Introduction A youth rights coalition in which I am involved, called the Children’s Voting Colloquium, recently published a petition urging adults to transfer their votes to children in support of youth suffrage. (The reasons behind the pledge are explained in this article in the Guardian). The petition argues that there should be no minimum voting age because ‘political competency,’ which youths […]
Expressions of Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Yesterday, Justin Weinberg put a post on Daily Nous that comprises a public statement entitled “COVID-19: A Statement of Academic Solidarity” initiated by Seyla Benhabib, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Judith Butler, Naomi Klein, Harold Varmus, Donna Haraway, and Nell Irvin Painter. The statement, which was the subject of an earlier article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, […]
Petition For Jailed Philosophy Student (From Professor Stella Sandford)
Dear philosophers, Please consider signing the petition below. Aras Amiri was studying for the MA Aesthetics and Art Theory in the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University when she was unjustly arrested while visiting Iran in March 2018. As you may have recently seen reported in the news media, she was […]
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