A one day conference for student activists to discuss the way forward for building a campaigning student movement.
For more details, including a statement and list of supporters, see www.free-education.org.uk/?p=514
Reclaim the Campus will now be held 11am-7pm, Saturday 17 May, at Birkbeck College (on Malet Street, London WC1, near Goodge Street, Russell Square and Euston tubes).
To make suggestions for the agenda, or to submit motions and proposals to the conference, email
reclaimthecampus@gmail.com. The deadline is Friday 16 May at 1pm. All proposals submitted so far will be appear here on Monday 12 May and on the evening of Friday 16 May.
11am
Registration
11.20am
Welcoming speeches
11.30am
a) Workshop on “Education in a neo-liberal world”: how do we fight marketisation?
Speakers include Sofie Buckland, NUS National Executive; Sarah Motta, lecturer at Nottingham University
b) Workers and students organising together in struggle
Speakers from No Sweat and People & Planet
12.50pm
Break
ENS Women caucus
1.35pm
a) After the Governance Review, can we transform NUS? How do we organise to win against fees in the run up to 2009?
Speakers include Daniel Randall, ENS candidate for NUS President; Gemma Short, Sheffield University NUS delegate victimised for voting against Governance Review
b) Workshop: the student movement, the workers’ movement and climate change
Facilitated by Workers’ Climate Action
3pm
Discussion on name/structure/statement of position coming out of conference
Activists will discuss involvement in Education Not for Sale or founding a new organisation
5pm
Elections for committee (depending on previous session)
5.15pm
Break
Further Education is Not for Sale caucus
6pm
Workshops
a) The lessons of 1968 and French students’ struggles today
With a French student activist and David Broder, author of We Demand Nothing, a book about workers’ and students’ struggles in 1968
b) Building a campaigning culture on campus
Sussex Not for Sale campaign; Manchester Reclaim the Uni campaign
c) What kind of international solidarity do we want? A brainstorming workshop on issues including boycotts, international workers’ struggles, ‘military intervention’ and anti-imperialism
d) Kicking the military off campus
Sam Godwin, UCL Union General Secretary suspended for anti-recruitment campaign and then reinstated, and other UCL anti-military activists
7.15pm
Closing speeches
7.30pm
Close
Followed by a benefit gig for Education Not for Sale and No Sweat
Revolutionary hip hop with the Ruby Kid and Max Munday
@ The Cross Kings, York Way, Kings Cross
from 8pm
Reclaim the Campus will now be held 11am-7pm, Saturday 17 May, at Birkbeck College (on Malet Street, London WC1, near Goodge Street, Russell Square and Euston tubes).
To make suggestions for the agenda, or to submit motions and proposals to the conference, email
reclaimthecampus@gmail.com. The deadline is Friday 16 May at 1pm. All proposals submitted so far will be appear here on Monday 12 May and on the evening of Friday 16 May. 11am
Registration
11.20am
Welcoming speeches
11.30am
a) Workshop on “Education in a neo-liberal world”: how do we fight marketisation?
Speakers include Sofie Buckland, NUS National Executive; Sarah Motta, lecturer at Nottingham University
b) Workers and students organising together in struggle
Speakers from No Sweat and People & Planet
12.50pm
Break
ENS Women caucus
1.35pm
a) After the Governance Review, can we transform NUS? How do we organise to win against fees in the run up to 2009?
Speakers include Daniel Randall, ENS candidate for NUS President; Gemma Short, Sheffield University NUS delegate victimised for voting against Governance Review
b) Workshop: the student movement, the workers’ movement and climate change
Facilitated by Workers’ Climate Action
3pm
Discussion on name/structure/statement of position coming out of conference
Activists will discuss involvement in Education Not for Sale or founding a new organisation
5pm
Elections for committee (depending on previous session)
5.15pm
Break
Further Education is Not for Sale caucus
6pm
Workshops
a) The lessons of 1968 and French students’ struggles today
With a French student activist and David Broder, author of We Demand Nothing, a book about workers’ and students’ struggles in 1968
b) Building a campaigning culture on campus
Sussex Not for Sale campaign; Manchester Reclaim the Uni campaign
c) What kind of international solidarity do we want? A brainstorming workshop on issues including boycotts, international workers’ struggles, ‘military intervention’ and anti-imperialism
d) Kicking the military off campus
Sam Godwin, UCL Union General Secretary suspended for anti-recruitment campaign and then reinstated, and other UCL anti-military activists
7.15pm
Closing speeches
7.30pm
Close
Followed by a benefit gig for Education Not for Sale and No Sweat
Revolutionary hip hop with the Ruby Kid and Max Munday
@ The Cross Kings, York Way, Kings Cross
from 8pm
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