me as a first-year student and then, upon my return to campus the next year, greeted me with "guess who's now a sexy sophomore"
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Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
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"Dozens of deportees have been sent to Africa from the U.S. since July after the Trump administration struck largely secretive agreements with at least five African nations — including Eswatini, Rwanda, and South Sudan — to take migrants under a new third-country deportation program."
West African Woman Attempts Suicide After U.S. Deportation to Non-Native Country
Attorneys say African migrants, deported under controversial U.S. policy, are facing life-threatening danger.
capitalbnews.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"Dozens of deportees have been sent to Africa from the U.S. since July after the Trump administration struck largely secretive agreements with at least five African nations — including Eswatini, Rwanda, and South Sudan — to take migrants under a new third-country deportation program."
We could call it the white entitlement of being new to an area and claiming you have the right to decide who does and doesn't get to live there, or we could call it racism. The answer is all of the above.
Allston Leaders Demand Response from BU After Student Says He Called for ICE Arrests | News | The Harvard Crimson
Allston residents and Boston University alumni slammed the student president of the Boston University College Republicans after he claimed he had spent months asking Immigration and Customs Enforcemen...
www.thecrimson.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
We could call it the white entitlement of being new to an area and claiming you have the right to decide who does and doesn't get to live there, or we could call it racism. The answer is all of the above.
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I don’t know about the sciences but in the humanities these people can’t be separated from their work. There is no way their contempt of other humans doesn’t somehow influence their work and contaminate it from the ground up.
remember the time a prominent political scientist in his 50s had breakfast with a bunch of women grad students in their 20s and told them he understood why profs in small towns dated their students because there "weren't other options" because I do!!!
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I don’t know about the sciences but in the humanities these people can’t be separated from their work. There is no way their contempt of other humans doesn’t somehow influence their work and contaminate it from the ground up.
remember the time a prominent political scientist in his 50s had breakfast with a bunch of women grad students in their 20s and told them he understood why profs in small towns dated their students because there "weren't other options" because I do!!!
November 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
remember the time a prominent political scientist in his 50s had breakfast with a bunch of women grad students in their 20s and told them he understood why profs in small towns dated their students because there "weren't other options" because I do!!!
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Flabbergasted time and time again at how many men in academia seem to be incapable of following the "do not proposition your students and Junior colleagues to engage in extramarital affairs" rule. It's really not that difficult to follow!
November 16, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Flabbergasted time and time again at how many men in academia seem to be incapable of following the "do not proposition your students and Junior colleagues to engage in extramarital affairs" rule. It's really not that difficult to follow!
With recognition that this is not the main point of the overall email scandal, but this is important: someone at your university has tried this with a student. It is so incredibly rampant and if you're disgusted by this you need to also demand accountability closer to home.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
With recognition that this is not the main point of the overall email scandal, but this is important: someone at your university has tried this with a student. It is so incredibly rampant and if you're disgusted by this you need to also demand accountability closer to home.
Every regent who voted for this is a racist and a transphobe.
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Every regent who voted for this is a racist and a transphobe.
1882 to 198! Solidarity, new comrades, and congrats to the Coalition of Graduate Employees.
Penn State graduate students overwhelmingly vote in favor of unionizing
The election took place last month.
www.centredaily.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
1882 to 198! Solidarity, new comrades, and congrats to the Coalition of Graduate Employees.
"I stood in front of my classmates and delivered my presentation while my mind was somewhere else, on Gaza’s shattered streets, on Dr. Refaat’s face, on the laughter we shared on the beach before I left."
How it feels to live as an academic in exile while Gaza burns
As a graduate student from Gaza studying in Wyoming, I live in two dimensions: one where life moves peacefully forward, and another where everything I love is collapsing. I live in both worlds at once...
mondoweiss.net
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"I stood in front of my classmates and delivered my presentation while my mind was somewhere else, on Gaza’s shattered streets, on Dr. Refaat’s face, on the laughter we shared on the beach before I left."
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Don't forget to NOT BUY STARBUCKS while we're on ULP strike, tomorrow and beyond!
Pledge to not cross a picket line - nocontractnocoffee.org
Pledge to not cross a picket line - nocontractnocoffee.org
No Contract, No Coffee | Starbucks Workers United
Starbucks baristas brewing change. Join the movement for fair contracts, better wages, and worker protections.
nocontractnocoffee.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Don't forget to NOT BUY STARBUCKS while we're on ULP strike, tomorrow and beyond!
Pledge to not cross a picket line - nocontractnocoffee.org
Pledge to not cross a picket line - nocontractnocoffee.org
In this house, we don't cross picket lines. All solidarity to Starbucks workers in their ongoing fight and especially if they need to strike starting Thursday due to a cruel employer. www.nocontractnocoffee.org
No Contract, No Coffee | Starbucks Workers United
Starbucks baristas brewing change. Join the movement for fair contracts, better wages, and worker protections.
www.nocontractnocoffee.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:58 AM
In this house, we don't cross picket lines. All solidarity to Starbucks workers in their ongoing fight and especially if they need to strike starting Thursday due to a cruel employer. www.nocontractnocoffee.org
Now that the UNL chancellor has proposed this plan, he's eligible for up to a 15% bonus on a $1.06 million salary.
The 1% get richer, higher ed edition.
The 1% get richer, higher ed edition.
They are really planning to go through with these cuts at Nebraska, despite recommendations not to. Unbelievable.
If you want to hire highly qualified, very successful earth and atmospheric sciences faculty in teaching and research, quite a few are probably looking for jobs for next year.
If you want to hire highly qualified, very successful earth and atmospheric sciences faculty in teaching and research, quite a few are probably looking for jobs for next year.
Final Budget Reduction Plan | Budget Process | Nebraska
budgetprocess.unl.edu
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Now that the UNL chancellor has proposed this plan, he's eligible for up to a 15% bonus on a $1.06 million salary.
The 1% get richer, higher ed edition.
The 1% get richer, higher ed edition.
Worker power existed before labor law and will exist no matter what labor law becomes. We would all do well to remember that. Indiana casino dealers certainly have.
Indiana Casino Dealers Are Bringing Back the Recognition Strike
There are no clocks in a casino, so the dealers all set their phone alarms for noon. Everyone was a bundle of nerves. Before work, a couple of people threw up. But when the cacophony of alarms sounded...
labornotes.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Worker power existed before labor law and will exist no matter what labor law becomes. We would all do well to remember that. Indiana casino dealers certainly have.
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Vice Chancellor of Pizza Bagels is safe in his job while entire academic programs are axed and frontline student services are farmed out to tech companies
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Vice Chancellor of Pizza Bagels is safe in his job while entire academic programs are axed and frontline student services are farmed out to tech companies
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It's great when the "we'll run your university like a business" types get administration positions because they always show you two things: they don't know how universities work and they are actually very bad at running businesses.
My former employer, the University of Nottingham, has axed its undergrad music and languages programs—but don't worry, there are still five separate degrees you can get in AI.
This is what happens when you corporatize education. What a joke.
This is what happens when you corporatize education. What a joke.
November 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM
It's great when the "we'll run your university like a business" types get administration positions because they always show you two things: they don't know how universities work and they are actually very bad at running businesses.
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To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
reut.rs
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
Labor Notes not only offers fantastic trainings, but they really prioritize financial accessibility. Organizing bootcamps or courses can cost hundreds of dollars (or more). This one's 15 bucks.
Join rank-and-file members at the next Labor Notes 'Secrets of a Successful Organizer' online workshop series in November!
First of two sessions starts this Saturday, Nov. 8, Noon to 3 p.m. Eastern.
Second session is on Saturday, Nov. 22
Sign up: labornotes.org/events/2025/...
First of two sessions starts this Saturday, Nov. 8, Noon to 3 p.m. Eastern.
Second session is on Saturday, Nov. 22
Sign up: labornotes.org/events/2025/...
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Labor Notes not only offers fantastic trainings, but they really prioritize financial accessibility. Organizing bootcamps or courses can cost hundreds of dollars (or more). This one's 15 bucks.
My former employer, the University of Nottingham, has axed its undergrad music and languages programs—but don't worry, there are still five separate degrees you can get in AI.
This is what happens when you corporatize education. What a joke.
This is what happens when you corporatize education. What a joke.
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
My former employer, the University of Nottingham, has axed its undergrad music and languages programs—but don't worry, there are still five separate degrees you can get in AI.
This is what happens when you corporatize education. What a joke.
This is what happens when you corporatize education. What a joke.