Monday's picking-up-where-we-left-off* things

Julia Smith

Julia Smith

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*We left off with Columbia caving.

Item 1. Know any academics?

Item 2. March 1942, March 2025

This weekend I said something about "the Japanese internment camps" and my neighbor cut me off mid-sentence. "American internment camps. American camps of Japanese Americans," he said, and I thanked him for the correction. Today in history, from EJI.org:

Mar. 24, 1942 | U.S. Government Begins Army-Directed Evictions of Japanese Americans
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
A History of Racial InjusticeMADEO

83 years later:

  • Imagine spotting your son in the news footage of abductees at – or being abducted to – the U.S. mega-prison in El Salvador (BBC).
  • Imagine being a PhD student and TA one day, then self-deporting to Canada the next because you had no other choice (AURDIP).
  • Breathe, feel, and "understand the expansive nature of this dictatorial project," writes Kelly Hayes:
We must all defend targeted communities as though we are defending our own freedom and our own families, because those are the actual stakes. There are no tidy divisions between us that will ultimately be respected. The lawless spectacle will continue, and it must be resisted. 

Item 3. Coming up

Just the messenger! A smattering of upcoming events to know about:

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