#universtities

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Violence was used not only to break bodies but to discipline people who refused enslavement. And the impulse to resist is neither involuntary nor solitary. It is a choice made in community, made possible by community, and informed by memory, tradition, and witness. If Africans were entirely compliant and docile, there would have been no need for vast expenditures on corrections, security, and violence. Resistance is our heritage. And resistance is our healing. Through collective struggle, we alter our circumstances; contain, escape, or possibly eviscerate the source of trauma; recover our bodies; reclaim and redeem our dead; and make ourselves whole.

Robin D.G. Kelley in Boston Review (2016). The university is not an engine of social transformation. Activism is.

Forum: Black Study, Black Struggle. There are many responses to this essay.

Lessons from the Damned

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As of 2019 there were 164 universities in the UK 📍

‘Universities are vital hubs of research and teaching on climate change. As large organisations, they also have significant emissions, which contribute to our climate crisis.’

Many universities up and down the UK have invested in environmental/ ‘green’ programmes and policies which is a clear sign of progress and acknowledgement of the environmental crisis.

But, they must be more ambitious as climate action leaders.

All universities can and should take meaningful and visible action.

Become climate leaders, what’s stopping you? Read more https://soap2o.co.uk/