Academia

On Contact: Veritas: A Harvard Professor, A Con Man And The Gospel Of Jesus’ Wife

July 5, 2021 Chris Hedges, RT. Resistance Report Academia, Chris Hedges, Media, Religion

On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to journalist and author, Ariel Sabar, about his new book Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife. Sabar’s book exposes much about the bankruptcy of contemporary theology and the yearning by academics to be lionized by the mass media and popular culture, even at the expense of truth. In 1945 a collection of early Christian codices, or books, in fourth century A.D. script, were discovered at Nag Hammadi near the Nile, about 300 miles south of Cairo. The 52 works were translated from earlier Greek texts, many of them written by Gnostic sectarians. The Gnostics were condemned as heretics by the early church and their writings were banned.

Immanuel Wallerstein: An Obituary

September 4, 2019 Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Roarmag.org Educate! Academia, Ideology, Theory

The death of Immanuel Wallerstein is an irreparable loss for the social sciences. He was unquestionably the most remarkable American sociologist of the twentieth century, and the one with greater international projection. His major accomplishment was to inspire successive generations of sociologists to discard the unit of analysis in which they had been trained (national societies) and rather focus on the world system (world economy and the sovereign state system).

More Than 70 Scholars Join Noam Chomsky To Sign Petition To Stop The US From Interfering In Venezuelan Politics

January 26, 2019 By Noam Chomsky, Laura Carlsen, Greg Grandin, Common Dreams Resist! Academia, Education, Latin America, Solidarity, US Imperialism, Venezuela

The United States government must cease interfering in Venezuela’s internal politics, especially for the purpose of overthrowing the country’s government. Actions by the Trump administration and its allies in the hemisphere are almost certain to make the situation in Venezuela worse, leading to unnecessary human suffering, violence, and instability. Venezuela’s political polarization is not new; the country has long been divided along racial and socioeconomic lines. But the polarization has deepened in recent years. This is partly due to US support for an opposition strategy aimed at removing the government of Nicolás Maduro through extra-electoral means.

Academic Alienation: Freeing Cognitive Labor From The Grip Of Capitalism

May 11, 2018 Maresi Starzmann, Roarmag.org Create! Academia, Capitalism, Class Struggle, Labor

Sitting in a coffee shop in a typical American college town, I overhear a conversation between two twenty-somethings. They lament, in educated and self-critical fashion, the failure of the academic system. Reflecting on their dedication and work ethic, they keep returning to the same question: What’s the point of four years of rigorous studying, of amassing student loans, of backbreaking night and weekend jobs, if there are almost zero job prospects out there? And, worse, what is their money going toward if not the kind of quality education they have been promised? With most classes no longer being taught by professors but by graduate students or adjunct teachers, they find the US educational system to be a scam. The experiences of these college students speak to a contradiction at the heart of the neoliberal economy.

Scholars For Social Justice Launches With 100+ Members

February 16, 2018 Staff, Portside.org Create! Academia, Higher Education, Research, Social Justice, Trump Administration

Scholars for Social Justice (SSJ) is a new formation of progressive scholars committed to promoting and fighting for a political agenda that insists on justice for all, especially those most vulnerable. We are clearly living in dangerous times with the election of Donald Trump and the empowerment of a set of rabidly right wing and racist forces. Trump, Pence and the Republicans have made it clear that not only will they usher in a radically conservative policy agenda threatening any incremental advances won under the Obama presidency, but more fundamentally reactionary right-wing supporters will directly target the rights, status and lives of people of color, Muslims, women, immigrants, LGBT communities, the poor, indigenous and differently-abled and all who have been forced to live on the margins in this country.

Nine Nifty Notes For Scholar Activists

December 13, 2016 Staff, www.climatejusticeproject.org Strategize! Academia, Activists

By Staff of Climate Justice Report - Below I have put together what I hope is an illustrative, but by no means exhaustive, list of the kind of best practices scholar activists may wish to adopt in their work. These notes will hopefully help scholar activists reflect upon our work to ensure that our research and activism can be carried out critically, accountably, with integrity and in useful and engaging ways. There are many different ways of doing scholar activism, and of being a scholar activist, so this list will likely be more relevant to some kinds of scholar activsts than to others.

1200 Archeologists & Museum Directors Sent Letters To President Obama

September 24, 2016 Staff, www.indigenousrising.org Resist! Academia, Anthropology, Dakota Access Pipeline

By Staff of Indigenous Rising - In a new letter sent to the Obama administration, over 1,200 museum directors, archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians expressed solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in its fight against the Dakota Access pipeline. In response to a groundswell of opposition to the pipeline project both on the ground and across the country, the administration released a statement on September 9th announcing that the Army will not authorize construction of the pipeline on Corps land until it can assess whether a more thorough analysis should be conducted.

Academics-For-Hire Agree Not To Disclose Fossil Fuel Funding

December 9, 2015 Lawrence Carter and Maeve McClenaghan, www.energydesk.greenpeace.org Educate! Academia, Fossil Fuels

By Lawrence Carter and Maeve McClenaghan for Energy Desk - The investigation raises further questions for coal giant Peabody Energy, which earlier this year was investigated by New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman over accusations that they violated New York laws prohibiting false and misleading conduct, in relation to misleading statements on the risks it could face from tightening climate change laws. Peabody have now agreed to change the way it reports the risks posed to investors by climate change. Professors Clemente and Happer were both employed by Peabody to provide testimony favourable to the company in state and governmental hearings.

US Anthropologists Back Israel Boycott In Landslide Vote

November 25, 2015 Ali Abunimah, www.electronicintifada.net Resist! Academia, Israel, Palestine

By Ali Abunimah for The Electronic Antifada - Members of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) have overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution backing the Palestinian call for the boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The measure passed at the association’s annual meeting in Denver on Friday by 1,040 votes in favor to 136 against. It must now be ratified in a referendum of the association’s entire membership of 10,000 in April. A second resolution condemning the Palestinian-led movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) on Israel was crushed 1,173 to 196.

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