Staff at UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies @UCLSSEES fighting for a better HE and supporting Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression
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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
ALT An open letter from UCL SSEES colleagues to UCU General Secretary Jo Grady condeming Congress’s adoption of Motion 5 misrepresenting Russia’s war against Ukraine and denying Ukraine the means to self defence
ALT End of open letter and signatures
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‘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
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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.
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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. theguardian.com/world/2023/j…
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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
support.opendemocracy.net/od…
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🚨 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 👀
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Well done@WarwickUCU
Great universities think alike: Congress motion no. 5 has to fall.
Kudos to@ankahajkova and colleagues
#StandWithUkraine
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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
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Please read this list of Victoria Amelina's works translated into English. What a talent we have lost. Thank you @olgatokariuk for compiling this.
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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.
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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 xitter.cf/bengidley/status/16729…
@ucl_ucu, the the largest @ucu branch in the country, today carried a motion expressing solidarity with Ukraine under Russian attack and calling on @ucu and to work towards recalling motion no. 5 carried at UCU Congress. It also calls on @UCULondon to adopt it.
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This is particularly egregious behaviour when you have blocked somebody so they can’t see what you are doing to them.
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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
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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.
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.
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.
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@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/
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Thank you @SSEESstrikes ! I shrugged my shoulders when I first saw this Tweet but I find it increasingly shocking that my branch @UCL_UCU, which I have stated that I would like to re-join, is engaging in practices that seem to border on slander and victimisation ❤️🩹 – at Berlin, Germany
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 xitter.cf/bengidley/status/16729…
@ucl_ucu, the the largest @ucu branch in the country, today carried a motion expressing solidarity with Ukraine under Russian attack and calling on @ucu and to work towards recalling motion no. 5 carried at UCU Congress. It also calls on @UCULondon to adopt it.