Alan Wald

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Alan Wald

Alan Wald

@wald_alan66447

Editor, AGAINST THE CURRENT and SCIENCE & SOCIETY

Katılım Aralık 2023
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Martin Shaw
Martin Shaw@martinshawx·
A true example of academic integrity. Solidarity with Professor Derek Peterson.
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Professor Derek R. Peterson, a University of Michigan historian and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, thanked “pro-Palestinian student activists” during a graduation speech today, for “opening our hearts to the injustices and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza.” Peterson teaches history and African studies at the University of Michigan, where he also became chair of the faculty senate in 2025.

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Boston Review
Boston Review@BostonReview·
For decades Gramsci has been a kind of Rorschach Marxist, a revolutionary for all seasons. His message of radical possibility—a launching pad and not a road map to social transformation—issues no easy prescriptions. Alan Wald on Gramci’s legacy today: bostonreview.net/articles/grams…
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Basit Zafar
Basit Zafar@basit_ak_zafar·
@Unseen_Archive, thank you for your excellent remarks today, and for your leadership of the Faculty Senate over the past year!
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Professor Derek R. Peterson, a University of Michigan historian and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, thanked “pro-Palestinian student activists” during a graduation speech today, for “opening our hearts to the injustices and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza.” Peterson teaches history and African studies at the University of Michigan, where he also became chair of the faculty senate in 2025.

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Derek R Peterson
Derek R Peterson@Unseen_Archive·
Yesterday I had the pleasure of addressing the graduates @UMich commencement. I spoke about the long history of student activism, which has moved the University toward justice. Here is a video. It has caused a furore on social media & in UM admin. youtube.com/watch?v=iu0xsQ…
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Alan Wald
Alan Wald@wald_alan66447·
Alan Wald on "The Black Radical Imagination" in AGAINST THE CURRENT. "The 'African American Old Left' are practically all deceased...but their cumulative work comprises a mosaic of collective memory ... againstthecurrent.org/.../the-black-…
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Alan Wald
Alan Wald@wald_alan66447·
Join Jews across the country to demand that Salah Sarsour be released from custody and returned to his family immediately with his green card intact. Learn more and add your name: bendthearc.us/release_salah_…
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Alan Wald
Alan Wald@wald_alan66447·
@BruceRobbins6 Good point: "do you only see something as an atrocity if other people do it? Or do you also see it as an atrocity when your side does it?" If you haven't read Lewis Falstein's FACE OF A HERO, about a Jewish bomber pilot (or maybe tailgunner) in WWII, I'd recommend it.
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