Amalia Daché, Ph.D.
@AmaliaDache
Writing a book on AfroCuban Knowledge 📚 @penn professor @MSNBC expert 🎥 Featured 🗞️📺: @BW @redtabletalk The Estefans @NPRWeekend @politico @ForeignPolicy
This morning on MSNBC, I discussed the Cuban regime's mismanagement of the ongoing electrical crisis, highlighting how years of neglect in the energy sector have led to near-collapse. The regimes's repression of public discontent in Havana and Villa Clara, along with the…
'Huge humanitarian crisis' Hurricane Oscar hit Cuba amid an island-wide power outage. @AmaliaDache joins @jdbalart to explain more on how the Cuban regime is mismanaging resources and "heightening" the social, political and economic discontent.
You see that little green pin I’m wearing? Well, it represents something big! Tonight, I was awarded The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation Grant at The University of Pennsylvania @Penn for the creation of my first work of fiction! My undergraduate student self, the one who…
A Season of Nonviolence: Reflection on Nonviolent resistance in Cuba and China youtube.com/watch?v=13h3cS… #NoViolencia #China #Cuba #OswaldoPayá #LiuXiaobo #TengBiao #RegisIglesias cc: @TengBiao @maverick18mcl @martinoticias @dlasamericas_ @IlianaLavastida @CubaAdn
I'm excited to share that I'll be presenting at the AAA conference this year: "From religious repression to Exodus: The survival of AfroCuban spirituality" drawing from my ethnographic research for my book in progress. #anthroplogy #education #Cuba #exodus #cultural #survival…
Nuevas imágenes de las manifestaciones en #LaHabana el pasado #11Julio #SOSCuba #TwitterCuba
"11J in Cuba The 'Homeland and Life' Protests A report on the July 2021 protests in Cuba and their aftermath." By @PrisonersDFNdrs, @CubaCenter, & Consorcio Justicia cubacenter.org/wp-content/upl…
Frente a estos muchachos, que con sólo una mirada ya los ubica en el lugar q tienen en la Historia de Cuba: el estercolero, qué van a hacer? Los van a amenazar, expulsar, reprimir? Seguirán descendiendo en el rango etario? Qué sigue? Los de primaria? El círculo infantil? #Paron
The students also give me so much hope, and professors like Omara are the light that illuminates their thinking. #CubanStudentProtests #PatriaYVida
Me han emocionado los comentarios de los antiguos estudiantes de Omara. Trato de notar y guardar los pedazos de luz en medio de esta guerra; en ellos está lo mejor d Cuba, lo q nos ayudará a reconstruir nuestro país cuando podamos regresar. Yo te tengo fe! #paronuniversitario
Remember that the Soviets were connected to the assassination of Julio Antonio Mella, exposing the rot within the Comintern. Mella embodied the spirit of Martí and Latin American solidarity, principled, independent, and unwilling to conform to Soviet orthodoxy. He was the wrong…
This powerful image is making the rounds in relation to student protests in Cuba, and among sympathizers at home and abroad.
Students called on their peers to skip classes in protest of the price hikes, which have been rebuked across the Caribbean island nation. Read more: bit.ly/45MkyEB Photo: REUTERS Follow us: FB: facebook.com/our.today.news YT: OurToday IG: @our.today #Cuba #Havana
Cuban university students are rising up against the dollarization of internet access, exposing the deep inequalities imposed by a totalitarian regime that rations knowledge as a luxury, just as it rations food. Students continue to strike, demanding real solutions. These protests…
We are so honored to have worked with Tatiana! She was a great mentor and amazing scholar. If you are able to contribute to her legacy scholarship, we know her family and loved ones would appreciate it.
Happy birthday to our late, beloved colleague Tatiana Melguizo (@melguizo), whose birthday is this weekend. Please help us continue her legacy of supporting community college students through her research with your tax-deductible donation to the Tatiana Melguizo Memorial…
Grateful to the NYC rumba community where Cuban music and dancing continue organically and publicly. With their bodies, they teach. The exhibición "Rumba Entre Puentes" is a testament to the strength of Cuban ancestral culture and spirituality. #Cuba #Rumba #NYC
Tragic news coming from my city. The second plane crash in days.
🚨#BREAKING: Citywide emergency response is underway after a small airplane crashed into multiple homes with multiple people hurt 📌#Philadelphia | #PA Currently Philadelphia police have activated a citywide emergency response as multiple emergency crews rush to the scene…
Major incident near Cottman and Bustelton Avenues in Northeast Philadelphia across from Roosevelt Mall. Roads closed in area including parts of Roosevelt Boulevard. Avoid area. @PhillyFireDept @PhillyPolice
CubaBrief: Cuban poet, journalist, and independence leader José Martí at 172. Remembering strategic nonviolence scholar Gene Sharp. cubacenter.org/cuba-brief/202… 1/
#Cuba El Consejo para la Transición Democrática en Cuba hace un llamado urgente: ¡Solidaridad con José Daniel Ferrer! El régimen amenaza con regresarlo a prisión mañana como represalia por su valiente e inquebrantable defensa de los derechos humanos. Libertad para José Daniel y…
The freedom of ALL innocent people imprisoned for expressing different points of view than the regime, is non-negotiable. #PatriaYVida #LibertadParaLosPresosPolíticos
URGENTE ‼️ El hijo mayor de Lizandra Góngora fue a ayer a la Isla de la Juventud y se encontró a Lizandra ya con los labios cuarteados de no tomar agua. En huelga de hambre y sed se declara Lizandra Góngora como respuesta a las humillaciones recibidas en la prisión. #Todos