I just came back from the basque country, where the 54th (my 1st!) european group conference was held this year - I feel immensely lucky to have gotten to spend time with and learn from new and old abolitionist comrades who also believe that a different world (and a different academia) is possible!

The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control@europeangroup.bsky.social · last mo.

Roundtable on alternatives to prison and policing, followed by an abolitionist book fair, held with collectives from across the Spanish state at Sumendi Espazioa. Incredible conversations, encounters and organising around antipunitivist alternatives.

"Oxford Student Action for Refugees (...) has been part of the coalition campaigning to shut Campsfield immigration detention centre (...). A recent investigation (...) revealed [Oxford U]niversity’s links with Mitie, the contractor that won a £170m government contract to run the Campsfield centre."

Detention Forum@detentionforum.bsky.social · 3mo ago

UK universities are bankrolling the border industry. 13 universities have committed to divestment, but the vast majority remain complicit in growing cruelty towards migrants. Delaying divestment will only deepen the many crises facing British higher education www.opendemocracy.net/uk-universit...

🧵Take action: Stop the expansion of Campsfield! 🪧🚨 1. The Home Office is pushing to expand Campsfield IRC, from 160 to 400 bed spaces. This is being done through the Crown Development Route, a planning system that delegates the decision to the Planning Inspectorate, bypassing the local authority.