Daily Archives: December 8, 2010

Online Messages of Solidarity

Posted on December 8, 2010 by n8x

See the following link for previous support messages posted as comments:

http://bristoluniresistance.org.uk/solidarity/

 
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Message of Support from UCU

Posted on December 8, 2010 by n8x

Dear Students in Occupation,

I am writing to you on behalf of the executive committee of Bristol UCU to express our wholehearted support for the occupation and for your objective to promote discussion and debate about current HE policy across the university. We are aware that not all our many branch members will necessarily agree with our stance , so we cannot speak on their behalf but the committee members have unanimously declared their wish to back you in your action.

Many of the policies you espouse are ones we endorse and have been campaigning  

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Open Response to The University

Posted on December 8, 2010 by bur

If you haven’t received it yet, we sent the following email out at lunch-time today:

Dear All,

You will have received a letter from the University Registrar today concerning protest activities in and around campus and also specifically about the ongoing occupation of Senate Room of Senate House. We, the occupiers, would like to put forward a response to this, to clarify the current situation.  

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Support from over 100 academics across SPAIS, Geography and Philosophy

Posted on December 8, 2010 by bur

Over the last twenty four hours letters have been sent to university management on behalf of one hundred and six academics from within the schools of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS), Geography and Philosophy. They have expressed support for the students and have called for open access to Senate Room and for no punitive action to be taken.

We would like to say an enormous thanks to all those who have expressed their support and called for open access to Senate Room.

Please encourage your departments to take similar action by referencing the actions of these departments. Please Bcc us in to any emails sent, [email protected].

 
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Occupation Update: Day 3

Posted on December 8, 2010 by bur

Up until this point we have been sending representatives from our group to talk with Senior Management on our behalf. Following yesterday’s talks around the access issue, we have decided to cease using the representatives method and instead invite them to come to speak with all of us.

We took this decision for a number of reasons: we felt sending representatives from the occupation to speak on our behalf was not particularly productive; our ‘negotiators’ have a very limited mandate from the group as a whole, and as such, cannot really make significant decisions on its behalf and finally we felt that using representatives tends to create hierarchies within the group and denies the group as a whole of the possibility to partake in valuable discussion.  

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Sign the Open Access E-Petition!

Posted on December 8, 2010 by bur

Despite mass demonstrations, a landslide victory at the student union’s EGM, with a turnout that almost double quorum, and persistent email campaign plus messages of support from staff and students, the university management continue to claimed we have very little support within the wider university.

While individual messages are probably more effective, in addition to these, and in order to further demonstrate the broad support for our aims and demands, please sign this petition as soon as possible to mount pressure on the university to let you in!

For our full demands see: bristoluniresistance.org.uk/2010/12/statement-of-bristol-university-occupation/

 
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