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Ohio State: Stop the Hypocrisy on Political Statements

Nov 6, 2024 | medium.com | Pranav Jani

Pranav Jani · Follow Published in Age of Awareness · 3 min read · -- On the morning of November 6, just after Election Day, Ohio State decided to post the following message on twitter: “Congratulations to Vice President-elect JD Vance, an alumnus of The Ohio State University and native Ohioan.” Under the guise of simply congratulating an alum and a “native” Ohioan (please read some indigenous histories of Ohio!) the tweet brazenly goes against the policy of “no political statements.” On its...
Community Groups in Ohio Fight Anti-Haitian Violence Stoked by Trump and Vance

Oct 1, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Pranav Jani

Share“You can see it’s pure hatred. They hate us,” Jims Denis, a Haitian American who moved to Springfield, Ohio, five years ago, told the Columbus Dispatch . “I take my kids to the park usually; I cannot do that anymore. You know, I have to just stay home and just don’t go out. We used to just go for a walk in the neighborhood, but we cannot do that anymore.” The public, racist attacks on Haitians immigrants in Springfield, an hour from where I live in Columbus, are not just about rhetoric.
Community Groups in Ohio Fight Anti-Haitian Violence Stoked by Trump and Vance

Oct 1, 2024 | truthout.org | Pranav Jani |Ohio. He

“You can see it’s pure hatred. They hate us,” Jims Denis, a Haitian American who moved to Springfield, Ohio, five years ago, told the Columbus Dispatch. “I take my kids to the park usually; I cannot do that anymore. You know, I have to just stay home and just don’t go out. We used to just go for a walk in the neighborhood, but we cannot do that anymore.”The public, racist attacks on Haitians immigrants in Springfield, an hour from where I live in Columbus, are not just about rhetoric.
Colleges Say They’re Cash-Strapped Yet Pay Top Dollar for Anti-Union Consultants

Oct 5, 2023 | truthout.org | Eleanor Bader |Zane McNeill |Pranav Jani

When D’Youville College (now D’Youville University) was established by the Catholic Church in 1908, its founders wanted to offer a high-quality liberal arts education to young women living in western New York state. Fast forward 115 years and the school, named to honor patron saint Marie-Marguerite d’Youville (1701-1771), a French-Canadian widow who formed the Order of the Sisters of Charity, better known as the Grey Nuns, has eliminated many liberal arts majors from its roster of options.
Ohio Ed Board Members Sue State Over Law Creating New, Separate Education Agency

Sep 20, 2023 | truthout.org | Chris Walker |Pranav Jani |Eleanor Bader |Kathryn Joyce

Briefly, we wanted to update you on where Truthout stands this month. To be brutally honest, Truthout is behind on our fundraising goals for the year. There are a lot of reasons why. We’re dealing with broad trends in our industry, trends that have led publications like Vice, BuzzFeed, and National Geographic to make painful cuts. Everyone is feeling the squeeze of inflation. And despite its lasting importance, news readership is declining.
Despite Reversing AP Psychology Ban, Some Florida Schools Still Won’t Teach It

Aug 15, 2023 | truthout.org | Kwolanne Felix |Alyssa Bowen |Pranav Jani

The College Board, the nonprofit that devises Advanced Placement (AP) courses, recently announced its AP psychology course was effectively banned by the Florida Board of Education. The course discusses psychological concepts aligned with current research about gender and sexuality that violate Florida’s abhorrent “Don’t Say Gay” bill. The College Board has rightly refused to censor science for Florida politicians’ ideological agenda.
LA Unified School District Is Spending Millions on Urgent Climate Adaptation

Jul 22, 2023 | truthout.org | Nadra Nittle |Sharon Zhang |Victoria Law |Pranav Jani

This story was originally published by The 19th. The clouds that blanket Los Angeles in the late spring, keeping temperatures cool and skies overcast, dissipate by the first weeks of summer. The months known in the city near the ocean as “May Gray” and “June Gloom” give way to an exposed July sun that blazes relentlessly until well after the school year starts. It is not unusual for Angelenos to contend with triple-digit heat until shortly before Halloween.
GOP Planned to Destroy Public Education in Ohio. We Defeated Them - for Now.

Jul 22, 2023 | truthout.org | Pranav Jani |Zane McNeill |Ngakiya Camara |Anthony Ballas

Ohioans invested in the integrity and well-being of public universities across the state breathed a sigh of relief in late June after Ohio Senate Bill 83 — Republicans’ big push to overhaul higher education across the state — failed in its bid to become law before the summer recess began.
Fight Ohio SB 83

Mar 16, 2023 | pranavjani.medium.com | Pranav Jani

Why is this happening? There are many local and specific reasons, but the orchestrated wave of attacks against ethnic studies, gender studies and the like is clearly associated with an attempt to roll back the changes in K-12 and higher education, and in society at large, that have taken place since the 1960s.
Review of S.S. Rajamouli's "RRR"

Feb 21, 2023 | pranavjani.medium.com | Pranav Jani

Revised to include some comments on history, film, and representation, and bring in the voices of other critics. This is a review of RRR, directed by S.S. Rajamouli. [Spoilers ahead!] I'm writing this for a specific audience: left-wing and progressive non-desi audiences who might get pulled in by its anti-colonial and environmentalist rhetoric, etc. I drafted this post after watching it a few weeks ago. The question of Hindutva and caste, Rajamouli's responses, etc., have been...