Sociology PhD candidate at the University of California | Studying social movements and contentious politics • ⚑
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New from me in Small Wars & Insurgencies: ‘Looking for a Fight: tracing the mobilization of eight American volunteers in YPG’
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Just published: interview I conducted for @NewPoliticsMag with an American volunteer in the Anti-Fascist Internationalist Front (AIF) fighting in Myanmar’s ongoing civil war.
newpol.org/interview-with-an…
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Internationalists in #Rojava call for all socialists, feminists, anti-fascists and democrats to unite in the international struggle against #Turkey's aggression and its reactionary gangs. #DefendRojava #Aleppo #SDF #AANES youtube.com/watch?v=Xei8UpWb…
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Since yesterday, HTS has consolidated and continued their incursion into Syrian government territories.
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The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Sunday urged the people in northeast Syria (Rojava) to “heed the call” for general mobilization, as Turkish-backed groups launched a fresh offensive against the Kurdish forces in Aleppo province.
rudaw.net/english/middleeast…
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I was in NE Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan for much of this year. Some observations:
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“Once again, we call on the youth of the region to join the ranks of the SDF and rise to their historical responsibility in building a free future. We firmly believe that, together with our people and through the active participation of the youth in the SDF, we can thwart these attacks and defeat the occupation plans of Turkey and its proxies.
GENERAL COMMAND OF THE SYRIAN DEMOCRATIC FORCES
1 December 2024”
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🧵 At a time when autoworkers are beginning to take on the tier system, the bargaining teams from the largest UAW locals in US higher ed are moving toward implementing tiers in new ways, leaving workers wondering how such a thing could, in any sense, be counted as a victory.
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Statement from BT members who opposed the Tentative Agreement. #UAWonStrike #FairUCNow drive.google.com/file/d/1xbl…
Finished this today — pretty quick and light read, definitely stuff that made me laugh (actually laugh, not the exhale through the nose that people do when they see something funny on the internet).
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Had the privilege of filling in for @stefanjyong at the @labornotes panel on the lasting power of strikes.
Got to represent the experience of the graduate wildcat strike at UC Santa Cruz, alongside brilliant people from @UTLAnow and @NUHW.
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Wall to wall packed + overflow for Joe Burns’ talk on Class Struggle Unionism on day 1 of @labornotes.
Day 1 of @labornotes: Great discussion on debt as a fundamentally anti-democratic structural feature of education institutions and the broader political economy — ft. members of @StrikeDebt @CTULocal1 @massteacher @appu_rrp
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A statement for the public opinion.
This July 19th marks the ninth anniversary of the revolution that our people carried out in areas of north and east Syria on this date of the year 2012, as it began in #Kobani, #Afrin and northeastern #Syria...
m-syria-d.com/en/?p=3115
