Huge student protest-outside parliament London January 11th.

Protester | 25.12.2010 12:18

On 11 January, Parliament will vote on scrapping Education Maintenance Allowances. So far this date has not been widely publicised; it looks like the Government is hoping to get the vote through without too many people noticing!

This demonstartion does have the backing of the NCAFC unlike the last one planned. Not sure about NUS backing.

http://anticuts.com/2010/12/23/save-ema-parliament-votes-on-scrapping-emas-11-january/comment-page-1/#comment-1350

From the website

There have been a lot of protests recently, and there will be more in the New Year, but this one is incredibly important. Please invite as many friends as possible to the Facebook event for this and post what you’re doing locally on the wall.

There’s not long to go until 11 January, and it’s early in the New Year, but let’s mobilise the biggest possible protest movement to stop the Tories in their tracks and save EMA.

If you can get to Central London, we’ll be rallying there. Why not organise a Walk Out from your school or college to come and join us? And university students and trade unionists should come too!

Everyone to the streets in central London January 11th!

Protester

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Something You Should Know

25.12.2010 12:54

Are the PIGS ever going to beat the crap out of you. Wear padding.

The Queen Mother

Food

26.12.2010 12:43

Try not to take too much stuff with you, but get some high-energy snacks, wear something comfortable but warm (maybe have some spare clothes with you or something that looks totally different underneath) and take some water. Medics will be there, but think about padding, maybe crash helmets, etc. and look out for eachother.

Medic

ATS

26.12.2010 12:46

www.activist-trauma.net

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/12/471200.html

ATS

Facebook censoring UK protests.

26.12.2010 21:51

Just so you know that the facebook group has been deleted like alot of groups involving any kind of resistance to the government. It shows up for the admin but no one else can see it.
Keep making more pages and spread the word and draw alot of attention to the fact that it’s being censored.

Facebook censorship

28.12.2010 17:47

Don't trust Facebook or any other corporate provider for organising your activism (e.g. see what happened to FITWatch -

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/11/468002.html )

Find out about organising online and activist providers in the Tech Tools for Activists guide:

http://hacktivista.net/hacktionlab/index.php/Tech_tools_for_activists

(By all means use Facebook as it gets to a lot of people - I'm just saying don't rely on them.)

Tech

Report Facebook censorship here

29.12.2010 15:23

For what it's worth the Open Society Institute are tracking global examples of Facebook censorship as they explained to me earlier in 2010:

"In case you are still interested in more info on censorship by Facebook, the OpenNet Initiative is trying to document the different cases.

Also, we're working for the Center for Democracy and Technology, an OSI grantee, is part of the Global Network Initiative , a self-regulatory initiative committing tech companies to better protect human rights.

GNI through outreach to Facebook was able to get pages re-instated in some instances."

So if you think it's important or you ca be bothered you could report it to Vera Franz at the OSI...

Facebooker