Centre for Global Ed

Centre for Global Education believes in and works toward a just and equitable world. It uses education to tackle poverty and inequality locally and globally.

[Centre for Global Ed @CGEbelfast]

The Centre for Global Education's July newsletter with an update on our current activities and news from around the global education and international development sectors is available at: https://t.co/8IxVmt7rK7

[Centre for Global Ed @CGEbelfast]

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is at grave risk of imminent death from months of torture in an Israeli dungeon. He told his lawyer “They brought me here to kill me. I don’t see myself surviving". Please support Amnesty International calls for his immediate release

https://t.co/ahz3OhoMln

[Centre for Global Ed @CGEbelfast]

It was a pleasure to meet with fellow editors of development education journals from across Europe last week in Lisbon as part of a three day conference organised by the Sinergias community on "The Construction of Critical and Committed Citizenships”.

[Henry A. Giroux @HenryGiroux]

Next strop for this group should be The Hague--A photo op of moral monsters "and mendacious figures of ethical decrepitude"-barbarians in suits.

[Centre for Global Ed @CGEbelfast]

@CGEBelfast is delivering an education and psychosocial support programme for 45 Palestinian children aged 12-16 years in Beddawi refugee camp in northern Lebanon. The programme is funded by the Irish National Teachers' Organisation's Global Solidarity Fund.

[TrademarkBelfast @TrademarkBF]

Lovely day for the Great Refugee Week Picnic - a celebration of community, culture and the contribution newcomers bring to the city.

Take the opportunity to enjoy the day, meet new people and send a clear message that everyone is welcome.

[Centre for Global Ed @CGEbelfast]

The UN Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, warned that the genocidal violence witnessed in Gaza has metastasized and spread into Lebanon. Here is the evidence of that in Dahiyeh, southern Beirut, which has been repeatedly targeted by Israeli forces since the end of February.

[Centre for Global Ed @CGEbelfast]

#beirut

[Centre for Global Ed @CGEbelfast]

Belfast says "no to racism" at a huge public demonstration today in solidarity with our neighbours in the minority ethnic communities who have suffered racist violence this week. Yes to solidarity, no to racism and fascism.

[IPSC @ipsc48]

FIFA awarded Trump a "Peace Prize" as Israel was decimating Gaza with US weapons and support — and after the US invasion of Venezuela, its tightening of the siege on Cuban, and its aggression in support of Israel against Iran.
FIFA is complicit.

#DisruptFIFA #FIFAWorldCup

[Centre for Global Ed @CGEbelfast]

Racist mobs visited terrible violence, fear and intimidation on minority communities in Belfast overnight. United Against Racism has organised a rally on Saturday as a public demonstration of opposition to racist progroms. Assemble at 1.00pm, Belfast City Hall.

[Centre for Global Ed @CGEbelfast]

Find attached a report on a webinar titled “Pedagogical Responses to the Meta Crisis: The Role of Development Education”. It debated the content of Issue 42 of the @CGEBelfast journal Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review.

https://t.co/SIhNDLYd5v

[Centre for Global Ed @CGEbelfast]

Check out the June newsletter from @CGEbelfast with an update on current and upcoming activities and news from around the global education and international development sectors.

https://t.co/A5Tnt8i0yb

[Centre for Global Ed @CGEbelfast]

Episode 4 of the @CGEBelfast's podcast "Reimagining Development" is an interview with Tom McDonnell, co-Director of the Nevin Institute. He sets out the the economic, social and democratic case for a tax on extreme wealth in Ireland. Available at: https://t.co/WP2MHpHWsz

[Stefania Maurizi @SMaurizi]

We must protect vulnerable people, the underdog,truthtellers,those who fight for #Peace,#Truth,#Justice. We must protect @FranceskAlbs. If you haven't signed @couragefound's petition for @FranceskAlbs, pls do it now!

https://t.co/a7XDmJ0CjO

[Centre for Global Ed @CGEbelfast]

Nearly 1,000 new citations in books and journal have been generated by articles published in Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review over the past year. This is great evidence of practice. Check out the database at:

https://t.co/Eegjyfatfn

[Centre for Global Ed @CGEbelfast]

Cuba is being punished by the Trump administration for pursuing a socialist path to development - @CgEBelfast's letter to today's @IrishTimes

[Centre for Global Ed @CGEbelfast]

The paperback edition of Global Education in Ireland: Critical Histories and Future Directions edited by Eilish Dillon, Niamh Gaynor, Gerard McCann and I, has just been published by Bloomsbury Academic and available to order at: https://t.co/z5b7EnxYVk

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

US media keeps using the phrase “heightened tensions with Cuba” to describe what is in reality unilateral US aggression, with illegal sanctions and threats of illegal invasion, against innocent people who repeatedly say they just want to be left alone.