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Today the jury trail begins of Dr Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of @XRebellionUK. There is mounting concern that, following intense lobbying by fossil fuel industry, the right to trial by jury is under threat for those exposing it lies. #DefendOurJuries bit.ly/45TRwiK

Update re my trial extinctionrebellion.uk/2023/07/21/tri…

Kofi Mawuli Klu Speaking outside the Tresurey @XRLondon @BeingAffinity

Day 1 of The Big One ~ Unite to Survive: Check out this day’s livestream at: xrb.link/NF5pO2h #UniteToSurvive #ExtinctionRebellion #TheBigOne #ThisIsTheWork #ClimateJusticeIsRacialJustice Jerry Kobina Amokwandoh from @BeingAffinity eloquently connecting class and race

Statement from Dr Gail Bradbrook, Co Founder of Extinction Rebellion. “The right wing press reveal their determined desire to halt action on the climate and ecological emergency with their ongoing coordinated and vicious attacks on environmental defenders.

Stand with Indigenous #Ovaherero Freedomfighter #FlorenceHandura for her reparatory justice fight for indigenous Ovaherero & #Nama in and outside of Namibia. Support the campaign against the #genocide of the Ovaherero/Nama by German & other European states facebook.com/profile.php?id…

*ROOM CONFIRMED- B104* 👉TODAY👈 Join us! At 6:00pm in room B104 (Brunai Gallery), where we will be discussing PRALER's aims and roles in addition to the PRALER report from launch week!

👉 Sign the declaration: form.jotform.com/222823399038058

Just posted a photo instagram.com/p/Cjnk-tADi2z/…

🛎 ALL PEOPLES TO POWER Programme for Friday 14th of October We continue today taking back education for our collective liberation! 🔥

✊PLANET REPAIRS ACTION LEARNING EDUCATION REVOLUTION ✊ ❤️‍🔥Glocal Week of Liberating Education 📣 All peoples to power! We are taking back real emancipatory education around 12th of October, Indigenous Resistance Day 👉 Check our tweet ~10 pm tonight for today’s summary

During the second week of Black History Month and 1 day before Indigenous Resistance Day, the School of African and Oriental Studies, SOAS, in London, United Kingdom has now threatened to evict the Walter Rodney Freedom Squares hosting the Glocal Week for Liberating Education.

Threatening the eviction of a Student Union-led week of teach outs furthering the Decolonising SOAS Vision is a testament to SOAS hypocrisy. As an institution, 

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SOAS is only interested in paying lip-service to decolonisation as a concept,

More worryingly, this eviction violently seeks to invisibilise Indigenous communities and their knowledges. The week is coordinated between SOAS students and the Majority World Internationalist Solidarity Coordinating Council of Communities of Resistance,

instead of allowing the student body to engage in its practice. This eviction is an erasure and silencing of students seeking to implement the Decolonising SOAS Vision alongside Indigenous,

 

local and grassroots communities across the Global South.

To open the week, in a declaration written by the communities and students,

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the students declared: “We cannot have education that is training desk-killers and preparing us for carrying out acts of genocide and ecocide; it should be that we are tested on critical reasoning

—Sign the declaration: form.jotform.com/222823399038058

The week is part of the Student Union’s events for Black History Month, and is a student-led initiative responding to the Decolonising SOAS Vision agreed by the academic board in 2017, specifically on the point of SOAS publicly declaring a commitment to:

launching the Planet Repairs Action Learning Educational Revolution. Various Indigenous, grassroots and local community leaders implementing planet repairs and furthering self-determination across the Global South are scheduled to give lectures and seminars hybridly.

📣 BREAKING NEWS: SOAS threatens to evict student week-long event of Liberating Education during Black History Month and 1 day before Indigenous Resistance Day 
Spread the word 🧵👇 @bellribeiroaddy @soas @ucusoas @soassu @cas_soas