Pics: Support Demo for LMU Occupation
px | 14.05.2009 19:02 | Education | Free Spaces | Workers' Movements
On Tuesday 12th around 100 people demonstrated outside the London Metropolitan University's Commercial Road campus, following a call to support the student occupation of the university. Those demonstrating included a continget from the IWW and UCU unions, students and staff from the university, as well as campaigners against the privatisation of education. People demonstrated for about one and a half hours, during which speeches were made by students and unions staff. See video.
The management of the university has hired private security to prevent people from joining the occupation. They prevented the demonstrators from visiting en mass the occupied area, although, for some very strange reason, people were allowed into the occupied rooms in small groups, so many of those demonstrating eventually did so in order to show support to the students in occupation.
See below some pics of the demo:
View of the support demo
Solidarity of the Industrial Workers of the World union.
Banner of the University and College Union
Snap of the occupied area.
Mr Falconbridge, Head of Department.
Suppot is still needed!
The occupation is still on, although the occupation Twitter updates that "The university management have served us with a court injunction and want us to leave..... NOW! this is unprecedented, bulling behaviour."
Keep an eye to the Twitter for updates as well as the London Met Crisis blog.
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