Notices by Scientist Rebellion (scientistrebellion@social.rebellion.global), page 2

👮The encampment was violently dismantled when university president Nemat Shafik authorized the New York City Police Department to storm the campus and conduct mass arrests, but it has now been restored with widespread support. (3/n)

🔖The arrests marked the first time the university has allowed police to suppress campus protests since the 1968 demonstrations against the Vietnam War.

🔇Academic institutions are once again ready to suppress uncomfortable voices, waiting 60 years before presenting themselves as seeds of the very same change those voices are demanding.

(4/n)

📢We proudly stand on the side of faculty members and student organizations (including Jewish Voices for Peace) that refuse to maintain a complicit silence towards the genocide happening in Gaza.

🕊️We support the calls for a ceasefire, the stop to the Rafah invasion, the release of Israeli and Palestinian hostages, and the establishment of a concrete peace process that includes the freedom to self-determination for Palestinian people as well.

(5/n)

🚫Antisemitism shall have no place in our universities and movements. And despite the efforts of some media outlets to tell otherwise, advocating for Palestinian rights is not an act of antisemitism nor an apology of the killing of civilians.

📢"We are witnessing a genocide in real-time. I will always and forever oppose both genocide and terrorism in any form, as I believe all humans should," states Peter Kalmus, member of @SRTurtleIsland

(6/n)

📢 We refuse to be part of an academic elite that is silent today, only to teach about genocide in 20 years. In the last two weeks, at least 30 Universities in Turtle Island have set up Gaza solidarity camps, including Barnard, Berkeley, MIT and Columbia. (1/n)

GENOCIDE: PRESENT TENSE
On this day in 1945, the Soviet Union's Red Army liberated the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The atrocities carried out in Auschwitz, and in other Nazi camps, included mass execution in gas chambers; forced hard labor and perverse human experiments.
1/26 🧵

🚨 We demand the immediate liberation of #ColineFay, a 26yo environmental & human rights activist facing life imprisonment in Senegal!

‼️ Peacefully demonstrating is not a crime @mincolonna
@emmanuelmacron

#FreeColine #HomeForChristmas

Welcome to hell!

The images from #Lahaina town (#Hawaii) after being devastated by wildfires that were fanned into the town by Hurricane Dora are just the beginning of what will be our day-to-day reality in the near future if no radical cuts in emissions are implemented.

We have reached Earth Overshoot Day today, on 2 August 2023.

This is the day when we have used all of resources that the Earth can bear for the whole year. This means we would need 1.7 Earth planets to sustain our current resource use.

#EarthOvershootDay

Lilongwe, Malawi

Scientists expressed fear at rampant ice melt, floods, cyclones, more temperature rise - loss and damage triggered by adverse impacts of climate change. Institutions have failed, social inequality is ubiquitous

Scientists are scared! #UniteAgainstClimateFailure

Scientists and concerned citizens from around the world again blindfolded iconic statues this week-end ?

We are in the defining decade to address the climate crisis. We demand urgent climate action and justice to secure a livable future for all. #ScienceNotSilence (1/n)

Norway - Oslo @SRNorway

Global greenhouse gas emissions keep increasing, with unequal historical and ongoing contributions. Global North countries are responsible for 92% of historical emissions. (2/n)

The Global Risks Report 2023 is clear: 5 out of the top-10 global short term risks (2 years) are in the Environmental category. ‘Natural disasters and extreme weather events’ is NUMBER TWO.

Over the long term (10 years), 6 out of the top-10 global risks are in the Environmental category. ‘Failure to mitigate climate change’ is NUMBER ONE.

This report is compiled by more than 1,200 experts across the World Economic Forum’s diverse network including business and government.

Risks posed by climate change to our planet and its people are so extreme and obvious that even the global capitalist elite acknowledge them.

Instead of flying on their private jets to Davos every year the elites should use their influence to restructure our economy towards a new economic model. A new model that isn't based on GDP growth as the sole measurement of progress.

Source: https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risks_Report_2023.pdf

?THROWBACK THURSDAY: 10 Sept, 2020

Scientist Rebellion's 1st action. Co-founders Mike Lynch-White, theoretical physicist turned climate activist, & Dr. Tim Hewlett, post-doctoral astrophysicist, threw paint and delivered a letter at the doors of the @royalsociety ?

This isn't a cost of living crisis. This is an excess profit crisis.

Our climate, energy and economic crisis is caused by the extreme greed of the richest 1%.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/shell-makes-record-40-billion-annual-profit-2023-02-02/