Bennett Collins, PhD

Aberdeen welcomes refugees Not racism Sunday 14th December, 12pm Castlegate. Stand up to racist bullies and their lies with solidarity, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome.

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Sunday 14th December, 12pm Castlegate.

Indigenous-Washing at COP30: How Inclusion Became a Cover for Systemic Failure – Intercontinental Cry Both on the ground and across the globe, COP30 in Belém attracted a flurry of labels. Some dubbed it the “COP of implementation,” underscoring the long-delayed

A piece I wrote on what I saw during COP in Belém: “Indigenous-washing at COP30: How Inclusion Became a Cover for Systemic Failure” icmagazine.org/indigenous-w...

Ghassan Abu Sitta: “The CEO meets the branch managers"

End Links With Hebrew University — UCU St Andrews

St Andrews staff & students, please sign this open letter calling on the university to sever links with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and all other Israeli universities

and if you're not connected to St Andrews, please publicise this anyway. thank you!

www.ucustandrews.org/end-links-wi...

The talk of nuclear reactors and permanent settlements on the Moon is sheer patriarchal, colonial hubris. I don’t even know where to start but technocracy and autocracy are clearly merging their paths.

Revealed: How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @vernerviisas.bsky.social #CBarchive

Read here ➡️ bit.ly/3TecPJx

I just say it’s like toothpaste

Darren Beattie, fired from the Trump White House in 2018 after it was revealed he attended a white supremacist conference, has just been appointed acting president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, according to the State Department.

Not sure many people believe AI to be a significant contributor to climate change but what I do know is that many articles - which are far from clickbait - do point to a future of GenAI, in particular, being energy and water intensive. The IEA - whose numbers you cite - also states this outright

Happy 4th fellow Americans, some reminders today:
-Not all came to America voluntarily (see slavery, forced servitude)
-Not all want/ed to be part of America (see Indigenous Nations, Treat of Guadalupe)
-Not all want/ed America to be the Land of the Free (see white supremacy, the current President)

Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians It is the country's first formal "truth-telling" inquiry that ran for four years from 2021.

I can already hear the meltdowns that the world is becoming too sensitive or too woke. Sorry but an island that imports everything shouldn’t be one of the largest economies in the world. A long overdue reckoning with the past was bound to happen.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

In light of FM Swinney’s apology (and those of other parties) for the Tinker Experiments, just a reminder that we put in 21 recommendations in our report that all stakeholders should put into action. Apologies point out what’s wrong, actions make things right (with survivors/victims at the helm)

Statement from the Church of Scotland: report on policies affecting Gypsy/Traveller communities in Scotland A statement from Rev Tommy MacNeil, Convener of the Faith Action Programme Leadership Team (FAPLT) and Dr Mike Cantlay, Convener of the Social Care Council...

The Church of Scotland has apologized for their role in the Tinker Experiments ‘On behalf of the Church of Scotland we offer a heartfelt and genuine apology for these historic wrongs highlighted in the report and carried out in the name of the Church.’ www.churchofscotland.org.uk/news-and-eve...

@uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

Honoured and grateful to have been part of this work of truth-telling around the ‘Tinker Experiments’. Credit must go to Gypsy/Traveller advocates and those survivors/victims who had to endure these injustices in the dark for far too long. An apology is only the start. www.abdn.ac.uk/news/24494/a

🚨BREAKING: After years of campaigning, the Gypsy Traveller community has finally received an apology for the cruel Tinker Experiments.

This is not the end of righting wrongs. The @scottishgreens.org are proud to have raised this in with Parliament, most recently last month.

Couldn’t agree more.

Hi Maggie, very happy to chat

Thank you, Maggie, for your advocacy on this. As one of the co-authors of the report that’s due to be released today, I need to emphasise there were multiple ‘experiments’, and not solely one. We are deliberate in calling this the ‘Tinker Experiments’ moving forward.

I'm calling for a full apology for the Tinker Experiment: state-sanctioned cruelty that forcibly removed children from Gypsy Traveller families & put others into accommodation with no water, electricity or heating.
The scars on & in the community are still visible today.
We must have justice.

Juneteenth went uncelebrated by the White House. That alone says everything you need to know about this regime.

Sorry, what exactly is this directed towards? Haven’t seen Americans articulating their situation as such

i think this is exactly right

When we’re talking about ‘decolonizing’ Western science and academia, remember that this is the legacy of our sector. Let’s not pretend this has ended either, with some still believing it’s ok to do genetic studies into certain racialized groups for the ‘advancement of knowledge’

This was a “dark chapter in Swiss history” This is the first time Switzerland has admitted commission of an international crime. In removing thousands of Traveller children from their families over a period of 50 years, the Swiss government co...

You'll be hard pressed to find much of this in the news but the Swiss government has set an international human rights precedent by apologising for its historic treatment of Gypsy-Travellers. Scotland may be next. Well done Switzerland & @justiceinfo.bsky.social 👏
www.justiceinfo.net/en/142170-da...