Today's #MunicipalistMonday 🧵celebrates resistance against social cleansing & gentrification.
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The focal point is Aylesbury Estate: a housing estate that was home to thousands of residents in Southwark, south London.
#Fight4Aylesbury
The massive earthquake centered in the Kurdish area of Turkey is all the more devastating because of Turkey’s longstanding repression of the region and neglect of its infrastructure. Please help Bakur & Rojava! Donate to the Kurdish Red Crescent-Heyva Sor:
https://t.co/6aCQD6E47r
‼️BREAKING‼️ QMUL students are blocking entry to the @QMUL Council meeting to protest against the 100% pay deductions & to call for a transformation of QM as an institution. They stand in solidarity with all students, staff and local community members.
#MadeUpIsMadeUp
This morning’s phone footage from Navigator fuel terminal, Grays, Essex.
All fuel deliveries stopped as road blocked when protesters climbed onto 7 tankers #JustStopOil#Fuel#ClimateAction@JustStop_Oil
We must resist policing in education.
From the police force, to the vast number of ways teachers and education itself are used to police our young people’s lives.
We have no words for the racist violence police and education have inflicted upon the young girl in Hackney.
We must resist policing in education.
From the police force, to the vast number of ways teachers and education itself are used to police our young people’s lives.
We have no words for the racist violence police and education have inflicted upon the young girl in Hackney.
*BREAKING* @channel4news has tonight covered our investigation into a secret, unaccountable ‘Chairman’s Advisory Group’ made up of major corporates - including oil giant BP - at the @britishmuseum!
Watch and share here! 👇
https://t.co/69rGwsBxHI #C4News
Leading figures from large corporations, including oil giant BP, are members of an influential, but almost entirely unaccountable, group advising the British Museum in secretive meetings, Channel 4 News can reveal.
Campaigners have called for the museum to be more transparent.
***UPDATE*** Fee strikers en masse have just received sanction emails threatening their withdrawal if we don't pay up in a week. @FCorner and @GoldsmithsUoL clearly spooked by the amazing work of @GoldsmithsCS yesterday!
Next week we are hosting a call for students who want to support the UCU strikes to share skills and plan actions- send us a message if you’d like you join! ✊
This morning we blocked off the entrance to @UniversitiesUK’s offices to kick off the start of strike action across 58 universities this week🔥
RSM is letting uni bosses know that we’re coming for them. We won’t wait around whilst they turn education into a profit making machine
Today we are out defending our member George and his partner Paul from eviction by a private landlord. Paul lost his job because of the pandemic, and they are now being forced out even though the government said “no one should lose their home as a result of coronavirus” 1/
Today we took the first step towards making climate change a compulsory part of the curriculum across all subjects.
My Ten Minute Rule Bill to Parliament - written with students from @_TeachtheFuture, supported by cross-party MPs - passed its first reading 💥