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STUDENT MEALS ON CAMPUS
SSSN and SLURP have joined forxes to provide free food for students in Edinburgh every wednesday! All students in the city are welcome, especially those who bring their own tupperware and cutlery (as we have limited utensils)
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📢 PAY YOUR WORKERS 📢
This amazing video from the ECA graduations today show that students know what needs to be done to solve this dispute 💪
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‼️ RESIGN ‼️Footage of the moments Edinburgh SPS students handed over P45s to Colm Harmon yesterday. Truly inspired. 🧵1/
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The people who successfully shut down the terf screening at UoE today wrote to SSSN and asked us to publish a statement on their behalf. We’ll put up the full statement on our website for screen readers. Link to that in the link tree.
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Big up Alex Mohan Morzeria-Davis for their spectacular speech at LLC graduation today !! 🔥🔥
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Here is the video of UoE attempting to drown out student protest with...organ music....
truly they must be running out of ideas, which is interesting considering they havent yet tried just paying their workers fairly??
@sssn_edi
Edinburgh students at the graduation today chanted in support of the
@ucuedinburgh
strikes so well that the piano was played to tried and distract from the solidarity 👏
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Edinburgh students' message to staff: "until the moment you receive fair pay and working conditions, we will be standing by your side" 👏👏
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An excerpt from Jaime Prada's magnificent speech at SPS graduation this morning. Staff-student solidarity forever!❤️🔥
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CORRECTION: Edinburgh SPS students were actually handing over P45s to vice-principal of students, Colm Harmon. Even more incredible 🙌
🔥 HAND IT BACK !! 🔥 SPS students give back their 'apology' letters given in lieu of degrees
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Massive congratulations to all the LLC students who wore a sash, dodged the doff, held up signs of solidarity with staff, and tore up their fake degrees today!! Legends ✊
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SURPRISE WE'RE BACK!! Edinburgh University Students have once again reclaimed the Gordon Aikman Lecture theatre. We are holding the space to run a week of education for liberation.
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Don’t cross the picket line!
Here is a short guide on why the strikes are happening and how to support them. Check out the link in our bio for more detailed info on the strikes.
@ucuedinburgh
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Not only is the university complicit in Israeli colonisation and apartheid through their investments they also allow this kind of environment to exist on campus. Do Palestinian students have to accept this vile racism to exist on their own campus
@EdinburghUni
?
Blatantly racist and Islamophobic material being distributed at an approved stand outside
@EdinburghUni
Main Library today
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Let's hear it for ECA students!!! 💕
Some pics from the many amazing protests at graduation today:
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Thread of every time vice-principal Colm Harmon was heckled at SPS graduation today 🔥
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Here’s a a thread of all the graduation protests at Edinburgh Uni! :
Big up Alex Mohan Morzeria-Davis for their spectacular speech at LLC graduation today !! 🔥🔥
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🔥 HAND IT BACK !! 🔥 SPS students give back their 'apology' letters given in lieu of degrees
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Tonight we disrupted an Anti-Choice Event by the pro-life society at the University of Edinburgh along with half a dozen other student groups.
A university shouldn't be a place that allows hate groups like SPUC to spread misinformation.
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Amazing work from this courageous student at the Moray House graduations today! ✊
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Full House for the rally for education ✊🏽✊🏽
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It takes a lot of courage to disrupt the normal running of graduation to wear a sash, dodge the doff, or proudly hold up a sign alongside your fellow students. But it is a real act of bravery to be the only person in your degree cohort to stand up and do so.
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Announcement!! SSSN and friends are hard picketing Old College today in solidarity with the UCU strikes and to stand against the university's exploitation of students!
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Students joining the pickets, it's solidarity o'clock 😎✊🏽
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We've also got our tea and coffee team out there keeping the picket lines warm and snack filled 😋
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Our statement regarding our action in the Gordon Aikman lecture theatre along with Justice for Palestine and Youth in Resistance
More info to come!! Come see us on Monday 🔥
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Tomorrow is the first day of the national UCU strikes! Support
@ucuedinburgh
staff on the picket lines (happening all around campus) and join the moving student picket support at Edinburgh uni!
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‼️CALLING ALL STUDENTS‼️
Protest organised by graduating students on the 11th outside Potterow 💪 Bring your anger and your banners 🤬✊
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EVEN MORE displays of solidarity from students today 😍😍
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and saving the best til last: Colm met with chants of "give me my money back" and "pay your workers"
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!!BREAKING!!
Senior management has taken time out of their busy schedule of campaigning for Scottish students having to pay tuition fees, to pop us all an email about their gracious offer to return staff their wages if they simply call off all the effective parts of the MAB!🧵
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Interesting selection of pictures… seems to be some things in particular this account was keen not to include
It's been an amazing week of graduation ceremonies at McEwan Hall! Our Summer Graduations continue this weekend and all next week. Here's a big round of applause to all of our Summer Grads! 👏 🎉 Watch ceremony live streams ➡️
#EdinburghGrad
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✊🏽♥️🔥Unconditional solidarity to striking staff across the country, and to
@ucuedinburgh
in particular
✊🏽♥️🔥 we're here again b/c uni management seem intent on ruining everything good about higher education.
✊🏽♥️🔥But when students stand with staff we win a better future
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Student bloc for Palestine 💪🇵🇸
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Immigration officers are leaving now, chants of “Shame on you!”
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Thank you to everyone who was part of organising this occupation as well as everyone who came to events and stopped to chat with us over the week! It was a fantastic experience to have a space to create the education we students and staff at the university decide that we want.
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Are you a graduating student who will be left without a proper degree this year? Get organised!
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Supporting stiking staff today by decorating George Square! Management seems to think they can get away with pretending the strikes aren't happening, so we're here to help remind them ✊✊
#ucuRISING
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Ready for the university strikes next week? Here's everything you need to know (and useful links in the thread!) ⬇️
#FourFights
#UCU
#USSstrike
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After an incredible week spent in the reclaimed Gordon Aikman lecture theatre, we have cleaned and left the building yesterday in the afternoon. We are so, so thankful for everyone who has attended events or simply stopped to chat with us for a moment, (1/3)
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🚨BREAKING 🚨
Confirmed that the basis for pension cuts is none existent. There are simply no grounds for this attack on the material security of our wonderful staff.
What can we do for UCU?
1) Lobby our VC to revoke the cuts
2) Sign the emergency UCU petition
(links in QT)
🚨‼️ BREAKING: USS trustees have confirmed that the basis for cuts has disappeared, as assets hit £88bn.
We need you to urgently:
❌ Lobby your VC to ask UUK to revoke the cuts:
📝 Sign the emergency petition to the JNC chair:
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Staff working conditions = students learning conditions. That's why we students stand in full solidarity with those on strike ✊🏽
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This morning we occupied the historic McEwan hall where UoE was setting up a post graduate fair on the very first strike day.
We’ve just had the confirmation from head of security that the fair is now cancelled. Victory to the strikers!
#DontCrossAnyPicketLine
Uni management thinks business can go on as normal while their workers and students struggle under the cost of living crisis, decreasing pensions, overwork and discrimination. We don’t think that’s just. Do you?
#ucuRISING
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Wondering what a MAB is or how you can help? Here's some introductory information!
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Colm was called on to "resign" by many students
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today we delivered our demands to VC Peter Mathieson to denounce
@EdinburghUni
’s maximalist approach to the hostile environment.
✅ minimum compliance with the home office
✅no attendance monitoring on strike days
✅ no nhs surcharge and deportation of students & staff
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Senior management, from Peter Mathieson to David Argyle to Lucy Evans to Colm Harmon have brought nothing but shame and disrepute to the reputation of this university. 2/
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They've brought nothing but misery and pain for the staff and students who make up our beautiful Edinburgh University community.
It's time we chucked them out. /3
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The decision by USS to cut pensions is abhorrent class war. Further and escalated industrial action will have our full backing. Solidarity to all staff, we love you and we're so sorry that these demons are playing games with your futures. But they don't know they're up against ✊🏽
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🧐🤔
here’s the emails you get sent if you miss classes on a tier 4 visa versus if you are not....
We are the first institution to renew our status as a University of Sanctuary, reaffirming a commitment to creating a culture of inclusivity & awareness, for those seeking sanctuary, on campus and within the city. Learn more about what the status means ➡️
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❤️✊🏾Students supporting striking staff is what we love to see✊🏾 ❤️
UoEdi students, come thru and give some love and solidarity for the pickets (08:00-12:30 each morning) - its an amazing educational experience
@ucuedinburgh
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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Big love and solidarity to all staff out on the picket lines this morning. We appreciate you so much and we're with you all the way. Solidarity forever ♥️✊♥️
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Happy to see our UCU branch taking an unflinching stance against transphobia. Transphobia like all oppressive ideologies should not have access to a stage or a megaphone. We encourage everyone to insist on our rights, as a community, to decide what deserves a space on our campus.
Branch statement on EAFAF film screening and what you can do to support and show solidarity with staff and students
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Introducing staff testimonials! We've been posting a lot about the UCU's political fights but we realise that for some students, this can seem distant and unclear... so we invited tutors and lecturers to talk to us directly about their personal experiences working in academia.
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CONGRATULATIONS to everyone who voted! The motion passed 95% for Mathieson resigning!! 🎉🎉🎉
Unroll for our statement on the matter 🧵
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tea and coffee cart out again today ✊
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First day of pickets tomorrow! Join the picket lines to support academic and professional staff on strike!
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Say it louder for those in the back 📢✊🏽🔥
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Here's a short guide we've made about showing solidarity with striking staff! Come along to our event on Tuesday for more info!!
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Statement is now up on our website for people who use screen readers or prefer reading it there:
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Amazing to see everyone at the
@UCUScotland
rally at Holyrood! So many different workers from different industries showing up in solidarity. We will see an end to profit driven education and we will see an end to neoliberalism. Victory to the strikers!
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Join us at Bristo Square, outside McEwan Hall anytime from 9:30-13:30 on Saturday the 18th (this Saturday coming) to share the anger of the student body towards the decision-making and inaction of university management 🧵
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Week 9 is striking week! We will again show our support for
@EdinburghUcu
in this fight, until their demands are met. If you want to get involved, our DMs are open 🔥
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SO excited to share our first batch of events at the reclaimed Gordon aikman Lecture Theatre!!! More info about all the events throughout the week here:
Come by and say hi!
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'THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH MUST TAKE ACTION AGAINST ABLEISM AND TRANSPHOBIA NOW!'
Please read, sign and share this petition!
CW: Ableism and transphobia
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Today we disrupted and shut down the Tortoise ThinkIn event on climate change in Appleton Tower along with the
@edinburgh_GAF
,
@EdUniPandP
and
@PapuaEdinburgh
. Tortoise Media are sponsored by BP, one of the most exploitative and polluting fossil fuel companies.
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Police arresting Palestine activists at a peaceful protest at Edinburgh university - who call police on to campus to curve your students rights to protest
@uniofedinburgh
‼️Police attempting to arrest a pro pro Palestine activist at the protest right now come down to to bristo tooppose them ‼️
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We're super proud of our
@ucuedinburgh
staff, returning to the picket lines again today to demand fair working conditions, an end to structural inequalities and proper pay. Their working conditions are out learning conditions. Solidarity, love and rage ✊🏽❤️🔥
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Uni management thinks business can go on as normal while their workers and students struggle under the cost of living crisis, decreasing pensions, overwork and discrimination. We don’t think that’s just. Do you?
#ucuRISING
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For the second thread in our MAB series we're talking about harnessing the power of complaining 💪💪💪
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✊❤️You love to see it❤️✊
Solidarity abounds on the picket line
@EdinburghUni
. Staff and students standing together everyday.
Had a great time at the picket at the school of social and political sciences today ❤️ Absolutely horrible to hear the conditions tutors have to work under, solidarity to all the staff striking for job security and fair pay at Edi and elsewhere
#StudentStaffSolidarity
#UCUstrike
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So long as the university lets this kind of things happen on campus and refuses to take a stand for freedom of expression in the context of
#Palestine
protests, we will continue to call them out on their complicity in colonialism. Simple as 🤷♀️ (1/2)
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On the picket lines again today ✊
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“Working into later life is now a reality for most of us” hmm I wonder why that is university of Edinburgh, what’s happening to people’s pensions that means they can’t retire as early as they used to 🧐
Working into later life is now a reality for most of us. But a longer working life doesn’t necessarily mean a healthier one. A University of Edinburgh professor wants to improve job quality and options for workers over 50. Find out more ➡️
#EdinburghImpact
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‼️Picket map‼️ Join us and support staff on the picket lines next week! 💫
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This lecture theatre never looked so good 😍 solidarity forever ✊🏽
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How can you, as a student, support the strike? Here are some ideas ⬇️
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Solidarity with staff is reason enough to support the
#UCUstrike
, but here's a reminder on how the strikes also benefit us as students 🤠
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A couple of lovely picket dogs the tea and coffee cart met today 🥺
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We hope in the middle of employer and media backlash that workers don't forget many of us students are hugely grateful for them striking 💪
THANK YOU for fighting for just and sustainable education while VC's and politicians care about nothing but maxing out profits.
A huge thank you to the students who danced and sang with us, brought us coffee and tea, and collected for the fighting fund!!!
@sssn_edi
and all of you- YOU ARE FANTASTIC!!!
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On Thursday, as over a hundred community members spontaneously gathered to stop the Home Office from conducting an immigration raid, the university voluntarily offered its parking spaces to the police cars that came as backup.
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Should be blatantly obvious to all students that those with power in this sector do not give a fuck about any of us, education, or knowledge creation. Efficient profit extraction is what gets rewarded, obedience to capitalism gets you pay rises
Edinburgh’s Sir Peter Mathieson receives £43,000 pay rise
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Despite uni security’s ‘warnings’ we: didn’t die of hypothermia, didn’t cause ppl to die in a fire, didn’t stop a hypothetical ambulance from entering campus. We’re still here and showing the uni that if they think they can keep robbing their workers, they are sorely mistaken😌
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some students from our picket choir went to support the KB picket and sing some songs with them this morning😌
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🚨The university is supporting the spread of transphobic hate on campus 🚨
Join us to protest the launch of this transphobic book, 5pm outside Lecture Hall A, 40 George Square TODAY. Wear face coverings, and bring signs and flags if you have them! 🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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After smoothly reclaiming the Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre yesterday, we received this incredibly sweet message. Our cleaners are an essential part of our community, yet so often invisible. They deserve our full support, and we humbly stand in solidarity with them.
@sssn_edi
Hi, I’m responsible for the cleaning of the Gordon Aikman, please let me know if you need access to cleaning/sanitary products equipment etc I know the occupiers will treat the building responsibly as in previous years, and I’m keen to help where you may need it.
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We’re also out on the pickets with the tea and coffee cart! Solidarity to all striking workers!
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Hard picket at Old College this morning! Stand with the UCU ✊✊✊
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✊♥️🍰Food is the love language of solidarity on the picket line🍰♥️✊
Don't worry
@ucuedinburgh
, we'll keep on coming through with the biscuits and tea because students stand in full solidarity with striking staff (did you hear that
@EdinburghUni
?)
#UCUstrikes
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
Day 2 on the
@ucu
pickets
@SchoolofPPLS
protesting against the unnecessary cuts to university staff pensions
@EdinburghUni
and across the UK. & thanks AS ALWAYS to the wonderful students
@sssn_edi
for their support (& custard creams)
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
@ucuedinburgh
@UCUScotland
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Student rent has risen 34% in three years and has risen faster in Scotland than any other part of the UK. Come join us,
@NUSScotland
and
@EdUniStudents
this Wednesday for the
#FixStudentHousing
Rally, 12:30-2PM outside parliament.
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is that why you enforce hostile environment policies on campus for students and staff??? & have a massive race pay gap?!
We stand together with our Black students, staff and Black communities worldwide and will continue to support actions to end discrimination in all forms, including in our own institution.
#BlackOutTuesday
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Students, this is where your ever-increasing, extortionate fees are going.
🚨 The nine highest paid Vice Chancellors all run universities which are USS members.
Between them they take home £4.45 MILLION (!) every year.
While raking in millions, they are collectively refusing to give staff fair pensions and decent pay.
It's an absolute disgrace.
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Yesterday, hundreds of students said NO to apathy in the face of genocide ✊🇵🇸
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✊🥳End of Picket Gathering🥳✊
At 12:45 2morrow we &
@ucuedinburgh
strikers will march from Old College to the Business School. Join us at Old College, or meet us on the business school steps at 1PM to celebrate our collective strength and students-staff solidarity
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