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2 months

Breaking news Students have just occupied the main Lanyon Building at @QUBelfast in solidarity with the Palestinian people QUB Palestine Assembly demands are below

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'Small boats' saving English people... let that sink in

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1 year

A story of Greek people being so kind and hospitable to British tourists, gathering small boats to take people in danger to places of safety. That’s the spirit. We never know when we might need the help of others:

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So immensely proud as her supervisor to announce @SophieLong01 passed her PhD viva with flying colours...meet Dr Long! Well done ! @HAPPatQUB @QUBelfast and thanks @jim_mcauley and Margaret O’Callaghan for excellent examining

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In 1962 (yes, 1962!!), Humble Oil, the precursor to Exxon, had this advert in Time Magazine boasting how its daily supply of carbon energy was enough to melt 7 million tonnes of glacier. #Exxonknew #climatebreakdown #fossilfools #divestment

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4 years

We now know: Austerity was a lie. There is a magic money tree. States & populations can act with speed, determination & at scale for the common good. Another world is possible. And maybe it is now easier to imagine the end of capitalism than the end of the world.

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“Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.” Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, 1965

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1 year

Here we go again …. @ucuatqub @ucu @UCU_Ulster #FrozenbutSolid #ucuRISING

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3 years

Text I’ve just sent into @BBCgmu - wonder if it’ll be read out?

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'The workers united, will never be defeated' Me during my lunch break standing in solidarity with striking fellow public sector workers @nipsa @ucuatqub @NIC_ICTU @BDTUC @RCNNI_NorthernB @RcmNi @GMBNI @UNISONNI @unitetheunion @ucu

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Come rain, come shine, come crappy deals, we’ll be here on two or four wheels @ucuatqub @ucu @UCU_Ulster #ucuRISING

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2 years

I am exhausted from 10 days of strike action over 3 weeks...I am angry about the erosion of my pay and conditions over 3 decades...& I will not be 'returning to normal' tomorrow when I'm back at work...all goodwill is gone... management are out to harm me so they are my enemy

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6 months

Nollaig shona daoibh go leir… my daughters just got me the best Christmas present ever… 2024 is set to be a year of protest ….

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3 years

Text from me that @BBCevex didn’t read out in relation to a duty on broadcasters to place the heatwave in its #climatebreakdown context .. we need to get beyond this ‘nice weather’ narrative … UK & Ireland have issued their first ever heat weather warnings

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2 years

#Day10 of @ucu strike here at @QUBelfast … we’re frozen but solid on this our last day of this round of industrial action … I’ve never seen colleagues so angry .. all goodwill gone & we won’t be going back to normal when we return to work

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3 years

To all @QUBelfast students....we know its been a hard 2 years, and we've only taken this decision as we feel we have no other option...please support us as together staff and students 'we are the university' & we're trying to fix a broken system

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4 years

This... @ucu @ucuatqub @UCU_Ulster @ou_Ireland_ucu

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1 year

My employer @QUBelfast with whom I & other @ucuatqub @ucu members are in industrial dispute over our pay being reduced by 25% since 2010, unmanageable workloads, precarious contracts & a gender pay gap, seeking me and others to do unpaid extra work? #JoinaUnion 'Read the room'

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Is it just me or is there a lot more media coverage of the 4 very rich people lost while looking at the Titanic than the hundreds of refugees still missing off the coast of Greece?

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11 months

Proud supervisor moment. Congratulations to @calum_mcgeown for successfully defending his PhD thesis, 'Revolutionary Green Republicanism: Anti-Capitalist Politics for the Planetary Crisis'...many thanks to Examiners Derek Wall @Anothergreen , @SusanMcManus10 & Chair, @AshMc8914

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Aits us nai- @ucuatqub picket getting set up for #Day3 of @ucu #ucuRISING … would rather be preparing for teaching but thanks to @UniversitiesUK and @QUBelfast refusing to offer anything reasonable on pay, pensions & workloads, here we go again #uppaworkers #EnoughIsEnough

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Here we go again #StrikeDay2 .. 2nd day of 18 days of strike action at @QUBelfast . Looking forward to seeing @QUBVChancellor and/or senior management meet us on the picket line later @ucuatqub @ucu #frozenbutsolid

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Just back from May Day parade in Belfast … as always marching with my union @ucuatqub @ucu … and we had a visual from the main speaker, Mick Lynch @RMTunion #UnionStrong #UppaWorkers

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Rather poorly researched critique of #degrowth by @davidmcw in @IrishTimes 1/ it’s not viewed as a ‘panacea’2/ focus is keeping macroeconomy within safe&just limits-not shrinking all sectors 3/no empirical evidence of absolute decoupling growth from GHG emissions or resource use

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3 years

Why is equality experienced as a loss in Northern Ireland? Asking for many friends...

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While welcome to see @bbcradioulster ‘s Lynette Fay discuss climate breakdown with George Marshall , there were issues omitted … here’s a text I sent in that was not read out

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The ‘Tale of 2 Queens’ - on the same day, the vastly different experiences of higher education at @QUBelfast - those in senior management contrasted with those workers on precarious contracts like my colleague @DrAmandaSlevin

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So in today’s @News_Letter Adam Kula describes Graham Gudgin as a ‘leading academic’ while Colin Harvey is just an ‘academic’ ... guess which one is advocating a border poll?

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4 years

So... let’s #BuildBackBetter was the main take home message from tonight’s @bbctheview ... the pandemic has cancelled the future... but that’s ok as it was an unsustainable and unjust one anyhow ... #greenrecovery @irishcongress @HAPPatQUB @PCANcities @BelfastClimate

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#Day3 of strike action by @ucuatqub and by @ucu members across all UK universities today.. perhaps today will be the day @QUBelfast Vice Chancellor or senior management come talk to us #UCURising

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6 months

About to head off with @Domsball to cycle around to some picket lines to show some @ucuatqub solidarity with striking workers .., @unitetheunion @unisontheunion @nipsa @GMB_union @NASUWT Uppa Workers!!

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3 years

#NetZero explained ... #COP26

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'Lough Neagh ecocide indicts misgovernance' The ecological disaster in Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland, demonstrates what happens when the economic growth of agriculture is prioritised over environmental protection Piece from me in @RICSnews

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2 years

As we prepare for 3 more days of strike action next week, days after @UniversitiesUK & @QUBVChancellor stole our deferred wages i.e pensions #USS , I call upon all @ucuatqub @ucu members to join us on the picket line. Or if you cannot use social media to show your support

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2 years

The contempt senior management @QUBelfast has for staff. A few days after they agreed to steal our wages (35% cut to pensions) an email about 'Wellbeing week' (taking place during @ucu strike action next week). To compensate wage theft we are offered 'social walks & bubble tea'

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5 months

Adam Kula (usually Gaelicised as Adhamh Kula) writing in today’s @News_Letter about @KNEECAPCEOL Perhaps unsurprising to see such disrespect towards fully accepting the Irish names of the group members. Would the same be done to a group from Iran, Indonesia or India?

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Closing remarks from Mick Lynch's keynote address to Belfast May Day Rally "The task in front of us is to build a better world for all of us. Let’s build our union, build our movement. Let’s change this society for our people & create a better world for all. Solidarity"

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4 years

Many congratulations to @HAPPatQUB Politics student Emma Shaw who has won a George Moore Scholarship of €40,000 to study for an MA in Education policy and planning at @UTAustin starting Aug 2020. And as a bonus her daughter is going as well! Well done Emma! @QUBelfast

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And so it begins... @duponline spinning against the #ClimateChange bill in today’s @News_Letter ...misrepresenting the cross party support it enjoys by deliberately misdescribing it as a @GreenPartyNI Bill & stoking up fears amongst farmers. Well, could we expect anything else ?

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8 months

Thousands out today in Belfast for the March for Peace and Justice in Palestine 🇵🇸 @ipsc48 #ceasefirenow

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Climate March in Belfast - great turnout, passion and lots of noise . Lots of support for climate action now & strong NI Climate Bill. “Cop on, don’t cop out. Pass a proper Climate Act”

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2 years

Some thoughts from picket line chats with @ucuatqub & @UCU_Ulster folk at @QUBelfast & @UlsterUni - I am more determined to escalate @ucu industrial action. This strike is about how @UniversitiesUK are stealing our pensions & forcing real pay decline, but much more than that

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8 months

The inspirational @IrishRainforest speaking at the #RostrevorLiteraryFestival earlier today… in my view his call for #rewilding across Ireland is a practical call to action for #decolonisation and effective local responses here on this island to the planetary crisis

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4 years

Its working class people that are the forefront of this crisis - bearing risks through their jobs or of being made unemployed. We now know who are 'key workers'-nurses, doctors, bin collectors, food producers..not currency speculators, landlords...or even university professors.

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4 years

For all my unionist chums....

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3 years

Another text not read out on @BBCgmu this morning … please stop referring to Northern Ireland as a ‘plc’… it is NOT a business and economic outcomes are one not the only one, or most important lens and language to use to talk about a society, people and communities

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2 years

Highlight of my week so far! Yes! Yes! Yes! If we strike we may lose, but if we don’t strike we will definitely lose. #voteYes #ucuRISING #EnoughIsEnough @ucu @ucuatqub @UCU_Ulster

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6 months

The planet is on fire, so why is higher education behaving as if it is business as usual?: Are students being prepared for a more climate-destabilised & ecologically-degraded world? Article in today's @IrishTimes - Sinead Sheehan, @calum_mcgeown & myself

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3 years

#COP26 … fossil fuels fought the people and planet … and #fossilfools won … let’s change that in round two… #systemchangenotclimatechange

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3 years

This is what we’re facing in relation to a dysfunctional media on the #ClimateCrisis … the world is burning but let’s focus on billionaire follies … time to grow the fuck up, face and report reality not fantasy

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5 years

Early morning picket here at @QUBelfast @ucuatqub #UCUStrikesBack @ucu - #wearetheuniversity

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4 years

There is no scenario I see that does not involve massive non-violent direct action, a general strike, workers occupying factories & offices to combat the planetary emergency... who agrees or disagrees?

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#Day4 of @ucu strike action by @ucuatqub … will today bring either good news from negotiations or @QUBelfast senior management coming down to the picket lines to talk with us? #ucuRISING

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6 months

The dimming of the last day of 2023 on Rathlin island

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One more time and not the last I reckon…. @ucuatqub @ucu #ucuRising #UCUstrike @UCU_Ulster #wearetheuniversity

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2 years

Text I've just sent into @bbcradioulster Good Morning Ulster programme calling them out for not linking the flooding in Derry, Strabane and Donegal to the climate crisis - global heating means more moisture in the air, and more flooding ....

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1 year

‘Aits us nai’- @ucuatqub main picket set up ready for 18 days of strike action @ucu …

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5 years

And so it begins #wearetheuniversity @ucuatqub #UCUstrike @ucu staff from @HAPPatQUB taking strike action

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4 years

Amazing! Cambridge University divests from ALL fossil fuels!: come on @QUBelfast !! @greenatqueens @HAPPatQUB @BelfastClimate @ycanibelfast @fffnireland

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// CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY TO FULLY DIVEST FROM ALL DIRECT AND INDIRECT INVESTMENTS IN FOSSIL FUELS \\ Today @Cambridge_Uni has committed to fully divest from all direct and indirect investments in fossil fuel companies by 2030!

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I'll be on @BBCevex talking about the #Tribeca planning proposal with @belfastcc , & how we should pause & rethink it in light of a green and inclusive post-pandemic poverty plan for the city & #buildingbackbetter , in light of @BelfastClimate report on net zero emissions by 2050

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1 year

yesterday’s @IrishTimes quite rightly talking about the need for regional balance in spatial & economic development in Ireland (wrongly confused with RoI), but ‘unbalanced’ in completely neglecting to include the North in it’s analysis … extraordinarily partitionist thinking

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1 year

My @ucu hat is pink Our demands are most modest Our management may stink But our strike keeps them honest

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2 years

Helping the youngest out with her #GCSE Learning for Life (LLW) and come across this ideological statement against trades unions … talk about the indoctrination of young people!

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3 years

Attending the #GlobalClimateStrike in Belfast…. #ClimateAction

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Solidarity visit from @ucuatqub to @unitetheunion picket outside City Hall @belfastcc … workers United will never be defeated! @ucu #OneOfUsAllOfUs #FourFights

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Finished writing the first draft of a book. Different from previous publications with this provisional title. Nervous because its a lot more personal & overtly political than anything I've written before, but then part of me is only too happy to say the quiet part out loud....

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4 years

'The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.' —Antonio Gramsci

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Food bank demand in NI during Covid-19 'concerning'. Its not ‘concerning’ it’s completely unnecessary. We need a just food system based on need & a right to food and not one based on food as a commodity. Food banks are a symptom of a broken system

Coronavirus: Food bank demand during Covid-19 'concerning'

Usage more than quadruples in County Londonderry and a Belfast food bank has its busiest week ever.

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9 months

Thanks @williamcrawley & @bbcradioulster devoting today to the crisis in Lough Neagh (symbolic of a wider crisis). I summarised my views d in terms of 'Colonialism, Capitalism and Crap'...good discussion with @JamesAOrr @ShaunaReports & reps from @UFUHQ and @Famers4Action

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2 years

So, seeing as it’s doing the rounds - full disclosure, I’m a Professor at @QUBelfast from a north Dublin working class background .. and I’m a unionist…. a trades unionist that it… there it’s out… next question. I’ll take a ‘G’ please Kate & Jamie…

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. @QUBelfast given the ongoing pandemic the university should not make strike related salary reductions until after the pandemic is over. The university should not add financial worries to already stressed staff and families. @ucuatqub

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Wee dander up Slemish earlier... glorious ....

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11 months

'Climate change dropped from UK government risk register' The social contract between the state and citizens is well and truly broken.... The first duty /job of any state is to protect its citizens This one is failing us and our kids and grandkids

Climate change dropped from government risk register

The first overhaul of the UK’s risk register since 2020 marks a significant departure from the previous approach to anticipating future threats

www.civilserviceworld.com

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3 years

⁦ @Translink_NI ⁩ sets zero-emissions goals for next 25 years... more ambitious than the NI Executive, fair play ... more, deeper, quicker, faster..., let’s roll up our sleeves and get going ..

Translink sets zero-emissions goals for next 25 years

The company wants to provide more environmentally-friendly buses and trains as it plans for future.

www.bbc.co.uk

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2 years

University management tonight… stealing our pensions is wage theft…the only other things VCs & management care about are league tables & reputation …certainly not education, students & staff.. they are our opponents & do not listen to reason .. time for more disruptive action

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6 months

Maidin maith from Rathlin island on this the last day of 2023…

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5 years

Just arrived in #Ballymena to talk to Mid and Antrim Council officers about moving from the council’s recent declaration of a climate emergency to climate action. @PCANcities @HAPPatQUB @QUBPolicy @QUBEngagement @BelfastClimate

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9 months

A new more realistic map of the North of Ireland - “a kleptocratic and ecocidal state within the United Kingdom”- @JamesAOrr inaugural lecture

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6 years

Finnish academics also striking against proposals for the further marketisation of universities @ucuatqub @UCU_Ulster @ucu @oubucu #ucustrike #defenduss

Heikki Patomäki - The Finnish University Strike 2018: A New Moment in the Process of Turning...

BRAVE NEW EUROPE would like to thank Heikki for taking the time to write this upon our request. We find it an outstanding analysis, listing the conflicts confronting universities not only Finland,...

braveneweurope.com

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A hat trick of PhD candidates I supervised graduating at yesterday’s @QUBelfast winter graduation-many congratulations to Doctors @SeanFearon @calum_mcgeown & @jaeim_park .. and also Dr @SeanHeron3 for whom I was internal examiner and Robert Wade for whom I was second supervisor

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4 years

#Day1 of 14 days of @ucu strike action by @ucuatqub members. Angry that we’re forced to strike again due to the intransigence of @UniversitiesUK on pension fairness, casualisation, workloads and gender pay gap. Like my colleagues I want to teach not stand in the cold #UCUstrike

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Meet the people seeking to return NI 'back to normal' economically. The economic orthodoxy assembled to help the Assembly not #BuildingBackBetter . No Trade union representation,no one from community & voluntary sector... very much a 'business as usual' formation @irishcongress

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3 months

Some photos from today’s Palestinian solidarity march in Belfast 🇵🇸 well done to all who came, those who spoke and those who organised it @Belfast_IPSC @ipsc48

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4 years

This.

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Its not a 'cost of living crisis', it not even a 'cost of profiteering crisis'...at this stage lets call it out for what it is .. its a robbery

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1 year

@calum_mcgeown @ucu @QUBVChancellor @ucuatqub Thank you Calum for posting this. None of us want to be engaged in industrial action such as the MAB, but we have been left with no option. Your understanding and solidarity are much appreciated since you are directly affected by the intransigence of university management

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4 years

So today we launched the @BelfastClimate to a packed room in city hall ... now we roll up our sleeves and move to #ClimateAction #decarbonisation and a #JustTransition from carbon energy for our city .. thanks to all who helped organise today and all of you who attended....

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2 years

Leader of @GreenPartyNI @oharamal & @Briansmyth99 visiting @ucuatqub picket line earlier standing with @seanoco78853943 President of our @QUBelfast branch … thanks for your support!

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4 years

Piece featuring myself on #electriccars in today’s #Newsletter . e cars are part of the solution to decarbonised transport , but less significant than public transport (ideally free), alongside cycling & walking @HAPPatQUB @BelfastClimate @PCANcities @QUBEngagement @centre_risk

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5 years

'Why we need a just energy transition to address our climate emergency' - op ed piece from me in today's @irish_news - talking about the #HarlandandWolff crisis, #justtransition and #climatebreakdown @PCANcities @HAPPatQUB @QUBEngagement @QUBPolicy

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4 years

Another text from me not read out on @BBCgmu ‘In all the discussion of poverty this morning, which is very welcome, nobody has mentioned that the root causes of poverty lie in inequality. Unless we tackle inequality we are not dealing with the root causes’ #inequality #poverty

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2 years

#Day2 of @ucu strike action and getting @ucuatqub picket line set up. Sending solidarity to @UCU_Ulster and all other colleagues across UK universities forced once again to withdraw our labour due to intransigence of our employers @UniversitiesUK

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New report from @Centre_SECA at @QUBelfast on the crisis in Lough Neagh released today 'Paradise Lost’: A Report on the Emotional and Personal Impacts of the Crisis of Lough Neagh Available here to download:

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John Barry is part of UCU Rising

@ProfJohnBarry

3 years

#SundaySequence … and my other text that was not read out … 4

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8 months

‘What should QUB do about the planetary crisis?’ 20th November, 4-7pm, South Dining Hall (food will be provided!) A popular assembly style event, which is open to all students, members of staff, activists and the wider community. Open & free to all:

A Popular Assembly for all students, staff and members of the wider community to create a vision and plan for a 'fit for purpose' QUB

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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@ProfJohnBarry

4 years

On top of the world Ma! Well...Diamond Hill #Connemara National park, with Sheldon #Staycation2020 ... what a beautiful county ... Galway .. and country Ireland are

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@ProfJohnBarry

1 month

The point at which lactose meets intolerance

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John Barry is part of UCU Rising

@ProfJohnBarry

2 years

Another year, another climate action rally in #Belfast , another #FLOP27 , more liberal moralising by our political class, govt & political parties…I’m sick & tired at having to protest to protect our living systems… govt has broken the social contract…time for rebellion

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John Barry is part of UCU Rising

@ProfJohnBarry

1 year

The Language of Trees: How Forests Make Our World, Change our Minds & Rewild Our Lives Join author @katieholten in conversation with @owens_declan and @LyndaMSullivan Monday 24 July 6-8.30 Canada Room, @QUBelfast Free & open to all-registration:

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@ProfJohnBarry

3 years

Decarbonising residential heating in N. Ireland: Retrofitting has the potential to deliver a multitude of benefits for Northern Ireland's approach to heating our homes, from reducing fuel poverty, creating jobs and reducing carbon emissions

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