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Occupy Brookes demo confronts Vice Chancellor

anarchocoder | 16.05.2012 21:59 | Occupy Everywhere | Education | Free Spaces | Public sector cuts | Oxford

An unexpected opportunity for action took place today when people on a demo at Occupy Brookes spotted the University VC leaving the building and decided to confront her...

Video Occupy Brookes demo - video/x-msvideo 7.9M


Today's demo was to put pressure on Oxford Brookes management ahead of their meeting tomorrow (Thursday), which will take place in London, presumably to avoid protest.

A discussion took place before the demo, lots of new ideas were raised and several people mentioned the need to continue the campaign in some form after this year's finalists have left, so that it can outlive the current mobilisation.

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This video is 1min long, around 8MB in size, in avi/divx/mp3 format. If you have trouble viewing it I'd recommend using VLC player:
 http://www.videolan.org/

If you prefer to watch it in your browser, you can go to:
 http://archive.org/details/OccupyBrookesDemoChallengesViceChancellor
or:
 https://vimeo.com/42303059

NB At the archive.org site the film will also be available in various formats.

anarchocoder

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Jobs

17.05.2012 08:35

A classic university campaign. Lots of "we don't like this, let's have a protest" No evidence of "we have ideas to make this better". The VC treated you exactly how you deserved to be as children in adults bodies throwing your toys out of the pram because you can't get you own way.

Like 99% of student campaigns it will fizzle out as the participants achieve maturity, get jobs and look back on the 'activist' days with amused embarrassment.

In the words of Neil Kinnock,

"Political protesters that are still protesting after they are 25 have not yet worked out the way to achieve change"

Student

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