🌿✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🐢 reporting for @truthout @guardian etc, hosting @selc_org pod Broken Ground, community-engaged enviro justice at @UCD_Geography
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13 Sep 2022
Late last year, a private equity firm purchased an oil-burning power plant in my neighborhood. In March, the plant spilled 45,000 gallons of oil into Lake Ontario and onto its shore. Piece out today in @nysfocus @thenation bit.ly/3RUXjOy
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Leanna First-Arai retweeted
8 Jun 2024
This is huge. UCD pushed by the students & by OUR UCD to make a strong statement, to provide scholarships & fellowships, to make serious moves to divest, to build an anti-apartheid, anti-racist UCD. The genocide continues in Gaza & Palestine, and we will continue to fight. 🍉🍉✊
8 Jun 2024
"[UCD is] outraged by the ongoing mass killing of civilians, the withholding of humanitarian aid, & the destruction in Palestine by Israel... by the destruction of all universities in Gaza &attacks on their students, faculty &staff." shorturl.at/uvMg7✊✊
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Leanna First-Arai retweeted
6 Jun 2024
Staggering findings from @cpluscp research: carbon cost of rebuilding Gaza from ravages of Israel’s brutal war is 60 million tons of CO2.
Genocide is climate injustice. I’m proud to work with a think tank making the connections between Palestinian freedom and planetary health.
6 Jun 2024
BREAKING: New research from our team shows that the costs of rebuilding what has been destroyed in Gaza will generate 60 million tons of CO2-- more than the carbon costs generated by 135 countries. More than 99% of this is due to Israel's bombardment.
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6 Jun 2024
The carbon footprint of the US war machine in just the first 120 days of the war on Gaza.
6 Jun 2024
BREAKING: New research from our team shows that the costs of rebuilding what has been destroyed in Gaza will generate 60 million tons of CO2-- more than the carbon costs generated by 135 countries. More than 99% of this is due to Israel's bombardment.
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5 Jun 2024
This is massive. @UN Secretary General calls for a worldwide ban on fossil fuel advertising. theguardian.com/environment/…
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Leanna First-Arai retweeted
28 May 2024
“I resigned on Wednesday, 15 May – the 76th anniversary of the Nakba… I could no longer serve at the pleasure of a president who refuses to stop another catastrophe”
I wrote for @guardian about my resignation. How many red lines will it take, @POTUS?
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Leanna First-Arai retweeted
21 May 2024
Piece by @carlobrien in the Irish Times that is based on an anonymous interview with ONE member of UCD staff. This does NOT represent the views of UCD staff. We stand with our students, we stand with Palestine. #FreePalestine
21 May 2024
Those living under a settler-colonial state for 76 years have the right to resist occupation, our messages of protest call out the horror of Zionism, and finally is @ucddublin truly trying to infer that a student writing about our colonial past is violence?
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21 May 2024
stunned & horrified to see such irresponsible, lopsided coverage of peaceful @ucddublin Palestine solidarity encampment activity from the @IrishTimes. chalk phrases calling out university inaction are categorically not “messages of hatred and violence.”
21 May 2024
UCD president criticises ‘messages of hatred and violence’ following pro-Palestine protest on campus irishtimes.com/ireland/educa…
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Leanna First-Arai retweeted
11 May 2024
Come join the encampment, as students and staff @ucddublin we're calling on our University to cut ties with Israeli institutions. Academic freedom can't be used as a reason not to stand against genocide when all Universities in Gaza are destroyed.
A second third level student encampment in support of Palestine has been established this evening, this time on the grounds of UCD
rte.ie/news/2024/0511/144864…
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Leanna First-Arai retweeted
2 May 2024
Tomorrow, I will be moderating an panel event that will be hosted by
@FSP_NWU to discuss retaliations and protections that incarcerated journalists should have for doing their jobs. I recommended any reporter/editor that covers criminal Justice to attend. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Leanna First-Arai retweeted
1 May 2024
📣📣📣Happy May Day! Today we launch the #FreelanceSolidarityChallenge. Starting today, for the next year, we invite all freelancer media workers to submit your project rates to FSP’s rate-sharing database.
Sign up here:
freelancesolidarity.org/rate…
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Leanna First-Arai retweeted
30 Apr 2024
This Friday on #WorldPressFreedomDay, come attend a panel discussion where we will discuss journalists who are often ignored in the press freedom talk, incarcerated journalists. It’s hosted by @FSP_NWU, moderated by me. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Leanna First-Arai retweeted
1 May 2024
These young journalists @WKCRFM deserve a medal for their public service, and these university admins, city officials, & cops deserve to be publicly reviled
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Faculty everywhere: more of this, please.
29 Apr 2024
NOW: Columbia University faculty link arms and form a wall in front of the entrance to the ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ as hundreds of students encircle the both lawns
Students remaining in the encampment were told they could face disciplinary action after 2PM
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Leanna First-Arai retweeted
29 Apr 2024
NOW: @UTAustin students have reestablished an encampment on the campus’s South Lawn, renamed the Liberated Zone. Students have barricaded themselves and five or so tents in with tables and chairs. About a dozen campus police are present.
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Leanna First-Arai retweeted
29 Apr 2024
There have been at least 3 arrests. Protestors are sitting down and continuing to link arms.
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Leanna First-Arai retweeted
28 Apr 2024
BREAKING: anti-genocide protesters have taken over Jackson Square in New Orleans. Tents have been put up. This is the first non-university Gaza solidarity encampment, to our knowledge.
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Leanna First-Arai retweeted
29 Apr 2024
There are NEW encampments up at 8 schools just this am, joining 100 protests for peace across the world
UChicago
Georgia
UC Irvine
UC Riverside
UW Madison
Occidental
UMass Amherst
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