the Prairieland defendants (who did a noise demo outside of an ICE facility) are getting fifty year sentences right now. absolutely unreal. far longer than any January 6 convictions
Amna Kaleem
@amnakaleem.bsky.social
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Univ of Sheffield Politics. Talk to me about counter-terrorism and communities. She/Her. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics/people/academic-staff/amna-kaleem
that ideology is opposing state violence. half a century in prison for daring to protest racist state violence. that’s the message.
DFW Support Committee@dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · last mo.Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”
What better way to learn about migration politics than a pub quiz. My brilliant colleague @patnabuco.bsky.social and the @migrationmatters.bsky.social festival hosted a great pub quiz that both entertained and educated us.
(Trigger warning: any sociologists among us may wish to avert their eyes to avoid spontaneous combustion resulting from exposure to the worst theory of social action I have seen in decades) For the rest of you, beware if you are “unhappy” or “looking for justice” you may be on the road to terrorism
Thanks to everyone for turning up at the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @ipsa.org roundtable on #AcademicFreedom earlier today in #Oxford with @mayatudor.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social & others. You were a fantastic audience who left us with lots of questions to think about. #PSA26
The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.
The removal of references to ancient Palestine in the BM tells us more about the state of what was once a best-loved cultural institution than our past. Bending reality to please political patrons is a subjugation of culture to those in power. It's a shameful act. www.change.org/p/erasing-a-...
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Erasing a Word Erases a People: Reinstate Palestine in the British Museum
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I just completed this consultation. I’m disgusted at the extreme and punitive changes being proposed and I am also incensed at the grossly punitive and divisive way the consultation itself is structured /-/ questions focus either on how much should we further punish migrants,
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
We are involved in a mighty struggle to save our university from the corruption of corporate power. Please, help us with a donation, however small. @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
Donate to Support University of Sheffield striking staff!, organized by Mark Pendleton
I'm the branch treasurer for the University of Sheffield University and… Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!
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Staff ,supporters and students gathered outside Firth Court today in solidarity with colleagues locked out and facing withheld pay after lawful strike action at @sheffielducu Punishment is not negotiation. ✊
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
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Great to see that Mark Pendleton is running for UCU VP (Higher Education). Worked with him on the RHS LGBT+ report and he was consistently, insistently and cheerfully simply ace. Learn more from ucucommons.org/about-mark/ . And regardless, don't ignore your ballot.
About Mark
About Mark Mark 4 VP - About Mark - Election Statement - Endorsements Support Mark - Contact Mark - Who else should I vote for? What I believe in I have a 25 year history of ac...
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📣Call for abstracts 📣 If you do Critical Security/Terrorism Studies, join our #EISAPEC26 section. We welcome papers, panels, or roundtables. Feel free to get in touch with either myself or @marinegueguin.bsky.social if you have any queries. Deadline is 19 Feb. eisa-net.org/abstract-sub...
European International Studies Association (EISA)@europeanisa.bsky.social · 6mo ago⏰ Remember to submit your abstracts for #EISAPEC26 by 19 February! ⬇️ Details and submission link below...
📣Call for abstracts 📣 If you do Critical Security/Terrorism Studies, join our #EISAPEC26 section. We welcome papers, panels, or roundtables. Feel free to get in touch with either myself or @marinegueguin.bsky.social if you have any queries. Deadline is 19 Feb. eisa-net.org/abstract-sub...
European International Studies Association (EISA)@europeanisa.bsky.social · 6mo ago⏰ Remember to submit your abstracts for #EISAPEC26 by 19 February! ⬇️ Details and submission link below...
Please, keep signing and sharing. We should not be forced to choose between our principles and food for our families. @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
No lockout for University of Sheffield staff
UCU members have been standing up against the continual cutting and restructuring of the last several years which has significantly damaged the University’s international standing, the quality of educ...
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So the Home Office commissioned a counter-extremism video game which led to Prevent referrals for school pupils, cool cool cool!
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6mo agoMeet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star
Monday and the start of a second week of being prevented from working by my employer, the University of Sheffield. Management has decided that massive damage to staff morale, student experience and the university’s reputation is worth it in a futile attempt to break the union. Shame on them.
Mark Pendleton@markpendleton.bsky.social · 7mo agoWell that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
Myself & many colleagues are facing this at Sheffield Uni - double punishment for strike action. In the midst of this, yesterday many departments got an email announcing imminent structural reviews (ie redundancies). @sheffielducu.bsky.social
University and College Union (UCU)@ucu.org.uk · 7mo agoThe University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff. Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for. This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
My Sheffield colleagues are locked out for not mitigating strike action and doing the teaching they haven’t been paid for, please donate to @sheffielducu.bsky.social if you can spare a few quid: www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
Donate to Support University of Sheffield striking staff!, organized by Mark Pendleton
I'm the branch treasurer for the University of Sheffield University and… Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!
gofundme.com
Mark Pendleton@markpendleton.bsky.social · 7mo agoWell that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why | Amu Gib
Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel, says activist Amu Gib
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As things wind down for the holidays, @sheffielducu.bsky.social members are facing a threat of 100% pay deductions from January, thanks to our Scrooge-like management. We’ve now set up a fundraiser to bolster our local solidarity fund. If you can spare some change, please do! gofund.me/ac2b3adcb
Donate to Support University of Sheffield striking staff!, organized by Mark Pendleton
I'm the branch treasurer for the University of Sheffield University and… Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!
gofund.me
actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
Call on MP and Secretary of Justice David Lammy to intervene and protect the hunger strikers
Eight prisoners currently held on remand for alleged actions in solidarity with Palestine have been on a hunger strike which began on 2nd November. Their names are Amu Gib, Qesser Zuhrah, Heba Muraisi...
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Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.
Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal
Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests
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🎉Yesterday @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social held their annual conference! 👏Many thanks to the amazing convenors; @amnakaleem.bsky.social , Alice Finden and @rmkhan.bsky.social for all of their hard work! ⭐️The #virtual conference was extremely successful in its critical engagement of terrorism studies.
We started off our annual conference this morning saying a fond farewell and thank you to our wonderful outgoing convenor @amnakaleem.bsky.social and welcoming two new convenors @marinegueguin.bsky.social and @mcneilwillson.bsky.social who will be joining Rabea and Alice @mybisa.bsky.social
Last chance to register for the annual @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social 'Contemporary Issues in Critical Terrorism Studies' 🌎 9 September on Zoom 💻 Register now 👉 buff.ly/SyRkSaU @aliceellafinden.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social
Call for papers: Critical Studies on Terrorism annual virtual conference - Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) | BISA
- Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) Working Group
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Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse
David Wearing@davidwearing.bsky.social · 11mo agoAnd if you're wondering whether someone getting killed is what it will take for the media and political class to come to their senses, I would just remind you that Jo Cox was murdered in a similar moment of demagoguery and hysteria 9 years ago, and if anything things have got far worse since then.
Enjoyed presenting work in progress and meeting new colleagues at #EISAPEC2025. Particular shout out to @amnakaleem.bsky.social for organizing an excellent set of sessions on critical terrorism studies
Dr Amal Abu-Bakare@nawalabu72.bsky.social · 11mo agoExcited to listen to the role of Critical/Orthodox Terrorism Studies in the permissibility of violence this morning with @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social @nicolapratt.bsky.social Madeline-sophie abbas and @amnakaleem.bsky.social #eisapec2025
Register now for the annual @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social conference! 🎉 'Contemporary Issues in Critical Terrorism Studies' - "The world is on fire!" 🌎 Taking place 9 September on zoom 💻 Find out more here 👉 buff.ly/wRyt0Bt @aliceellafinden.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social
Call for papers: Critical Studies on Terrorism annual virtual conference - Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) | BISA
- Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) Working Group
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