With the grassy area outside the library hosting tents covered in graffiti reading “The University Profits, Who Dies?” and “Free Palestine” and with a placard demanding “End the Siege on Gaza” one student commented that they felt that the protest had “opened up a politically radical, pro-Palestine, anti-arms trade space on a normally right-wing or apathetic campus.”

The students involved in the protest have collected hundreds of signatures to present to the Vice Chancellor of the University in the first few days of the protest and have been handing out leaflets (see below) detailing the University investment in the arms trade and reporting the “humanitarian disaster” facing the people of Gaza.

When faced with these pieces of information most students are more than willing to add their signature to the letter addressed the Vice Chancellor that urges the University “to institute and support a ban of all Arms Trade companies from recruiting on campus and to ensure the University adopts an ethical investment policy”.

Audio and some more photos (of better quality) to follow shortly.