This happened in Leeds earlier. One person was arrested for sitting on some steps holding a placard saying

I OPPOSE GENOCIDE
I SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION

Police searched his house and, I believe, he's still being held in custody.

@defendourjuries.bsky.social
@palaction.bsky.social

*This* was the spirit of Gleneagles – 20 years ago this weekend – embodied in the millions of people across the planet who believed another world was (is) possible. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Organisation scholars call this 'strategy' MIMETIC ISOMORPHISM. We write about it in Shaping for Mediocrity – it's a 'middling' strategy!

Now published! Universities Degraded, by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social & me, reveals the scale of job losses in UK universities, exposes employer practices & shares testimonies of those made redundant & their colleagues.

Warning: some of the content is distressing.

zenodo.org/records/1563...

#REF2029

How does it feel to be made redundant?
How does it feel when your colleagues go through this process?

This major new report, by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social & me, centres the experiences of people on the frontline of UK university job cuts – and exposes employers' behaviour.

Out next week.

Tomorrow, June 4, at 3.30pm, at Lancaster University (and online), Simon Lilley and I will be discussing our struggle against redundancies at the University of Leicester in 2021 – our struggle FOR the university.

More details here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/researc...

Here's the event blurb...

Next Wednesday afternoon, I'll be discussing Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universities – and its many lesson for today's university struggles – in central London.

I have resigned as honorary treasurer of UCU. I have spent the past 21 months trying to make UCU more transparent, its senior officers and officials more accountable, its practices more ethical and imaginative; I have tried to democratise its financial decision-making. [1/2]

Next Wednesday * 12.00–1.30pm * Online

* RESISTING MEDIOCRITY/REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY *

(Hosted by the Centre for Commons Organising Values Equalities and Resilience.)

essex-university.zoom.us/j/95569740080

This Monday in Falmouth, I and others will be discussing the book Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universities. We'll be exploringe the contours of the present crisis in the sector and asking how we can remake the university.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resisting-...

No growth on a dead planet!