Contact details for the occupation
Email the occupiers: leedsunioccupation@gmail.com
Discuss what they are doing: occupations.proboards.com
Contact details for the university
Occupation
Started - 22nd January
Ended - 31st Janaury
Where - The Botany House building
Why - In solidarity with the people of Gaza
Demands
Their initial demands:
University
- Open the books to show which companies that back the Israeli state the Uni is investing in and/or receiving funding from.
- Disinvestment from said companies
- To Release a statement condemning the Israeli state’s attacks and blockade on Gaza
- Surplus resources (computers, books etc) to be sent to students in Gaza
- Scholarships for at least five Gazan students to study in Leeds
- No repercussion, legal or otherwise for activists
Political
- We call on the government to condemn the Israeli state’s attacks and blockade on Gaza
- To expel the Israeli ambassador from the UK
- For Israeli diplomats to lose their diplomatic status and be tried for their part in the attacks
- Demand the government does not send any military support to assist in the blockade or attacks on Gaza
Negotiation
22nd January 2009
At about 4.30pm approximately 30 people occupied the Botany House building and issued their demands to the university.
