SSEES strikes & supports Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Solidarity

Staff at UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies @UCLSSEES fighting for a better HE and supporting Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression

[SSEES strikes & supports Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Solidarity @SSEESstrikes]

As @UCU members & ex-members from @UCLSSEES, the UK’s largest centre for the study of Ukraine, Eastern Europe & Russia, we condemn Congress Motion 5’s misrepresentation of the war & UCU’s reluctance to support Ukraine. Please read & share our open letter @DrJoGrady @UCL_UCU

[Olesya Khromeychuk @OKhromeychuk]

‘For too long, the Russian imperial gaze was internalised by Western academia’. Vitaly Chernetsky’s powerful lecture at @UCLSSEES. Key messages: leave comfort zone, be proactive in efforts to unlearn, and then relearn. And, most importantly, practice solidarity. @globalrhizome

[Uilleam Blacker 🇺🇦 @BlackerUilleam]

Some in @ucu think 'solidarity' means undermining support for people being subjected to horrific atrocities on a daily basis. @uculeft retweeted the graphic below twice today. Pitting victims of war against striking workers is the opposite of solidarity. I hope @ucu disowns this.

[IWGB @IWGBunion]

UCL: Trying and failing to break our spirits since 2019.

We're fighting to end the fire-and-rehire of security guards at @ucl.

And we're picketing in style.

[Uilleam Blacker 🇺🇦 @BlackerUilleam]

My tribute to the gentle, fierce, empathetic brilliance of Victoria Amelina in @guardian. A text I really, really wish I had never had to write. https://t.co/finBrXPhzQ

[Tom Rowley @te_rowley]

Something incredible has happened: we've reached our £50,000 goal to save @opendemocracyru today.

It's a huge vote of confidence in our team's reporting.

We're going to try and meet our stretch goal of £60,000 - but in the meantime THANK YOU

https://t.co/O0YcxTHrOe

[IWGB Universities of London @IWGBUoL]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: IWGB MEMBERS AT @UCL VOTE TO STRIKE

IWGB members at have voted nearly 98%, on a 70% turnout, to take strike action against redundancies and the fire-and-rehire of all 256 security guards at UCL.

Keep your eyes peeled for strike dates very soon 👀

[Françoïs Guesnet @fguesnet]

Well done@WarwickUCU

Great universities think alike: Congress motion no. 5 has to fall.

Kudos to@ankahajkova and colleagues

#StandWithUkraine

[Uilleam Blacker 🇺🇦 @BlackerUilleam]

When Victoria Amelina spoke at @UCLSSEES in April, she'd just written a poem about her experiences talking to women and documenting Russian war crimes in de-occupied areas. Here's a video of her reading the original; my translation is below. So painful to listen to this now. 1/2

[Uilleam Blacker 🇺🇦 @BlackerUilleam]

Please read this list of Victoria Amelina's works translated into English. What a talent we have lost. Thank you @olgatokariuk for compiling this.

[Andrei Kurkov @AKurkov]

Victoria Amelina was one of kindest and most charitable Ukrainian writers who did much more for others than for herself. She founded 2 literary festivals - in New York (Donbas) and in Kramatorsk, where her life was stopped by russian missile. RIP.

[SSEES strikes & supports Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Solidarity @SSEESstrikes]

Despite pressure from @UCL_UCU leadership, we insisted on our solidarity with Ukraine motion keeping its condemnation of the antisemitic trope in @ucu congress’s motion 5. This article by @bengidley & @RybakJa explains why that is so important https://t.co/mMpF2yxRhV

[SSEES strikes & supports Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Solidarity @SSEESstrikes]

@UCL_UCU @timb_m @murawski_michal This is particularly egregious behaviour when you have blocked somebody so they can’t see what you are doing to them.

[SSEES strikes & supports Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Solidarity @SSEESstrikes]

@UCL_UCU @timb_m @murawski_michal Please remove this tweet. Tweeting a screenshot that includes a colleague’s name and Twitter handle and accusing them of abuse is itself an invitation to abuse. Your tweet also verges on slander itself because our colleague did not name anyone in his tweet

[Tim Beasley-Murray @timb_m]

Dear @UCL_UCU you have had time to do various bits of tweeting today. Please respond to your colleagues’ objections to your treatment of our colleague. I would expect you to apologise and certainly to delete your personally abusive message.

[SSEES strikes & supports Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Solidarity @SSEESstrikes]

Several hours later and we have had no response to this from @UCL_UCU despite them being active on Twitter today. We repeat: please remove this tweet which victimises and slanders our colleague.

[SSEES strikes & supports Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Solidarity @SSEESstrikes]

@UCL_UCU @timb_m @murawski_michal Please remove this tweet. Tweeting a screenshot that includes a colleague’s name and Twitter handle and accusing them of abuse is itself an invitation to abuse. Your tweet also verges on slander itself because our colleague did not name anyone in his tweet

[SSEES strikes & supports Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Solidarity @SSEESstrikes]

@UCL_UCU @timb_m @murawski_michal This is particularly egregious behaviour when you have blocked somebody so they can’t see what you are doing to them.

[SSEES strikes & supports Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Solidarity @SSEESstrikes]

@UCL_UCU @timb_m @murawski_michal Please remove this tweet. Tweeting a screenshot that includes a colleague’s name and Twitter handle and accusing them of abuse is itself an invitation to abuse. Your tweet also verges on slander itself because our colleague did not name anyone in his tweet

[SSEES strikes & supports Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Solidarity @SSEESstrikes]

@ElizabethCDunn @UCL_UCU @timb_m @murawski_michal Thank you for your support

[Tim Beasley-Murray @timb_m]

@UCL_UCU a thread on a deeply unsatisfactory situation. Thanks to @fguesnet & others, many w expertise in the field, an EGM was called that passed with an overwhelming majority a motion condemning congress’s motion 5 1/