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.
We will be sending a formal open letter on this issue shortly. In the meantime we urge people to continue putting pressure on the Vice Chancellor to demand open access. Keep sending those emails. Please phone the Vice Chancellor’s Office: (0117) 928 7499 or email him via his PA [email protected] to demand open access. Please cc our registrar Derek Pretty, [email protected]. Also please consider signing the petition.
Also just to say HUGE THANKS for all messages of support both on the blog and via email, the open letters that have been sent to put the pressure on to open up this space and of course for the food drops – it’s all massively appreciated, heartwarming and inspiring!
Absolutely amazing! Well done people, keep up! Huge respect and solidarity from Brno, Czech Republic.
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