Tom Western

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Petition to save Geography at the University of Leicester

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UCL staff, students and alumni demand that UCL rescinds Demis Hassabis’ Honorary Fellowship. Sign our petition now, link and info at this link: shorturl.at/l0BCO

Yes Mamdani 😍

What an evening. Beyond grateful for what we made together.

Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.

Wow a UK university finally learnt the word scholasticide

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Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...

As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Tomorrow night 6-8 pm EST.

Register to join us. In person and on line. Free. Masks provided.

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There is no ceasefire.
There never was.

BREAKING: Melissa has come ashore in southwestern Jamaica as the MOST INTENSE HURRICANE TO MAKE LANDFALL on record in the Atlantic. The Category 5 storm crossed the coast at 1p near New Hope, Jamaica.

oh my god

*acting surprised*

Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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This is coming up soon

Getting some very exciting PhD proposals coming in at the moment 😍

Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.

Join us for this workshop on UCL’s ties with DeepMind and links with genocide!

End UCL’s ties with Google DeepMind! Join BDS@UCL for a workshop to find out more about links with DeepMind and to work with others to write letters to UCL managers calling for an end to UCL’s ties with DeepMind. No need to register!
Dates below ⬇️

Have you registered? We are going to make some necessary sounds — together.

Join us.

In person or online.

October 30. Sound—at the Interregnum.

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Government officials seek to lift ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans at Aston Villa tie Culture secretary to speak to Home Office as minister says barring Israeli supporters is 'utterly unacceptable'

Let's be clear here, the entire British Establishment, including the leaders of the three largest parties in parliament, are insisting that nowhere should be safe from Zionist violence and that Israel should face no consequences for committing genocide.

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Arts scholar Peter Sellars in the foreword to the book Said on Opera: "The word 'fugue' comes from the Latin 'to fly': it is the music of exile, of people fleeing oppression and closed structures. It means, take an idea and run with it. In the course of the elaboration of that idea, add new voices. The resulting counterpoint and contradiction create a dense and astonishing reality that was not present or imaginable before"

Cover of the book Said on Opera by Edward Said

Enjoying this analogy of fugue as music of breaking closed structures and creating realities not imaginable before – in the intro to Said on Opera

Israel is bombing southern Lebanon again

This is what the Israelis call ceasefire: you cease, we fire

Palestine at Canadian Universities: How institutional complicity in colonial genocide is maintained

This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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I see Etel Adnan in the background and I want to read this!

the Israeli military literally killed a bunch of Palestinians this morning

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Coloniality 101: “…we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires, a wretched population who…must be fed and watered while the world works out what to do with them.

And now an explicit rejection of Palestinian self-determination…again ”.

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Gaza Journalist Salih Al-Jaafrawi Killed by Israeli-Backed Armed Group in Southern Gaza - Quds News Network Journalist Salih Al-Jaafrawi was shot dead on Sunday by Israeli-backed armed militia in southern Gaza.

Journalist Salih Al-Jaafrawi was kidnapped for hours, tortured, had his wrists broken and was then shot ( 7 times) dead on Sunday by Israeli-backed armed militia in southern Gaza.

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this is so important and utterly immoral and infuriating.

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel. Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was earlier today abducted and detained by Israeli forces after the aid flotilla on which she was traveling to Gaza was intercep…

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Israel marks 7 October attacks anniversary as Starmer tells students to avoid 'un-British' protests

It's always those opposing genocide that are labeled as 'un-British'. This is simply Far Right discourse. People can be in denial of that as much as they want, the effect is the same: a further descent into authoritarianism.