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Webinar: "Fueling Extractive Populism in Canada: Social Media, Subsidized Publics and Petro-Nationalism" with environmental comms researchers Shane Gunster, Robert Neubauer and Darren Fleet, Tues May 9, 6:30 Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism Petrocultures Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/fueling-extr…

Divestment works. The latest empirical evidence:

It’s time for a new ESJ highlight! ✨ And this week we are sharing Rachel Loewen Walker and Andrew Hartman "Avoiding Risk, Protecting the “Vulnerable”: A Story of Performative Ethics and Community Research Relationships".

The bottom line is: if your methods training treats qualitative methods as an afterthought, that’s a major problem. It reduces our sociological and methodological literacy. It reproduces inequality. It feeds unnecessary friction among colleagues.

👏👏👏 Treating the Public University As a Corporation Has To End, Says MUNFA | VOCM vocm.com/2023/04/10/tre…

The Solar Media Collective Milieux Institute is hosting a fabulous set of roundtables on May 11 in Montreal and online. I'm very excited to join and geek out about solar futures, aesthetics, and politics with old friends and admired strangers🌞 solar-media.net/2023/04/11/spr…

Spirits are high at the White Hills PSAC-AFPC picket line this morning. This crew is ready to hold the line in any weather conditions. #rdf #WorkersCantWait #CanLab NLFL

After declining our invitation to next week's Student Town Hall, MUNSU and MUNFA received an invitation to meet with Premier of NL today. We will urge him to reconsider taking up this opportunity to speak directly and publicly to students and Memorial University's wider community.

Students were proud to stop by the PSAC-AFPC picket line outside Seamus O'Regan Jr’s office today in a show of solidarity 📢 A win for one is a win for all, students and workers are united and call for a fair deal now ✊ 🪧

Concerned about climate change and a just energy transition in NL? Join a regional climate workshop. Dates & registration below: Grand Falls-Windsor - April 27, 12-5pm  Corner Brook – May 8, 12-5pm mun.ca/harriscentre/w… #decarbonizeNL #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction

Our MUNFA members joined the PSAC-AFPC picket line in Corner Brook yesterday ✊ We stand in solidarity!

Harry Belafonte was a fierce critic of US imperialism, called for nuclear disarmament, backed the Cuban and Bolivarian revolutions, and pushed for the freedom of Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier. Rest in power. theguardian.com/music/2023/apr…

📢 TOMORROW Speak truth to power in two of MUNSU’s upcoming actions At 1pm, a petition calling for fully funded education will be presented to the House of Assembly 🪧 At 7pm, the Student Town Hall will be happening The Breezeway ✊ Come show your support 📢

So many thoughts. Everyone at Memorial would like to move on and start building something better. This doesn't help. But the solution here was an independent outside investigation. It still is,

Don't miss out on the last Nexus Exchange event of the semester next Wednesday! Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on academic journeys led by Dr. Sonja Boon & Dr. Ainsley Hawthorn. And stay tuned for more Nexus Exchange events in the Fall! 🥳 Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Memorial

The SaltWater Community Association is fundraising for a new women's shelter in Bonavista. Please donate and retweet if you can. paypal.com/donate/?hosted…

Coming up in only a few weeks. I'm giving a guest talk on extractive cinema and tourism films about Gros Morne @[email protected] on June 5 #extraction #film #environment #envhum uibk.ac.at/zias/veranstal…

Students call for end to #fossilfuel expansion and subsidies, including #BayduNord, amid #climate breakdown. They also landed a meeting with Environment and Climate Change Minister Bernard Davis. #FridaysForFuture #nlpoli Full story 👇 theindependent.ca/news/youth-ral…

Emails reveal Marine Institute, Memorial University leaders opened ‘proverbial doors’ hours after meeting billionaire Stockton Rush. They also show how late #OceanGate CEO and Titan pilot hurried an MOU with the St. John’s ocean and marine polytechnic. theindependent.ca/news/inside-ma…