Three Saturday protests demand TIAA divest from fossil fuels, land grabs
New York City TIAA has an image of social responsibility, but they are investing in many companies that are at the root cause of climate change. We demand this stop, said Molly Ornati, a Brooklyn resident and one of the organizers of a rally at TIAA s Upper West Side branch office at 108th and Broadway on Saturday morning, April 17th. The protest, one of 3 organized by the TIAA Divest from Climate Destruction campaign Saturday, confronted the $1.3T investment giant with three primary demands on Saturday: divest from all fossil fuels, defund Line 3 (a tar sands pipeline being built across Anishinaabe land in Minnesota), and stop land grabs, especially in Brazil, which lead to human rights abuses and deforestation.
Cornell lecturer claims she was fired after suggesting Kamala Harris rose to VP only because of her mother s privileged Indian caste but she hasn t actually worked there since October
J. Khadijah Abdurahman said on Medium she was fired from her role as visiting lecturer and researcher at Cornell Tech by Associate Professor Tapan Parikh
She said she was fired last month following an argument that broke out online
Abdurahman admitted she had shared a GIF of Harris sipping tea to argue the VP was able to rise up the ranks because of her immense social privilege
She claimed she shared the image to call out South Asian anti-blackness and speak out against ethnic cleansing in the Tigray region of Ethiopia
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Interview with Kurt Vonnegut
With permission from HAMPTON SHORTS; Fiction Plus from the Hamptons and the east end; volume IV 1999. HAMPTON SHORTS is a not-for-profit literary magazine that puts out one book each year. Copies can be obtained by contacting HAMPTON SHORTS at either HamptonShorts@Hamptons.com or at P.O. Box 1229 Watermill, N.Y. 11976 or at (631) 537-2862.
The Round Table: Fiction, Biography And The Use Of Power
Robert
Caro and Kurt Vonnegut
One fine summer day, Barbara Stone and I arrived at the home of Kurt Vonnegut in Sagaponack. We had called Kurt, earlier; and asked to interview him, whereupon he said, “I’d rather interview Bob Caro.” Needless to say, we were extremely pleased when Caro agreed. Caro is the author of magisterial biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, and the interview promised to be most interesting.