@peopleandplanet student campaign demanding that our universities divest from companies profiting from violence against migrating people across the world
🚨 BREAKING: Students coordinate actions across the UK demanding divestment from the border industry!
UK universities are investing millions in corporations profiting from detention, deportations and militarised borders - and students are calling it out.
#DivestBorders ✊
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Solidarity to every US migrant student &/or permanent resident who is being viciously attacked for showing solidarity with 🇵🇸.
But can we 🛑with the model student discourse.
Here is why.
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UK folks, listen up- universities that signed up to be "Universities of Sanctuary" actively practice the #HostileEnvironment policy on their migrant students & will report migrant students to the Home Office. There is no sanctuary when border controls are enforced on campus.
Watching Americans just get up and choose to live anywhere but then have a fucking meltdown about illegal immigrants taking up residency in the US will always blow my mind.
Google's acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz will mark the single largest transfer of former Unit 8200 Israeli spies into any American company. All Wiz founders are former 8200 as are dozens of staff, from office managers to product analysts to software engineers
NEW: ICE is hunting for Yunseo Chung, a Columbia student who attended pro-Palestine protests. Chung came to the US from Korea with her family at age 7, and was her high school's valedictorian. She's a lawful permanent resident. Here's what we know so far. 🧵
The UK’s first permanent live facial recognition (LFR) cameras will be installed in south London in a bid to catch criminals.
The cameras will be permanently installed on two roads in the centre of Croydon as part of a pilot project run by the Metropolitan Police
🚨BREAKING @LInvestigates@skynews
At least 28 universities investigated as many as 113 students & staff over pro-Palestine protest activity
Unis shared students' data & images with police
This is a SHOCKING crackdown on students' right to protest: https://t.co/FiGdd7i3dG
the gall.
90% of their comms is 'we are proud to announce our newest scheme to make life even more hellish for anyone foreign' and the other 10% is 'pls come give us ur money we're proper nice i promise'
what do they take us for?
.@bphillipsonMP selling, erm...begging migrant students back to the UK while @UKLabour expands the #HostileEnvironment, meanwhile, UK universities are criminalising 🇵🇸 protests & divestment campaigns, are some of the many reasons why migrant students are giving the UK a pass.
Google has dropped a pledge not to use artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance in its updated ethics policy on the powerful technology https://t.co/HeZHRcU0rc
Our New Year’s resolutions:
✊ PROTECT the right to protest
🚫 STAND UP against dangerous facial recognition technology
🤝 SUPPORT marginalised communities seeking justice
⚖️ DEFEND human rights in the UK
Let’s make this a reality together.
#DefendDemocracy
The Home Office accepts that its policies to “smash the gangs” results in people taking flimsier & more overcrowded dinghies across the Channel.
This is why at least 77 people have drowned. A third are children. #r4today https://t.co/WnRQw5WOLY
is your uni investing in cages, cruelty and climate collapse? probably.
are you powerless? absolutely not.
get in touch today to join a divest borders group on your campus
https://t.co/R6SJ8Rip4T
💥 The 2024/25 People & Planet University League is out now! 💥
149 universities were ranked by sustainability and ethics criteria. 📈
How sustainable is your university? 🌏✊🤔
Find out NOW! 👇
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