The full statement by UCU Black Members' Standing Committee is very alarming reading. Read on after these screenshots for the details of how bureaucracy was used to silence the democratic UCU Equality committee of Black members in making their solidarity statement. Full statement linked in Cecila's thread.

It would appear that University of Brighton got a head start on the panic, corruption, and incompetence...

Callously creating a hostile environment for overseas visitors and immigrants while simultaneously underfunding UK HE so that it can't survive without international students (or staff) is an act of systemic vandalism. Lower fees, make visas easy/free. theguardian.com/education/2024…

In December, some students at Freie Universität organised a peaceful protest to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. The university responded by calling the police on them, pressing criminal charges, and threatening them with expulsion - sounds familir, UOB? 1/3

Some predictions I am willing to make. 1. This infrastructure will be used for drilling and extracting fossil fuels for Western companies. 2. This infrastructure will be used for colonising Gaza with Israeli-US military and settlements. 3. Very little humanitarian aid ...

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Read the whole 🧵 This could be your son or daughter in pretty much any UK University in the next few years. UK HE News USSbriefs University Wankings UCU

UCU is deeply concerned by the wrongful arrest of Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Professor and Global Chair in Law at Queen Mary University of London, in Israel. We condemn any attempts to stifle freedom of speech on the war in Gaza and demand that diplomatic access is

🚨 BOYCOTT OF GOLDSMITHS 🚨 We have today declared a global academic boycott of Goldsmiths, University of London, as management refuse to back down from their devastating attack on jobs. Full story: ucu.org.uk/article/13610/…

Management Goldsmiths, University of London have shown they are ONLY capable of destruction. Get your hands off Goldsmiths! Solidarity to Goldsmiths UCU This is #NotADoneDeal Goldsmiths as an institution and these jobs can be saved✊

📢Dear management, This is not going away. Extraordinary mobilisation Goldsmiths, University of London where staff & students have occupied buildings across campus to protest management's brutal, madcap & UNNECESSARY restructure. It's not #NotaDoneDeal Read below 📷⬇️

Doesn't this sound all too familiar... At University of Brighton, we have been living the consequences of callous SMT action every single day for over a year now! Solidarity to @GoldsmithUCU and Goldsmiths PGRs. You can contrubite to their MAB and Strike fund here: goldsmithsucu.org/support-fund/

“It’s time to resist the right’s narrative of immigration as aberration. Nations thrive on it – and they always have done”. Wise words by the fabulous Gaia Vince, author of the brilliant #NomadCentury. Please read and share. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Today UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge remembers Riham Sheble on the anniversary of her birthday. Riham, a migrant postgrad student from Egypt, played an important role in pushing back against xeno-racist & deeply ableist policies University of Warwick. Learn about her legacy: linktr.ee/urbc

Fired?! I quit!