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We will go to the syriaturkish border to speak with Doctors Without Borders and talk to Foreign Correspondent Patrick Cockburn. His latest piece is headlined, starving in syria the biggest emergency in the u. N. s history. Then the American Studies Association, an organization of close to 5000 professors, votes to to want to boycott israeli universities. We will host a debate. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Up ...

War ii. We will go to the syriaturkish border to speak with Doctors Without Borders and talk to Foreign Correspondent Patrick Cockburn. His latest piece is headlined, starving in syria the biggest emergency in the u. N. s history. Then the American Studies Association, an organization of close to 5000 professors, votes to to want to boycott israeli universities. We will host a debate. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy good...

“I learned about the encampment when I came to teach my class on Thursday,” said Prof. Natalie Melas, comparative literature, about the encampment established on the Arts Quad on April

At Cornell, land acknowledgment statements have become a lukewarm formality, an excuse for inaction and ignorance. These statements of guilt, which can be important stepping stones for advancement, only add insult to injury when given halfheartedly and when not followed by real change. 

There is a hegemony that regards the European holocaust as more tragic and horrific than any other experience that people have had to endure. That is simply not true.

Eric Cheyfitz is the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters and Professor of American Indian and Indigenous Studies at Cornell…