Sana Saeed sur X :
Jesus Christ, you absolute sick ghouls @nytimes
Gaza convoy that ended in death was part of a plan to try to fill a void in aid distribution.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/02/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/gaza-aid-convoy-that-ended-in-death-was-part-of-a-new-israeli-operation
The aid convoy that devolved into a disaster on Thursday, ending with scores of Palestinians dead, was part of a new Israeli operation to get desperately needed food to Gaza residents by working directly with local businessmen, according to an Israeli official, Palestinian businessmen and Western diplomats.
In a rare move, Israel was involved in organizing at least four such aid convoys to northern Gaza this past week after international aid groups suspended operations to the area, citing both Israeli refusals to greenlight aid trucks and rising lawlessness. But on Thursday, that effort backfired on Israeli planners.
AHMED | أحمد sur X :
▻https://twitter.com/ASE/status/1761800577359430031
At the age of 23, after graduating from Columbia University and working briefly for PBS, I went through 7 rounds of interviews and finally landed a job at the NYT as a news producer.
On my 3rd day on the job, on the graveyard shift which was from 5pm-2am I had to fill out some HR paperwork, so I went by the head of HR’s office (her name was Barbara) before 5pm to ask if I could fill it out and return it to her later or leave it on her desk.
She stared at me and said, and I quote verbatim: “How do I know you are not gonna leave a bomb under my desk?”
At the time I was so startled and shocked. I didn’t know how to react. But I happened to not be alone in the room, as she had already been meeting with the new young business reporter who was Jewish, and who had happened to also hear her offensive retort, and had a look on his face of complete confusion and horror.
To this day, I tried to believe that maybe she just had a bad sense of humor, but her tone and delivery was not that of someone who is making a joke, but of someone who wanted to prove some sort of point.
Horrified, I remember going to a mentor at the New York Times, who had once been one of my adjuncts at Columbia University and I told her something very horrible just happened to me and I didn’t want to tell her the details because I was so startled and worried for how it could potentially impact this new great gig that I had landed .
I will never forget what my mentor said to me who had been at the NYT for over a decade, she said, “Ahmed there are people here who will want you to succeed, and there are more people here who will want you to fail.”
Ultimately, I decided not to confront or report what the head of HR said at the time, as it was a very strange time given the Iraq war, and the climate in the newsroom was already very politically charged.
I share this experience now, in light of the misinformation being published by the New York Times, that is masquerading as journalism.
I only lasted six months at the #New_York_Times, and there are many reasons for that and while I have good friends who still work there, it is an indisputable fact that the #NYT is manufacturing consent for #genocide.
☀️👀 sur X :
▻https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1761249450998022442
oh my god. One of the three authors of the New York Times’ “mass rape” atrocity propaganda hoax is Anat Schwartz. She liked posts calling for Gaza to be turned into a “slaughterhouse”. This the person the #NYT hired to write about Palestinians and frame them as sub-human monsters
she also liked posts repeating the 40 beheaded babies hoax. This is unbelievable. The #New_York_Times got Anat Schwartz along with Adam Sella and Jeffrey Gettleman, both of whom are also rabid Zionist maniacs, to freely express their deep racist contempt of Palestinians. Holy shit
▻https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/extraordinary-charges-of-bias-emerge-against-nytimes-reporter-anat-schwa
The latest questions are centered around Anat Schwartz, an Israeli who co-authored several of the paper’s most widely circulated reports, including the now well-known and scrutinized December 28 article headlined: “‘Screams Without Words’’ How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7.”
Independent researchers scrutinized the online record, and raised serious questions about Schwartz. First, she has apparently never been a reporter but is actually a filmmaker, who the Times suddenly hired in October. You would expect the paper to look for someone with actual journalistic experience, especially for a story as sensitive as this one, written during the fog of war. Surely the paper had enough of its own correspondents on staff who could have been assigned to it.
Next, the researchers found that Schwartz had not hidden her strong feelings online. There are screenshots of her “liking” certain posts that repeated the “40 beheaded baby” hoax, and that endorsed another hysterical post that urged the Israeli army to “turn Gaza into a slaughterhouse,” and called Palestinians “human animals.”
Etc., etc.
Le #New_York_Times dans ses très basses œuvres (encore une fois).
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/briefing/israel-gaza-war-death-toll.html
Il faut présenter les chose non pas telles qu’elles sont, mais comme Biden avait annoncé qu’elles le seront.
#obscène effectivement
Adam Johnson sur X
▻https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/1749425455864729606
Truly the most evil and misleading thing Leonhardt has written and this is saying something. No mention of deaths caused by disease, birth complications or starvation. Also ignores limits of Gaza officials’ count since every hospital, and thus their capacity, has been destroyed
Leonhardt is a craven partisan hatchet man and the genocide-lite narrative is the only one the White House can plausibly try and push and here he is carrying out his disagreeable task. Absolutely shameful, intellectually and morally dishonest
Coincidentally episode on Leonhardt and his bullshit “data driven” schtick dropping Wednesday
This is beyond obscene. Again,
(A) the death count is incomplete due to Israel destroying nearly every hospital in Gaza.
(B) starvation and disease are currently the preferred weapon of mass death which are not included in these totals
(C) the evidence of maximizing civilian deaths wasn’t parsing relative reported deaths (?) it was based on Israeli officials own genocidal comments, explicit policy of collective punishment, and reporting that showed deliberate targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure
Remi Brulin sur X :
▻https://twitter.com/RBrulin/status/1737125265669583224
You know which Newspaper of Record REPORTED on the Pope’s speech about the killing of 2 women in a church in Gaza by an Israeli sniper, QUOTED fm that speech but ERASED the passage where the Pope called it TERRORISM?
The #New_York_Times, of course
Capturing One Million Deaths on a Page: A Chat with NYT’s Carrie Mifsud
▻https://nightingaledvs.com/capturing-one-million-deaths-on-a-page-carrie-mifsud
Carrie Mifsud of “The #New_York_Times” talks about her award-winning front (and back) page #Design to commemorate one million COVID deaths.
Des journalistes demandent aux soldats ukrainiens de cacher leurs écussons nazis, admet le New York Times Tyler Durden
Le New York Times a été contraint de traiter très, très tardivement de quelque chose qui était depuis longtemps évident et connu de nombreux analystes et médias indépendants, mais qui a été soigneusement caché aux masses dominantes en Occident pour des raisons évidentes.
Les auteurs du rapport du NYT commencent par exprimer leur frustration face à l’apparence des symboles nazis affichés si fièrement sur les uniformes de nombreux soldats ukrainiens. Suggérant que de nombreuses photographies journalistiques qui ont dans certains cas été présentées dans des journaux et des médias du monde entier (généralement associées à des articles généralement positifs sur l’armée ukrainienne) sont simplement « malheureuses » ou trompeuses, le rapport du NYT indique : « Sur chaque photographie, des Ukrainiens en uniforme portaient des écussons avec des symboles qui ont été rendus notoires par l’Allemagne nazie et qui font depuis partie de l’iconographie des groupes haineux d’extrême droite. »
Le rapport admet que cela a conduit à une controverse dans laquelle les salles de presse doivent en fait supprimer certaines photos de soldats et de militants ukrainiens. « Les photographies et leurs suppressions mettent en évidence la relation compliquée de l’armée ukrainienne avec l’imagerie nazie, une relation forgée sous l’occupation soviétique et allemande pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale », poursuit le rapport.
C’est donc simplement « épineux » et « compliqué » nous dit-on. Vous trouverez ci-dessous un petit échantillon des types de patchs qui apparaissent sur les uniformes militaires ukrainiens avec « une certaine régularité » – selon les termes du New York Times :

Même l’Otan a récemment été forcée de supprimer des images sur ses comptes officiels de médias sociaux en raison de la présence de symboles nazis parmi les troupes ukrainiennes lors de séances photo.
La ligne suivante du rapport dit tout ce que vous devez savoir sur le soi-disant « papier officiel » et sa couverture unilatérale et ultra-simpliste tandis que beaucoup se réveillent enfin pour réaliser qu’il s’agit d’une guerre avec une réalité profondément complexe (c’est le moins qu’on puisse dire), et loin du récit hollywoodien des bons contre les méchants des MSM de Putler contre le monde libre qui est typique des réseaux de CNN à Fox en passant par NBC…
Citation de l’article du New York Times :
« En novembre, lors d’une réunion avec des journalistes du Times près de la ligne de front, un attaché de presse ukrainien portait une variante de Totenkopf fabriquée par une société appelée R3ICH (prononcé « Reich »). Il a déclaré qu’il ne croyait pas que le patch était affilié aux nazis. Un deuxième attaché de presse présent a déclaré que d’autres journalistes avaient demandé aux soldats d’enlever le patch avant de prendre des photos ».
Oups !
Et maintenant, nous pouvons nous attendre à des efforts importants pour limiter les dégâts, ou même peut-être assistons-nous aux débuts de l’évolution des définitions et du déplacement des poteaux de but. On cite encore l’article du New York Times :
« Mais certains membres de ces groupes combattent la Russie depuis que le Kremlin a annexé illégalement une partie de la région de Crimée en Ukraine en 2014 et font désormais partie de la structure militaire plus large. Certains sont considérés comme des héros nationaux, alors même que l’extrême droite reste marginalisée politiquement.
L’iconographie de ces groupes, y compris un écusson en forme de tête de mort porté par les gardiens des camps de concentration et un symbole connu sous le nom de Soleil noir, apparaît désormais avec une certaine régularité sur les uniformes des soldats combattant en première ligne, y compris les soldats qui disent que cette imagerie symbolise la souveraineté et la fierté de l’Ukraine, pas le nazisme. »

Ce n’est que très récemment que le ministère ukrainien de la Défense et même le bureau du président Zelensky ont été pris en flagrant délit :
En avril, le ministère ukrainien de la Défense a publié sur son compte Twitter une photo d’un soldat portant un écusson représentant un crâne et des os croisés connu sous le nom de Totenkopf, ou tête de mort. Le symbole spécifique sur l’image a été rendu célèbre par une unité nazie qui a commis des crimes de guerre et gardé des camps de concentration pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
L’écusson sur la photo place le Totenkopf au sommet d’un drapeau ukrainien avec un petit numéro 6 en dessous. Ce patch est le logo officiel de Death in June, un groupe néo-folk britannique qui, selon le Southern Poverty Law Center, produit un « discours de haine » qui « exploite des thèmes et des images du fascisme et du nazisme ».
Comme on pouvait s’y attendre, le Times essaie toujours de se cacher tout en cherchant désespérément à « rassurer » son public en écrivant que « à court terme, cela menace de renforcer la propagande de Poutine et d’alimenter ses fausses affirmations selon lesquelles l’Ukraine doit être » dénazifiée ‘ – une position qui ignore le fait que le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelenskyy est juif. »
De nouveaux niveaux de copulation en effet…
Mais encore, le NYT concède maladroitement : « Plus largement, l’ambivalence de l’Ukraine à propos de ces symboles, et parfois même son acceptation de ceux-ci, risque de donner une nouvelle vie à des icônes que l’Occident a passé plus d’un demi-siècle à essayer d’éliminer. »
Source : ▻https://www.investigaction.net/fr/des-journalistes-demandent-aux-soldats-ukrainiens-de-cacher-leurs-ec
Lien de l’article en anglais :
▻https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/journalists-are-asking-ukrainian-soldiers-hide-their-nazi-patches-nyt-adm
traduction : ▻http://lagazetteducitoyen.over-blog.com/2023/06/des-journalistes-demandent-aux-soldats-ukrainiens-de-c
#ukraine #nazisme #nazis #New_York_Times #NYT #symboles #néo-nazis #guerre
En France, à Lille, fonctionnaire de police avec un tatouage de la valknut, symbole wotaniste, (idéologie identitaire germanique). Des précisions à apporter ?
un effet de #mode sans doutes
▻https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fx8hXC4aYAQsisU?format=jpg
Source : ▻https://twitter.com/contactrevol/status/1666087151912775682
La voix du nord a même du en convenir
Le « Russiagate », ce gratte-ciel de la fake news
Extrait de : Un an après l’invasion de l’Ukraine, une débâcle du journalisme. Les médias, avant-garde du parti de la guerre, par Serge Halimi & Pierre Rimbert (Le Monde diplomatique, mars 2023)
▻https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2023/03/HALIMI/65597
À propos de : #Jeff_Gerth, « The press versus the president », Columbia Journalism Review, New York, 30 janvier 2023.
Ex-reporter au New York Times pendant près de trente ans, Gerth vient de publier dans la très respectée #Columbia_Journalism_Review une enquête-fleuve sur la couverture médiatique du « #Russiagate ». Ce gratte-ciel de la fake news dont les principaux architectes furent le #New_York_Times, le #Washington_Post, #CNN et #MSNBC prétendait que, sans la collusion entre M. Trump et M. Poutine, Mme Clinton aurait occupé le bureau Ovale de la Maison Blanche. Las, après deux années d’instruction, le procureur spécial Robert Mueller, pourtant chouchou des démocrates, avait crevé la baudruche et réfuté toute collusion). Le Washington Post dut même corriger plusieurs de ses scoops et effacer de son site les affabulations les plus grotesques.
L’enquête de la Columbia Journalism Review se parcourt comme un musée des erreurs médiatiques : élision des informations non conformes à la thèse des reporters, course concurrentielle au scoop au détriment de la rigueur, travestissement en « #désinformation russe » d’informations vraies mais gênantes pour les démocrates, exposé trompeur de statistiques, usage abusif de sources anonymes (un millier pendant l’ère Trump) vaguement décrites comme « responsable de l’administration », « responsable des renseignements ».
Même lorsque les agences rectifiaient ou démentaient les informations publiées, la presse, agissant en acteur politique autonome, renchérissait à coups de « révélations » frelatées pour maintenir la pression sur la Maison Blanche. Alors que le contre-espionnage s’avoue incapable de mesurer l’effet politique de comptes manipulés par les Russes sur les réseaux sociaux, le New York Times titre sur « Le complot pour subvertir une élection » et avance que ces profils Facebook avaient potentiellement touché « un public total de 126 millions d’Américains ». Gerth note que la moitié de ces personnes avaient été « exposées aux messages » manipulés après l’élection, et que le chiffre en lui-même ne s’apprécie qu’au regard du nombre total d’articles d’actualité postés sur Facebook au cours de la période, soit… 33 000 milliards, ce que le quotidien se gardait de signaler. Une telle omission, estime l’historien Gareth Porter, « devrait concourir dans les annales du journalisme pour le prix de l’utilisation d’une statistique la plus spectaculairement trompeuse de tous les temps ».
Comme pour confirmer ce verdict relatif à la probité de la #presse, les médias mis en cause ont accueilli l’enquête de Gerth par un silence de plomb, sans doute confiants dans le fait que leurs clients préfèrent voir réaffirmées leurs convictions plutôt que d’être déniaisés. Résultat, explique l’auteur, une profession extrêmement influente dans la vie publique n’encourt aucune sanction lorsqu’elle se fourvoie. « Si vous êtes une entreprise privée qui vend des produits défaillants, le consommateur peut réclamer un remboursement, un échange, l’application d’une garantie ou se plaindre auprès d’une agence publique. Mais contre un journalisme de mauvaise qualité, vous ne pouvez que changer de chaîne, adresser un commentaire à une personne anonyme ou jeter votre #journal au panier. »
Le « Russiagate » avait transformé en arme de politique intérieure les questions relatives à une « menace russe » ; les #médias en sortaient déconsidérés. La guerre d’Ukraine leur a permis de recycler leur obsession, cette fois à partir d’une agression réelle et dans un contexte politique plus porteur, puisque les deux partis américains s’accordent pour réclamer que les #États-Unis arment le pays envahi.
How #Climate_Change Is Making Tampons (and Lots of Other Stuff) More Expensive - The #New_York_Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/climate/climate-change-cotton-tampons.html
“Climate change is a secret driver of inflation,” said Nicole Corbett, a vice president at NielsenIQ. “As extreme weather continues to impact crops and production capacity, the cost of necessities will continue to rise.”
Maya Mikdashi sur Twitter : ▻https://twitter.com/mayamikdashi/status/1555942630617481217
🧵how the nytimes writes/evaluates #Palestinian & Israeli life differently:
1/"The Palestinian death toll for 2 days of fighting had risen to 15 by Saturday afternoon with 125 injured, according to the Health Ministry in #Gaza. A 5-year-old girl was among those killed on Friday"
2/ “Two Israeli soldiers were wounded on Saturday by a mortar shell that fell on an Israeli communal farm near the Gaza border, according to the military”
These sentences are back to back. Palestinian casualties are results of “fighting”, as if they were caught in crossfire
When it comes to Israeli soldiers, there is a weapon (mortar shell) and a place (a farm). There are apparently no soldiers or civilians in the “Palestinian death toll,” nor a location of death. Earlier in the article we are told that “One civilian was lightly injured” in Sderot
Maya Mikdashi sur Twitter : "and today the nytimes calls the Golan Heights “a disputed area”. Interesting way to say “occupied Syrian land illegally annexed by Israel in violation of international law.”" / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/mayamikdashi/status/1556267093720539136
Decolonial Operations Manual - Decolonize this Place New York
▻https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c5e0c57d86cc9226827c754/t/600b3b61caec9b2e049d6ca8/1611348841260/DTP_Decolonial+OM_ReaderSpreads_FINAL_lowres.pdf
#Decolonisation #decolonial #contestedmonuments #New_York #struggle
The work reflected in these pages, condensing years, helps us breathe. It is only possible because of a deep politics of friendship, an ethos of relational organizing, and a strong belief that not only do things not have to be this way, but in fact we must live as if it could be different based on what we choose to do and how we choose to live. This work is also the product of many people, colleagues, comrades, participants, family members, lovers, friends, and grassroots groups. We thank all those who put in the time and love to usher something powerful and beautiful into the world and to hold space for each other. We also thank those who used their cameras, social media, wrote, took pictures, made videos, brought family and friends, and organized. Movement-generated anything is always better. If any image should have been credited and we did not, we apologize in advance as it was not intentional. Finally, for all those who wonder about wins as a metric of success, we share: we walk, we do not run because we are going very far.
Boom in the Night (Original Studio Recordings 1980-1983)
▻https://wharf-cat.squarespace.com/bush-tetras
New York City legends the Bush Tetras have been making paranoid, groove-centered #post-punk since 1979, when Pat Place left James Chance and The Contortions to found the group with singer Cynthia Sley, bassist Laura Kennedy and drummer Dee Pop. Though spared mainstream success in an era when female fronted groups in the charts were pop acts, the Tetras’ single “Too Many Creeps” (1980) was a huge club hit and remains a classic.
Dans les tréfonds de « seenthis » tu as souvent des surprises. je dirai même de bonnes surprises.
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/119596
▻https://sebnormal.bandcamp.com
Preserving the Post-Punk Legacy of Bush Tetras
By Erin Margaret Day · November 15, 2021
▻https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bush-tetras-rhythm-and-paranoia-feature
Bush Tetras, “They Live in My Head”
▻https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/bush-tetras-they-live-in-my-head-review
شنشون sur Twitter : “In the US media, being in SJP when you were in college will get you fired, but leading a campaign to try to fire Palestinian professors for criticizing Israel when you were in college will get you a cushy job at the #New_York_Times.” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/humanprovince/status/1395493609252794372
‘They’re Trying to Bully Us’: N.Y.U. Graduate Students Are Back on Strike
N.Y.U.’s campus is in limbo as graduate students have stopped working, with their union demanding higher wages, more benefits and less police presence on campus.
When Marwan Shalaby moved to New York from Egypt in 2019 to start an engineering Ph.D. at New York University, he had $700 in his bank account. He figured that would be enough to get settled.
But Mr. Shalaby had to pay for the deposit on an apartment, a mattress and winter clothes. After going to the emergency room with a cooking injury, he began to rack up debt.
As he waited anxiously for his first graduate student stipend payment, which would add up to $2,500 a month, Mr. Shalaby realized those checks would barely cover the cost of living in his new city. The time and energy he wanted to devote to studying for classes was instead spent worrying about his bank account.
“My learning experience wasn’t optimal because my mind was so preoccupied with how I’d pay for the essentials,” he said.
This week, Mr. Shalaby, 28, joined more than a thousand N.Y.U. graduate students striking for higher wages from the university, among other demands, like better health care and a change in the school’s relationship with the Police Department.
While on strike, the graduate students are refraining from their work duties, including assistant teaching and grading papers, leaving the campus in limbo as the university and union continue bargaining over the terms of the students’ new contract.
More than seven years ago, N.Y.U.’s graduate students became the first in the country to win voluntary recognition for their union from a private university. The resulting contract expired in August, and graduate students, who are represented by the United Automobile Workers, have spent months locked in heated negotiations over the terms for its renewal.
At the center of the conflict between the union and the university, among the country’s more expensive, is the graduate students’ demand for higher wages. The union’s organizing committee initially proposed a $46 hourly wage — more than double the current hourly wages for graduate students there, which start at $20.
The organizing committee has since dropped its proposal to $32 per hour. The university has countered with a proposed raise of around 22 percent over six years, amounting to a $1 raise in the contract’s first year.
N.Y.U. leaders maintain that the graduate students make more than their counterparts at other schools. They noted that graduate students at Harvard, for example, recently settled a contract that granted an hourly wage of $17.
“This strike need not have happened,” John Beckman, an N.Y.U. spokesman, said in an email. “The university has made generous proposals in this contract renewal.”
The university’s president emailed the parents of N.Y.U. students this week and described the strike as “unwarranted, untimely, and regrettable.” The email sparked a backlash and a number of jokes on social media from some of the graduate students, many of them above the age of 30, whose parents received it. (“If I’m grounded I still can’t go to work,” Chloe Jones, 26, a Ph.D. student, tweeted.)
Graduate student organizers at N.Y.U. said the comparison with Harvard’s contract was inappropriate because of the higher cost of living in New York. The N.Y.U. organizers determined their proposed wage by using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s living wage calculator, accounting for the constraint that graduate students can only work 20 hours each week.
And while Columbia and Harvard graduate students went on strike in recent years to get their first union contracts, N.Y.U.’s graduate students are negotiating a second contract, having settled their first in 2015, and therefore have made more ambitious demands. (Columbia’s strike, which began in March, has paused while students vote on their contract, which would raise wages for hourly student workers to $20 within three years.)
“A first contract establishes a baseline for future negotiations,” said William A. Herbert, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions at Hunter College. “In the second contract, the union is seeking to broaden and expand their benefits. It’s very common for a second contract to be more demanding.”
The urgency of the union’s financial demands has been heightened by the pandemic and the economic crisis, as the academic job market has been squeezed by hiring freezes.
“They’re trying to bully us to drop our wage proposals lower and lower,” said Ellis Garey, 28, a union organizer and fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in history and Middle Eastern studies at N.Y.U. “We finally now have thousands of graduate workers on the picket line.”
The crowd that gathered near N.Y.U. on Friday, chanting and marching, heard from several City Council candidates as well as Senator Bernie Sanders, who called in to congratulate the strikers. “If we respect education in this country — if we know how important it is that we supply the best education in the world to our young people,” he said, “it is imperative that we have well-paid faculty members who are treated with respect and dignity.”
Unionization and collective bargaining among graduate students dates back decades in the public sector, which saw its first higher education contract in 1970 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
But at private schools, the question of whether graduate students should be treated as students or workers has been more contentious. And N.Y.U. has long been a battleground for the issue.
The National Labor Relations Board first recognized graduate students’ right to collective bargaining at private universities in 2000, in a case that started at N.Y.U. But the board, whose five members are appointed by the president, had a conservative majority under President George W. Bush. In a 2004 case at Brown University, the board reversed its ruling, leaving private graduate student unions federally unprotected.
The board has vacillated on the subject ever since as the White House has changed hands. Though Republicans still hold a majority until at least late summer, the board said in March that it would withdraw a proposed rule on the issue from the Trump era, once again clearing the way for graduate students at private schools to unionize.
There has been significant growth in the number of total unionized student employees nationwide, from around 64,680 in 2013 to more than 83,000 in 2019, according to research from the Hunter center.
The issue of whether graduate students should be classified as students or employees is more urgent now than ever, Mr. Herbert said, as the federal government considers how to classify gig workers and the workplace protections they’re afforded.
Many private university leaders have traditionally held that graduate students’ primary obligation was to their studies, not their labor. But the striking graduate students at N.Y.U. argue that there is no distinction between their work and academics — and that the university couldn’t function without their paid labor.
“When I’m doing my research, that benefits the university,” Ms. Garey said. “I present at conferences, organize workshops within my department, publish articles, publish translations. All of these are things faculty members do as part of their compensation.”
Compensation isn’t the sole issue driving a wedge between the N.Y.U. graduate student organizers and the university. The graduate students also asked that the university refrain from calling the New York Police Department except when legally obligated or when a violent crime has been committed. They don’t want the police called in cases of vandalism, for example, citing the risk to people of color and other vulnerable students.
The graduate students have also made pandemic-specific demands, including requesting a $500 payment to teaching assistants for the effort they’ve put into transitioning to remote teaching.
Virgilio Urbina Lazardi, 28, a fourth-year sociology Ph.D. student, had planned to spend last spring polishing a paper for submission to an academic journal. He had to shelve the project so he could double the number of hours he spent assistant teaching. The professor he assisted was struggling with Zoom, so Mr. Lazardi made appointments to visit the professor’s home and set up his technology.
“There was a lot of added stress that semester and it disproportionately fell on me with no additional compensation or recognition,” Mr. Lazardi said.
This week all of the duties for which graduate students are compensated — planning lessons, emailing students, hosting office hours — have halted.
Some union organizers have approached the moment as an opportunity to teach their undergraduates about the broader struggle for student-worker rights.
Arundhati Velamur, 33, who is getting her Ph.D. in education, spent the semester leading a course about the teaching of geometry. She opened her first class with a discussion of the book “Flatland,” an 1800s satire about Victorian social hierarchy, which imagines a fictional world populated by shapes whose power is determined by the number of sides they have; a hexagon, for example, would be more powerful than a square.
Ms. Velamur returned to the text to explain why she was skipping class for the strike — because in N.Y.U.’s “Flatland”-like hierarchy, Ms. Velamur said, she and her peers were fighting for more power.
She told her students in an email that she wouldn’t be able to teach until an agreement was reached, and smiled when she received their response: Her undergraduates were spending their class time brainstorming ways to support the union.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/nyregion/nyu-strike.html
#université #précarité #doctorants #doctorat #USA #Etats-Unis #grève #salaires #New_York_University (#NYU) #pauvreté
ping @_kg_
En réaction aux salades que le #new_york_times essaie de vendre,
Marwan Bishara sur Twitter : “This is a Bullshit! This scenario won’t work! Anyone with basic knowledge of Israeli history and politics knows it’s BS NYTimes ▻https://t.co/kcU4FSKQiN” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/marwanbishara/status/1375103499915161601
David Brooks Resigns From The Aspen Institute
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/times-columnist-david-brooks-told-people-to-join-nextdoor
David Brooks has resigned from his position at the Aspen Institute following reporting by BuzzFeed News about conflicts of interest between the star #New_York_Times columnist and funders of a program he led for the think tank.
Eileen Murphy, a spokesperson for the Times, said in a statement that editors approved Brooks’s involvement with Aspen in 2018, when he launched a project called Weave. But current editors weren’t aware he was receiving a salary for Weave.
“The current Opinion editors were unaware of this arrangement and have concluded that holding a paid position at Weave presents a conflict of interest for David in writing about the work of the project, its donors or the broader issues it focuses on,” Murphy said.
‘Solidarity, Not Charity’: A Visual History of Mutual Aid
Tens of thousands of mutual aid networks and projects emerged around the world in 2020. They have long been a tool for marginalized groups.
2020 was a year of crisis. A year of isolation. A year of protest. And, a year of mutual aid.
From meal deliveries to sewing squads, childcare collectives to legal aid, neighbors and strangers opened their wallets, offered their skills, volunteered their time and joined together in solidarity to support one another.
Tens of thousands of mutual aid networks and projects have emerged around the world since the Covid-19 pandemic began, according to Mariame Kaba, an educator, abolitionist and organizer. During the first week of the U.S. lockdown in March 2020, Kaba joined with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to create Mutual Aid 101, an online toolkit that educates and empowers people to build their own mutual aid networks throughout their buildings, blocks, neighborhoods and cities. Emphasizing a focus on “solidarity, not charity,” mutual aid is all about cooperation because, as the toolkit puts it, “we recognize that our well-being, health and dignity are all bound up in each other.”
“Mutual aid projects are a form of political participation in which people take responsibility for caring for one another and changing political conditions,” says Dean Spade, a trans activist, writer, and speaker. “Not through symbolic acts or putting pressure on representatives, but by actually building new social relations that are more survivable.”
While many are engaging with mutual aid for the first time this year, there is a rich history and legacy of communities — especially those failed by our systems of power — coming together to help each other survive, and thrive. Here are nine examples from history.
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-12-22/a-visual-history-of-mutual-aid?srnd=premium
#solidarité #entraide #mutual_aid #charité #BD #Noirs #Philadelphie #USA #Etats-Unis #FAS #New_York_Committee_of_vigilance #Frederick_Douglass #NYCV #femmes_noires #Noires #Callie_House #mutual_aid_society #mutualisme #CCBA #Landsmanshaftn #sociedades_mutualistas #histoire #racisme_structurel #Black_Panthers #free_breakfast_program #young_lords_garbage_offensive #chicken_soup_brigade #Tim_Burak #Buddy_network
De Matzneff aux attentats : le « New York Times », la France et ses zones d’ombre | Mathieu Deslandes
►https://larevuedesmedias.ina.fr/bureau-new-york-times-paris-enquete-matzneff-attentat
Ils ne sont que cinq, mais ils ont publié quelques unes des meilleures enquêtes parues ces derniers mois sur la société française. Des violences sexuelles à l’onde de choc qui a suivi l’assassinat de Samuel Paty, voici comment travaillent les journalistes du bureau du New York Times à Paris. Source : La revue des médias
#Policing_the_Planet. Why the Policing Crisis Led to #Black_Lives_Matter
Combining firsthand accounts from activists with the research of scholars and reflections from artists, Policing the Planet traces the global spread of the broken-windows policing strategy, first established in #New_York_City under Police Commissioner #William_Bratton. It’s a #doctrine that has vastly broadened police power the world over—to deadly effect.
With contributions from #BlackLivesMatter cofounder Patrisse Cullors, Ferguson activist and Law Professor Justin Hansford, Director of New York–based Communities United for Police Reform Joo-Hyun Kang, poet Martín Espada, and journalist Anjali Kamat, as well as articles from leading scholars Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Robin D. G. Kelley, Naomi Murakawa, Vijay Prashad, and more, Policing the Planet describes ongoing struggles from New York to Baltimore to Los Angeles, London, San Juan, San Salvador, and beyond.
The Richest Neighborhoods Emptied Out Most as #Coronavirus Hit #New_York_City - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/15/upshot/who-left-new-york-coronavirus.html
“There is a way that these crises fall with a different weight on people based on social class,” said Kim Phillips-Fein, a history professor at New York University and author of a book about how New York changed during the fiscal crisis of the 1970s. “Even though there’s a strong rhetoric of ‘We’re all in it together,’ that’s not really the case.”
The phone data shows New Yorkers primarily went to surrounding counties — east into Long Island’s Nassau and Suffolk counties, west to Monroe County in Pennsylvania, south to Monmouth County in New Jersey, north to Westchester County, northeast to Fairfield County in Connecticut and farther afield in all directions. Palm Beach County, in South Florida, was among the top locations for displaced New Yorkers.
Le #new_york_times, #pravda de l’#élite #Davos
Tony Karon sur Twitter : ““Possible Russian interference”? New standards of gutter journalism from nytimes as the Pravda of the Davos class works up its #Sanders smear game ▻https://t.co/LcZkDrZhOx via @NYTimes” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/TonyKaron/status/1231254629469564932
“#liberal”
In Iowa, the ‘Not Sanders’ Democrats Find Voters Torn - The #New_York_Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/politics/iowa-democrats-bernie-sanders.html
Sanders la #menace...
Mr. Sanders is threatening to seize control in the early states, taking narrow but clear polling leads in Iowa and New Hampshire and increasingly menacing Mr. Biden’s advantage in national polls.
Primaire démocrate : le #New_York_Times soutient Warren et Klobuchar
▻https://www.lapresse.ca/international/etats-unis/202001/20/01-5257515-primaire-democrate-le-new-york-times-soutient-warren-et-klobucha
Il y a décidément une vague sans précédent de #crimes contre la #langue,
Pour justifier cette ambivalence, le prestigieux quotidien explique que les deux approches en compétition parmi les nombreux candidats- celle, « radicale », représentée par Elizabeth Warren ou celle, « réaliste », portée par Amy Klobuchar [...]
[...]
Mme Warren, 70 ans, qui représente l’aile #gauche du parti démocrate, est assez bien placée dans les sondages pour la primaire démocrate, [...] derrière [...] un rival très à gauche, #Bernie_Sanders.
Killer Slime, Dead Birds, an Expunged Map: The Dirty Secrets of #European_Farm_Subsidies - The #New_York_Times
►https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/25/world/europe/farms-environment.html