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Max Koch
@maxkoch.bsky.social
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Professor in Social Policy & Sustainability, Lund University: Capitalist development & its social, environmental and welfare implications; #degrowth, sustainable #welfare. https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/max-koch
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 5h
On Saturday I take part in the Scientists Responsibility Summit in #Berlin. I talk about Challenges for the Degrowth Transformation: The Role of Academia. Berliners can still register and livestream will be provided (link below). @scientistrebellion.bsky.social

blogs.fu-berlin.de/scientistsre...
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 5h
Congrats! I am interested in reading your article.

Best wishes, Max
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 3d
The European Uppsala Declaration to end the EU-Israel Association Agreement has over 3,000 signatures. Let's make it 10,000 by Oct 23 when European NGOs will meet with members of the European Parliament to put pressure on the Commission. Fellow academics. please sign! uppsaladeclaration.se/europe/
EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION – Uppsala Declaration
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 3d
“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others”

According to another observer, she was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy”
Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
www.theguardian.com
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 4d
carbon footprint from #flying precisely. Perhaps of interest? @caneurope.org @climate-justice.bsky.social
@supermiljobloggen.se @jakobskovgaard.bsky.social @researchersdesk.bsky.social @kenzabryan.ft.com @jakobu.bsky.social @carbonbrief.org
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 5d
Paper on #football in the #climate emergency with M Guillen-Royo, E Daehlin, B Aamaas from @cicero.oslo.no and J Utgård from @oslomet.bsky.social. We interview senior staff from #Norway's national teams, calculate their carbon footprint and discuss alternatives

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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 4d
"We have to move fast": Jane Fonda (and Judy Garland) leading the way www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR5S...
"We Have to Move Fast": Jane Fonda Relaunches Father's Free Speech Group to Counter Trump Censorship
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · 4d
”La Repubblica rapporterar om demonstrationer i 100 städer, bland annat i Venedig, Rom, Milano, Livorno, Genua och Palermo. En miljon personer ska ha gått i demonstrationerna under dagen.”
Italiensk generalstrejk i solidaritet med Global Sumud Flotilla
En miljon människor har gått ut på gator runt om i Italien i solidaritet med Global Sumud Flotilla. Tågtrafik har blockerats. I Rom har en påvestaty iklätts pa
www.aftonbladet.se
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 5d
Paper on #football in the #climate emergency with M Guillen-Royo, E Daehlin, B Aamaas from @cicero.oslo.no and J Utgård from @oslomet.bsky.social. We interview senior staff from #Norway's national teams, calculate their carbon footprint and discuss alternatives

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 7d
„Öffentlicher Luxus für alle“ – Beitrag von Lukas Warning und mir im @surplusmagazin.bsky.social

Was Mamdani vorschlägt, steht für ein neues Verständnis von Daseinsvorsorge. Nicht nur Verteidigung, sondern Weiterentwicklung öffentlicher Infrastruktur. 1/6

www.surplusmagazin.de/offentlicher...
Öffentlicher Luxus für alle: Mamdani zeigt, wie es geht
Zohran Mamdani will die Daseinsvorsorge in New York neu aufstellen. Die Idee von »Öffentlichem Luxus« könnte auch die Politik in Deutschland inspirieren.
www.surplusmagazin.de
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Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · 12d
Dagens påminnelse om att mänskligheten med stormsteg är på väg ut ur livets korridor.
Sex av planetens nio gränser är passerade - Vetenskapsradion Nyheter
Vår planet har nio gränser som, om vi passerar dessa, gör att vi riskerar förlora naturens förmåga att till exempel ge oss mat eller ha fungerande ekosystem.Enligt ...
www.sverigesradio.se
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 15d
Just signed the European Declaration of Conscientious Objection to end academic collaborations and bilateral agreements with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law.

Colleagues in European academia are more than welcome to do the same (via the link below)!
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Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social · 19d
EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
Faculty and staff in European higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborating with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law. To sign, visit uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
Screenshot from the website of the European Declaration
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 18d
Den här frågan är viktig för mig – skriv gärna under: www.mittskifte.org/petitions/od...
Odjur? Nej, människor. - Vi säger nej till avhumanisering i svensk politik
Vi skriver under detta upprop i protest mot att vår utrikesminister valt att kalla demonstranter för "odjur". Att företrädare för Sveriges regering använder och försvarar avhumaniserande språk om männ...
www.mittskifte.org
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 22d
“I hope, as a result of our report, that the minds of states will also be opened” says Navi Pillay, the head of the commission of inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory and a former international criminal court judge
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement
www.theguardian.com
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 24d
Jewish Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein returns to his ancestral home, Germany, to investigate how the country’s impulse never to repeat the anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust resulted in the suppression of any criticism of Israel and its actions in Gaza
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfK1...
How Germany’s fight against anti-Semitism is empowering the far right | Featured Documentary
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 27d
Fantastic-looking new book by @ferracimo.bsky.social on @scientistrebellion.bsky.social! I look very much forward to reading it.
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · Sep 1
The International Association of Genocide Scholars

"Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide (1948)."
genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · Aug 31
150 years ago, Marx described contemporary capitalism rather well:
"In proportion as labor develops socially, and becomes thereby a source of wealth and culture, poverty and destitution develop among the workers, and wealth and culture among the nonworkers."
www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
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Karin Pettersson @karinp.bsky.social · Aug 23
Jag tror att vi bara har sett början på hur vreden inför folkmordet i Gaza och politikernas ryggradslöshet kommer att rita om den politiska kartan, här hemma och i Europa.

www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/zAn...
Politikerna underskattar folkets vrede om Gaza
KARIN PETTERSSON: Skillnaden mot 1990-talet är avgrundsdjup – då stod politiken stadigare
www.aftonbladet.se
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · Aug 22
Was in GER nach der "Staatsraison" zu tun wäre: Entschuldigung, Rehabilitierung, Kompensation und Einsetzung eine Kommission zur Dokumentation repressiver Maßnahmen und zur Entwicklung von Leitlinien für politische Meinungsäußerung im öffentlichen Dienst und an Hochschulen jacobin.de/artikel/gaza...
Glaubwürdigkeit verlangt Aufarbeitung
SPD, Grüne und Union vollziehen eine vorsichtige Kehrtwende in der Israel-Politik. Glaubwürdig ist das nur, wenn sie jetzt Verantwortung für ihre Repression der Palästina-Solidarität übernehmen.
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · Aug 20
I am an "inspirational speaker" representing #degrowth/postgrowth at this event in about three 3 weeks in #Lund. If you are in the area (especially if doing a PhD or masters on a related topic) please register! www.sustainability.lu.se/calendar/dec...
Decent work and economic growth – a possibility or a miss?
Lund University. Lund University (LU) is one of the top-ranking academic institutions in the world when it comes publications and citations related to SDG 8. Research includes topics such as (but not ...
www.sustainability.lu.se
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Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · Aug 17
Läs detta av @karinp.bsky.social
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Karin Pettersson @karinp.bsky.social · Aug 17
Skriver om varför techmiljardärerna är så rädda för Greta Thunberg. www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/vgL...
För techmiljardären är Greta vår tids antikrist
Peter Thiels världsbild är en slafsig form av Harmageddon-porr
www.aftonbladet.se
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · Aug 13
"Journalism in the service of violence:"

"Germany’s “never again” pledge should carry weight given its deeply genocidal history. Yet it rings hollow when the country’s dominant outlets launder or supply propaganda to legitimise mass killing in Gaza."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza | Hanno Hauenstein
In the run-up to this week’s deadly attacks, stories linking Palestinian reporters to Hamas gained currency, says Berlin-based journalist Hanno Hauenstein
www.theguardian.com
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Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social · Aug 8
Den förstörelse av det palestinska samhället som just nu kulminerar inför öppen ridå har pågått ända sedan 1948, när Palestinas infödda befolkning fördrevs för att ge plats åt judiska överlevare från Europa.

www.dn.se/kultur/pette...
Petter Hellström: Gaza kan snart vara historia – vart ska överlevarna ta vägen?
Den svenska debatten om Gaza vittnar om en utbredd förnekelse av verkligheten. Men ansvaret faller tungt på Europa, skriver Petter Hellström.
www.dn.se
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Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social · Aug 1
#uppsaladeclaration has more than 2,300 signatories. We refuse to collaborate with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other violations of international law. Faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research can sign at uppsaladeclaration.se
Uppsala Declaration
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · Jul 31
Just signed a German version of the #uppsaladeclaration:

uppsaladeclaration.se/germany/

People working in German academia as well as German academics abroad can do the same
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