December 2010
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Were you kettled? Give information for a legal...
The Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers is working with those who are using the law to challenge the use of kettling by police at recent student demonstrations. To identify potential witnesses and claimants we are asking protesters and bystanders to lend their support by completing this Kettling Info Sheet
Please note that this information will only be passed to solicitors who are already...
LIBRARY OCCUPATION TEACH-IN TIMETABLE SATURDAY |... →
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An amazing email from Peter Davies
I just read on your twitter that you’ve ended your occupation. I hope UCL dropped the £40K threat. And that you are all fine. You have all done something amazing, and even if it has officially ended, it will live on. You have achieved something more than you can imagine. You have stood up for yourselves, and challenged authority, which are essential things for artists to do . And you have...
Newcastle Occupation: Denial of basic human rights →
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Event taking place at the ICA reading room tonight
Event taking place at the ICA on SATURDAY 11th DEC, it starts at 8pm and is open till 12pm and I would really like to share this opportunity of using their READING ROOM to have another event/meeting/teach-in and to use the public space for bringing art that can be disseminated and any form of passionate, non-hierarchical, pedagogical exchange against these cuts as we were talking about this...
The Slade Occupation has ended peacefully
We will issue a full statement on Monday.
This is not over.
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UCL Management Stops Press Reporting!!!
We have just heard that UCL have banned all press from filming inside UCL buildings. In addition they are not letting any press vans into the main UCL campus.
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UCL Management Breaks Its Side Of The Bargain
Yesterday morning UCL occupation met with university management, represented by Rex Knight, to negotiate a final agreement regarding our demands and the end of the occupation ahead of the parliamentary vote on tuition fees on Thursday evening.
We discussed the wording of a draft statement to be issued by UCL management condemning the reforms to higher education and the rise in tuition fees –...
BBC News - University College London granted... →
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Protest Tomorrow
Hey guys, The Manchester coaches are leaving London at about 8pm so we’re expecting to leave some people behind if they get kettled, arrested or lost. We’ll have a coach steward on each coach who’ll be giving out their own phone number as well as maps and things like that. Ideally we’d like to give every protester a list of London occupations who are willing to let people...
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WatchTurner Prize Teach-In
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BBC News - Second Conservative MP opposes fee hike →
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A message of solidarity from Mexico
Hello,
I have just read about the movement against the cuts in the universities. From Mexico, we express our solidarity with your struggle. We must defend globally the right to education and that implies acting against privatization and other forms in which the state denies this right and transforms it into a merchandise. A lot of people support your struggle.
¡Ánimo, compas!
“La...
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Statement from John Timberlake
Whatever the immediate outcome of the parliamentary horsetrading on Thursday 9th December, the political situation has converged with a social and cultural moment that has taken on an Evental dimension. Henceforth, there will always be a ‘before’ and an ‘after’. Marx’s ‘old mole’ of the European revolution has pushed up once more. That breakthrough leaves us all moved, and a little speechless....
Statement of support from Ryan Gander
“It’s a funny paradox that the skills and qualities that art schools encourage and prepare students with (ingenuity, problem solving, independent practice, optimism, determination, understanding of the economies of wealth and worth and the ability to understand diverse perspectives) are the very qualities lacking by the people proposing 100% cuts to arts education. If the irony...
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Students cause chaos around Italy in cuts protest →
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Govt To Waive Tuition Fees For Poorest →
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“To anyone who has witnessed — and perhaps resisted — the growing influence of...”
– Artist David Cross,
http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/news/169-latest-from-coalition-of-resistance/8249-the-occupation-of-the-slade-school-of-fine-art
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Slade Occupation @ The Long Weekend
What is happening is an awakening of the so-called apathetic generation. We have been provoked by the failures of the politicians and financial systems that claim to govern us. What is happening is alternative. We are talking and thinking differently. We are learning quickly. It is an experiment into how we create our education and our politics. What is happening is not isolated to...
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Twitter extract from @PennyRed, 4th December 2010 ...
Twitter extract from @PennyRed, 4th December 2010
Laurie Penny is a writer, journalist, feminist, reprobate.
working mainly for the New Statesman. Tweets are in a
personal capacity. http://twitter.com/#!/PennyRed
(Timings are approximate)
Extract begins…
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Off to Topshop to watch the flashmob!
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Topshop swarming w police, rather unsurprisingly. I...
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Topshop's flagship London store hit by tax protest →
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The Occupation of The Slade School Of Fine Art on...
THE OCCUPATION OF THE SLADE SCHOOL OF FINE ART
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Watch
A message from one of our younger supporters.
The decisions that are being made now by the government are not only going to affect current students but also the younger generations who will later go on to higher education themselves. The cuts are already being discussed at primary schools!
Why aren't we supporting the students? Maybe we've... →
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Solidarity from Students of Greece
2000 students march in Athens against education reform and in solidarity with the British students, march heads for British Embassy.
The impact of education reforms is a worldwide debate. Changes to the way higher education institutions are operated influences the sociopolitical and cultural values of the next generations.
videos and reports here:
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Judge recognises students freedom of expression...
UCL OCCUPATIONS COURT HEARING ADJOURNED AFTER JUDGE ACKNOWLEDGES STUDENTS RIGHTS TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
On Friday 3rd December two students on behalf of the UCL Occupations attended a hearing to resist the university’s application for a possession order. After almost an hour of legal debate, the judge acknowledged the occupying students’ rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly...