Assistant professor in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. Sociologist/demographer studying the health impacts of climate change and dams, with a focus on Brazil and East Africa.
https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/heatherrandell
Heather Randell
Loading...
a lil enrichment garden for Bubica
I was in constant awe of the prominent and indispensable role that women played throughout the Bund’s history. One key Bundist was Sophia Dubnova, who managed to survive the Holocaust and lived to 101. Her story is incredible.
jwa.org/encyclopedia...
Video
This book gutted me. The slaughters of European Jews through decades and centuries. The indifference, at best, of much of the world. The wit and tenacity of Bundist men and women, who never strayed from their ideals of socialist solidarity. The echoes of this story today in Palestine and ICE raids.
“We all have the capacity to be victims and tormentors, as well as bystanders…I want off the samsara wheel of atrocity and the Bund’s demand of solidarity is the only way to get there. Such solidarity is fragile and frequently betrayed, but it is all we have. It is the only thing that can save us.”
“Despite all manner of degradation, humans stubbornly resist their own erasure. They refuse the role that fascists have written for them. They mock their oppressors. They create and love.”
- @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
