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Update from the SOAS occupation

IMCista | 16.06.2009 18:46 | Education | Migration

Following a well-attended rally at 4:30, which was followed by a march round the Bloomsbury colleges, the occupiers had a long meeting to discuss their demands, some of which the director has already agreed on, while others are still being negotiated.

Just after 7pm, people were told by the management that the directors have left and negotiations will have to resume in the morning. The 'deadline' for getting back to them with the finalised demands was 7pm. Apparently they were too busy to wait for a few minutes!

One important development is that what was thought to be an injunction or eviction notice turned out to be an application for an injunction that will be dealt with by a judge at a hearing on 22nd June. Which means there is no injunction as yet and the SOAS director claiming earlier to have called off the imminent eviction may well have been, well, bullshit!

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We are going to march on SOAS!

17.06.2009 13:17

We the British National Party are going to march on SOAS to demand that all illegal immigrants are deported! Just try and stop us!
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BNP forever

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Hypocracy

17.06.2009 20:52

The SOAS unions condemmed the previous contractors for non applying proper terms and conditions for its workers. This included proper checks on who was leagl or illegal. The SOAS unions were part of the selection process (at their request) that selected ISS.

Now ISS have undertook dur diligence and identified who was working illegally, the unions want them to ignore it.

This is not about the rights of a group of workers from overseas, this is about an extreeme militant groups long term plot to control SOAS. They bullied management in the previous Library dispute and have done it agin with this.

In the end they will bring SOAS to it's knees


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