@uwp-aotearoa.bsky.social mahi and community has been one of my highlights this year. And we’re getting somewhere! UniSaver asked to meet with us next month. Very inspired by Justice for Palestine’s campaign for ASB to divest from Motorola, which they announced today has been successful ✊🏽🥳

A 1/200 podcast episode by Josephine Varghese interviewing Amanda Thomas that features our work as university workers for Palestine just came out! Listen to it here: www.1of200.nz/podcast/1/20...

Our campaign featured in @thespinoff.bsky.social! “Dozens of [Palestinian] university workers have been directly targeted, because they [Israel] know the power of knowledge and education. This is about solidarity with our Palestinian colleagues,” Thomas says. Read more below ⬇️

Our open letter demanding that UniSaver divest from 9en0c!de is now sent off to the UniSaver board. Thanks heaps to the 700+ people who signed. We’ll keep you updated on next steps! ❤️‍🔥🇵🇸✊

We have over 575 signatures on our open letter and 2 days to go before we send it off to UniSaver! Add your name now to show support and demand that university workers retirement funds stop funding the genocide of Palestinians. Link in bio.

In the first 48 hours of our new open letter we had 250 signatures. 20% of them were university workers who would joint UniSaver IF if had a BDS policy. BDS is both the ethical choice and good business sense ✅🍉

Attention university workers and other supporters - click through for info on how to add support to calls for Unisaver, the preferred super scheme at universities, to divest from companies complicit in the Palestinian genocide

UNISAVER MUST DIVEST FROM GEN0C!DE If UniSaver does not respond to our demand, we will launch a campaign to get unis across the motu to sever ties with UniSaver. Show your support by signing the open letter here: tinyurl.com/26tj4kpj

SJP Pōneke has been working on a BDS motion for several months, and it will be tabled at the VUW Academic Board TOMORROW afternoon (September 23). Join us at 12:30pm in the Hub (Kelburn Campus) for a group walkover into the meeting. ❤️💚🖤🤍 www.instagram.com/p/DOxkkDTDw6...

Huge win for the TEU which is now a P@lest!ne Solidarity Union. 🇵🇸

Today is the anniversary of the Nakba (15 May 1948) which violently displaced >750k Palestinians. We are showing up as a uni community to show solidarity with Palestine. Join us at our Nakba Day teach in today from 11am-1pm (the Hub VUW) to hear from amazing speakers and learn more about BDS.

Otago staff/students/grads - former and current - please sign on. If you’re in Ōtepoti, please come along on May 15 12pm at the Museum lawn to adopt this Declaration together. @uwp-aotearoa.bsky.social

Join us next Thurs. 15 May 2025 from 11am to 1 pm at the Hub to show solidarity for P@1est!ne and learn about BDS. As I$r@el escalates its 9en0c!d@l actions, we must show up to resist our institutional and political complicity.

3/ As someone who researches and teaches on climate justice, I am thoroughly appalled to see UniSaver is able to develop a low carbon fund, but not develop similar mechanisms to avoid funding genocide.

It's that time again apparently ⏰

Great example of what all our associations and societies should be saying.

“Aotearoa New Zealand cannot remain a bystander to the slaughter of innocent people in Gaza. We can and must act now to sanction Israel for its crimes, just like we did with Russia for its illegal action in Ukraine,” says Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick. www.greens.org.nz/nz_must_act_...

Letter from Mahmoud Khalil in ICE detention:

(Green Party Press Release is here)

The Greens just announced Labour has agreed to support the bill to skip the Biscuit Tin, and that all the need now is the support of 6 National MPs. So if your local MP is A: a National MP and B: not a Minister, consider writing to them and asking they support it too.

Cool cool.

Speak out. Organize. Across all the silos. They are testing to see what they can get away with.

right. literally yday, AP reported Columbia is investigating students for "activities ranging from sharing social media posts in support of Palestinian people to joining 'unauthorized' protests" and the feds still announced funding cuts today so where did that bring you? apnews.com/article/colu...

Ice arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests, lawyer says

"Were I doing my job in Gaza, I would be dead or displaced now. And it should be a point of deep shame for Mercer, Russell Investments, and UniSaver that they are funding the scholasticide of our peers in Palestine and the wider genocide of its people." www.youtube.com/shorts/I38Oe...

Who are Geographers for Justice in Palestine?

I’m filled with so much admiration for A.Prof Sita - she always calls out injustice ✊🕊️🍉!

“We cannot live out our retirement years on blood money” BDS now!

"We cannot live out our retirement years on blood money." UniSaver member Sita Venkateswar shares her message to UniSaver about why they must divest from genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people. Tell UniSaver they must divest. Addresses below:👇 youtube.com/shorts/Z-zKF...

Ngā mihi to our friends at J4P Aotearoa for their words: "Dangerous governments and their racist lawmakers will come and go, but indigenous memory is unstoppable and forever. Remembering together is the key to walking toward a liberated future for all – from Aotearoa to Palestine." ❤️🤍🖤🍉

People turn their back on David Seymour at Waitangi. Solidarity doesn't stop at imperialist border lines, but runs unbroken for a free Palestine and tino rangatiratanga. Uni workers will be at Treaty grounds, hīkoi, + community events tomorrow. Photo originally posted by @beefaerie.bsky.social.

"Declare your union to be an Apartheid Free Zone"

I know there is a lot going on but Palestinians are returning to the homes that many of our governments funded destroying- with absolutely nothing. If you have a little to give please do ❤️

👇 Email UniSaver: - Relationship Manager: [email protected] 
- Member reps: [email protected]; [email protected] - University appointed reps: [email protected]; [email protected]

Thread: How did we get here? University Workers for Palestine (UWP) formed in 2024. At first, we needed to meet up for events and protests supporting Palestine. We needed to connect and consider how to push our institutions to Boycott and Divest from Israel.

"So I'm saying this to the team managing UniSaver, as a member: The best time to divest from those deadly investments was many moons ago, but the second best time now."

TELL IT 🔥🔥🔥

"Were I doing my job in Gaza, I would be dead or displaced now. And it should be a point of deep shame for Mercer, Russell Investments, and UniSaver that they are funding the scholasticide of our peers in Palestine and the wider genocide of its people." www.youtube.com/shorts/I38Oe...

UWP sent the letter to UniSaver's board on 8 August, 2024. To date, we have received no response. UniSaver did post on its website two weeks later to “address” this issue. They concluded that UniSaver members and its board must “agree to disagree” about investing in apartheid and genocide.

PALESTINA LIVRE DO RIO AO MAR!