There has been a flurry of occupations against cuts in higher education. On the Sowimax site from Innsbruck Austria, you can see a map of all the occupations so far. A site called Emancipating Education for all has been set up to encourage discussion between the groups. There is also a wiki which has been set up to enable information sharing. You can find a list of occupied university there. To see what has been happening at some of the occupations - check out Rotterdam and Austria.
In England we have Free Education for all as well as the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts.
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February 15, 2010
On February 8th students at Sussex occupied the top floor of Bramber House. The occupation which was in protest to the staff redundancies and course cuts at the university ended 10th February. The campaign continues - you can contact them at sussexstopthecuts@gmail.com
There has been a lot of anger in the student community over the proposed cuts in staff at universities. Check out the website of the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts to see what they discussed at their conference on 6th February.
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February 15, 2010
This site was set up in response to the student occupations over Israeli military action against Palestine in December 2008. The site is rarely updated now but is being kept running for reference purposes.
Thanks for all the support we have received.
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Keep abreast of what is happening at the Vestas plant on the occupiers’ website. At the moment the plant has been closed and the workers made redundant. Although some of the workers occupied they were evicted from the premise. The workers are now ‘fighting to nationalise the plant or save it by getting another manufacturer in to take it over’.
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An eviction notice has been served on the occupation at Vestas IoW. The eviction is due to take place tomorrow, Friday 7 August, at 12 noon.
How can you help?
There is a minibus leaving London tonight - email savevestas@gmail.com to be on it
Offer transport to other people - email savevestas@gmail.com
Organise a protest in your town - let Save Vestas know if you are organising something and they will advertise it.
Join a protest:
- tonight, 6pm outside Department of Energy and Climate Change, 3 Whitehall Place, London
- tonight Bristol: demonstrate 5.30pm Bristol fountain
- tonight Manchester/ tomorrow Warrington: demonstrate 5pm in Piccadilly Gardens and
- protest at 8am tomorrow morning at Vestas HQ in Warrington, tel Hugh 07769 611320
Contact Climate Change and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband now ps.ed.miliband@decc.gsi.gov.uk and tell him to step in to save wind turbine blade production at Vestas, IoW, for the sake of renewable energy, green jobs and his credibility as a politician. His phone number in his Doncaster constituency is 01302 875 462, and at Westminster, 020 7219 4778. And on Twitter http://twitter.com/edmilibandMP
Find out more at Workers’ Climate Action and Save Vestas.
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After the spontaneous demonstrations and the university occupations that broke out in the the first quarter of this year, there has been a lot of hard work to send help to the people in Gaza.
The Viva Palestina US convoy which entered Gaza on 15th July managed to get through a quarter of a million dollars worth of medical aid and supplies. The largest convoy ever to leave the US for Palestine. The group was only allowed to stay in Gaza for 24 hours and 47 new vehicles dedicated for medical use were prevented from crossing from Egypt to Gaza. They remain in the customs free zone in the port of Alexandria.
There is a planned Viva Palestina Venezuela convoy which will take place later this year.
It is hoped that a second joint US/UK convoy can go in December. It will head through Europe, into the Balkans, northern Greece, Turkey, Syria, Jordan and into Egypt
Find out more about Viva Palestina US and Viva Palestina UK
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The occupation at Vestas is now on it’s tenth day. Vestas plant in Newport on the Isle of Wight. The company says it has to close the wind turbine plant because there isn’t enough demand for wind power in the UK. The company is seeking a court order to remove the dozen workers. Vestas have issued a press release. Schnews have done a special report on the situation and there are many more articles on the web written since the occupation started.
There is a blog set up to support the workers. Visit savevestas to see what you can do.
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21 Italian students from the universities of Turin, Padua, Naples and Bologna have been arrested, 15 are already in prison and 6 are under house arrest. The students were involved in a protest massive protest against the G8 University Summit in May, but have only just been arrested. Two social centers and several houses have been raided and searched in Turin, Padua and Naples by police. Over 10 000 students were protesting in May against the meeting which claimed to focus on the problems people and the planet are facing and the ‘neutral and objective’ character of the knowledge produced by universities. As one of the main forces behind privatization and control or resources, the G8 has no credibility in this field. Students from a group called The Anomalous Wave were among others who sought to create alternative ideas and protest against the summit.
To protest against their arrest sign the petition.
Find out more on the background of Onda Anomala - the Anomalous wave of university resistance. The blog has been set up for non Italian speakers.
The Edu-Factory collective were also involved in the demonstrations and you can find out more about them from their website.
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George Galloway flew out of JFK on Saturday (4th July 2009) with 100 US citizens on the largest US aid convoy to Gaza. You can keep up with the Viva Palestina convoy on the The Sitch which is running a special blog documenting it.
The next UK Viva Palestina convoy will be on 4th October 2009.
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Check out Manchester’s blog to see what they’ve been up to. Their university has agreed to send stuff on the Aid Convoy to Gaza among other things.
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