We are excited to announce our second annual State of Protest 2025 report: How Repression Became Routine.
The report launches with a free livestream on Wed 25 Mar 2026 7:00-8:30 pm GMT.
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Peer warns of ‘backward slide to dependency’ after disabled woman’s forced move to nursing home
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I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
I'm deeply disappointed in @asanews.bsky.social today. Here's the petition they refused: drive.google.com/file/d/1XW8T...
'a package of measures the govt wants to pass to ease the fears of police officers they will be prosecuted after using force.
The changes to make it harder to take action against police follow a MET firearms officer, Martyn Blake, being put on trial for murder after shooting dead Chris Kaba'.
Database exposes UK repression of Palestine solidarity
News, Mar 10th
Efforts to silence activists are “multi-sited, institutionalised and systematic”, say researchers who documented 964 incidents in 6 years
~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~
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New profiles just dropped in our Dual-Use Technology series with @privacyinternational.org ! Want to learn more about how companies develop commercial tech that feeds the military industrial complex and vice-versa? Read our most recent reports on Thales, Leonardo, Elbit and Skydio 🕵️ pvcy.org/dualuse
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The Home Secretary has banned the annual pro-Palestine Al Quds Day march.
This was done at the request of the Met Police.
This is the first time these powers have been used for over a decade.
netpol.org/2026/03/12/a...
The Metropolitan Police has consistently claimed their aim was to spy on activists supporting family justice campaigns like Justice4Jean solely to see if they were "exploiting" families. It is impossible for the police to ever imagine solidarity or helping ordinary people take control for themselves
What is critical, as @robevansgdn.bsky.social points out, is the Met justified spying on the Menezes family as 'incidental' to targeting what Patricia called "decent and honourable people" supporting her included one of Netpol's founders, Newham Monitoring Project www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Call for disabled people to join mass demonstration to unite against rise of far-right
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This is happening in less than one month www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-con...
NEW: Rabea Eghbariah's Towards Nakba as a Legal Concept (9/06), presented by Esther Planas Balduz and Imogen
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'Multimethod research on precarious work under disabling capitalism: Methodological reflections' - Bulletin of Sociological Methodology
[out now]
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#DisabilityStudies #DisabilityResearch #Anticapitalism #AntiWork
📆📆 Check your calendar and add all the monthly MDN events to it! 📆📆
#Marxism #Disability #Anticapitalism #Antidisablement
Poster with the list of all the events, written in white and yellow on a black background.
After a Workers' Inquiry workshop co-hosted with Notes from Below (in Jan) & a co-organised book review symposium event (in Mar), we're excited to announce 9 more events for 2026!
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/events-list/
Joining links will be shared on the MDN mailing list ahead of each event
Poter for the Editors' Introduction: The Interrelationships of Care Off-write text on a dark green background, with a photo of a desk with books behind the green background. The poster features DSQ's logo in blue letters and information regarding the editorial. Donald Grushkin (CSU-Sacramento) Jeffrey A. Brune (Gallaudet University) Rachel Nebraska Lynch (George Washington University) Volume 45 • Issue 2 • 2026 • Winter 2026 This article is part of a new Issue in Disability Studies Quarterly
From DSQ's new issue: Volume 45, Issue 2, 2026 - Winter
Editors' Introduction: The Interrelationships of Care
Donald Grushkin (CSU-Sacramento)
Jeffrey A. Brune (Gallaudet University)
Rachel Nebraska Lynch (George Washington University)
#DisabilityStudies #Disability
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Our own Sam Lawton has just published this interview with @jacobengelberg.bsky.social for @intrrgnm.bsky.social on the latter's new book, 'Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression'. Interregnum aims to make radical and critical theory available for a wider public audience.
Argh, learning about the love2shop vouchers is on my to-do list for my current project (different uni, different processes) - not great if they're overwhelming! I wonder if there's anything that researchers/those administering the account can do to make it easier for recipients to use them
aw 🫣
(no cleverness to be found here though!)
I hope it might be of use to future PhDers
'Multimethod research on precarious work under disabling capitalism: Methodological reflections' - Bulletin of Sociological Methodology
[out now]
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#DisabilityStudies #DisabilityResearch #Anticapitalism #AntiWork
University staff: economy class
Senior management: different rules😉
Former Vice Chancellor of Aberdeen University spent £28140 on business-class trips to Doha, Canada, New York, India & China
While Aberdeen was engulfed in funding crisis
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/outgoin...
Attacks leave dead vs killed
We are thrilled to announce our new study group on Activism, Social Movements and Revolutions (ASMR) as part of the BSA @britsoci.bsky.social! We're a community of knowledge & practice aiming to advance ASMR through political engagement, research, events & collaborations. Join us! #Sociology #BSA
"spilled onto the world"? Better: spread, systematically by capitalists who deploy all those emotions to divide & control those who might otherwise unite against them, refusing to be exploited & live in continuing states of alienation from each other & the Earth.
A discussion between myself and McKenzie Wark on raving, hacking, and public luxury. Moderated by Feda Baeza. Pretty sure I gained aura points by just being in the virtual room tbh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SRC...
We support more than 75 groups in over 50 prisons nationwide.
In case you missed last month's roundup, here are book choices and discussion points raised in just some of those prison reading groups: bit.ly/4kqhinF
#PrisonReadingGroups #SolaceandConnectionThroughReading #Rehabilitation
ADHD brains wake up at night and are tired during the day. Need to start writing more
>90% of our "economy" only exists to maintain the silly money games of capitalism. Its infrastructure, traffic and computational nonsense.
The #bullshitjobs "economy" is wasting more energy and fossil fuels than ever. Overheating Earth like never before.
#OtD 6 Mar 1974 UK coal miners ended a four-week strike after winning a 35% pay increase and bringing down the Conservative government. Learn more in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e81-...
