The Meager Agenda of Abundance Liberals
What the Democratic Party’s most buzzed-about policy movement gets right—and wrong.
By Paul Glastris and Nate Weisber
Washington Monthly
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#Culture #brOligrach #Plutocrat #Corporatocracy #Economics #CritialInfrastructure #Repatriation #Decommdification #Housing #Healthcare #Transportation #Banking
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/03/23/the-meager-agenda-of-abundance-liberals/
And now a good news story of actual GOOD people trying to do the RIGHT thing: Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over US return
After two decades, the Grand Egyptian Museum will open this summer near the Giza’s pyramids. The museum will span over 120 acres and showcase over 100,000 artifacts, including Tutankhamun’s treasures. It will dwarf the Louvre, the MET, and British Museum in size.
ProPublica: The Art Institute of Chicago Returned a Sculpture to Nepal But Obscured Its Connection to a Wealthy Donor. “The Art Institute of Chicago announced recently that it had returned to Nepal a sculpture that had been in its collection for at least a quarter century. Conspicuously left out of the press release: that the sculpture had been a gift from a wealthy Chicago donor.”
Italy To Turn Empty Albania Migrant Center Into Repatriation Hub https://www.byteseu.com/882158/ #Albania #AsylumSeekers #BorderControl #ecj #Italy #MigrationPolicy #repatriation
Oh holy crap, our #Repatriation efforts are at a standstill. The relevant embassy is overwhelmed dealing with their own citizens' maltreatment by the US.
Ukraine Repatriates 909 Soldiers in Largest Exchange Since War Began https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/03/ukraine-repatriates-909-soldiers-in.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #Ukraine #Soldiers #HumanitarianEffort #WarCasualties #Repatriation
Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation repatriates more than 100 cultural items from New York museum
Items taken from Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation in the early 1900s will return home to Vancouver Island Monday from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
#repatriation #museum #culture #history #NewYork #VancouverIsland
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/mowachaht-muchalaht-first-nation-repatriation-1.7496466?cmp=rss
Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation repatriates more than 100 cultural items from New York museum
Items taken from Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation in the early 1900s will return home to Vancouver Island Monday from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
#repatriation #museum #culture #history #NewYork #VancouverIsland
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/mowachaht-muchalaht-first-nation-repatriation-1.7496466?cmp=rss
Associated Press: An ancient bronze griffin head is returned to Greece from New York in a major repatriation move. “New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in southern Greece, the latest repatriation marking a broader shift in the museum world to return significant artifacts.”
"Ancestral remains should no longer be displayed in UK museums, say MPs"
A parliamentary group has published a report called Laying Ancestors to Rest. It condemns the sale of human remains and their display.
The report is mostly concerned with colonial crimes and wants law changes that allow national museums to repatriate remains they hold.
You can read the article here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/12/ancestral-remains-should-no-longer-be-displayed-in-uk-museums-say-mps
How do we feel about this out there?
Museums Association: Museums should stop displaying African ancestral remains, says report. “Museums and other cultural and educational institutions should stop the public display of African ancestral remains, a parliamentary policy briefing has said. Commissioned by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Afrikan Reparations, the Laying Ancestors to Rest report addresses the ethical, cultural […]
Straits Times: Nigeria’s museum agrees with royal ruler on custody of Benin Bronzes. “Nigeria’s national museum commission will be responsible for retrieving and keeping priceless Benin Bronzes, taking on the task with the assent of the royal ruler appointed sole owner and custodian of the objects nearly two years ago, its head said. Nigeria is on a quest to recover the thousands of intricate […]
Indonesia got some treasures back from the Netherlands. Can it protect them? https://www.byteseu.com/791045/ #artefacts #bali #brahma #Dutch #Indonesia'sNationalMuseum #Jakarta #lombok #Museum #Netherlands #repatriation #statue
30 years after Congress ordered the #repatriation of Native remains, many of the country's most prominent institutions really haven't done it. https://projects.propublica.org/repatriation-nagpra-database/
ProPublica: ProPublica Updates Its Database of Museums’ and Universities’ Compliance With Federal Repatriation Law. “In total, museums, universities and agencies across the country returned more than 10,300 Native American ancestors to tribes last year. The total makes 2024 the third-biggest year for the repatriation of ancestral remains under NAGPRA, according to an online ProPublica […]
The Netherlands to return 113 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria – The Art Newspaper https://www.byteseu.com/763420/ #BeninBronzes #Museums&Heritage #Netherlands #repatriation #TheNetherlands
Cleveland Museum of Art will return looted Greco-Roman bronze to Turkey – The Art Newspaper https://www.byteseu.com/752518/ #ClevelandMuseumOfArt #LootedArt #Museums&Heritage #repatriation #Turkey
