While we’re thinking about universities

Today is #UyghurDoppaDay !

Crowd gathering at the #Usyd camp for a snap rally against the attack on #Rafah

Whitbread, who own Premier Inn, announced the loss of 1,500 jobs despite profit increase of 26%! Workers are fighting back with @Unitetheunion Sign the petition against Whitbread Careers for picking profits over people.

Unite Hospitality megaphone.org.uk/petitions/whit… via @megaphoneuk

People in Gaza are being killed while the UK continues to sell arms to Israel. The UK could even be complicit in war crimes. I’ve signed this letter asking the UK to stop selling arms to Israel. Please sign too. oxfam.org.uk/get-involved/c…

And her job title is “Overseas user operations” ….

News release ➡️

'UHRP Welcomes UN Letter on Arbitrary Detention Cases in 🇹🇭 Thailand, Urges Immediate Resettlement'

UHRP is calling on the Thai gov't to urgently resettle Uyghurs arbitrarily detained for over a decade, following a joint UN 📩 letter.
uhrp.org/statement/uhrp…

Crazy what's happening on campus

#BREAKING from 🇨🇿

The Czech Senate adopts a resolution to:

1) Support the EU ban on imports of goods produced by #Uyghur forced labour;

2) Urge the UN Human Rights Commissioner @Volker_Turk to continue to investigate human rights abuses against the Uyghur people.…

This Saturday, May 4th, during the World Embassy Day events, Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Hong Kongers will come together outside the Chinese Embassy in DC to expose the realities of life under the CCP regime. We look forward to the support of our allies!

Chinese authorities have implemented a policy of “concentrating land in the hands of agricultural experts” since the 2000s. As a result, the lands passed from the #Uyghurs , the native people of the region, to Han immigrants

bitterwinter.org/uyghurs-do-not…

Good-sized rally in support of the #USyd #Gaza protest camp kicking off now. No sign of Zionist provocateurs so far.

Adding the former Akto County Pre-Trial Detention Center (阿克陶县看守所) to our list of documented facilities: shahit.biz/eng/#facilitie…

This is a mid-size center in central Akto. (1/4)

Just what I’ve said. Treat the students with the same respect you’d give to a request from a rich donor.

The first Chinese scientist to publish a genomic sequence of the Covid-19 virus, in defiance of government orders, has been staging a sit-in protest after claiming he was locked out of his laboratory. theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Very lucky to have Eric T. Schluessel 許臨君 visit East Asian Studies | The University of Sheffield to share his work with our Politics Research Cluster on non-Western imperialism and the impact of the Confucian 'civilising project' in Central Asian Muslim communities. #China #Uyghurs #Islam

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