Simon Faulkner

Teaches in Faculty of Art & Design, Manchester Metropolitan University
Interested in art, visual culture, and politics

[Unite UCU @UniteUCU]

An imposition is not an offer. We once again call on our employer to negotiate meaningfully.

As the GS today starts promoting her 100 day plan, we can’t help but note that we’re now just over 100 days into a dispute she won’t resolve.

#NotAnother100days #ReclaimUCU

[Jo Littler @littler_jo]

Academics 'are frequently stuck on insecure, poorly paid, temporary contracts [...]Meanwhile the pay of VCs ballooned as universities reconfigured themselves as businesses with interests in property development as well as education'

https://t.co/RYnxwwOhVp

[Simon Faulkner @SimonFaulkner2]

@1000plateaus @hystericalblkns I’m reading What is Anti-racism? And why it means Anti-capitalism, by Arun Kundnani, it came out last week

[Haggai Matar @Ha_Matar]

הגוש נגד הכיבוש - שבוע 24. שוויון זה לכולם.ן

[Oren Ziv @OrenZiv_]

Now in Tel Aviv: between thousands of Israeli flags, one protester holds the photo of Palestinian child Mohammad Tamimi that Israeli soldiers shot and killed two week ago in Nabi Saleh

[Michael Morgan @mikecmorgan]

If you listen to one thing today make sure it’s this lecture by professor @StaffordScott_

The police’s Gangs Matrix has destroyed lives without any blow back or repercussions. This cannot stand.

Watch here 👉🏾 https://t.co/Cv6HFLHIZl

[Martin O'Neill @martin_oneill]

Great to see this letter condemning the punitive actions of Vice Chancellors and of @UCEA1, signed by a cross-party group of Labour, Green, SNP, and Plaid Cymru MPs and peers (including York
MP @RachaelMaskell). Members of @UCU appreciate this kind of solidarity. 👇

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

'The heart of colonialism — extracting wealth from the labouring many, corporate profiteering, and authoritarian state repression — would eventually bare itself at home as a corrupt and venal governing class enriched itself.' Wrote this yesterday.
https://t.co/6HiSlt6a4t

[Zeina Maasri @Zeinamaasri]

RIP Marc Rudin aka Jihad Mansour.
In solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle & pursuing his commitment to revolutionary internationalism, the Swiss-born artist, joined the PFLP in Lebanon in the 1970s and designed some of its best posters

[Ashok Kumar @broseph_stalin]

South Africa Foreign Minister: "You cant say because Ukraine was invaded suddenly sovereignty is important, but it was never important for Palestine. Very peculiar! If you believe in international law, then wherever sovereignty is infringed, it must apply”

[Seb Ate @Mrbaiti]

This lady has just spent 2 mins absolutely eviscerating the Conservatives on their record on EVERYTHING 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #BBCQT
“ I’m staggered that you think you’re succeeding…
Watch and listen!

[Ashok Kumar @broseph_stalin]

Labour will lose their deposit in Islington North

[Haggai Matar @Ha_Matar]

It's great that Joe Biden is concerned about the state of Israeli democracy.
It would be ever greater if he felt the same about it when Israel denied Palestinians democracy for decades on end, oppressing and killing them with zero accountability

[Haggai Matar @Ha_Matar]

ככל הנראה הגוש נגד הכיבוש הגדול ביותר עד כה, והכי אנרגטי. עברו גם הימים שבהם יתר המפגינים מתקיפי�� את הגוש, ועותק ויותר מצטרפים לקריאות ולמסרים: אין דמוקרטיה עם כיבוש, שוויון זכויות לכל הקהילות, ו-תסרבו

[Peter Armstrong @PeterAr18228396]

Once we drifted into thinking of universities as employers and ourselves as employees, the way was clear for VCs and Deans etc to think of themselves as managers with all the prerogatives that implies, so that academic freedom became an indulgence not a right

[Oren Ziv @OrenZiv_]

A sign at the anti occupation block at the mass demo in #Telaviv “ This is the flag of the Palestinian people, who have been denied democracy by Israel for 75 years. Democracy for Jews only is not democracy”

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

In 2009 Israel repeatedly bombed Gaza over several days, killing over 1,300 people, including 460 children (Gaza is illegally occupied by Israel). The BBC refused to broadcast an appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee for aid to Gaza. This was Tony Benns response live on air

[Shirin Hirsch @ShirinHirsch]

My aunty Anna going viral on TikTok #Humanity #SunakOut #RefugeesWelcome

[Peter Armstrong @PeterAr18228396]

Does Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock know that @uniofleicester is a university at which academic freedom is "subject to the right of the university to manage its affairs efficiently and effectively." Those are the words of its Council justifying the 2020 sackings

[Haggai Matar @Ha_Matar]

NOW: masses, probably hundreds of thousands, at mass rallies throughout Israel against the government’s attacks on the judiciary.
The anti-apartheid bloc here in Tel Aviv has grown from previous weeks. Even mainstream demonstrators started talking about Huwara and the occupation