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Join me at University College Dublin on Thursday, November 20th for a talk on "CLR James, Irish Question, and Black Liberation Struggle." Note new day, time, location information.
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Join me at University College Dublin on Thursday, November 20th for a talk on "CLR James, Irish Question, and Black Liberation Struggle." Note new day, time, location information.
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A month from today, I will be giving at talk in Dublin, Ireland titled "CLR James, Irish Question, and Black Liberation Struggle." A preview of a section from my forthcoming book "Reading Struggles." Can't wait and mroe details as it approaches. #CLRJames
October 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A month from today, I will be giving at talk in Dublin, Ireland titled "CLR James, Irish Question, and Black Liberation Struggle." A preview of a section from my forthcoming book "Reading Struggles." Can't wait and mroe details as it approaches. #CLRJames
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Immigrant workers, agricultural, cafe and grocery, digital platform, arts and culture, and education workers in Ireland, Germany, England, and the US have been sharing their lives and struggles through workers’ inquiries. Join us in Dublin as we examine these recent inquires!
October 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Immigrant workers, agricultural, cafe and grocery, digital platform, arts and culture, and education workers in Ireland, Germany, England, and the US have been sharing their lives and struggles through workers’ inquiries. Join us in Dublin as we examine these recent inquires!
“We’ve observed the self-defeating character of these policies over and over and over again in Southern Arizona over the last 30 years,” Boyce said.
Low migrant encounters may suggest ‘backlog’
Shielded by a cap under the 90-degree weather, Joel Smith crouched near a water barrel in a remote desert area near Arivaca Road on Monday.
www.nogalesinternational.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“We’ve observed the self-defeating character of these policies over and over and over again in Southern Arizona over the last 30 years,” Boyce said.
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Plane is out of Ireland and on the way to Djibouti. Probably 6-7 hours from now (6:45 am eastern). *IF* it is a deportation also wondering if they would transfer people to a military plane flying in dark mode as last time to ultimate destination…
July 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Plane is out of Ireland and on the way to Djibouti. Probably 6-7 hours from now (6:45 am eastern). *IF* it is a deportation also wondering if they would transfer people to a military plane flying in dark mode as last time to ultimate destination…
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✈️👀Journey Air N588AT just landed at Djibouti at 1 PM Eastern and 8 PM local. Mission unknown and if a deportation it is unknown to where, and if it will be this plane, or if people will be transferred to a military plane operating in invisible dark mode like the one to South Sudan.
July 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
✈️👀Journey Air N588AT just landed at Djibouti at 1 PM Eastern and 8 PM local. Mission unknown and if a deportation it is unknown to where, and if it will be this plane, or if people will be transferred to a military plane operating in invisible dark mode like the one to South Sudan.
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Latest from @geoffboyce.bsky.social, Sam Chambers, Tara Plath, and Dan Martínez in Annals of the AAG:
“Manufacturing Desolation: Unauthorized Border Crosser Mortality, Disappearance, and the Sociopolitical Construction of Remoteness in U.S. Boundary Enforcement“ (open access)
“Manufacturing Desolation: Unauthorized Border Crosser Mortality, Disappearance, and the Sociopolitical Construction of Remoteness in U.S. Boundary Enforcement“ (open access)
The “U.S. selective access regime” is “one that restricts public access and criminalizes humanitarian intervention even as the government aggressively expands its own ability to circulate across previously difficult-to-access areas of federally managed land” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Manufacturing Desolation: Unauthorized Border Crosser Mortality, Disappearance, and the Sociopolitical Construction of Remoteness in U.S. Boundary Enforcement
U.S. boundary enforcement has long been organized around an effort to redirect unauthorized border crossing into remote and inhospitable expanses of desert terrain. Using southern Arizona’s West De...
www.tandfonline.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Latest from @geoffboyce.bsky.social, Sam Chambers, Tara Plath, and Dan Martínez in Annals of the AAG:
“Manufacturing Desolation: Unauthorized Border Crosser Mortality, Disappearance, and the Sociopolitical Construction of Remoteness in U.S. Boundary Enforcement“ (open access)
“Manufacturing Desolation: Unauthorized Border Crosser Mortality, Disappearance, and the Sociopolitical Construction of Remoteness in U.S. Boundary Enforcement“ (open access)
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“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a union official about a raid in western New York.
“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case
“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a UFW official about an ICE raid in New York.
interc.pt
May 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a union official about a raid in western New York.
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Migrants sent to Libya will literally be sold into slavery and systematically tortured, starved and killed. This is so sickening and insane.
Trump administration weighs sending migrants to Libya and Rwanda, sources say | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has discussed with Libya and Rwanda the possibility of sending migrants who have criminal records and are in the United States to the two countries, according to multiple sour...
www.cnn.com
April 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Migrants sent to Libya will literally be sold into slavery and systematically tortured, starved and killed. This is so sickening and insane.
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"‘Felt externalisation’ is a way to go beyond the policies, the visible, and spectacular and instead capture the everyday, the slow, granular, and felt experience of border externalisation, be it fear, collective trauma, environmental degradation, or the smell of death."
Read Ahlam Chemlali's post:
Read Ahlam Chemlali's post:
Introducing 'Felt Externalisation': Exploring the Human and Environmental Impacts of EU Borders
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk
January 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
"‘Felt externalisation’ is a way to go beyond the policies, the visible, and spectacular and instead capture the everyday, the slow, granular, and felt experience of border externalisation, be it fear, collective trauma, environmental degradation, or the smell of death."
Read Ahlam Chemlali's post:
Read Ahlam Chemlali's post:
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"Immigration is often seen as a wedge issue, but what these last months have laid bare is how our fight for immigrant justice is a fight for all of us."
Via @silkys13.bsky.social
Via @silkys13.bsky.social
Trump’s First 100 Days Show Immigrant Jails Are Authoritarian Testing Grounds
Trump has a plan to triple ICE’s incarceration capacity, enabling it to detain an additional 84,000 people at any time.
truthout.org
April 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
"Immigration is often seen as a wedge issue, but what these last months have laid bare is how our fight for immigrant justice is a fight for all of us."
Via @silkys13.bsky.social
Via @silkys13.bsky.social
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Shadow regionalism and border policing in the political economy of North American integration
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April 27, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Shadow regionalism and border policing in the political economy of North American integration
by @geoffboyce.bsky.social
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by @geoffboyce.bsky.social
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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
theonion.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
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“With EU funding, more and more countries are using artificial intelligence (AI) systems, drones, and surveillance towers at their borders” wearesolomon.com/mag/focus-ar...
Invisible Walls: How AI Tech at Europe's Borders Threatens People Seeking Refuge
With EU funding, more and more countries are using artificial intelligence (AI) systems, drones, and surveillance towers at their borders, and gaining access to the personal data of people seeking ref...
wearesolomon.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
“With EU funding, more and more countries are using artificial intelligence (AI) systems, drones, and surveillance towers at their borders” wearesolomon.com/mag/focus-ar...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates in Seattle about the Democratic Party in this moment:
“If you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?”
“If you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?”
February 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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In 2018, centrists Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, and Matteo Renzi said there was a need to crack down on immigrants to keep fascists at bay. Each of their own home countries continued to intensify border enforcement and yet this did not deter the far right. It empowered them. Lesson learned?
February 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
In 2018, centrists Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, and Matteo Renzi said there was a need to crack down on immigrants to keep fascists at bay. Each of their own home countries continued to intensify border enforcement and yet this did not deter the far right. It empowered them. Lesson learned?
La Indita is a staple in the Tucson community. They are being targeted because of their political support for various projects and organizations in Tucson and in Mexico. Please show them all the love you are able.
www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
ICE probes Tucson restaurant La Indita, known for Indigenous focus & activism
On Tuesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials launched an investigation into La Indita — a Tucson restaurant known for its legacy of activism and focus on Indigenous food and culture.
www.tucsonsentinel.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
La Indita is a staple in the Tucson community. They are being targeted because of their political support for various projects and organizations in Tucson and in Mexico. Please show them all the love you are able.
www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
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“Border imperialism explains one of the key mechanisms through which unequal exchange and wealth drain from the periphery is secured, and racialised hierarchy in the international system – what W.E.B du Bois referred to as the ‘global color line’, is upheld.” www.tni.org/en/borderimp...
Border Imperialism in the Maghreb | Transnational Institute
Militarised borders are colonial constructs and their fortification in the Maghreb region serves a Western imperialist agenda. Many of the borders that demarcate African countries today owe their orig...
www.tni.org
January 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“Border imperialism explains one of the key mechanisms through which unequal exchange and wealth drain from the periphery is secured, and racialised hierarchy in the international system – what W.E.B du Bois referred to as the ‘global color line’, is upheld.” www.tni.org/en/borderimp...
A lot of people ask me whether it feels better to live in Europe than the US right now. It does not.
Bulgarian police ‘blocked rescue’ of teenage migrants who froze to death
Report by rights groups alleges border police refused to rescue boys and blocked activists’ efforts to save them
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
A lot of people ask me whether it feels better to live in Europe than the US right now. It does not.
Biden was monstrous and aweful in a lot of ways. But this is one good thing he did. thehill.com/policy/energ...
Biden commutes sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier
President Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was controversially convicted of murdering two FBI agents, within the final hour of his preside…
thehill.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Biden was monstrous and aweful in a lot of ways. But this is one good thing he did. thehill.com/policy/energ...
