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Following the institution revealing that it plans to cut at least 52 jobs, staff have organised a three-week walkout over redundancies with students standing in solidarity with them. Casual contracts, precarious employment, and juggling multiple jobs to make ends meet are not phrases instinctively associated with academia. Yet thousands of lecturers, researchers and general staff at British universities are struggling under hourly, pitifully-paid work contracts.
With the gaming industry booming, a growing number of developers and environmental campaigners are looking to channel that attention and cash towards the climate crisis. Games have always offered spaces to escape the world’s ills, but in more recent years, a growing number are putting the climate crisis at the centre of their fictional worlds.

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Met police accused of 'degrading' treatment of disabled XR activists



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The Metropolitan police’s advisers on disability have accused the force of “degrading and humiliating” treatment of disabled activists during the Extinction Rebellion (XR) protests in London this month. 

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Chris Packham begins legal case to halt HS2 amid coronavirus crisis



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Chris Packham is seeking an urgent injunction to immediately halt HS2’s destruction of ancient woodlands as campaigners criticise construction teams for allegedly ignoring the government’s physical distancing rules for coronavirus and endangering local people. 

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Meet the protesters on hunger strike for climate action



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Bundled up in layers outside the Conservative party’s London HQ, hats tugged down over ears, coats zipped all the way to the top, the protesters signs plainly announce why they are there: ‘NO FOOD. NO FUTURE’; ‘Hunger for Climate Leadership.’ It is day 22 for some of the Extinction Rebellion hunger strikers here, who have vowed not to eat until their demands are met and politicians take decisive action on the ecological crisis.