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Nuclear Power - the Great Debate
06-05-2011 18:04
Room VIII, Vernon Square Campus of SOAS (please note NOT the main campus), off Penton Rise near Kings Cross station/tube.
Join us in a debate on the proposition: "Nuclear Power has no place in the fight against Climate Change: it is simply a diversion which leads us away from the real answer, renewable energy".
This Week in Palestine week 18 2011
06-05-2011 17:26
Palestine Today 06 05 2011
06-05-2011 16:40
ME I’M LADY GAGA I AM DEBUNKE FOR YOU DEAR SHIT FANS PART ONE
Revolutionary May Day Demo Berlin - photos and video
06-05-2011 16:23
https://directactionde.ucrony.net/
Loot Cabot Circus! (17th May 2011)
06-05-2011 14:14
First Green and Black Cross Network Gathering! June 18th
06-05-2011 14:14
About the Bristol riots
06-05-2011 14:02
statement and collection of Bristol based actions over the passed yearOde to IMC UK: keep it going....
06-05-2011 13:56
Glos Eco-village Camping trip!
06-05-2011 13:44
Met Occupation still going strong
06-05-2011 12:08
Update on London Met Occupation ( see http://wearelondonmet.wordpress.com ) : All the support has been really really touching. Thank you for all your love and solidarity.
It is important to stress what is going on…
In case you’re unaware, the University plans to cut 70% of the courses being offered at London Met. This is a clear, ideological attack on Higher Education. The Government’s decision to cut the HE budget by 40% is having very real, and devastating effects on the ground. For somewhere like London Met that is heavily subsidised, the impact is obviously worse. People’s lives, both students and staff, are currently being turned upside-down. Hundreds of redundancies are in process.
Social Centre Plus 1 in Deptford evicted this morning
06-05-2011 11:58
Social Centre Plus 1, the originally occupied Job Centre site on 122 Deptford High St, was finally evicted this morning by a group of bailiff thugs from Locksbury Services backed up by around 10 police officers.7/7 inquest conclusion - serious doubts remain re: 'official' version of events
06-05-2011 11:26
On the day Lady Justice Hallett's final recommendations at the end of the 7/7 inquest, in which she has said there is no case for a public inquiry, serious doubts remain about the official version of events we are expected to swallow.Demo in support of Syrian protestors - Brighton 6.30pm tonight
06-05-2011 09:47
Meet at Old Steine War Memorial Friday May 6 (6.30pm)After Friday prayers more Syrian protestors will be putting their lives on the line protesting against a hideous dictatorship and regime.
Great British Circus
06-05-2011 01:25
The Great British (animal exploiting) Circus is coming to Nottingham again from 10th to 22nd May
It's that time of year again. 'That time' being the annual visit of the Great British Circus to the Japanese Water Gardens at Toton.
The circus may be British but there's certainly nothing great about it. It is one of the few such shows that still exploits animals for public amusement.
Such shows should have been consigned to history long ago along with bear-baiting, performing monkeys and fairground freak shows.
I would appeal to anyone with a shred of decency of compassion reading this, not to visit this circus of shame and to encourage anyone else you know to do the same.
London Met Occupied - video
06-05-2011 01:24
The neoliberal nightmare in education has started - but so has a fightback that can stop it. Greenwich University has also occupied over the philosophy department being cut - please share widely, and please visit or send solidarity messages to support the students and workers as soon as you can!
The neoliberal nightmare in education has started - but so has a fightback that can stop it. Students occupied the graduate centre on Wednesday, while the UCU and UNISON branches are preparing for strike action. Greenwich University has also occupied over the philosophy department being cut. .Please go to the link to watch a 6 minute film.
London Metropolitan University is planning to cut 70% of it's courses - around 400, including history, philosophy, performing arts, trade union studies and carribean studies (the only course of its kind in the country). It also plans to slash many of its student support services, including the acclaimed Learning Development Centre.
It is clear now that London Met is being used as a testing ground to bring in privatisation in education. Vice chancellor Professor Malcolm Gillies is also the executive director of the only private university in Holland - a business school charging 15,000 euros a year in fees - with compulsory add on charges for extra services and trips. Funnily enough, business is one of the few areas at London Met that isn't being cut.
Gillies" right hand man is Jonathan Woodhead, previously the chief researcher in Universities minister David Willetts office. Willetts has already said that he wants to introduce private universities - and suddenly here's Woodhead overseeing the asset stripping of London Met in preparation for privatisation.
London Metropolitan University has the most ethnically diverse student population in the country, predominately working-class and with a reputation for giving a second chance in education to those who were failed by the system the first time round. If these cuts go through, that ethos will be replaced by one of education just for the privileged, with the rest of us trained to be cannon fodder for low paid jobs in a neoliberal, privatised economy.
This is a major battle that needs your support. Please go and visit the students at the occupied graduate centre on Holloway Road tube, and send messages of support to: wearelondonmet@groups.facebook.com.