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The deadline for casting a proxy vote is Tuesday April 30th at 5pm.

Please RT + share widely to make sure Society of Authors authors, illustrators & translators don't miss the opportunity to vote on our EGM resolutions on May 2nd.

The motive is genocide. Israel keeps telling us the motive. All of we survivors of white western orchestrated genocides are saying don’t wager coming back later in unrigorous “hindsight”. We are “driven instead” by life! Palestinian life! Which is worth all of our lives. And now

Calling all UK writers. (You can find out more, including how to join the Society of Authors and how to set up a proxy vote, via Fossil Free Books)

🍉 Friday April 26th at noon is your last chance to register or re-register as a SoA member.

🌱 Monday April 29th is the deadline for registering for the EGM.

🍉 Tuesday April 30th at 5PM is the deadline for proxy voting.

Omar is joining hundreds of authors, illustrators and translators who will be supporting our motions at the upcoming SoA EGM on May 2nd.

Please RT and share widely! Important dates and reminders in the next tweet of this thread. 👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿

Statement of support from author Omar Robert Hamilton.

🚨 Society of Authors informed us the deadline for NEW MEMBERS or REJOINING MEMBERS registration is TODAY MIDDAY. 🚨

Register to vote now and let us know in DM’s if you need help or assistance with the membership fee.

PIAZZA OCCUPIED. As the University of Warwick continues to reject our demands to cut ties with genocide, we rise up in unison with fellow students all over the world, from Columbia, NYC, to Paris, to Sydney. We say no business as usual as long as Warwick sponsors colonial genocide!

📣 Calling all ACADEMICS 📣

If you’ve published ONE book OR an equivalent no of articles, you are eligible to join the Society of Authors & vote to support a ceasefire in Gaza

Deadline is MIDDAY TOMORROW (Fri 26th)

Please share with academic friends.

www2.societyofauthors.org/join/

So many reasons I feel strongly about this. But setting moral and political specifics aside and just focussing on the question of what issues are and are not within the remit of Society of Authors I am grateful for this clarification of the facts from yara rodrigues fowler and Sarah Bernstein:

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The Society of Authors have just informed us that membership applications must be submitted by MIDDAY TOMORROW (Fri 26th) to be processed in time to vote in the EGM.

Please share and spread the word. If you are planning to join & vote, but haven't yet, do it NOW.

big up fossil free pride! true legends <3

You are more likely to be eligible to join the SoA than you think - requirements below, join and vote for Palestine & Planet, help with membership fees possible if money is an issue

You can join the Society of Authors if you have:

📚 written, translated or illustrated ONE published book

🖊️ OR published an equivalent body of work (poems, articles etc)

If the cost is stopping u from joining, DM Fossil Free Books. You belong in your trade union✊🏼

I'm signed up for the Society of Authors EGM on 2 May and will be voting for Palestine and Planet - more details via Fossil Free Books, and a great article explaining the contexts here... x.com/yazzarf/status…

US literary representation/diversity discourse taking the place of proper politics has givens so many people brainworms 😬

not a member of the SoA but as a writer & a jew i unequivocally back the Palestine motion & members should. shameful that any trade union refuses to do the bare minimum of collectively calling out the genocide & epistemicide Israel carries out. Let alone taking action to stop it.

An important Society of Authors EGM coming up, 2nd May 5-7pm BST, with votes on AI, climate action and Palestine. If you’re a member sign up for the online meeting or use your proxy vote. This is your union!

Illustration by Sieve Bonaiuti Fossil Free Books

Writers urge 2 resolutions from UK Society of Authors (union):

1. permanent ceasefire and solidarity with Palestinian media workers, journalists and writers

2. financial institutions partnered with the literary sector divest from the fossil fuel industry versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/ne…