🇵🇸WE’RE STAYING THE NIGHT🇵🇸

Day one of the encampment is coming to an end and we’re still going strong. Our numbers are growing by the hour and we are ready to stay as long as it takes for the Newcastle University to accept our demands!✊

FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA.

Gaza solidarity encampment at Newcastle University

BREAKING: Colombia cuts diplomatic relations with Israel

.Durham University management are proposing to close the defined benefit pension for new staff on grades 1 to 5.

This is a regressive step & an attack on the pay and conditions of the lowest paid staff at Durham.

Sign the petition to oppose these changes:

chng.it/qFXq6MTfx7

📢New paper published in #TIBG by Léonie Newhouse (@GeogDurham):

'Creative fictions: Incentive work and humanitarian labour in South Sudan'. #OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1111/tran.1…

While everyone is paying attention to protests in higher ed, you should know that 800,000 people took to the streets in Buenos Aires this week to fight Milei’s cuts to free public university education in Argentina: english.elpais.com/international/…

Solidarity with all university students and staff facing repression for resisting their institutions' complicity in Israel's genocidal project. Your actions matter ✊💚

Universities that have set up Gaza solidarity camps so far ( that I know of):
Barnard
UC Berkeley
Columbia
Emerson
U of Maryland
U of Michigan
MIT
The New School
NYU
Rutgers
Tufts
Vanderbilt
Washington U
Yale

Please add any that I missed

It’s so exciting to see this historic student action, standing up to the repression of pro-Palestine speech. Let it spread everywhere please

Malak Afaneh, a 24-year-old UC Berkeley law student in her third year, outlined the four demands of the Gaza solidarity encampment protesters:

Looks like a great issue!

I spoke to The Guardian 's Thomas Graham about my research on gas development in #Bolivia 's Tariquía Reserve and how protected areas are the new frontier of extraction - and resistance theguardian.com/global-develop…

“Protected areas are the new extractive frontier,” says Penelope Anthias Geography at Durham in this The Guardian article looking at #Bolivia ’s move to drill for gas in the Tariquía national reserve. Read more 👉 brnw.ch/21wIH2F

Power to the people? Bolivia’s hunt for gas targets national parks – and divides communities

Latest for The Guardian, with 📸 Marcelo Perez del Carpio

Thanks to Penelope Anthias, Jorge Campanini and many others.

theguardian.com/global-develop…

What would it look like if people in positions of power across universities responded to attacks to academic freedom related to Palestine like this? This should be the norm, not an exception.

🚨Stop Scrolling!

Let's pause & reflect a minute about what this shocking picture of Greta Thunberg 's arrest tells us about the current state of #climate politics.

A short 🧵on some key lessons we can take from this image

The impact of Biden's phonecall today shows how easily he could have prevented so many Palestinian deaths over recent months. It also underscores the moral duty of US and UK citizens to continue to put pressure on our governments

Collective action and solidarity work in the world when there’s intention and action for justice.

Happening now:

Naamodniks, other Jews, and allies are blocking the entrance to the Foreign Office (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) to demand that they fund aid not arms for Gaza.

As Jews in the UK, we demand that the government re-funds UNRWA and stops arming Israeli war crimes.

Proyecto hidrocarburífero Churumas avanza hacia la zona núcleo de la Reserva Natural de Tariquía.
Este es el origen de los conflictos denunciados los pasados días, en la parte sur de la Reserva de Tariquía, en el contexto de realización del Censo 2024.
anabolivia.org/proyecto-churu…