Migrant rights advocate, dancer, Baja wines fan, jazz lover, anti-ageism activist, recovering academic.
San Diego, CA
Joined July 2018
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Maria Lorena Cook retweeted
A new @nytimes report shows that the administration plans to treat being from Afghanistan (and 18 other “travel ban” countries) as a “negative factor” when reviewing green card and immigration applications.
An important #AfghanEvac 🧵
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I've been hearing about this for months. And it sounds like it's going to keep happening. sandiegouniontribune.com/new…
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The bill's sponsor said that the goal was to transition toward electric alternatives, and indicated that she was open to making changes to the bill. "I'm really open to talking about how we get from here to there." providencejournal.com/story/…
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According to oceanographers, ecologists and environmental policy experts, the life cycle of an artificial turf field has detrimental effects on human health and the environment. theithacan.org/sports/artifi…
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Global Labour Journal's first issue of 2023 is now available! You can access and download all papers here: mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globall…
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My latest on how it's going with #CBPOne, the app that now processes #Title42 exemptions at ports of entry. sandiegouniontribune.com/new…
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Global Labour Journal's third and final issue of 2022 is now available, with articles on the pandemic's impact on labour, trade union strategies in Argentina, and workers' perspectives in Russia. Access the issue here: mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globall…
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Noise Free America just gave the "Healthy Soundscape" award to CA legislators for passing a bill to phase out gas-powered lawn equipment. noisefree.org/california-sta…
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The Supreme Court ALLOWS the Biden administration to terminate the controversial Trump-era asylum policy known as "remain in Mexico." Red states argued that Biden was obliged to keep the policy, but SCOTUS says in a 5-4 ruling that the administration can end it.
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For the first time that UC San Diego Health doctors can remember, they've had patients die after falling from trying to cross the border barrier. Both trauma centers in San Diego are seeing a new trend in admits because of the wall's height increase sandiegouniontribune.com/new…
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Please join us at the San Diego Earth Fair in Balboa Park on April 24th at Booth #107 on the El Prado. #leafblowers #sdsequel
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It's time to #GetOffTheGas and #GetOnTheGrid @UCSanDiego. We'll be here every Wednesday morning this quarter until you commit to a clean transition.
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Right after I wrote about a Ukrainian family turned away at the border, I started hearing from loved ones of Ukrainians who ended up in immigration detention. Here is what they told me. sandiegouniontribune.com/new…
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Global Labour Journal's first issue of 2022 is now available! You can access and download all of the papers here: mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globall…
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The September 2021 Issue if the Global Labour Journal is out now 👇
You can access all the articles here (open access) : mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globall…
Table of contents in the images below
Maria Lorena Cook retweeted
We're not in it together': #GlobalLabour in the #Pandemic.
The joint online panel of @A_k_g_eV
and @GlobalLabour with Madhumita Dutta, Ben Scully and @_AnneEngelhardt
is now available as a podcast at @mosaik_blog
#PodcastRecommendations
mosaik-blog.at/were-not-in-i…
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Just out: New issue of the GLJ, edited by @MariaLorenaCook, Madhumita Dutta, Ben Scully & our deputy chair Alex Gallas
The May 2021 issue of the Global Labour Journal is now available! You can access and download all of the papers here: mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globall…
Table of contents:
Maria Lorena Cook retweeted
“I was chained, shackled, and cuffed, to be deported overseas to a country I’ve never been in my life.” - Paul Pierrilus HAPPENING NOW: Come hear the stories of those who were deported and expelled since @POTUS took office. LIVE now on our FB page!
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@SecMayorkas
Empathy doesn’t include detention and deportations. Empathy begins by listening to the experiences of community members impacted by @DHSgov & @ICEgov.
You MUST join the national #EyesOnICE forum on May 3 to show us your commitment.
Maria Lorena Cook retweeted
Unfree Labour, Migration and Racism: Towards an Analytical Framework
Author: Lisa Carstensen (Osnabrück University)
Access the paper here: mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globall…
