Giovanni Picker

Petition: Grant visas & scholarships for Palestinian students, collaborate with Gazan Unis We demand that the Government extend the Gazan student evacuation policy that ended on the 31st December 2025 indefinitely, grant further scholarships for studies and facilitate twinning partnerships ...

Important action to supoort Gazan students. Please consider signing this petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Postgraduate Summer School on Anti-Racism, Social Justice and the European City - Padua, July 6-11.

- Scholarships available
- Application deadline March 15, 2026
- Queries arjec2026@gmail.com

Thanks to colleagues at the Universities of Brighton and Surrey for curating this Race, Ethnicity and Antiracism Learning (REAL) resource bank for the social sciences in higher education: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/realresource...

Brilliant! Fyi, @cerasellachis.bsky.social

arjec 2026

Details below of a Summer School on Anti-Racism, Social Justice and the European City taking place in Padua this July. The summer school is an independent, collaborative platform bringing together postgraduate students, activists and scholars, including our own @giopicker.bsky.social

Last week, we announced a plan to make child care universal. Today, applications are open for pre-K & 3-K. If your child is turning 3 or 4, apply now for the fall at: myschools.nyc

Wednesday, 21 January 2026

University of Glasgow Racial Justice Lecture Series

Policing #Race: #Militarization and the Imperial Boomerang in #Britain and the United States.

By @juliango.bsky.social

www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/vi... cc @uofgsociology.bsky.social

They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York

Starting 2026 with inspiring ideas. Thanks @mollycrabapple.bsky.social for drawing the connection. Cultural archives may disclose generative and unexpected perspectives, especially on the urban.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Donate to Reunite a Father with His Wife and Two Children from Gaza, organized by Shadi Salem I am a Palestinian student and father currently living in the UK… Shadi Salem needs your support for Reunite a Father with His Wife and Two Children from Gaza

Please consider donating to University of Glasgow’s masters student from #Gaza, Shadi Salem.

His wife and two children are trying to survive the winter, housed in the tent pictured below

gofund.me/844f1aa10

Reinstate Melanie Goldberg at the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust We call on HMDT to reinstate Melanie to her role.

I have just signed this petition. actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...

Four of my family members, upon the Nazi invasion of Hungary, managed to flee to Australia. A mother and three daughters. The husband/father, after helping them escape, was deported to Auschwitz, dehumanized and killed.
It is hard, right now, not to hear echoes of the past. Ah Freilechen Hannuakkah.

Donate to Reunite a Father with His Wife and Two Children from Gaza, organized by Shadi Salem I am a Palestinian student and father currently living in the UK… Shadi Salem needs your support for Reunite a Father with His Wife and Two Children from Gaza

Please consider donating to University of Glasgow masters student Shadi Salem’s family from Gaza. His wife and two children are trying to survive the winter, housed in the tent pictured below — gofund.me/844f1aa10

This will be of interest to many in our community - @uofgsociology.bsky.social @ucuglasgow.bsky.social ky.social
@uofgsps.bsky.social - December 10, 15:30-17:00.

Our Winter School "Inherited Futures: Ruptures and Contestations" is starting tomorrow in Basel! It's part of a EUCOR partnership between the universities of Basel, Strasbourg, and Freiburg, but everyone is welcome to the public sessions. Please contact the Basel organizers here tinyurl.com/bdfx8cj8

The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences Anti-Roma racism, one of Europe’s oldest and most enduring racisms, has been neglected in mainstream theories and discourse. This book situates anti-Roma racism within national and intra-continental h...

📣 Live now! FXB's Roma Program Director, Dr. @magdamatache.bsky.social has just launched her new book, The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences" during the MEMOROBIA conference: tinyurl.com/6w9bj9wt

More information about the book: tinyurl.com/5v6hwuxh

Donate to Reunite a Father with His Wife and Two Children from Gaza, organized by Shadi Salem I am a Palestinian student and father currently living in the UK… Shadi Salem needs your support for Reunite a Father with His Wife and Two Children from Gaza

Please consider donating to University of Glasgow masters student Shadi Salem’s family from Gaza. His wife and two children are trying to survive the winter, housed in the tent pictured below — gofund.me/844f1aa10

Join the seminar: Reclaiming Spatial Justice - The Emancipatory Power of Commoning

Stavros Stavrides will discuss role of commoning in just urban futures.

Co-organised by Just City by the Med Research Network & Urban Studies and Social Policy Seminar Series.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reclaiming...

'For the sins we have committed': Reimagining Yom Kippur liturgy in a post-Oct. 7 world Hovering over this 5786 holiday season is a sense of moral and spiritual crisis that calls out for liturgical innovation.

Al Chet additions for 5786 (some, only):

Al Chet for the sin of stealing another’s land.
Al Chet for the sin of bringing death and devastation upon our neighbor.
Al Chet for the sin of starving people, especially innocent children.
Al Chet for the sin of indifference and blindness.

#yomkippur

"As Jews we beg you: do not let the Manchester attack be weaponised" - A forceful statement. archive.ph/BRTCY#select...

As authoritarian politics tighten their grip across the globe, we need to allow ourselves to press pause and collectively analyze the current conjuncture.

Come discuss with @rachelhumphris.bsky.social, in conversation with Engin Isin, on her Making Sancturay Cities (Stanford 2025). Details below

“In the face of ongoing authoritarian repression in the United States, the SSJ Open University initiative aims to build independent sites of study, collaborative engagement, and intellectual community.” See the various calls- www.scholarsforsocialjustice.com/ssj-open-uni...

Academic Sign-On Letter: Support for Gazan Students with UK University Offers This form is to collect signatures from academics at UK universities in support of an urgent open letter addressed to the UK government. The letter highlights the critical and ongoing barriers faced b...

If you are an academic based in the UK, please consider signing and circulating this letter. It's important. cc @ophiragamliel.bsky.social @cairsti.bsky.social @erdemavsar.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social

Gaza student hoping for Glasgow PhD in urgent plea as family blocked from entering UK A student from Gaza hoping to study in Scotland has issued a plea to the UK Government urging them not to "make her choose" between her…

"I trust that the UK Government will take the right decision. Please, don't let me choose between my family and my education, because it's impossible for me to be separated from them."

www.thenational.scot/news/2548316...

"We’ve been a place where controversial public issues can be freely debated. We have different views on Israel-Palestine. We need to hear them even when they upset us. That is the spirit of the place that I have been championing and affirming for 30 years.” Prof Judith Butler

Just City by the Med Research network exploring social justice and inequality in Mediterranean urban contexts.

Just City by the Med Research Network connects researchers investigating social justice and inequality in cities and exploring pathways towards just urban futures, through the context of the Mediterranean. Check justcitymed.org for details 👇

Help Sajida Umm Tulin and her family survive and rebuild in Gaza Hi, My name is Avigail, I'm a US citizen, organizing this fundraiser on behalf of my friend Sajida who is raising funds to support her family in Gaza. Here are her words:

Help Sajida Umm Tulin and her family survive and rebuild in Gaza chuffed.org/project/1274...

#hope

Spain rejects Nato plan for member states to spend 5% of GDP on defence PM Pedro Sánchez says he wants a ‘more flexible formula’ that would make target optional or allow Madrid to opt out

Beacon of hope.

If you are in Europe and care about Gazans, take a moment to read the thread below. @kajakallas, Gazans have been waiting too long. Europe has to stand against the Israeli government. Now.

The First World War started because a bunch of white men were scared of other white men's possible intentions of invasion. Shame on Starmer, Macron, Putin, Merz, Meloni etc -- history repeating itself? White ignorance is a choice, an ultimately murderous choice.