The following is a transcript of remarks delivered at Making Worlds Bookstore, Philadelphia, on November 9, 2021. I’m going to ask for your patience and possibly forgiveness at the outset. I haven’t done any public speaking in a while, a practice that has always been a source of mixed feelings for me. I normally speak […]
Posts Tagged ‘internationalism’
Favorite son? Eduardo Bolsonaro and the growing internationalism of the far right
There were moments during 2020 when it seemed like the former U.S. president and the still sitting president of Brazil were in a competition to see who could be more irresponsible in confronting the novel coronavirus. Both men would eventually catch Covid 19, likely due to the fact that they’d politicized basic health measures like […]
Vaccine nationalism? We can be accused of vaccine INTERNATIONALISM, EU commissioner says amid row over deliveries
A top EU official has said that “everything is on the table” as Brussels examines vaccine production and distribution. The European Commission earlier threatened to ban AstraZeneca from sending its vaccine outside of the bloc. The BBC’s Andrew Marr asked European Commissioner for Financial Stability Mairead McGuinness whether Brussels is serious in its threats to […]
Fred Hampton, internationalism, and Palestine: an interview with Jeffrey Haas
On February 18, Adalah Justice Project’s Sandra Tamari spoke with movement attorney Jeff Haas by videoconference. Jeff is a founder of the People’s Law Office in Chicago (1969-2003) and is the author of The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther. In this conversation, Jeff recounts his […]