pauseorpayuk 🟥

Student-led UK cross-university action group that emerged as a response to disruption of studio-based learning by Covid-19 💙🕊☁️

[pauseorpayuk 🟥 @pauseorpayuk]

2020 ART GRADUATES FROM YORKSHIRE! 🎓

@In_Session__ & @pauseorpayuk are looking for interviewees for their project ‘Shifting Sands: England Graduate Preparedness for a Post-Covid Contemporary Art World’ (1/6)

[East Street Arts @EastStreetArts]

‘Paying rent and eating comes before doing any professional practice’ from In Session x Pause or Pay #esahive

[East Street Arts @EastStreetArts]

Ed Compson of @pauseorpayuk introducing Shifting Sands #ESAHive

[GMB South London Universities @GMBSLU]

@UCU_UAL @ShovelDance @markthomasinfo @PicketLinePoets @JellyCleaver @defendthearts @PCSL_SE @JasiBP @Equity4GND @pauseorpayuk @cloudwaterbrew @OrbitBeers Thanks for having us! If you're an artist and would like to support our campaign to end outsourcing of cleaners at UAL, please sign our letter here: https://t.co/nGH7TcspOk

[UAL UCU @UCU_UAL]

Thanks SO much to everyone who came, spoke, sang, performed at last night's event @ShovelDance @markthomasinfo @PicketLinePoets @JellyCleaver @defendthearts @GMBSLU @PCSL_SE @JasiBP @Equity4GND @pauseorpayuk ✊ & to @cloudwaterbrew and @OrbitBeers who generously donated drinks!

[pauseorpayuk 🟥 @pauseorpayuk]

@RcaUcu For the “record breaking” leadership!

[pauseorpayuk 🟥 @pauseorpayuk]

https://t.co/HdbYshHDs5

[Royal College of Art @RCA]

The Royal College of Art today announced that its Vice-Chancellor, Dr Paul Thompson, will be stepping down in the summer of 2024, after 15 years in the role.

Read more: https://t.co/Nif9maqzdG

[Royal College of Art UCU ✊ @RcaUcu]

@pauseorpayuk A “record breaking” payout 🤪

[Defend the Arts & Hums @defendthearts]

Good riddance! In 2016 you tried to destroy the union by firing the only @RcaUcu rep. But you know what? You only made them stronger... since then the committee has gone from strength to strength and now they've seen you off...

[UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge @UnisNotBorders]

From yesterday's @ObserverUK. @UnisNotBorders was cited in this piece about, Sulav Khadka, a migrant student from Nepal who was detained by UK border cops, claiming that he was a bogus student, sent to a detention centre in Scotland, & held for 10 days: https://t.co/NA9jzHi7TJ
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[UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge @UnisNotBorders]

Why focus *only* on Nigerians? Would Nick be outraged if 50,000 white Canadians brought their dependents to the UK?

Right-wing pundit, Nick Timothy, is using the 'bogus student' line to promote disastrous Tory policies that will harm working class migrant students.

Brief 🧵

[Defend the Arts & Hums @defendthearts]

Sick of being lied to? Of incompetent VCs destroying your uni? Of conditions & pay being driven down? Of watching the gender, race & disability pay gaps be ignored? Of your overdraft? See you on the picket line! Let's shut the academy down. We are the university! #ucuRISING

[UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge @UnisNotBorders]

Your #UCU branch and/or student group can still print off URBC materials. Link: https://t.co/7NqscnfuGR

We have provided #UCUstrike materials for migrant students & staff for 4 year running. Read why our materials are beneficial for UCU members: https://t.co/M7v9fiDc8D

[UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge @UnisNotBorders]

⏲️12 hours until the pickets!

@UnisNotBorders placards are ready 🔥

Join URBC members on the @UM_UCU, @manmetucu, @NewcastleUniUCU, @kingstonucu, @sussexucu pickets.

Share 📷 of your branch w/ URBC posters & lit, hashtag, #BordersKillKnowledge #ucuRISING #UCUstrike

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[UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge @UnisNotBorders]

Following from our 🧵to @ucu on what migrant solidarity should be within UCU/unions [https://t.co/EecDVUda5B] this is a great example of what union migrant solidarity should look like via @pcs_union.

Read here: https://t.co/lOtTfxe8lL

CC: @DrJoGrady

[UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge @UnisNotBorders]

📢URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED

➡️Are you a University of Warwick staff or student?

Sign this open letter to the Home Office to support Riham's mother to come to the UK: https://t.co/jW1e4xrbk4

‼️ DEADLINE: Before 9PM, Thursday 10 November 2022.

Share w/ Warwick staff & students!

[UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge @UnisNotBorders]

Yesterday, a man threw petrol-bombs at a migrant detention centre in Dover before taking his own life. Photo of the incident via @Reuters, full story here: https://t.co/5RpAR3x2wx

Years of vicious xeno-racist by politicians & the media contributed to this horrific incident. 🧵

[UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge @UnisNotBorders]

.@ucu we support #ucuRISING, but this tweet is off as £9K is the home/British rate.

Where are the migrant students in your tweet? They are also saddled w/ HUGE DEBT (more than £9K) & #HostileEnvironment that is explained here: https://t.co/HLR4H1N99y

#OneOfUsAllOfUs?🙄

[UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge @UnisNotBorders]

.@UnisNotBorders is against Home Secretary, Suella Braverman's proposal to limited migrant students & their dependents, but for *different reasons* than that of VCs, who treat migrant students as cash cows for the ££ they bring by charging us higher tuition fees. 🧵

[UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge @UnisNotBorders]

🚨Significant legal decision from Scotland!

Iraqi-born Ola James successfully argued & won a landmark legal case for long-term Scottish residents with indefinite leave-to-remain in accessing free education in Scotland.

Short 🧵🧵🧵

[UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge @UnisNotBorders]

UK universities reliance on PGT students from China & India *predate* Brexit @paddywjack & @timeshighered. Brexit has only allowed UK universities to further exploit students from these countries as cash cows. The issue isn't reliance but exploitation via marketisation.