5LL #293: Students, Liberalism, Images, Pinkwashing, Work
From the Encampments: Student Reflections on Protests for Palestine
Columbia Law Students for Palestine, CUNY Law Students Against Genocide, Maeve Vitello, Rita W. Wang, Mehrdad Dariush, Chisato Kimura, Chloe Miller, Rachel Vogel, Alaa Hajyahia and Seetha Tan, LPE
To help correct the record, the LPE Blog reached out to law students involved with the protests at Columbia, CUNY, NYU, and Yale and offered them the opportunity to explain the aims of the encampments, highlight the centrality of the issues to the Law and Political Economy movement, share their perspectives on what has unfolded over past two weeks, and analyze the obstinate and frequently brutal responses by their universities.
Liberalism Without Accountability
Gareth Fearn, London Review of Books
Liberalism has two core components: the protection of property rights and a notion of negative freedom grounded in human rights and political checks and balances. What we are now seeing in the US (and the UK, and elsewhere in Europe) is the defence of the former at the expense of the latter.
Who Sees Gaza?
The Editors, n+1
As the Palestinian American writer Sarah Aziza asks, “What does all this looking do?”
Pinkwashing the Timeline
Schuyler Mitchell, The Baffler
Zionists are scapegoating queer leftists.
Work Sucks. What Could Salvage It?
Erik Baker, The New Yorker
New books examine the place of work in our lives—and how people throughout history have tried to change it.