Simona Tobia
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Simona Tobia
@SimoTobia
Maître de conférence en civilisation des États-Unis (Associate Professor in US History and Politics), co-editor @close_War
انضم Ekim 2009
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Close Encounters in War launches a new section for stories and poetry closeencountersinwar.org/2021/02/09/clo…
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Dozens of Trump supporters rushed to the East Front entrance to the Senate side of the Capitol and some repeatedly hit the locked doors with batons and poles.
“Arrest Congress!” a woman in a flag scarf shouted.
nyti.ms/2XgekIH
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Storming the Capitol? My students come to American History class full of ideals about the most beautiful democracy in the world, just as I did however many years back. I’ve since lost any illusion about American ‘democracy’, but how will I be able to help them make sense of this?
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Issue n. 3 (2020) of the CEIWJ is online closeencountersinwar.org/2020/12/27/iss… via @wordpressdotcom
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30 million lost their jobs in six weeks.
We are the only major country with millions unemployed and uninsured.
It's time to reexamine our society's foundations and fight for a more just nation.
This is the moment to make sure everyone has economic security and health care.
CNN Breaking News@cnnbrk
Another 3.8 million Americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week, bringing the total claims since mid-March to more than 30 million cnn.it/2zKfbZQ
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$282,000,000,000.
That's by how much America’s billionaires increased their wealth in less than a month, while over 22 million lost their jobs.
This system of unfettered greed is morally obscene. It’s time to put working families first—not billionaires. businessinsider.com/us-billionaire…
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Here's an idea for @JeffBezos: Instead of handing out t-shirts, maybe, as the richest man on Earth, you can provide all of your workers with paid sick leave, hazard pay, protective gear, and a safe and sanitary workplace.
Michael Sainato@msainat1
Whole Foods is giving workers a new work uniform shirt with "hero" on the front and "hardcore" on the back as hundreds of workers have gotten sick and at least 2 have died from coronavirus for just a $2 an hr wage increase
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American taxpayers put tens of millions of dollars into developing remdesivir. Any coronavirus treatment or vaccine must be made free for everybody.
We will not tolerate profiteering by Gilead or any other pharmaceutical corporation right now. Human life comes first.
Reuters@Reuters
Gilead Sciences shares surged following a report that the company’s experimental drug, remdesivir, showed promise in treating patients with COVID-19 reut.rs/2Kc4yAV
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Justice for frontline workers means childcare, safe conditions and $500 a week in hazard pay to:
🛒Grocery workers
👷🏼♀️Transit workers and truck drivers
📦Warehouse, delivery and postal workers
👩🏽⚕️Paramedics, nurses, pharmacy employees
🧺Domestic workers
👨🏼🌾Farm laborers
🧼Janitors
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Even before this pandemic, a majority of our workers lived paycheck to paycheck.
1 in 7 children didn’t get enough to eat.
40% couldn’t afford a $400 emergency.
Let us learn from this crisis. Let us finally eradicate hunger and poverty in the richest country in human history.
TODAY@TODAYshow
“These are the hospitality workers in our community. Many of them are coming from our hotels. Many are taxi drivers or Uber drivers. Many were impacted b/c their place of employment shut down.” -Eric Cooper, president and CEO of the San Antonio Food Bank
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$33.4 billion. That's how much the wealth of Jeff Bezos and six other billionaires increased last week while millions of Americans were filing for unemployment.
Our society cannot sustain itself when so few have so much, while so many have so little. #448ea2fb3e8d" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">forbes.com/sites/hayleycu…
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We are looking today at doctors and nurses who can't acquire the masks they need as they put their lives on the line.
Yet we are the wealthiest country in the history of the world.
How does that happen?
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If today we had the same level of inequality we had forty years ago, the bottom 90% of American households would be earning $12,000 more every year.
$120,000 per decade.
Do not tell me we cannot afford to cover the paychecks of every worker during this horrific pandemic.
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Following this excellent webinar
BU Oral History@BaylorOH
Our free "Conducting Remote Interviews" #oralhistory webinar is today from 1-3pm CST! Two hours of instruction followed by a lengthy Q&A session. If you can't make it, both sections will be recorded and posted publicly later this week. Hope to see you there!
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To clarify, $1200 checks are ONLY going to some w/social sec numbers, NOT immigrants w/ tax IDs (ITINs).
Thanks to GOP, these checks will be cut off the backs of *taxpaying immigrants,* who get nothing. Many are essential workers who pay more taxes than Amazon.
Wall St gets $4T
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#Coronavirus (Covid-19) - Updated Information Statement from the UK ITP Forum and the ITP Support Association 23rd March 2020. #StayHomeSaveLives
Information for adult patients with immune thrombocytopenia in the setting of COVID-19 pandemic
itpsupport.org.uk/index.php/en/n…
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Students in too many countries cannot separate “fact” from “opinion”. This is where the responsibilities of teachers in the humanities lay, at all levels of education. This is how we can make a difference.
OECD Education@OECDEduSkills
PISA 2018 results now available: Get the full package ➡ oe.cd/pisa | Programme for International #Student Assessment #OECDPISA #SDG4
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Come to Charlottesville for #MSA2020! The submission portal will open soon - see the call for papers:
memorystudiesassociation.org/charlottesvill…
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