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Nicholas Limerick

@NickLimerick

anthropologist between the U.S. & Ecuador. @TeachersCollege @Columbia faculty

Joined August 2012
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We invite presenters with research that thinks through the value of anthropology, particularly of ethnography, and considers what it is about ethnography that makes it useful and for what purposes. Papers grounded in ethnographic detail–defined in various ways–will be preferred.
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Today is the first day of the new legislative session in Albany! Already, 14 senators have announced their opposition to LaSalle's nomination—but we need every senator to do so. Use this tool to call, email, and tweet at your senator with a few clicks: p2a.co/pf9ft4o
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Job Opportunity! The International and Comparative Education Program @TC_ICeducation @TeachersCollege seeks a tenure track assistant professor focusing on languages, literacy, and communities @OrenPizmonyLevy @NickLimerick @MaryMendenhall1 @hvarenne employment.tc.columbia.edu/c…
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Astra Taylor@astradisastra23 Aug 2022
Debt has long been a tool of profit-making, social control and racial domination. And that certainly goes for student loans. Re-upping my animation YOUR DEBT IS SOMEONE ELSE'S ASSET which condenses thousands of years of history into 7 minutes. Cancel it.

Your Debt is Someone Else's Asset

Student loans, medical bills, credit cards — Americans are drowning in a record-breaking $15 trillion in debt.

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Students for Edmund W. Gordon Tower have long demanded Thorndike Hall, named after a prominent eugenicist, be renamed after the University’s first Black tenured professor. As Gordon approaches 101 years of age, they say the change is even more urgent. ift.tt/3IuYtM2
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Malcolm Harris@BigMeanInternet19 Jan 2022
Over the past week, there has been a major shift in the debate over school conditions as students around the country have stepped up and organized to protect their communities. I want to highlight their efforts here in a thread...
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📣 ILAS Student Grants applications for Summer 2022 are LIVE! 📅 Deadlines: Feb. 18 & March 25, 2022 🔗 More info: l8r.it/BXiR
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Plantón contra ROMO en la Universidad de Pensilvania. Por tener como investigadora visitante a una opresora. @MashiRafael @RonnyAleagaS @MoniPalaciosZ @EGuzmanurresta @FaustoJarrinT facebook.com/366733347212095… – at Queens, NY
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@NPR3 Oct 2021
How can you salvage a friendship in a world that seems destined to tear it apart? Anthropologist Katherine Verdery’s story might offer some clues. n.pr/3oqIiJ1
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#Waorani lucha por proteger la selva y su cultura. El gobierno manda petroleros y mineros, ahora nos quiere quitar a los profesores. No vale. Queremos seguir siendo Waoranis. Ministra @mariabrownp, recíbanos y escúchenos Carta: bit.ly/3sp4IdG

No pueden quitarnos nuestra educación

Los líderes waorani Nemonte y Gilbero Nenquimo explican por qué las pruebas docentes en Ecuador están perjudicando a los maestros waorani.

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@TheDailyShow21 May 2021
No good deed goes unpunished - especially when it involves confronting an oil tycoon. @roywoodjr talks with human rights lawyer @SDonziger to find out why he’s on house arrest for calling out the deadly effects of Chevron’s operations in Ecuador. teapawt.net/TheDailyShow/status/13…

Exposing The World’s Biggest Crime Syndicate: Chevron

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