Picket Line Events and Teachouts*
All events on the picket line unless otherwise marked
Week Three
Monday 2 March Meet at the Bus Loop 10am-1pm
Adopted by Sociology
11-12pm “Decolonisation/Decarbonisation” panel, hosted by Rebecca Brown (SU Environment and Ethics Officer) and the Warwick Decolonise Project
12pm “‘Once You’ve Listened, Then What?’: Democratising Political Education” (Naomi Waltham-Smith, CIM)
1pm History of Women’s Oppression (Warwick Marxists)
Tuesday 3 March / Meet at Bus Loop at 8am to go picketing and return to Bus Loop at 10
Day of Action on Precarity / Adopted by Philosophy
10:15 “Governing through Precarity: A Foucauldian Approach”
11am Warwick Anticasualisation Event: On the Day of Action on Precarity, WAC will run a teach-out to discuss the challenges faced by casualised colleagues at Warwick and organize together.
1pm-3pm “Prison Abolition” (Warsoc)
Wednesday 4 March / Meet at the Bus Loop 10am-1pm
Adopted by French & Hispanic Studies and Law
11am “Dealing with Climate Denial and Discombobulation (Climate Strike Warm Up)” (Alastair Smith and Todd Oliver)
11am-2pm International Women’s Day Banner Making(MR2 in the SU, Warsoc)
1pm (The Graduate) “The Unexpected Subject: Identity in Contemporary Italian Feminism” (Carlotta Cassuta, Akwugo Emejulu and Laura Schwartz)
Thursday 5 March / Meet at Bus Loop at 8am to go picketing and return to Bus Loop at 10
Adopted by English & Comp Lit
10:00am Picket line line dancing, featuring hits from Saturday Night Fever and Chorus Line
1pm Workers and Labour Movements in History (The Graduate)
4pm-6pm Radical Reading Club: Things Fall Apart (Organised by Warwick Anti-Sexism Society (WASS) and Warwick Anti-Racism Society (WARSOC), in SU Building,Room MR2)
Week Four
Monday 9 March / Meet at the Bus Loop 10am-1pm
International Women’s Day on the picketline / Adopted by Professional Service Staff and Sociology
11am Pay Gap Game (Version 2)
12pm “The Gendered Politics of Austerity” (Muireann O’Dwyer)
1:30pm Women’s march
3pm-4:30pm Radical Reading Club: Text TBD (Organised by Warwick Anti-Sexism Society (WASS) and Warwick Anti-Racism Society (WARSOC), in SU Building,Room MR2)
Tuesday 10 March / Meet at Bus Loop at 8am to go picketing and return to Bus Loop at 10
Adopted by Law
1pm-4pm Blackademia (Warsoc)
Wednesday 11 March / Meet at the Bus Loop 10am-1pm
Preventing Prevent Day of Action / Adopted by French & Hispanic Studies
10:30 Why We Need to Abolish Prevent and How: A Primer What is Prevent? Why should it be important to us as workers and students in the University? What does it have to do with the larger contexts of hostile environment and the rise of the far right? And how can we fight it? This interactive teach out will give us all the tools we need to understand Prevent and start collectively organising for how to fight it.
12pm “Stop HS2/ Climate Breakdown Poetry”
Members of local resistance to HS2, from the Crackley and Cubbington Wood camps, will visit the picket line to update us on their campaigns. There will be a reading of climate breakdown poetry up and down the line – bring poetry and/or songs. For suggestions, email jonathanskin@me.com
Thursday 12 March /Meet at Bus Loop at 8am to go picketing and return to Bus Loop at 10
10am Confidence to Stand up for Your Beliefs
1pm “Beyond Greece and Rome: Classics from a Global Perspective” (the Graduate)
3:30-6pm Institute of Advanced Protest: An Interdisciplinary Showcase on the Theme of Protest (Graduate)
Email instituteofadvancedprotest@gmail.com to sign up for a slot and/or lend items to the ‘gallery of protest’
Friday 13 March / Meet at the Bus Loop 10am-1pm
International Climate Strike / Adopted by English & Comp Lit
10:30am Climate Focus Group (Sarah Lever)
11:30am Furniture Upcycling Demo and Q&A (Sarah Lever)
1pm “Climate Justice and a Post-Growth Society” (Tomi Amole)
1:30 “Social Activism on Screen”* (James C. Taylor, in The Graduate)
*The events listed here that do not take place on the picket line and are not during picketing hours are not official UCU events; they are organised independently by staff and students who are supportive of the strike and respect our picket line.