Security and the PSNI were present during the occupation but with no intervention due to the peaceful nature of the protest. The sit-in lasted for 3 hours demanding the Vice Chancellor show his face and explain his support for increase in fees to £9000 a year. Outrageous considering Peter Gregson himself received his University Education for free and now is on an annual wage of £200,000, is a member of an exclusive Gentleman’s Club and receives an annual wine allowance of £10,000 that students are footing the bill for!
Instead of Peter Gregson the Pro-Vice Chancellor showed up to listen to our demands and again put forward the stance by Queens that fees needed to be risen. He was told that FEE would be calling more campaigns and stepping up the pressure to get the message across that any rise in fees would be unacceptable. HM Revenues and Customs failed to obtain £123 billion in unpaid taxes from the rich and banks are still making profits despite the massive bailout of tax-payers money. The money IS there to ensure free education for everyone!
Westminster announced that on Thurs 9th December a vote would take place on the rise of tuition fees. Student Unions’ and the NUS-USI must call a protest on the day of the vote and mobilise students to oppose these attacks on education.
Is US imperialism and/or Israel preparing a military attack on Iran? How would the Islamist dictatorship in Tehran respond? These questions came into focus again over the holidays following new sanctions announced by the United States and an Iranian navy exercise.
A protest has been called on Thursday 24th June from 5-6pm outside the European Commission offices on the Dublin Rd in Belfast to oppose the cuts to public services to be announced in this weeks Budget.
The concerted might of the strongest and largest military force in the world, that of the US, is failing to defeat the disparate and crudely equipped Taliban militias in one of the poorest countries of the world.