Tuesday, February 9, 2010

University of Sussex under occupation!

Following on from a great event on Saturday, Sussex students begin the week with an occupation!

http://defendsussex.wordpress.com/

Best news on this is the fact that Brighton bin workers are supporting occupation and raising money for teacher strike fund, proving the strength students have when they link up with workers struggles!

Here is their statement:

STATEMENT FROM THE OCCUPATION ON DISRUPTIONS TO EDUCATION IN BRAMBER HOUSE
The Students of the Occupation of Bramber House would like to make it clear that any cancellations or disruptions to University education is a decision that has been made by the University management, specifically the new Registrar John Duffy.

This is explicitly against the wishes of everyone involved with the Occupation.

Earlier today one class of students that was booked to be in the occupied room decided, along with their tutor, that they wished to in fact continue with their seminar as planned. This was supported by the students occupying the room along with the Students’ Union, but opposed by the Registrar, and therefore did not go ahead.

“This is a blatant attempt by the management to unfairly discredit the Stop the Cuts campaign on campus.” said one of the occupiers, “but no one is fooled, we will continue until these Universities damaging proposals are dropped”.

Over 150 students, supported by hundreds attending the demonstrations of the last few days, have been in occupation since 4pm on Monday protesting against cuts announced earlier this year. We, the students in the occupation, stand in solidarity with UCU and the strike that they will be balloting on in the coming weeks.


Best of luck!

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