GRANTS NOT FEES! march - London
NUS | 16.02.2002 14:14
Join the march against student hardship in London, this coming Wednesday the 20th! *Everyone* invited (not just students)
March called by the Nationa Union of Students (NUS)
March called by the Nationa Union of Students (NUS)
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Assemble: 11am Malet Street, London W1
Rally Trafalgar Square
Wednesday, 20th Februaru, 2002
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The demo's on Wednesday
We're almost there. Join us as we march against hardship and then come to the exclusive party that kicks-off after the Trafalgar Square rally. ULU (Malet Street) is playing host to both the Freestylers and Way Out West on Demo night. Tickets are only £4 and are available by sending in this form to NUS HQ (you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to download it).
And as Demo day approaches it seems at last Welsh students are being listened to. NUS welcomes the reintroduction of grants in Wales but wonders: what about England? Read all about NUS Wales' victory in press releases (news section).
Thousands of students will descend on central London on 20 February 2002 to voice their anger at the government's current student finance policies. To symbolise the state of their finances NUS is calling on all students to turn out dressed in red.
It's now four months since the government acknowledged the failings of the current student finance system. Unbelievably, instead of relieving the burden, some of the options currently being considered will actually exacerbate the debt of thousands of students. The preferred option by the Treasury, commercial interest rate loans, would create an intolerable burden on students, with debt doubling every six years after graduation. NUS figures show that over just a ten-year period, the interest accrued at a market rate would be over £20,000. It's important that students turn-up for the Demo in large numbers and show the goverment their anger.
On Demo day students will march through central London along the most high profile route for generations. Following negotiations with both the police and the Greater London Authority NUS has secured a path that passes the Houses of Parliament and Downing Street, as well as a rally in Trafalgar Square – unheard of during the week.
Speakers for the event include London Mayor Ken Livingstone, NATFHE's Tom Wilson, the AUT's Natalie Fenton, Lib Dem MP David Rendel and Narinder from Big Brother.
The march will bring parts of London to a standstill and leave politicians and the public in no doubt at the contempt with which students regard the government’s current funding policies.
Visit your local students' union for further details. The march sets off at midday from Malet Street, ULU. Assemble 11.00 am.
Are you looking for somewhere to stay while you take part in the Demo? NUS has produced this list of budget accommodation.
Are you a student officer? The password-locked officers' section contains all the resources you'll need to organise Demo activities (go to information/student officers)
Are you working in student media and looking for materials? NUS has issued this syndicated article all about the Demo.
(see website for links)
Assemble: 11am Malet Street, London W1
Rally Trafalgar Square
Wednesday, 20th Februaru, 2002
-------------
The demo's on Wednesday
We're almost there. Join us as we march against hardship and then come to the exclusive party that kicks-off after the Trafalgar Square rally. ULU (Malet Street) is playing host to both the Freestylers and Way Out West on Demo night. Tickets are only £4 and are available by sending in this form to NUS HQ (you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to download it).
And as Demo day approaches it seems at last Welsh students are being listened to. NUS welcomes the reintroduction of grants in Wales but wonders: what about England? Read all about NUS Wales' victory in press releases (news section).
Thousands of students will descend on central London on 20 February 2002 to voice their anger at the government's current student finance policies. To symbolise the state of their finances NUS is calling on all students to turn out dressed in red.
It's now four months since the government acknowledged the failings of the current student finance system. Unbelievably, instead of relieving the burden, some of the options currently being considered will actually exacerbate the debt of thousands of students. The preferred option by the Treasury, commercial interest rate loans, would create an intolerable burden on students, with debt doubling every six years after graduation. NUS figures show that over just a ten-year period, the interest accrued at a market rate would be over £20,000. It's important that students turn-up for the Demo in large numbers and show the goverment their anger.
On Demo day students will march through central London along the most high profile route for generations. Following negotiations with both the police and the Greater London Authority NUS has secured a path that passes the Houses of Parliament and Downing Street, as well as a rally in Trafalgar Square – unheard of during the week.
Speakers for the event include London Mayor Ken Livingstone, NATFHE's Tom Wilson, the AUT's Natalie Fenton, Lib Dem MP David Rendel and Narinder from Big Brother.
The march will bring parts of London to a standstill and leave politicians and the public in no doubt at the contempt with which students regard the government’s current funding policies.
Visit your local students' union for further details. The march sets off at midday from Malet Street, ULU. Assemble 11.00 am.
Are you looking for somewhere to stay while you take part in the Demo? NUS has produced this list of budget accommodation.
Are you a student officer? The password-locked officers' section contains all the resources you'll need to organise Demo activities (go to information/student officers)
Are you working in student media and looking for materials? NUS has issued this syndicated article all about the Demo.
(see website for links)
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I went along to the last one
16.02.2002 15:47
what made them different ? not the relative puported 'luxury' they enjoyed, being a bit of a myth, that one. no, they actively sought to build solidarity with all peoples in struggle, as befits the intelligensia.
todays students do not; when lecturers at my uni took actiuon, the nus branch refused to support it. i pointed out that many of them were veterans of 1968, and should be backed automatically and their ideas heeded. the nus retorted with a 'yeh man, sartre and all that. groovy, but have you seen the price of gauloises nowadays ?
contemptuous swine.
auguste
NUS
16.02.2002 19:28
It was blairite scum NUS who sold students out in the first place re loans vs grants.
I remember an NUS grants demo in something like '94 when it took a copper to persuade the NUS stewards to allow a sound system truck sorted out by some up for it students to join the march, I mean I ask you?
Good luck to the students themselves and screw the NUS.
whose streets?
Last year
17.02.2002 11:40
Lemming
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hey easy tiger
17.02.2002 14:07
nus is not as active as it should be - its conferences are usually dominated by labour students and 'independents'. and labour students are generally more lefty than the lot in parliament but there are others out there working hard
cheers to whoever said good luck to the students - we can organise but i still see the place for nus if we can use it to push a strong campaign. a union is great if its run right
wait and see what happens on wednesday and what happens in this years student elections... there are union officers, union societies, autonomous student groups who are committed to a real education system
and criticising the swp, sure as a party they suck but there's the same point that there are some really good people there. in our union there hasn't been too much communication between societies that should work together - but on the anti-war issue we got cnd, swss, greens (anti-capitalists), una, amnesty, islamic students, friends of palestine together for, as far as i know, the first time ever - and now we have these lasting contacts
ben