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Nadine Zubair
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Our Norwich North MP, Alice Macdonald, made a strong case for H.E. at the parliamentary debate today. She laid out a number of concerns, including the need for greater transparency, accountability and staff voice which we in
@uea-ucu.bsky.social are fighting for ✊
"I also want to make a point about the importance of transparency and accountability for those who lead UK higher education institutions. I am talking broadly, not specifically about UEA. From listening to people at UCU, it sometimes feels that staff are not necessarily as fully involved as they should be in some of the decision-making processes. We need robust systems of accountability."
April 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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"We stop time to make time."

Zara Denin (2024) on the importance of assembly and the appropriation of time...vital words ahead of our day of action at UEA next week. #StopTheCuts

Link below in the thread by @markrubin.bsky.social
Screenshot of article to highlight the following text: "Organising as workers, and protesting with students, is always something other than failing: it is refusing, resisting, making. In industrial action, on the way to industrial action, before and after, we assemble. Assembly is vital. As Ver´onica Gago writes, ‘it is in the assembly where the political time is produced to think also about our uses of time [...]. This appropriation of time is a way of anticipating, a way of stopping to think, stopping in order to imagine’.14 Not expecting to win everything you need is not the same as failing. We ‘refuse to beg for the right to be exploited’. I would go so far as to say, industrial action in the context of anti-trade union laws can’t fail. In assembling, we win something. This doesn’t always feel like winning - it might feel like exhaustion, frustration, tedium, ambivalence, an existential crisis. But in coming together, in committing to action, in solidarity fund, solidarity song, and the in the questioning and strategising of movement, we protest and make worlds we’re told we can’t have. We stop time to make time.
March 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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UEA UCU @uea-ucu.bsky.social members if you haven't already done so, please mail in your ballot NOW!!!
Yes ✅
Yes ✅

Get them in by Fri 31/1 and let the branch know you've voted!
Ballot being dropped in a red postbox
January 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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You have been warned.
Screenshot of the Merriam-Webster gif with the word "Rampage" in black letters on white background
January 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Still floating on words after this brilliant event organised by the British Archive of Contemporary Writing.
I had forgotten how much I enjoy listening to poetry!
Cover of poetry pamphlet titled "Uncollected:Poets"
November 22, 2023 at 9:48 PM
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Citizen's rally in Norwich on Sunday 29/10/23 at noon outside City Hall.

Stand in solidarity with Palestinians and all those people whose humanity and rights are being denied.

Ceasefire Now!
Poster for the event
October 27, 2023 at 6:45 PM
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If you're in Norwich today, this solidarity rally for Palestine is at noon outside City Hall.
Free Palestine! Citizen's Rally, outside City Hall, Norwich. 12pm Sunday 22nd October 2023. Assembly to protest the ongoing crimes against humanity and demand the end of imperialism, apartheid and facism. For the liberation of the people of Palestine and all indigenous and oppressed peoples worldwide Palestinian,Arab and POC voices will be centred and protected. Bring a mask to keep yourself and others safe
October 22, 2023 at 10:26 AM
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Really excited about this photography exhibition opening at Norwich Castle this week curated by Nick Warr and Simon Dell from UEA.

Norwich Works: The Industrial Photography of Walter and Rita Nurnberg 

www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/norwich-cast...
Black and white photograph by Walter and Rita Nurnberg showing hands moving levers. Text below gives detail of the exhibition at Norwich Castle Museum from Oct 21 2023 to April 14 2024.
October 19, 2023 at 9:40 AM
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Quotation:"In order for me to write poetry that is not political I must listen to the the birds, and in order to listen to the birds, the war planes must be silent" - Marwan Makhoul (Palestinian)
October 18, 2023 at 10:42 AM
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Buzzing from the powerful and absolutely brilliant #Ailey2 performance at #Norwich Theatre today! We even managed to get a photo with some of the amazing dancers.
Yes, I am holding a McDonald's (hot) apple pie as if it were a bouquet.
A group of 6 smiling people, including 4 dancers from Ailey 2.
October 7, 2023 at 10:01 PM
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Reskeet with something you own that most people don't.

This is my little rubber Saddam Hussein toy that my cousin brought me from Kharkiv in 1990-something.
August 27, 2023 at 12:01 PM
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@typejunky.bsky.social is there any way to clean up this 'measurer'? It's from the 1950's (i think) and has been in the family since then! The marks are rust, and I don't know how to clean it without removing the measure markings. Any ideas please?
A metal measuring cup with rusty base and with text "Luchs. Messbecher sad ideale Küchenmass" Rusty interior of metal measuring cup with various markings in German for different ingredients.
August 24, 2023 at 1:46 PM
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Seeking help in getting the text on this fan translated from Japanese to English. It was painted by the artist at a fair in Islamabad for my mother.

Thank you!
Paper fan with Japanese painting and calligraphy
August 21, 2023 at 4:16 PM