November 2011
UWESU Statement - 30th Nov. Strikes →
The majority of students at AGM (Annual General Meeting) that took place on 24th November voted to support public sector strikes for ‘pension justice’ on 30th November, and stand together to support the quality of education and the student experience at UWE. On this day, some lecturers that are members of the University of the West of England (UWE) will be out on strike. This Union supports...
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UWE Solidarity Occupation →
Outline: What The Occupation seeks.
Demands for the Government, University and Student Union:
That neither students nor staff be persecuted for their political convictions or activity thereby.
We call on the Government, the following:
First and foremost: to settle any ongoing disputes with public sector unions by making the concessions that the workers want.
To take full responsibility...
The list I have is Goldsmiths, Edinburgh, Warwick, Birmingham, Cambridge, Bloomsbury and York. As far as I’m aware Birmingham is currently out because of the court order but looking for somewhere else suitable.
Does anybody have a more up to date list, and preferably links to any blogspot/wordpress/twitter/facebook/tumblr accounts for this latest round of student occupations? The pictures...
“Those who think that letting the talk go ahead would have influenced the debate...”
– Occupier at Cambridge University, on why they disrupted a debate with David Willets (Minister for Universities and Science) before going into occupation.
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tnali replied to your photo: Goldsmiths University occupation of the Whitehead…
My cousin goes to Goldsmiths. Awesome.
I have a couple of comrades there, should be seeing them on the weekend. Suh-weet.
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dagNotes: High and Mighty and very Whitey. The...
akagoldfish:
dagseoul:
no I’m not going to get rid of the pepper spray meme photos I posted on my blog. doubt my intentions. fuck off.
sick of child bloggers getting all sanctimonious about triggers and experience. like i need a kid to talk to me about life experience. fuck off.
i’m not precious. did you all really think the cops would not attack occupy protesters? that was the intention....
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ftm-communist replied to your post: Trying to read Zizek’s “Why…
Does he use Hegelian terminology without explaining it? I want to start reading Zizek so I should know what I’m getting myself into.
Not specifically, and I get the feeling that this particular essay is of quite a deep level rather than something designed for the casual browser. It’s just that it’s been ages...
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Trying to read Zizek’s “Why Should a Dialectician Learn to Count to Four”, rapidly melting my brain. Bleurgh, possibly need to read a lot of Hegel before I get to grips with this.
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RE: pepper spray meme
I think I’ve cleaned up all the ones I reblogged.
youarenotyou:
There is an ENORMOUS difference between a survivor of police brutality using humor to deal with their experience, and people making a pepper spray meme and spreading it in a public forum like tumblr with no regard to the fact that many victims of state violence could be upset or triggered by it.
I am disgusted by the people...
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“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be...”
– Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
Oh I'd rather be a picket than a scab!
Mythbuster: The truth about the unions →
As the Tories and their pals in the press ratchet up the anti-strike rhetoric, Red Pepper knocks down some of the myths they throw at the unions
MYTH: Unions strike at the first opportunity, without a thought for the consequences
Nobody takes the decision to strike lightly. Strikes are very expensive – the cost to the unions of 30 November, including ballots, will be millions of pounds. Union...
NYPD pepper sprays man to death →
youarenotyou:
jennyisaheadcase:
socialistictendencies:
The death of a Bronx man who suffered a fatal asthma attack after cops pepper-sprayed him has been ruled a homicide by the city medical examiner.
An autopsy found that Kemp Yarborough cause of death was by“acute bronchial asthma attack during a physical altercation including pepper spray,” the city medical examiner told….
More at link
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shesgothighmorale:
philosophy-of-praxis:
shesgothighmorale:
I bet they won’t even be able to tell that I’m joking. Time for the uproar over jokes taken too seriously.
Jokes you don’t make because in the context of the situation they make you into someone who is being racist:
This one.
Because calling me a “stupid white woman” with a “white lily ass” (yeah, someone called me that) is...
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shesgothighmorale:
I bet they won’t even be able to tell that I’m joking. Time for the uproar over jokes taken too seriously.
Jokes you don’t make because in the context of the situation they make you into someone who is being racist:
This one.
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