Jewish Faculty Network Statement of Solidarity with the UBC Encampment for Gaza:

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jfn-ubc.ca

My new book Miami in the Anthropocene: Rising Seas and Urban Resilience, has a cover and a catalog page! It’ll be out this winter with U of MN Press 🌴🌴

upress.umn.edu/book-division/…

‘Labour remains the main electoral party of the working class and labour movement, with millions of voters, thousands of socialists & major battalions in the trade union movement aligned with it’- just not true anymore: labour v unpopular among wc & union density at all time low

Judging by what I saw at our polling station, this contest, which did not have council elections going on at the same time, has to be a contender for lowest turnout in the country. #WarksPCC #Elections2024

Some very poor turnout numbers coming in from St Helens for the Liverpool City Region Mayoral vote Turnout was just 19.15% in the borough. In 2021 the overall turnout across the region was 29%.

A story of heroic resistance against the relentless degradation of working class housing and the cold blooded detachment of a local bureaucracy with nothing to offer but rotting take-it-or-leave-it slum accommodation. Rokhsana Fiaz OBE

theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

I wrote about what I’d been reading, for the The Guardian. Now: editing’s important. I’m happy to be edited and I welcome it. But isn’t it funny how it’s always the same word that gets edited out? theguardian.com/books/2024/may…

Why 'disappointed' Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧? Hall was selected for precisely the characteristics that Streeting correctly (just for once) identifies.

🔥 Crisis management in English local government: the limits of resilience

Check out the recent blog post by Tania Arrieta and Jonathan Davies now on Mastodon, Threads and BSky! ⬇️
policyandpoliticsblog.com/2024/04/17/cri…

#Displacement #CrisisManagement #Resilience

⭐ READ the research here ⭐
doi.org/10.1332/030557…

If you don't clarify who was committing the violence & who the targets were BBC News (UK), it just becomes part of the longer narrative/misrep of pro-Palestinian protestors as hateful violent extremists - which is used to justify state & security crackdowns, & defend & enable genocide

UCU Lincoln **NO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES** members did it in style! Over 91% of members voting yes for industrial action in response to managements plans to cull 220 friends and colleagues. ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿
#nocompulsoryredundancies #ucu

Alex Callinicos’ book The New Age of Catastrophe helps us to understand how the threads of the polycrisis are entwined, why they are unravelling and the case for resistance and a fight for a different world. Alex Callinicos

An excellent move.

Jonathan Davies now on Mastodon, Threads and BSky! youtube.com/watch?v=nrdl4i…

May Day Greetings. To all those who celebrate. To all those who don't.

Good to see. Any guesses as to which VC will be most enthusiastic for militarisation? theguardian.com/education/2024…

The utter depravity of a university that milks Edward Said's name starving out and brutalizing students fighting for a free Palestine.

🚨BREAKING: On May Day, over 1,000 workers are blockading the UK Trade Department in London and BAE Systems’ arms factories in Scotland, Wales and Lancashire 🇵🇸 🚩 #StopArmingIsrael

UCLA is now a fully militarised campus. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years in prison for ‘support’ of women’s rights. Manahel al-Otaibi, who promoted female empowerment on social media, was arrested under anti-terror laws! theguardian.com/world/2024/may…