sarah foster
@saraha_foster
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Advocate of (very) late return to study (PhD Geog). ❤️ lies in Adult & Community Ed. Join a union. Stand Up To Racism. Walking is the way forward
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Proud to join in ‘Graduates for Gaza’ at graduation in Swansea - honouring the students in Gaza who are unable to graduate (or even study!) because their universities have been destroyed #gradsforgaza2024 #stopscholasticideingaza #stopepistemicide
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Special congratulations to Sarah Foster on graduating with her PhD - a brilliant thesis on ‘Practices of welcome with refugee and asylum seekers in rural Wales’ 👏 @saraha_foster
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O Gymru i Palestine Am Byth. Wales has a long standing history of standing with the oppressed. We gathered at the Blorenge in Abergavenny, Wales, to send this message. Sound on! Music: Koolulam Unified Choir- unified singing by Israeli's and Palestinians
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'Aren't Arabs terrified? Don't Arab women weep when their children are bombed?' Remembering Tony Benn on what would have been his 99th birthday.
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"Labour's opportunistic sanctimony is difficult to stomach. This is the definition of instrumentalisation. Racism is not a game. When a party exploits it for its own political advantage, it cheapens the accusation and deepens the cynicism."
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This goes far beyond a Tory donor’s racist comments about Diane Abbott, and Labour’s opportunistic response, says sociology professor Gary Younge
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The last safe place is being bombed. Please don’t look away. Please don’t stop talking about it, donating money or your time. Whatever you have capacity to give, give it. #RafahUnderAttack
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If you are an academic these people were our colleagues. The silence of universities in the face of such barbarity is a shame never to be washed away.
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I've been walking around in a daze, on the verge of tears. It feels like nothing we do makes a difference to these genocidal, arrogant, cowardly brutes. But I am going to here this evening. All we have is our voices at the moment. If you can come #StopTheGenocide
🚨Emergency Protest RAFAH UNDER ATTACK STOP THE GENOCIDE Today - Monday 12 February 5.30pm Opposite Downing St, London
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Congratulations to Harry Isles - and great speeches https://t.co/LJWH5WbmYe (@ 52 mins) @ChickESOL @RefugeeWelsh @AbergavennyToS
Well deserved recognition for Harry Isles, good friend of Abergavenny Town of Sanctuary, for his long time activism seeking justice and welcome for refugee and asylum seeking migrants in Wales 👏@CityofSanctuary @welshrefcouncil
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The ICJ case against Israel shows how western logic is wearing thin and its persuasive power waning in a multipolar world.
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Supporters of Palestine have long been told their position is fringe. But this case gives them legitimacy – and tests the limits of human rights, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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"One would have hoped that saving Palestinian children’s lives would be met with the same urgency to act and to provide protection granted to shipping lanes." - Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour at #UNSC
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This Monday--40 days after Refaat Alareer's death--don't just #ReadPalestine but #ReadPalestine in public. Read where people will hear you. Disrupt business as usual. Read for Refaat. #ReadAndResist #ShutItDownForPalestine #ReadForRefaat
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🚨 LAUNCHING NOW 🎓 Gaza's universities have been under assault since the beginning of this violence and their digital presence is now offline. 🔐 We want to collect and preserve digital university materials until such time that they can be safely returned to these institutions.
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Loved across the generations. Son just messaged me remembering his kids poetry, I remember reading Refugee Boy to him. Pic from when me and @AllsoppPhillip saw him 2019 with ‘Revolutionary Minds’ - brilliant gig. 🙏🏻 for everything you have given us all #BenjaminZephaniah
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Huge thanks to @angharadcloss @SVShubin for taking a chance on me returning to study at this ‘life stage’ 😊 & guidance throughout, to @vidkowiaksquire @Halfa1965 for the positive viva experience & to PGR pals @JamiAbramson @BenWalkling & others for the friendship & support
Delighted that Sarah Foster @saraha_foster has passed her PhD on ‘Practices of welcome with refugee and asylum seekers in rural Wales’. 🎉👏🥂Thks to @vidkowiaksquire and @Halfa1965 for examining. Llongyfarchiadau Dr Foster!👏👏 @swanseageog
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Email your MP to demand a ceasefire now - with this form it takes less than a minute. At our Palestine teach-in yday, our Palestinian speaker told my students not to lose hope, that our voices & actions are making a difference #ceasefirenow #freePalestine
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