Notices by Alex Afouxenidis (afouxenidis@mastodon.world)

I'm looking for one reviewer for a new book to be published early next year. The book is called "Technoskepticism". Send us a dm if interested or mail us at grsr@ekke.gr

Review to be published in the academic journal 'Greek Review of Social Research'.

details here
https://www.sup.org/books/media-studies/technoskepticism

A crisis entirely of humanity’s making’: UN chief issues climate SOS on trip to Pacific

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/27/a-crisis-entirely-of-humanitys-making-un-chief-issues-climate-sos-on-trip-to-pacific

Nikki Haley writes 'finish them' on Israeli ⬇️ bombs

#USA #politics #Israel #Gaza #news

In the University of California system, the union representing 48,000 grad students and other academic workers is about to strike in protest of repression of campus protests. It’s a watershed for labor and for the Palestine solidarity movement.
#politics
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/uc-uaw-palestine-strike-free-speech/

no comment

#Indonesia is taking Israel to ICJ on a different charge connected to its occupation of #Palestine

The #USA on S. Africa and the ICJ hearings today.

This is a disgusting document. If the US considers lawful what #Israel is doing in #Gaza then Israel can do whatever they like when they like.

The US has to change its global foreign policy, which can only be done via extreme pressure from the inside.

#media #politics #sociology #war #colonialism

Human rights organisations: “Days left” for #EU legislators to save the right to #asylum ⬇️

Nineteen human rights organisations across Europe, alongside aid workers and survivors of human rights abuses, say that a crunch summit in Brussels on December 7th risks “opening the door to abuses across Europe” including racial profiling and pushbacks, in a “potentially irreversible attack” on the international system of refugee protection and the rule of law.

https://picum.org/blog/human-rights-organisations-days-left-for-eu-legislators-to-save-the-right-to-asylum/

In Strasbourg, French police arrested the President of the Union of Jews for Peace. ⬇️

#Frankfurt Book Fair Cancels Award Ceremony for #Palestinian Author

Organizers cited the Israel-Hamas war as the reason for stepping back from honoring a novel about the 1949 murder of a Palestinian girl by Israeli soldiers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/books/frankfurt-book-fair-cancels-award-adania-shibli.html

Hello, I need food: What the media isn’t telling you about Greece.

The new camps built with millions of Euros from the EU are over or nearing capacity. Families are again sleeping on city streets. And the government and the media are stone cold silent.

https://medium.com/are-you-syrious/ays-special-hello-i-need-food-what-the-media-isnt-telling-you-about-greece-7d227c378d6e

Just now, the beach, Greece, southern Peloponnese

@aral I there ever anything "peaceful" about nation-building?

I really do not think that the #USA was "built on peaceful protest", but maybe the President knows best. ⬇️