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Students have just occupied the main Lanyon Building at @QUBelfast in solidarity with the Palestinian people
QUB Palestine Assembly demands are below
John Barry
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John Barry
@ProfJohnBarry
Ideas merchant & teacher. Post-growth economics & working class green politics. Democratise, decolonise and decarbonise. Views my own. RTs are not endorsements.
- 'Small boats' saving English people... let that sink in
00:00- So immensely proud as her supervisor to announce @SophieLong01 passed her PhD viva with flying colours...meet Dr Long! Well done ! @HAPPatQUB @QUBelfast and thanks @jim_mcauley and Margaret O’Callaghan for excellent examining
- Today in Belfast we stood against the fascists and hate mongers 5 to 1. Despite them throwing missiles at us (@BBCNewsNI please note) we seen them off… next time let’s make it 20 to 1… “Whose streets? OUR STREETS”! #¡No pasarán!…
- Its not #StormAshley- its #StormBP #StormShell #StormExxonMobile #StormTotal - lets start naming these extreme weather events after the fossil fuel corporations creating them
- In 1962 (yes, 1962!!), Humble Oil, the precursor to Exxon, had this advert in Time Magazine boasting how its daily supply of carbon energy was enough to melt 7 million tonnes of glacier. #Exxonknew #climatebreakdown #fossilfools #divestment
- We now know: Austerity was a lie. There is a magic money tree. States & populations can act with speed, determination & at scale for the common good. Another world is possible. And maybe it is now easier to imagine the end of capitalism than the end of the world.
- “Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.” Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, 1965
- Please come along.... we need to massively outnumber the racists and fascists ....
- 'The workers united, will never be defeated' Me during my lunch break standing in solidarity with striking fellow public sector workers @nipsa @ucuatqub @NIC_ICTU @BDTUC @RCNNI_NorthernB @RcmNi @GMBNI @UNISONNI @unitetheunion @ucu bbc.co.uk/northernireland
- Come rain, come shine, come crappy deals, we’ll be here on two or four wheels @ucuatqub @ucu @UCU_Ulster #ucuRISING
