School, built with a £20 million donation from Wafiq Said, infamous arms dealer.
be held in Oxford in January - at the Said Business School, which was built with a
£20 million donation from Wafiq Said, infamous arms dealer and facilitator for the
Saudi/UK Al-Yamamah arms deal.
The construction of the Said Business School saw numerous protests, including a six
month squat and multi-day eviction...and including numerous protests from Oxford
University Student Union. Only a few years later, however, RAG now seems happy to meet
in the Business School 'built with blood money'.
Matt
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18.10.2004 13:07
I don't know what the upshot is in terms of how much control he has over the syllabus, but the point is that this certainly wasn't an unconditional kind-hearted donation.
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