Andrew J Douglas @ajd_theory Twitter profile

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Andrew J Douglas

2 months

Might we push the academic labor movement beyond the paradigm of the “property corporation” and its labor-management framework? Might we reimagine the university as a kind of cooperative? My new piece on lessons from Du Bois’s differences with the AAUP.

Toward the Cooperative University: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Membership in

In 1937, at the tender age of sixty-nine, W. E. B. Du Bois paid a $4 membership fee and joined the American Association of University Professors. Du Bois was several years into his second stint as a

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Andrew J Douglas

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28 days

I was scheduled to give a talk at Columbia week after next. Just withdrew. Academics everywhere need to stand in solidarity with these courageous and principled students. Shame on Columbia. Shame on Shafik. Shame on all who remain silent.

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She was so unprepared for this. Crazy at this point that any Biden official, really any major party official or appointee of any sort, still imagines they can step on an HBCU campus and be met with anything but disruption. Proud of these students.

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Arrived in #Atlanta to meet with @SpelmanCollege 's brilliant students and educators on 🇺🇸 foreign policy priorities and representing the United States around the world.

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Andrew J Douglas

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This is a Morehouse student. He was brutally arrested yesterday for joining Emory students in protest of genocide and state violence. He’s still in jail. Emory’s shameful “outside agitator” narrative licensed GSP/APD to target Black protestors.

Eye on Palestine

@EyeonPalestine

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Scenes from Emory University in Atlanta show Georgia State Patrol and police violently attacking pro-Palestinian student demonstrators.

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Andrew J Douglas

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2 years

Friendly reminder of how a 20-year-old MLK spent his Christmas holiday.

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1 year

W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois at the gravesite of Karl Marx, botd in 1818.

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Andrew J Douglas

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6 months

Atlanta tonight. #FreePalestine #EndGILEE #CeaseFireNow 🇵🇸

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9 months

Beautiful day to enjoy some Atlanta street art.

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Andrew J Douglas

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1 year

As “progressive orgs” fail to condemn cop city, I’m reminded of MLK’s 1967 speech to top SCLC brass: the struggle “may mean the death of your bridge to the White House, the death of a foundation grant. It may cut down your budget a little, but take up your cross and bear it.”

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Andrew J Douglas

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I was asked to provide “faculty perspective” at last night’s AUC-mayoral forum on Cop City. My parting line: “Du Bois once said ‘the cause of war is preparation for war.’ If we don’t want to cause more war on Black and poor people, let’s not prepare for it.” #StopCopCity

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Andrew J Douglas

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1 year

"There is no Cop City in the beloved community." Proud to join my Morehouse faculty colleagues in signing this open letter denouncing Cop City.

Cop City Open Letter from the Morehouse Faculty

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Andrew J Douglas

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3 months

Sunrise over Atlanta. Just look at this. The armor. The firepower. The manpower. The overtime, paid for with public funds. All to repress criticism, to stifle democracy, to prevent my neighbors, my kids, my students from building a livable future. #StopCopCity

Atlanta Community Press Collective

@atlanta_press

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Atlanta Police conducted a raid on the house of vocal Cop City opponents in Lakewood Heights Thursday Morning, neighbors report. Media contacts from the Stop Cop City movement say police raided two additional houses and three people have been arrested.

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Andrew J Douglas

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Students at Morehouse, Spelman, and Clark Atlanta have put out a powerful statement calling on their institutions to divest from genocide and declare support for the Palestinian people. They’re urging folks to sign on in solidarity.

Sign the Petition

Demand Atlanta University Center Consortium to Stand in Solidarity with Palestine

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Andrew J Douglas

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11 months

Reminder that it’s an all-way stop. All ways. Always.

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Andrew J Douglas

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4 months

Sold. They had me at “In this essay, we argue for administrative abolition, that is, the elimination of all college presidents, provosts, deans and other top level administrators...”

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Andrew J Douglas

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4 months

Happy birthday CLR James. My annual reminder to the publishers out there: we could use a new edition of Notes on Dialectics.

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Andrew J Douglas

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1 year

Video doesn't do it justice. This was one of the most powerful things I've experienced on campus in years. And on the heels of Chris Smalls talking monopoly capital, Black worker power, and the resurgence of the labor movement.🔥🔥🔥 #StopCopCity

The Maroon Tiger

@themaroontiger

1 year

AUC students interrupted crown forum to demand the school denounce the funding of Cop City!

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Andrew J Douglas

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2 years

A little stunned and plenty grateful for all the interest in this debt class. Since many have asked, here’s a glimpse of the reading list for the fall ‘22 iteration. And since the queries seem to have come from various perspectives and disciplines, some context. 🧵

Andrew J Douglas

@ajd_theory

2 years

This will be my third year trying to teach a political theory course on "debt and democracy." What I've learned: 1) A theory of debt is basically a theory of everything 2) It's simply impossible to teach satisfactorily a standalone course on debt 3) Still, it's worth trying

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Andrew J Douglas

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2 years

This will be my third year trying to teach a political theory course on "debt and democracy." What I've learned: 1) A theory of debt is basically a theory of everything 2) It's simply impossible to teach satisfactorily a standalone course on debt 3) Still, it's worth trying

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Andrew J Douglas

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1 year

Audience reaction was priceless. And totally befitting of a symposium in honor of Walter Rodney, who understood that, as he put it in his lectures on historians and revolutions, “change and historical movement are dependent upon [fighting] the contradictions.” #StopCopCity

#FreeArtsakh #FreeFalastin 🇦🇲֎🇵🇸

@ATL_Armo

1 year

Angela Davis spoke at the 20th Walter Rodney Symposium in Atlanta today and it was brilliant. Afterwards, the City of Atlanta announced that they’re making today Angela Davis Day to honor her PIC abolition work and gave her a plaque🫠

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Andrew J Douglas

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1 year

With my students fired up about Cop City, I decided to dedicate a session of my ‘debt and democracy’ class to an interrogation of the city’s investor relations website. Why are city officials so determined to beef up the police? 🤔

Bonds, Documents, Resources | City of Atlanta | BondLink

The City of Atlanta website features bond offerings and ratings, financial documents, news & updates about our municipality, and other information about our municipal bond programs. Powered by...

www.buyatlantabonds.com

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Andrew J Douglas

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Students put out a brilliant statement, too.

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Andrew J Douglas

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8 months

If you’re teaching political theory, make time to discuss these RICO indictments. How can we not? The most significant, intersectional social movement of our time now confronted with indictments explicitly invoking political theory—anarchism, collectivism, mutual aid, solidarity.

Andrew J Douglas

@ajd_theory

9 months

Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, and the movement to stop cop city. In this city, at this school, in this moment—thinking I’ve got to use it as a way of framing an intro to political theory.

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Andrew J Douglas

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The backlash is strong and getting stronger, as anyone paying attention could have predicted. Powerful, principled statement from concerned Morehouse alumni condemning the College’s platforming of Biden. Alums can sign on:

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Andrew J Douglas

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5 months

Brilliant timeline of Black Palestinian solidarity by Spelman’s Dr. Banah Ghadbian.

Andrew J Douglas

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West End to the West Bank. Great resource from comrades in Atlanta.

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Andrew J Douglas

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1 year

Meanwhile the City wants to tear down 85 acres of forest in a predominantly Black southside neighborhood so the police can fuel up helicopters and tanks and practice urban warfare.

Mapping Atlanta

@mappingATL

1 year

According to a new analysis from @guardian , predominantly Black neighborhoods to the south and west of downtown Atlanta have the 9th most air pollution of anywhere across the United States

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Andrew J Douglas

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1 year

Ruth Wilson Gilmore says somewhere that local government has been shaped by a 40yr organization of the police as a political power, that we’ve moved ever further from romantic notions of politicians holding cops accountable. Atlanta’s got me thinking about that a lot these days.

Tiff Roberts

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1 year

The @CityofAtlanta charter places the Mayor at the helm of the police department. There is no official action taken by the Atlanta Police Department that does not go directly back to him. Full stop. Do not play with our lives while also playing with our intelligence.

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Andrew J Douglas

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2 months

“17 year-olds yelling apartheid have more wisdom than university presidents.” Ta-Nehisi Coates with @robgreeneII at AAIHS tonight. Discussing the occupation. 🇵🇸

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“Will it all end in fascism? We don't know but one thing is certain, it will all end.” —W.E.B. Du Bois, 1934

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“The unemployed are not pawns to be sacrificed in some economic chess game.” Yet another apt morning to recall the indignant wisdom of Coretta Scott King.

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Andrew J Douglas

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1 year

Shameful. Reminds me of why MLK was so frustrated with Andy Young in spring 1968.

Riley Bunch

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“Let me be clear today: the Atlanta public safety training center is moving forward because we need it,” Dickens says at his evening press conference flanked by Ambassador Andrew Young and community leaders. #gapol #atlpol

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Andrew J Douglas

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2 years

If I was in charge of freshman orientation, we’d read this little gem. Like, welcome to college. In your first week you’ll …

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Andrew J Douglas

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Du Bois in 1945: “There is in the Bretton Woods proposals so far as I can gather no reference to colonies or colonial conditions… Cheap colonial labor and materials are basic to postwar industry and finance. Was this matter mentioned in any form at Bretton Woods?”

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Andrew J Douglas

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1 year

Strongly encouraging fellow academics to support this boycott campaign and stand in solidarity with the #StopCopCity movement. Sign on here👇

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Andrew J Douglas

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“To be clear — Cop City is not just a controversial training center. It is a war base where police will learn military-like maneuvers to kill Black people and control our bodies and movements.” —⁦ @KwameOlufemi ⁩

Morehouse Students And Faculty Step In The Paint Against $90 Million Cop City

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Andrew J Douglas

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1 year

Sickening reminder of how state violence works: GA domestic terror law created in 2017, ostensibly in response to white supremacist terror in Charleston, now being deployed to repress an antiracist and climate justice movement.

Atlanta Community Press Collective

@atlanta_press

1 year

Dekalb County jail records show that at least twenty-two people have been charged with domestic terrorism after being arrested in the Weelaunee Forest yesterday evening.

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Andrew J Douglas

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3 months

Updated flyer. More supporting orgs!

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Palestine is a Feminist Issue: Roundtable on Gender and Genocide March 5 @ Spelman College

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Andrew J Douglas

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“Carr’s 109-page indictment is unlike any we have seen… In its attempt to characterize a criminal enterprise, the indictment describes common human practices, but from the vantage of an egoist alien who cannot understand why anyone would help anyone else.” Essential reading.

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Andrew J Douglas

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22 days

At least one Morehouse student has been arrested at Emory. Reports of over 200 GSP and APD deployed and targeting Black protestors in particular. Sharing this at the request and with the consent of—and in absolutely solidarity with—our courageous students.

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Andrew J Douglas

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1 year

The moral, economic, political and all-around clarity of Thomas Sankara.

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4 months

Du Bois’s undergraduate gloss on Marx, c. 1891. Part of a 158-page essay on wage theory. Transcription in the 🧵1/

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Andrew J Douglas

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20 days

Statement from Morehouse chapter of @AAUP and AUC members of FSJP-Georgia calling on Emory to drop charges against our Morehouse student and all other protestors. Also calling on AUC schools to condemn Emory’s repressive actions.

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Andrew J Douglas

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1 year

“Following rich and radical Black feminist thought, the undersigned Spelman faculty say, loudly, STOP COP CITY.” Powerful statement out today from the Spelman College faculty, calling explicitly for the president and trustees to denounce Cop City.

Spelman Faculty Stop Cop City Open Letter

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Andrew J Douglas

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3 years

Immensely revelatory account of how a key technology of neocolonialism works. And an eminently teachable book.

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Andrew J Douglas

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4 months

Reminder that Prophet of Discontent is available open access Manifold app: PDF:

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Andrew J Douglas

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1 year

Teaching an experimental, slightly crazy little class on how modern money theory might—or might not—inform a renewal of the “Black University concept” and its radical vision for community building. May it be an evocative pairing of frameworks, even if not fully compatible.

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Andrew J Douglas

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2 months

“The roots of Cop City can be traced back to the Israeli Urban Warfare Training Center (UWTC), nicknamed ‘Mini Gaza.’” Solidarity with students/faculty/staff/community calling on GSU to end GILEE, cut ties with Cop City/APF, and “divest from death.”

SIGN THE PETITION: DEMAND GSU DIVEST FROM DEATH

The full letter is here. Please sign the petition using this form. Signees' names will not be published publicly, but will be shared with the GSU administration. Demands: Divest from the Atlanta...

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Andrew J Douglas

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3 years

We're hiring! Tenure-track job at Morehouse. World politics broadly conceived, though we definitely need someone who can teach intro to IR. Please share with IR/CP folks. I'm happy to answer any questions.

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Andrew J Douglas

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29 days

I just keep coming back to this book, to the insight that the university is a property corporation and governed accordingly. That until we effectively recharter the university as some kind of member cooperative, we’ll continue to see all kinds of cops on campus—armed and unarmed.

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Genuinely one of the most disgusting documents in the history of American higher education

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Atlanta. Stop the genocide. End the occupation. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

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W.E.B Du Bois, “On Television” (1952)

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Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, and the movement to stop cop city. In this city, at this school, in this moment—thinking I’ve got to use it as a way of framing an intro to political theory.

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1 year

On this May Day in Atlanta, let’s recall how APD officers arrested Angelo Herndon in 1932 and charged him with insurrection for reading the wrong books and organizing workers.

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“One wonders whether a mock campus-quad will be added to Cop City blueprints.” Been thinking about this as well. Great piece on Cop City, GILEE, and Emory’s militarized repression of the anti-imperialist student movement.

At Emory University, Cops Are Using a Sledgehammer to Swat a Fly

Atlantans have been protesting Cop City for years. Now the city’s notorious police forces are raiding its college campus.

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Andrew J Douglas

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1 year

Struck by how city leaders just can’t ever bring themselves to acknowledge that police protect profits and property, not people; that ATL is the most economically unequal major city in America and Cop City is meant to protect that inequality.

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2 months

Relatable. Why I’ve had this Du Bois quote on my office door for the past eight years.

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Teaching at a poor public university, a thread: 1/ For the entire year, I've been battling, coaxing, begging, massaging, hectoring, and encouraging this lectern, trying to get it to stand up and stay standing during my class.

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3 years

Physical copies have arrived @loggins__ . This has been a labor of love. @Morehouse product in so many ways. Sincerest thanks to our colleague Vicki Crawford, Director of the Morehouse King Collection. And wonderful editors @UGAPress , from @walter_biggins to @hollynathaniel . 1/

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Andrew J Douglas

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1 year

And why are Black and poor residents literally caught in the crosshairs of the city’s efforts to stay viable in an age of financialized capitalism? 🤔 Cop City is both a window into how the ugly present reproduces itself and a pressure point in the struggle for a better world.

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Andrew J Douglas

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8 months

Got an email about an old abandoned closet on campus and some free books. 👀

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Andrew J Douglas

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1 year

Also quoted a line from A. Philip Randolph (and I paraphrase): “the behavior of Black and white police is the same: protect the rich from the poor, the propertied from the propertyless, the bosses from the workers.”

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Andrew J Douglas

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1 year

Atlanta—get out to the Morehouse campus this Friday, March 24 for the 20th annual Walter Rodney Symposium, feat. Angela Davis, Horace Campbell, Verene Shepherd, and the North American premier of a new doc on Rodney’s life and assassination. Trailer:

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Andrew J Douglas

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3 months

Up-updated flyer. Even more supporting orgs!! Tuesday, March 5, 6pm, Spelman College.

Andrew J Douglas

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Updated flyer. More supporting orgs!

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Andrew J Douglas

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1 year

How does militarization of the police facilitate investment worthiness? 🤔 Why did the governor call in the national guard to preempt protests on the day of an investor relations conference downtown? 🤔 What does the threat of Buckhead secession have to do with any of this? 🤔

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Andrew J Douglas

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3 months

I’ve been teaching at the college level for almost 20 years and I’ve never experienced anything like the current level of student disillusionment with electoral politics. And it feels generative, oddly hopeful even, like this generation’s political imagination is so much bigger.

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Proud of these students, who see right through the distortions, who understand the stakes, who simply refuse to stay bound by the police-state paradigm.

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Andrew J Douglas

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Inspired by these Morehouse, Spelman, and CAU students who showed up and spoke out tonight. A better world is possible. #StopCopCity

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Andrew J Douglas

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2 years

Open search for an endowed professorship at Morehouse. Black geographies, African Diaspora, Global South. Not sure how widely this is being advertised. And I don’t have any insight beyond what’s stated below. Inquire/apply here:

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Andrew J Douglas

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3 years

Looking forward to teaching a gem this week. And what a week it was for @StrikeDebt - from erasing $3M in probation debt in MS and FL to exposing Biden's duplicity on federal student loan cancellation. What better way to study democratic politics in the age of finance capital.

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1 year

Many thanks to @Pj_Darrington and @TeenVogue for giving Jared Loggins and me a chance to reflect on our book and MLK’s legacy—from the critique of racial capitalism to the urgency of anti-imperialist struggle to the limits of electoral politics.

The ‘Shameful’ Ways We Misremember MLK

Martin Luther King Jr. was a socialist who thought “something is wrong with capitalism.”

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@_jrrdy George Jackson

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Professors everywhere simply must teach Palestine this spring. Sharing some materials from the Atlanta University Center digital archives ( @AUCWoodruffLib ). May be of interest for AUC/HBCU folks. Short 🧵 1/ Clovis Maksoud 1979 Shaw Univ. speech on “Arabs and Black Americans”

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2 years

Fortuitously just received copyedits for a little piece I was asked to write on Du Bois's reading of Marx in the 1930s, for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Du Bois. Excited to see the other essays in that volume. Happy Birthday Marx🎂

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“Cop City—proposed in response to the summer 2020 protests—is unnervingly similar to the Israeli Urban Warfare Training Center (UWTC), which itself was established in response to the second Palestinian uprising against the illegal occupation.” Really important piece. #EndGILEE

Atlanta Community Press Collective

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OPINION—Cop City’s ‘Ivory Tower’: Georgia State University is Ground Zero for Militarized Policing by @ATL_Armo

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Shout out to @RodneyProject and @drjessebenjamin for publishing these essays! I understand there are more volumes of WR’s writings forthcoming. So grateful for this work.

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Good news indeed. Enormous thanks to the Debt Collective!! Let’s keep teaching and learning about this crushing debt financing paradigm. Let’s keep building the movement for debt abolition. HBCU students, faculty, alumni – let’s keep organizing! 1/

The Debt Collective 🟥

@StrikeDebt

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Good news! In a collaboration with @Morehouse , they've transferred all the debt they held in collections to us—about $10 million—and today, we're announcing that we are canceling every penny of it. This is a no-strings attached gift—and will help 3,000 former students.

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Wish I had seen this annotation of the Atlanta 61 case earlier. We’ve come back to the text of the indictment several times in class this fall. It’s a truly jarring case study in the use/abuse of political theory as a weapon of state repression.

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6 months

Closed out the semester with a spirited discussion of dispossession. I’ve experimented this fall by using the movement to #StopCopCity as a frame to broach a series of questions in political theory. On the whole, I think it’s been successful.

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Preparing to teach George Jackson in a couple weeks. Tell me this ain't speaking to the City of Atlanta right now. Situation deteriorating quickly.

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Think I just found new required reading for whatever classes I’m teaching next fall.

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Live from Houston. Stop the genocide. End the occupation. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

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Some anti-zionism from the archives on C.L.R. James’s birthday... “Jews everywhere must struggle, but they must be on guard against being used as pawns in the bloody and cynical game of imperialist rivalries...” —James, “An African ‘Homeland’ for the Jewish Refugees?” (1938)

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This thread underscores, once again, so much of what’s driving the push for cop city—gotta make Atlanta safe and attractive for investors, gotta sell those bonds, gotta deliver returns for the rich. The people? Fuck ‘em.

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Atlanta City Council Finance Executive Committee Meeting 3/29/23 Live Tweet Thread

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@podsekalnikov Wildly insane.

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“We have to acknowledge that representative democracy is dying… and other aspirations for governing ourselves, both reactionary and progressive, are emerging in its place.” —Wendy Brown

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An MLK Day excerpt, from our concluding chapter. Reminder that carrying on King’s legacy may, in his own words, “mean the death of your bridge to the White House. It may mean the death of a foundation grant...” #CeasefireNow #FreePalestine #StopCopCity #EndGILEE

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Reminder that Prophet of Discontent is available open access Manifold app: PDF:

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I've always found TERMS to be Robinson's most challenging. But @ddhewty 's inspiring bio has me revisiting a long-running aspiration: teaching a political science senior capstone anchored in Robinson's critique of the discipline. Maybe it's time. 🤔

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“Nothing in my college courses at Harvard led me yet to question the essential justice of the industrial system of the nation.” —W.E.B Du Bois

The Public Archive

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I think we sometimes forget that W.E.B. Dubois was loyal to Fisk, not Harvard, and that he's buried in Ghana, not the United States #gha

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Viva viva Tortuguita! Beautiful gathering today. Powerful comments from all the panelists as well as Tort’s mother and brother. Thx @atlanta_press for pulling this together. Cop city will never be built.

Atlanta Community Press Collective

@atlanta_press

1 year

TOMORROW: ACPC presents “Cop City and the Forest: a Panel on Environmental Racism, Policing, and Law” 3-5 p.m. Neighborhood Church 1561 McClendon Ave

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Thomas Sankara on keeping a library.

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1 year

Imagine being an elected official in Atlanta today and staking your legacy on fascism and cop city. In the words of comrade Matthew Johnson, ‘some of us may go to jail, but some of y’all are going to hell.’

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The imperial university is crumbling. What might we learn from the alternative “Black University” concept and movement of the mid-20th century? How might some new thinking about money help to revive that struggle? My new piece for ⁦ @moneyontheleft

Modern Money & the Black University Concept

Money on the Left: History, Theory, PracticeVol. 1, No. 1 (2024)ISSN 2833-051X Modern Money & the Black University Concept By Andrew J. Douglas Abstract Recent efforts to rethink the university…

moneyontheleft.org

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“To those—liberals and conservatives, on the left and on the right—who oppose the call for an academic boycott, I ask: Is there any Palestinian resistance movement that you might ever—or that you have ever—recognized as legitimate?” —Nadia Abu El-Haj

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Product is still some months off, but delighted to learn that "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Critique of the Competitive Society" will be out in paperback in September. A few bucks cheaper anyway.

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Periodic reminder that student debt is insane, interest on student debt is especially insane, the Biden Administration is batshit crazy for not exhausting its authority to deliver broad and immediate student debt relief, and genocide is downright devilish. Happy Wednesday.

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“Atlanta Police Foundation still asks for donations to the project on a fundraising page that says the city will only contribute $30 million to the cause. But that’s not true. And it hasn’t been true for years.” Where’s the raid on APF for charity fraud?

Training center costs call years of promises into question

In the spring of 2021, the Atlanta Police Foundation announced an attractive deal for city taxpayers.

www.ajc.com

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2 years

Now available in paperback

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4 months

As we wrote nearly a year ago in our Morehouse faculty statement: “Let us not delude ourselves: Cop City, if built, will result in more death and destruction at the hands of the police. Indeed, the Cop City project already has blood on its proverbial hands.” Viva viva Tortuguita

Andrew J Douglas

@ajd_theory

4 months

Unsurprising but still stunning to me that one of the biggest (of many) scandals in the Cop City push, the blatant cover-up of Tort’s murder (first police killing of an environmental activist in US history), is still completely swept under the rug by all layers of officialdom.

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The “most pro-labor president in US history” bringing that Cop City to every picket line.

emotionally intelligent papi 🇯🇲🌹🇦🇮

@julianakilrose

8 months

“We received feedback that the White House believes the PSTC (cop city) is exemplary of what President Biden would like to see other municipalities emulate” Doesn’t get much clearer than that

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“One can say that Amilcar Cabral remains an active agent working against imperialism, both through the legacy of this thought and in the structures he left behind.” —Walter Rodney, “A Brief Tribute to Amilcar Cabral”

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Signed. “We call on all academics of conscience worldwide to join us.”

Columbia/Barnard Boycott

We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with members of the Columbia University community demanding that the University divest from Israel’s US-backed genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. We write to...

docs.google.com

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The “ally of imperialism,” as Samir Amin once put it. “In this perspective it becomes clear why the imperialist collective, particularly the US, supports the Zionist plan to destroy Palestine.”

Amanda Gelender🔮

@agelender

6 months

Zionism should have remained just a fringe nationalist ideology amongst a minority of Jewish folks but because it overlapped perfectly with western imperialist interests, Palestinians have to pay the price of a multi-billion dollar military operation on their land

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