Yesterday a group of three was elected to meet the Vice Chancellor's representatives and we talked at length - two and a half hours - about our demands and the Uni's response. The uni has released a statement to us today but we need to discuss a few more things with them. I will post up the results tomorrow.
In other news, Bradford have finished their occupation after just 24 hours, winning a number of demands:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3ZdHre37lTE/SYBXy0Opp7I/AAAAAAAAAeU/a9LQWOxyuVU/s1600-h/Uni_statment_gaza.jpg
'Die in' for Gaza this Saturday!
ReplyDeleteTo all concerned about the murder of Palestinians ,
We would like to do a big ‘die in’ in Leeds city centre on Saturday in the pedestrian, shopping zone to create a greater awareness of the Gaza conflict. The demonstrators will lie on the ground symbolizing the Palestinians murdered in the recent attacks. This will be at the corner of Kirksgate St. and Briggate St (near the Curry’s) starting at 12.30pm. A sheet will be provided to lie on. If you don’t feel comfortable doing the ‘die in’, you are very welcome to do fundraising for Gazan charities; we will arrange charity buckets for those interested.
Please also consider leafleting information about the war with the Leeds Coalition Against War. They will congregate at the Body Shop on Briggate Street at 12.30 to spread knowledge about the violation of human rights in Gaza.
We need your support to continue the movement of solidarity with Palestine. Feel free to invite your friends.
Link to facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=48209640115
For more information, please contact:
Rosalee Dorfman (Rosy) Oonagh Ryder
Email: rosalita222@hotmail.com Oonagh_ryder@hotmail.com
Mobile: 07599 409 861 07541 235 979
to really symbolise it how about you have a load of ak47s and rockets and suicide bomber belts and start aiming it at israel
ReplyDeleteyou say you dont support hamas yet by your actions your just saying that everyone in gaza is innocent and that everyone israel killed was an innocent this ignores the thousands of rockets fired into southern israel.
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ReplyDeleteI completely agree.
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ReplyDeleteEh? Where have you all gone to?
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ReplyDeleteYou can find a statement from Leeds here for those you you interested.
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ReplyDeleteWow, loads of BNP trolls visiting this site, nice to know it has an impact, shouldn't they be studying for their basic skills classes rather than messing around on blogs though?
ReplyDeleteoh come on, you can't just go and accuse anyone who doesn't support you of being a BNP supporter! That's just complete bullshit!
ReplyDeleteThis 'four legs good two legs bad' absolutism is one of the things that annoys people about groups such as yours. From reading your statement it seems that the university has made some concessions; stating that they are concerned about the death and destruction in both Gaza and Israel, and how they are willing to look into their investment policy (by the way, what counts as a company investing bin Israel? If theres a Subway Sandwich shop in Tel Aviv does that mean I should dump my shares in Subway?) - but because they aren't going to immediately give in to all your demands you decide that they're the enemy. You can't ever consider both sides of an argument, you can't ever consider that you might be wrong about something.
Michael
This sounds like you have had a eventful week guys - really good and congratulations from Bradford.
ReplyDeleteSussex have called a meeting for the 7th March to talk about what we do after NUS and if we need a new Union. It was called at the Extraordinary conference. The link is here - it would be great if you can get in touch to link up.
http://www.free-education.org.uk/?p=579