Overwhelmed with pride and awe for my wife who dedicated countless hours and tears to this organizing effort.

She was laid off before this day could come, but her commitment hasn't waned a bit. Solidarity with the Kennedy Center United Arts Workers ✊
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NEW in the April #SanctionsWatch:
Republicans consider Cuba travel & remittance ban
US & Iran begin nuclear talks
US outlines conditions for Syria sanctions relief
Poll finds US majority reject sanctions that harm civilians

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@michael-galant.bsky.social and Pedro Labayen have the latest updates, showing frozen assets and a drastic cut in foreign aid, deepening Afghanistan’s economic woes. More in this month’s #SanctionsWatch.

The evidence is clear: economic sanctions catastrophically harm civilians, which in turn fuels migration to the US.

NEW issue brief from me and Alex Main for @ceprdc.bsky.social 🧵 (1/7)
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Giving Bluesky another try. Twitter is just nazis and thirst traps, and I'm too weak to break free from the prison of social media altogether.

Barbie, Oppenheimer — I hear we’re all fighting about movie politics so I wrote about the great tradition of radical, anti-colonial filmmaking that is Third Cinema

https://jacobin.com/2023/08/third-cinema-global-south-film-anti-imperialism-decolonization

The Assad Anti-Normalization Act would “punish millions of innocent Syrians.”

“The Biden administration should be lifting economic sanctions on Syria, not imposing new ones. The Syrian people have suffered enough.”
https://t.co/kZa2wC26m5

Bob Menendez claims sanctions aren’t to blame for economic problems in 🇨🇺 & 🇻🇪

Today, 50+ leading scholars including Jayati Ghosh, Ha-Joon Chang, Jomo, and Martin Guzman told him to “stop spreading the false narrative”
https://t.co/tL13dGdysm

Gonna start posting like this to see if it works here too

Nothing to see here, just Biden nominating Elliot fucking Abrams
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/politics/elliott-abrams-public-diplomacy-nomination/index.html

Everyone should read Economic and Monetary Sovereignty In 21st Century Africa. Very glad to be able to run this excerpt.
https://progressive.international/blueprint/3d6b855b-c0ff-474f-b041-096a9c6a51bd-ben-gadha-kaboub-koddenbrock-mahmoud-samba-sylla-africas-money-in-an-nieo/en/

Just bought a paper snowflake from a neighborhood kid - price DOUBLED over the course of the conversation. Money supply can’t explain that. “Greedflation” is real. Isabella Weber vindicated.

Just joined. Who’s gonna claim the first viral neo-Andean architecture post