#harvard

#Harcèlement_sexuel à l’#université...

Je me suis retrouvée à faire des recherches sur seenthis sur le sujet que j’ai partagée avec quelques collègues, du coup, j’en fait ici une sorte de #métaliste...

#facs #sexisme #patriarcat #violences_sexuelles #violences_existes

ping @_kg_

GRAIN | Harvard’s land grabs in Brazil are a disaster for communities and a warning to speculators
▻https://grain.org/e/6456

In an eight year period following the 2008 crisis, Harvard poured over US$1 billion into amassing a global portfolio of farmlands, covering nearly 1 million hectares across the United States, Brazil, Eastern Europe, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. Harvard’s farmland strategy took it deep into some of the most conflictual places on the planet when it comes to land and the environment.

Brazil was Harvard’s preferred target. It established three offshore structures, operating through three different Brazilian agribusiness operators, to buy Brazilian farmland. By 2016, these three structures had amassed over 40 rural properties covering approximately 405,000 hectares, an area twice the size of all the farmland in the US state of Massachusetts (see Box 1: The structure of Harvard’s Brazilian farmland operations).

#terres #Brésil #Harvard

Opinion | She Predicted the #Coronavirus. What Does She Foresee Next? - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-prediction-laurie-garrett.html

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Garrett recounted her time at #Harvard. “The medical school is all marble, with these grand columns,” she said. “The school of public health is this funky building, the ugliest possible architecture, with the ceilings falling in.”

“That’s America?” I asked.

“That’s America,” she said.

#santé_publique #etats-unis

La #géo-ingénierie au secours du #climat ?
▻https://www.francetvinfo.fr/meteo/climat/la-geo-ingenierie-au-secours-du-climat_3605589.html

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La géo-ingénierie, ce sont les techniques de manipulation du climat pour combattre le réchauffement climatique. Kelly Wanser, experte en la matière pour l’ONG Silver Lining, a étudié les techniques applicables dans les prochaines années : parmi elles, le contrôle du rayonnement solaire atteignant la Terre. Aux Philippines, quand le volcan Pinatubo est entré en éruption, il a lâché des tonnes de dioxyde de soufre dans la stratosphère. C’était en 1991. Ces particules ont reflété la lumière du Soleil vers l’espace. En dix-huit mois, la planète s’est refroidie de 0,5°C.

Des chercheurs d’#Harvard se sont inspirés de cette histoire pour créer le projet Scopex, financé par #Bill_Gates. Le but : envoyer un ballon à haute altitude pour disperser des particules chimiques et voir comment elles affectent l’atmosphère. Mais le projet est controversé, car on craint des ouragans et des sécheresses. Le projet de Silver Lining est d’utiliser des bateaux pour pulvériser des cristaux de sel marin vers les nuages, ce qui permettrait de les modifier, mais aussi réduire les émissions de C02 ou bien encore affaiblir les ouragans.

#capitalisme ou la #mort

Expulsé, un étudiant palestinien de Harvard revient aux États-Unis à temps pour le début des cours
Middle East Eye, le 3 septembre 2019
▻https://agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2019/09/04/expulse-un-etudiant-palestinien-de-harvard-revient-aux-etats-un

Une pétition en ligne lancée par des étudiants de Harvard et demandant qu’Ajjawi soit autorisé à rentrer aux États-Unis avait recueilli lundi près de 8 000 signatures.

« Face à la rhétorique raciste de ce gouvernement concernant les migrations, nous souhaitons que le Congrès mène une action pour assurer la sûreté et la sécurité de tous les migrants », lisait-on dans cette pétition.

« Il est particulièrement important de reconnaître que les réfugiés palestiniens constituent une des populations les plus visées par des politiques d’immigration inhumaines. »

Suite de :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/798856
►https://seenthis.net/messages/799362

#mot_de_passe #israel #USA #Liban #Palestine #Harvard #surveillance #réseaux_sociaux #Expulsion #Frontière #frontières #expulsions_frontières #Ismail_Ajjaoui

USA : un étudiant palestinien a vu son visa révoqué après la fouille de ses réseaux sociaux
Belga – Publié le mercredi 28 août 2019
▻https://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_usa-un-etudiant-palestinien-a-vu-son-visa-revoque-apres-la-fouille-de-se

Ismaïl Ajjaoui, qui vit au Liban, a déclaré au journal étudiant The Harvard Crimson qu’à son arrivée vendredi à l’aéroport de Boston, la police l’avait interrogé durant huit heures, et lui avait notamment demandé sa religion.

Après avoir fouillé son téléphone et son ordinateur portable pendant cinq heures, une policière « a commencé à me crier dessus », a-t-il raconté. « Elle a dit qu’elle avait trouvé des gens parmi ma liste d’amis qui postaient des opinions politiques opposées aux Etats-Unis », a-t-il ajouté.

Le jeune étudiant de 17 ans assure avoir fait valoir qu’il n’avait lui-même jamais exprimé ses propres opinions politiques sur les réseaux sociaux. Malgré cela, son visa a été révoqué et il a été renvoyé chez lui, a-t-il rapporté.

#Frontières

Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked | News | The Harvard Crimson
▻http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/8/27/incoming-freshman-deported

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U.S. officials deported Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian resident of Tyre, Lebanon, [...]

[...]

[..,] officer [...] asked him to unlock his phone and laptop, and left to search them for roughly five hours, Ajjawi alleges. After the search, the officer questioned him about his friends’ social media activity.

[..,] “After the 5 hours ended, she called me into a room , and she started screaming at me. She said that she found people posting political points of view that oppose the US on my friend[s] list.”

#états-unis #air_du_temps

Ben Phillips sur Twitter : “Writing at Harvard about corruption - vs - Writing about #corruption at #Harvard” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/benphillips76/status/1113911327230181377

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“When You Get That Wealthy, You Start to Buy Your Own #Bullshit”: The Miseducation of Sheryl Sandberg | Vanity Fair
▻https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/sheryl-sandberg-harvard-business-school-leadership

... it starts all the way back in 1977, when Sandberg was just eight years old and the U.S. economy was still recovering from the longest and deepest recession since the end of World War II. That’s the year that #Harvard #Business School professor Abraham Zaleznik wrote an article entitled, “Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?” in America’s most influential business journal, Harvard Business Review. For years, Zaleznik argued, the country had been over-managed and under-led. The article helped spawn the annual multi-billion-dollar exercise in nonsense known as the #Leadership Industry, with Harvard as ground zero. The article gave Harvard Business School a new raison d’être in light of the fact that the product it had been selling for decades—managers—was suddenly no longer in vogue. Henceforth, it would be molding leaders.

[...]

The truth is, Harvard Business School, like much of the #M.B.A. universe in which Sandberg was reared, has always cared less about moral leadership than career advancement and financial performance.

The roots of the problem can be found in the Harvard Business School’s vaunted “Case Method,” a discussion-based pedagogy that asks students to put themselves in the role of corporate #Übermensch. At the start of each class, one unlucky soul is put in the hot seat, presented with a “what would you do” scenario, and then subjected to the ruthless interrogation of their peers. Graded on a curve, the intramural #competition can be intense—M.B.A.s are super-competitive, after all.

Let’s be clear about this: in business, as in life, there isn’t always one correct answer. So the teaching of a decision-making philosophy that is deliberate and systematic, but still open-minded, is hardly controversial on its face. But to help students overcome the fear of sounding stupid and being remorselessly critiqued, they are reminded, in case after case—and with emphasis—that there are no right answers. And that has had the unfortunate effect of opening up a chasm of moral equivalence in too many of their graduates.

#carriérisme #sans_scrupules

What Is #Harvard Trying to Hide? - POLITICO Magazine
▻https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/21/harvard-admissions-affirmative-action-221669

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For years, reporters have been trying to get elite universities to be more transparent about their admissions process. It might take a court to pry it all open — with unforeseen consequences.

Winning the chance to attend an Ivy League school is an increasingly daunting feat. If schools aren’t just going to auction spots to the highest bidder, these colleges (which receive millions in federal funding and a slew of tax benefits) have a moral responsibility to defend their admission policies.

Les scientifiques ont analysé les premiers ADN humains anciens de l’Asie du Sud-Est : les résultats révèlent trois grandes vagues de migrations dans la région au cours des 50 000 dernières années et leurs conséquences sur les différents langages.

Une équipe internationale dirigée par des chercheurs du HMS et de l’Université de Vienne a extrait et analysé l’ADN des restes de 18 personnes qui vivaient il y a environ 4100 à 1700 ans dans ce qui est aujourd’hui le Vietnam, la Thaïlande, le Myanmar et le Cambodge.

*_Deux grandes migrations du paléo au néolithique.

L’équipe a constaté que la première migration a eu lieu il y a environ 45 000 ans, attirant des gens qui sont devenus des chasseurs-cueilleurs. Puis, pendant la période néolithique, il y a environ 4 500 ans, il y a eu un afflux massif de Chinois qui ont introduit des pratiques agricoles en Asie du Sud-Est et ce sont mélangés aux chasseurs-cueilleurs locaux.

Les gens aujourd’hui, avec ce mélange d’ascendance, ont tendance à parler des langues austroasiatiques, conduisant les chercheurs à proposer que les agriculteurs qui venaient du nord étaient des locuteurs austroasiatiques.
(...)

*Trois migrations après le Néolithique.

*

La recherche a révélé que les vagues de migration suivantes à l’âge du bronze, provenant encore de Chine, sont arrivées au Myanmar il y a environ 3000 ans, au Vietnam il y a 2000 ans et en Thaïlande au cours des 1000 dernières années. Ces mouvements ont introduit des types d’ascendance qui sont aujourd’hui associés à des locuteurs de langues différentes.

L’identification de trois populations ancestrales - chasseurs-cueilleurs, premiers agriculteurs et migrants de l’âge du bronze - fait écho à un modèle découvert dans les anciennes études sur l’ADN des Européens, mais avec au moins une différence majeure : une grande partie de la diversité ancestrale en Europe s’est estompée avec le temps. Les populations se sont mêlées, tandis que les populations d’Asie du Sud-Est ont conservé beaucoup plus de variations.❞

David Reich du Departement de Genetique à la Harvard Medical School émet l’hypothèse que la grande diversité de l’Asie du Sud-Est s’explique en partie par le fait que les agriculteurs sont arrivés beaucoup plus récemment - il y a environ 4 500 ans - contre un peu moins de 8 000 ans en Europe.

Les nouvelles découvertes montrent clairement que les multiples vagues de migration, qui se sont toutes produites au cours d’une période de transition clé de l’histoire de l’Asie du Sud-Est, ont façonné de façon remarquable la génétique de la région.

(...)

Un impact sur le langage._*

Les implications linguistiques soulevées par les analyses de l’ascendance des populations de l’ouest de l’Indonésie ont également été inattendues. « Les preuves suggèrent que les premiers agriculteurs de l’ouest de l’Indonésie parlaient des langues austroasiatiques plutôt que les langues austronésiennes parlées aujourd’hui », a ajouté Reich. « Ainsi, les langues austronésiennes provenaient probablement des arrivées plus tardives. » D’autres échantillons provenant de l’ouest de l’Indonésie avant et après 4000 ans devraient régler la question.

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L’article original dans « Sciences » (payant)

Ancient genomes document multiple waves of migration in Southeast Asian prehistory. Science, 2018; eaat3188 DOI: 10.1126/science.aat3188

Le résumé sur le site de l’université d’Harvard Medical School :
▻https://hms.harvard.edu/news/window-past
#Préhistoire #Paléolithique #Néolithique #migrations #Sud-Est_Asiatique #langages #Harvard #CNRS #Université_Paris_Nanterre #CEA/CNRS
#Mark_Lipson #Swapan_Mallick #Nadin_Rohland #Nasreen_Broomandkhoshbacht #Matthew_Ferry #Eadaoin_Harney #Jonas Oppenheimer #Kristin_Stewardson #Zhao_Zhang #David_Reich #Thomas_Oliver_Pryce

In Historic Move, Harvard Teaching and Research Assistants Vote to ...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/7050664

In Historic Move, Harvard Teaching and Research Assistants Vote to Unionize

HN link: ▻https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16888332 Posted by Mononokay (karma: 1507) Post stats: Points: 92 - Comments: 30 - 2018-04-20T20:48:23Z

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Premier exemple de transmission d’une culture en tant qu’idée.

The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

▻https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25738

Après un remplacement de population avec maintien de la langue (article précédent), voici donc le premier exemple de transmission d’une culture en tant qu’idée.

Traduction du résumé :

Les Ibères préhistoriques ont « exporté » leur culture dans toute l’Europe, atteignant la Grande-Bretagne, la Sicile, la Pologne et l’Europe centrale en général. Cependant, ils n’ont pas exporté leurs gènes (...) cette diffusion n’était pas due aux grandes migrations de populations...

Par conséquent, la diffusion de la culture « Bell Beaker » d’Iberia est le premier exemple de transmission d’une culture en tant qu’idée, essentiellement en raison d’une question de prestige social (associée aux vertus d’être viril et d’être des guerriers), C’est pourquoi il est adopté par d’autres populations

Mais l’histoire change lorsque la culture de Bell Beaker s’est étendue à la Grande-Bretagne après 4500 ans. Elle a été apportée par des migrants qui ont presque complètement supplanté les habitants existants de l’île - les mystérieux gens qui avaient construit Stonehenge - en quelques centaines d’années. (voir ici : ▻https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180221131851.htm )

Note : la culture Beaker s’est répandue de 2750 à 2500 avant JC en Europe occidentale et centrale, avant de disparaître entre 2200 et 1800 avant JC.

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#Préhistoire #Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) #culture_Beaker #Age_du_cuivre #Harvard_Medical_School #Iñigo_Olalde #David_Reich

She Left #Harvard. He Got to Stay.

Did the university’s handling of one professor’s sexual-harassment complaint keep other women from coming forward for decades?

Karl’s first semester at Harvard went well. Her course evaluations were excellent, she remembers. When Domínguez came by her office one day that summer, he wrapped her in his arms and tried to kiss her. She pulled away, though she didn’t make a scene. She didn’t want to offend him. Domínguez offered a parting suggestion: Don’t spend too much time on students, he said, because teaching is not what Harvard rewards.

She mentioned the hug and kiss to some friends, but didn’t report him to administrators. She hoped it was an aberration.

That fall, Harvard hosted a dinner that included, as a guest, the former president of Venezuela, Rafael Caldera. Karl had done research in Venezuela, and had gotten to know Caldera. When she arrived at the dinner, Domínguez greeted her then turned to Caldera and said, “Conoce a Terry. Ella es mi esclava.”

Translation: “You know Terry. She is my slave.”

Domínguez asked for a ride home that night, as he often did. She had come to dread those requests, but it was hard to say no. In the car, she confronted him about the comment. He told her he was surprised that she was offended. That’s when he kissed her and slid his hand up her skirt, telling her he would be the next department chairman, decide her promotion, review her book. Karl froze. She had never even heard the term “sexual harassment,” but she knew what was going on. “I’m feeling like somebody is asking for sexual favors in return for a good review,” she says.

Later, she would scold herself for being naïve, for not recognizing what seemed, in retrospect, like an obvious ploy. She also told herself she could handle it. “You try to minimize it,” she says. “OK, this just happened in the hotel, and I’m going to lunch with him and I’m going to say ‘Don’t ever do this again’ and it’s going to be OK. You tell yourself over and over, ‘It’s going to be OK.’”

Considering his previous behavior, Karl took the statement as a threat. “At this point, I became physically afraid of him,” she would later write when describing the incident in a complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She was determined never to be alone with him again.

At the end of July 1983, Karl and Domínguez signed an agreement, one she hoped would offer some measure of protection. Domínguez promised to “conduct himself in the future at all times in a fashion respectful” of Karl. In August, Rosovsky wrote in a letter to Karl that Domínguez’s “repeated sexual advances and certain other deprecating actions” amounted to a “serious abuse of authority — for which he is fully responsible.” Along with being temporarily removed from administrative responsibilities, he was also forbidden from reviewing Karl’s work or taking part in discussions about her promotion. As for Karl, she was given three semesters of paid leave, and her tenure clock was put on hold for two years. In addition, Rosovsky said that administrators would talk more about sexual-harassment procedures and that the faculty council might address it.

But the books weren’t closed yet. Karl was hearing rumors that made her worried about her reputation. In October Domínguez met with a number of graduate students, including Philip Oxhorn, now a professor of political science at McGill University. Oxhorn recalls that Domínguez told the students what happened was “a love affair gone bad, and that he was as much a victim as Terry, if not more so.” Another graduate student who was at that meeting, Cynthia Sanborn, now research vice president at the University of the Pacific, in Peru, later described it in a letter to Rosovsky: “[Domínguez] clearly implied that his harassment of the junior professor in this case was actually a ’misunderstanding,’ and if he could only tell us his side of the story we would see things differently,” she wrote.

Meanwhile Domínguez steadily climbed the ladder at Harvard. In 1995, he was selected as director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, a post previously occupied by scholarly heavyweights like Samuel Huntington and Robert Putnam. In 2006, he was made vice provost for international affairs, and, in 2014, he and Harvard’s president, Drew Gilpin Faust, traveled to Mexico City together as part of the university’s international outreach. In 2016, a dissertation prize was set up in Domínguez’s honor at the university’s Latin American-studies center. Originally the prize, and the $54,000 raised to support it, was to be given through the Latin American Studies Association, but when some who knew about Domínguez’s behavior, including Philip Oxhorn, caught wind of the plan, they worked behind the scenes to scuttle it. “This was not a man who deserved that kind of recognition,” Oxhorn says.

Karl believes Harvard administrators played down her many complaints, attempting to mollify her rather than dealing with a difficult situation head-on. Harvard refused, as some universities still do, to publicly name the person responsible. They also let him stay, and promoted him, which sent a signal that Karl believes discouraged others from coming forward. If they hadn’t done that, "then these women who experienced harassment in the 1990s and 2000s, it wouldn’t have happened, or they would have known that someone would be punished if they were harassed,” she says. “That’s the great enabling. It’s why the silence is so terrible.”

▻https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/harvard-harassment
#université #harcèlement_sexuel #injustice #Teddy_Karl #témoignage

Le ministre des finances du Portugal prend la tête de l’Eurogroupe
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie/041217/le-ministre-des-finances-du-portugal-prend-la-tete-de-l-eurogroupe

Élu troisième président de l’Eurogroupe, #Mario_Centeno, diplômé de Harvard, est un économiste du travail plutôt libéral pratiquant à Lisbonne, dans un gouvernement de coalition des gauches, une austérité budgétaire « furtive ». Pas vraiment la rupture.

#Economie #Antonio_Costa #austérité #Banque_du_Portugal #euro #Eurogroupe #geringonça #Harvard_Business_School #troïka #Wolfgang_Schauble

#Mario_Centeno : le « Ronaldo de l’Ecofin » à la présidence de l’Eurogroupe
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie/041217/mario-centeno-le-ronaldo-de-l-ecofin-la-presidence-de-l-eurogroupe

Élu troisième président de l’Eurogroupe, Mario Centeno, diplômé de Harvard, est un économiste du travail plutôt libéral pratiquant à Lisbonne, dans un gouvernement de coalition des gauches, une austérité budgétaire « furtive ». Pas vraiment la rupture.

#Economie #Antonio_Costa #austérité #Banque_du_Portugal #euro #Eurogroupe #geringonça #Harvard_Business_School #troïka #Wolfgang_Schauble

À 24 ans, elle a construit un avion, étudie la gravité quantique, et #Harvard la considère déjà comme « le prochain Albert Einstein »
▻http://www.demotivateur.fr/article/sabrina-pasterski-est-aujourd-hui-agee-de-tout-juste-24-ans-et-harvard-

Harvard pense avoir trouvé le prochain Albert Einstein... et il s’agit d’une jeune femme, âgée de 24 ans. Véritable génie de la #physique_quantique, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, née en 1993, figure déjà, malgré son jeune âge, parmi les physiciens les plus prometteurs des États-Unis.

#génie

Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Campaign - WSJ
▻https://www.wsj.com/articles/paying-professors-inside-googles-academic-influence-campaign-1499785286

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#Google operates a little-known program to harness the brain power of university researchers to help sway opinion and public policy, cultivating financial relationships with professors at campuses from #Harvard University to the University of California, #Berkeley.

Over the past decade, Google has helped finance hundreds of research papers to defend against regulatory challenges of its market dominance, paying stipends of $5,000 to $400,000, The Wall Street Journal found.

Some researchers share their papers before publication and let Google give suggestions, according to thousands of pages of emails obtained by the Journal in public-records requests of more than a dozen university professors. The professors don’t always reveal Google’s backing in their research, and few disclosed the financial ties in subsequent articles on the same or similar topics, the Journal found.

[...]

In some years, Google officials in Washington compiled wish lists of academic papers that included working titles, abstracts and budgets for each proposed paper—then they searched for willing authors, according to a former employee and a former Google lobbyist.

Google promotes the research papers to government officials, and sometimes pays travel expenses for professors to meet with congressional aides and administration officials, according to the former lobbyist. The research has been used, for instance, to deflect antitrust accusations against Google by the Federal Trade Commission in 2012, according to a letter Google attorneys sent to the FTC chairman and viewed by the Journal.

#corruption #conflit_d'intérêt #dissimulation #lobbying

#Colonisation : un crime aux effets inépuisables
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie/020417/colonisation-un-crime-aux-effets-inepuisables

La seule chose scandaleuse à propos de la dénonciation de la colonisation en tant que « crime contre l’humanité », c’est la négation de cette évidence. De l’exposition en cours au Musée national des arts anciens (MNAA) de #Lisbonne jusqu’à l’étude récente d’un économiste de #Harvard, démonstration.

#Economie #Afrique #Chafariz_D'El_Rei #Kate_Lowe #Léopold_II #MNAA #Nathan_Nunn #Portugal #royaume_du_Congo #Traité_transatlantique

How the sugar industry has distorted health science for more than 50 years
▻http://www.vox.com/2016/9/12/12864442/jama-sugar-industry-distort-science

“[...] Is it really true that food companies deliberately set out to manipulate research in their favor? Yes, it is, and the practice continues.” Nestle has been documenting the instances where companies fund nutrition studies that overwhelmingly return favorable results to the industry sponsors.

“Our research emphasizes that industry-funded science needs to be heavily scrutinized, and not taken at face value,” said Kearns, the lead author on the JAMA paper. “There are so many ways a study can be manipulated — from the questions that are asked, from how the information is analyzed, even to how the conclusions are described in the paper.”

In this case, the sugar industry involvement in science influenced not only the scientific enterprise but also public-health policy, and potentially, the health of millions of people. Kearns points out that the most recent World Health Organization sugar guidelines focus on reducing consumption because of sugar’s role in obesity and tooth decay — not the heart risk.

#sucre #santé

The struggle for #Afrodescendant rights
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/12/the-struggle-for-afrodescendant-rights-in-latin-america

In the short span since its inception, the Latin American Afrodescendant movement has had an extraordinary impact on the formulation of anti-racism policy in Latin America and beyond. Its origins.....

#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #race #racism #United_States #Harvard #Afro-Latinos #Santiago_Conference

Anti-racism in Latin America discussion arrives at #Harvard
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/12/anti-racism-in-latin-america-discussion-arrives-at-harvard

A Symposium entitled “Afrodescendants: Fifteen Years after Santiago. Achievements and Challenges” recently took place from December 4th to 5th at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute of the Hutchins Center for.....

#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #race #racism #United_States #Afrodescendant #Afro-Latinos #Santiago_Conference

This Is How A Prison’s Debate Team Beat Harvard
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bard-prison-initiative-debate-team-defeat-harvard_5614124ee4b022a4ce

hree men currently incarcerated at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility in Ulster County beat Harvard University in a recent debate.

How they did it, though, is as inspiring as it is heartbreaking. Almost everywhere in the United States, time spent in prison is at best wasted, at worst spent in a swirl of violence and humiliation. But prisoners fortunate enough to be situated near Bard College have a chance to participate in a program founded on a radical insight: Prison need not be only about punishment, but can also be a place where people grow and blossom into the educated, responsible citizens they will need to be when they’re released.

The men who stomped Harvard were part of the Bard Prison Initiative. “The most important thing that our students’ success symbolizes is how much better we can do in education in the U.S. for all people,” BPI founder Max Kenner told The Huffington Post. “Our program is successful because we operate on a genuinely human level.”

Beating Harvard wasn’t the first time the Bard team had tasted success. Their first debate victory came last year, when they defeated the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.

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#Harvard students just took the most important step yet in the fight over oil and gas divesting — Fusion
▻http://fusion.net/story/28871/harvard-students-take-most-radical-step-yet-in-oil-and-gas-divestment-battle

While the student divestment movement in the U.S. has been loud, you can still count its outright successes on one hand — just three small colleges have begun fully phasing out their fossil fuel holdings. Stanford recently agreed to divest from coal, but is hanging onto its investments in oil and gas companies. American University in Washington DC is voting on a divestment proposal tomorrow.

Skaggs says the movement would be jolted if a university as big as Harvard stepped up.

“It may not have a financial impact, but that’s not really the point,” she said. ” The goal is revoking the social license of these fossil fuel companies.”

She said the group doesn’t expect a ruling for several months. Harvard told the New York Times they’re not sure whether the claims are applicable.

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Polémique autour des investissements d’Harvard dans l’énergie - Le Figaro Étudiant
▻http://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/international/actu/detail/article/polemique-autour-des-investissements-d-harvard-dans-l-energie-5198

Des étudiants américains d’Harvard contestent les investissements de leur université en gaz et en pétrole. Pétitions, manifestations et clip de rap : tous les moyens sont bons pour essayer de se faire entendre.

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