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John Barry
@profjohnbarry.bsky.social
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Ideas merchant, activist-academic, worried parent and angry citizen, hypocrite on a burning planet trying to replace passive and dangerous tech-optimism about the future with active and collective hope.. Democratise. Decolonise. Decarbonise. Decommodify..
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The Planetary Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Solutions

Saturday 29th November

11am-3pm

Peter Froggatt Centre room 02/018

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Free workshop but registration needed: www.ticketsource.co.uk/qubseca/t-oe...

Any question please email j.barry@qub.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Climate Justice and the University: Reclaiming Higher Education for the Public Good as Polycrises Worsen

@jenniecstephens.bsky.social from @maynoothuniversity.ie speaking at weekly @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social politics seminar
November 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Crimes Against Animals & Nature: During Israel’s Genocide-Ecocide on Gaza

Dr. Rimona Afana
27th November
6 pm (GMT)
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Peter Froggatt Centre, room 02/017 & online

Free & all welcome
Join here:
us02web.zoom.us/j/8152577973...
Meeting ID:815 2577 9735, Passcode:46512
Advertisment for a talk by Dr. Rimona Afana on 'Crimes against animals and nature during Israel's Genocide-Ecocide in Gaza'
November 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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What is to be Done in Responding to the Planetary Crisis?: Theories and Practices of Transformation from Reform to Revolution

19th November - 2-5pm
Peter Froggatt Centre, 02/017
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Free but registration required: - www.ticketsource.co.uk/qubseca
October 31, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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October 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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@unison.org.uk has had to abandon its annual conference at The Waterfront Belfast due to political vetting by its management.

This is the graphic that has been vetted, it is UNISON policy. It reflects the position of the United Nations and the International Court of Justice
October 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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October 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Flyer for talk at Queen's University Belfast by Mark Garavan ' Who cares? how to heal a careless world?'
October 22, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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October 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Gaza Sanitation, Engineering and Education Symposium
Wednesday, 29 October, hosted at the Museum Building, Trinity College Dublin, and available online via a hybrid format.
October 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Daughters of Jerusalem Choir / Banat al Quds

Belfast Concert
7.00pm
30th October 2025
Whitla Hall, Belfast
Tickets here: linktr.ee/irishartists...
October 14, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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DUPers not only attacking the NI Climate Change Act, its now against surveys on it, including school children... Carla Lockhart MP in today's Newsletter claims the survey is 'manipulative'... I've pasted some of the survey questions below for people to make up their own minds
October 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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'Genocidal colonialism and the ongoing Nakba in Palestine'
Shatha Al-Azzeh
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Peter Froggatt Centre 02/013
Free and open to all
October 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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September 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Free and all welcome but registration required:
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September 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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September 22, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Solidarity gathering today in belfast in support of the Palestine Global Sumud Flotilla
September 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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August 28, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Support @mothersagainstg.bsky.social fundraiser for the people of Palestine
Buy & download new song 'A Mother’s Heart'

Stand in awe of all mná!

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#FreePalestine
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July 31, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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B'Tselem report 'Our Genocide'-details Israeli settler colonial genocide of the Palestinian people.

Highlights the apatheid character of Israeli regime, conflict didn't start on Oct 7th, & settler violence ongoing in the West Bank

www.btselem.org/publications...
Cover of B'Tselem report 'Our Genocide' about the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestian people in Gaza
July 30, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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A short article I've written for the journal Capitalism, Nature, Socialism Editor Highlights

"A Tale of Carbon and Economic Unicorns: Techno-Optimism and Dangerous Mythic Thinking"

Available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Image of a unicorn in oil
July 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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All welcome

Free and open to all, but registration required – www.ticketsource.co.uk/qubseca/t-ln...
July 29, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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After so many years seeing and hearing so few bees, today is a joy…. And a reminder that nature is resilient… and also always bats last
July 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Belfast Palestine solidarity protest brings city centre to a standstill for 3 hours this evening … ‘ceasefire now, let the aid in’
July 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Once again Richard Wright in FarmingLifeNI attacking ‘the green agenda’, dismissing scientific evidence of the benefits of a more plant not meat based diets as “green dogma coming from less professional think tanks”. Special pleading & ideology pretending to be serious journalism
July 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM