Desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX hasta nuestros días, el derrotero de la Universidad de Buenos Aires ha variado notablemente: desde la masificación del estudiantado, pasando por la pérdida del peso que tiene la UBA en el sistema universitario nacional, hasta las discusiones que giran en torno al tipo de profesionales que forma, los conocimientos que transmite en sus aulas o que construye a través de sus investigaciones.
El libro de Martín Unzué -que integra la colección CLACSO-Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani- toca estos temas desde una mirada sobre las pujas políticas en torno a los procesos de redefinición de los conocimientos que se imparten en la Universidad: ¿cómo, quiénes lo hacen, a quiénes y con qué objetivos? ¿Qué saberes alcanzaron el rango de estudios universitarios? ¿Qué sectores son los que cobraron mayor protagonismo en estas luchas? La historia reciente de la UBA es un buen ejemplo de los modos en que se han librado esas batallas –no siempre de ideas– para controlar ese lugar comprendido en su significatividad con el fin de dirimir proyectos, concepciones e ideologías que muchas veces trascienden los claustros universitarios.
Podcast de El Colegio de San Luis La Ciencia Frente al COVID-19 / Mónica Anzaldo ¿Cómo y a qué velocidad ha respondido la ciencia de la salud frente a la aparición del Coronavirus a nivel mundial? Mónica Anzaldo, investigadora de Cátedras Conacyt adscrita el El Colsan
Causes and Symptoms of Socio-Cultural Polarization: Role of Information and Communication Technologies for publication in a scholarly book (to be published by Springer) and presentation in associated paper development workshop December 24-25, 2020 at IIM Ahmedabad, India Abstract Deadline – June 30, 2020
Politisapiens. Plataforma de pensamiento político, Programa de Estudios Políticos e Internacionales de El Colegio de San Luis y Proyectos Audiovisuales de El Colegio de San Luis presentan Segunda temporada Con Javier Contreras Alcántara un espacio para comprender de manera informada los recientes cambios en los regímenes latinoamericanos. ¿Cuáles fueron las decisiones que llevaron a Brasil […] Leer más
For photos of the huge Oakland car caravan protesting the murder of George Floyd, and new online exhibition, see below.
APPLE SHED STRIKES WIN RECOGNITION, AND THE FIGHT GOES ON By David Bacon Labornotes, 6/2/20
Strikers at Allan Brothers. (Photo by Xolotl Edgar Franx)
Thirty four workers at the apple packing shed that sparked a wave of strikes in central Washington went back to work on Monday with a written agreement recognizing their workers’ committee, Trabajadores Unidos por la Justicia (Workers United for Justice). Of the 115 workers at Allan Brothers who walked out May 7, the 34 stayed out for the full 22 days, during which hundreds of other workers struck at six additional sheds in the area.
According to Agustin Lopez, a leader of the movement who’s worked in the valley since the mid-1980s, «The most important thing to us is that the company is recognizing our committee as the representative of all the workers. Under the agreement we will continue negotiating for salary increases, better working conditions, and health protections. The agreement means that our rights as workers are respected.»
The shed strike wave was touched off by the impact of the coronavirus on the hundreds of people who labor sorting fruit in Yakima Valley’s huge packinghouses. While their numbers are smaller than the huge workforce of thousands who pick the fruit in the summer and fall, the shed workforce occupies a strategic place in this system of agricultural production. The virus has spread more widely here than in any other county on the Pacific Coast, with an infection rate of about 500 per 100,000. As of June 1 Yakima County had 3,891 COVID-19 cases and 90 deaths. Twenty-four percent of people tested have been infected, and the local hospital system is at capacity with few beds available.
«The most important demand for us is that we have a healthy workplace and protection from the virus,» Lopez explained at the start of the conflict. «Fourteen people have left work over the last month because they have the COVID-19.»
During harvest time, trucks from the orchards haul loads of apples and cherries picked by thousands of farmworkers, laboring for the big growers of the Yakima Valley. After the fruit is cooled and stored, orders from the grocery chains are filled by workers, mostly women, standing shoulder-to-shoulder in front of fast-moving conveyor belts. As apples and cherries sweep past, they sort it and send it on to other workers who wash and pack it, and eventually load it onto trucks. By the time it appears on the shelves of supermarkets around the country, the fruit has passed through many working hands.
Packinghouse laborers are almost entirely immigrants from Mexico, and most of the sorting jobs on the lines are done by women. Their families make up the working-class backbone of the small towns of Yakima Valley. Most have lived here for years. Jobs in the sheds pay minimum wage, but they’re are a step up from the fields because they offer year-round work at 40 hours per week.
While their numbers are smaller than the huge workforce of thousands who pick the fruit in the summer and fall, the shed workforce occupies a strategic place in this system of agricultural production.
OAKLAND, CA – 31MAY20 – Thousands of people participate in a caravan of over 2000 cars from the Port of Oakland, to protest the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and African American and people of color killed by police.
Trump’s fingerprints are scorched in the COVID-19 crisis and U.S. uprisings against police abuse
Biden Condemns Trump’s Protest Response
By: Scott Detrow and Barbara Sprunt, NPR – June 2, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden condemned both police violence and President Trump’s increasingly confrontational response to widespread unrest in a Tuesday morning speech delivered at Philadelphia City Hall. «When peaceful protesters are dispersed by the order of the president from the doorstep of the people’s house, the White House — using tear gas and flash grenades — in order to stage a photo op at a noble church, we can be forgiven for believing that the president is more interested in power than in principle,» Biden said. «More interested in serving the passions of his base than the needs of the people in his care. For that’s what the presidency is: the duty to care — to care for all of us.» On Monday evening, Trump walked from the White House across Lafayette Square to hold a Bible in front of St. John’s Church, after peaceful protesters were forcibly cleared from the park. (The U.S. Park Police say they used smoke canisters, not tear gas, though it’s not clear if another law enforcement agency engaged there used other munitions.) The forceful dispersal began before the Washington, D.C., curfew had begun, and the bishop overseeing the church has harshly criticized Trump for appearing for photos without praying or addressing the racial issues at the heart of nationwide protests…. Read Full Article Here
Dinero de migrantes: «Salvando a Mexico» en plena pandemia
Por: Gardenia Mendoza ~ La Opinion ~ 26 de Mayo, 2020
Diana Godínez limpia casas desde hace años en Estados Unidos para gente totalmente tecnologizada , acostumbrada a comprar todo en línea, esa misma que no dudó en encerrarse apenas se vio amenazada por el coronavirusy pasó de largo por los servicios de esta mexicana oriunda de la capital. Al comienzo de la pandemia, Diana Godínez, de 38 años, tenía cinco clientes; ahora, sólo se ocupa dos días a la semana. Su ingreso se redujo a menos de la mitad de un momento a otro y se quedó a la par con tres niños por sostener, cuentas por pagar, la angustia permanente del COVID-19 y una promesa firme: enviar dinero a su madre que vive en Oaxaca. “Trato de mandar unos 200 dólares cada 20 días”. Diana Godínez mira fríamente las dos realidades en las que se encuentra y concluye que “no es mucha” plata desde la perspectiva estadounidense, pero en México significa la diferencia entre la miseria y la dignidad. La madre y el padrastro viven de un pequeño negocio de refacciones cuyas ganancias son muy limitadas y los gastos son altos: a los 80 años, él tiene un pulmón malo. Leer el articulo completo aquí
In Tijuana, paramedics uncover a hidden death toll not captured in COVID-19 statistics
By: Katie Linthicum, Patrick J. Mcdonnell~ Los Angeles Times ~ May 21, 2020
Researchers who reviewed emergency response records in Tijuana have discovered scores of possible coronavirus deaths that never made it into official statistics. Over four weeks in April and May, paramedics encountered 329 people who died in their homes or in ambulances — more than twice the number that would be expected based on data from recent years. Over the same period, the Mexican government reported just eight official COVID-19 deaths in Tijuana that occurred outside hospitals. The study — which was published online this week by researchers at UCLA, Mexico’s Red Cross and several other institutions and has not been peer-reviewed — suggests the country may be missing large numbers of coronavirus victims in its official counts… Read Full article here
El nuevo coronavirus está poniendo a prueba los precarios sistemas sanitarios de América Latina, al punto que muchos países registran una alta saturación hospitalaria. Perú registra una acelerada expansión del coronavirus, cuyos infectados coparon 806 de las mil 2 camas de cuidados intensivos disponibles, por lo que el Presidente Martín Vizcarra anunció que se pueden agregar 232 nuevas camas. Pero Pilar Mazzetti, jefa del Comando Covid- 19, que coordina la respuesta estatal a la pandemia, destacó la gravedad del asunto. «¡Esta es una guerra!», expresó. Perú tiene unos 95 mil casos y más de 2 mil 700 muertos, lo que lo ubica en el puesto 12 del mundo en diagnósticos confirmados de la… Leer articulo aquí
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