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.
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The biggest demonstrations against the Egyptian government in over 30 years have stunned President Hosni Mubarak’s repressive regime. The demonstrations were called on Police Day, January 25, a national holiday that marks the 1952 struggle by the Ismailia police against the British Occupation. Mubarak’s police force today is the very opposite of a liberation movement! It is used to violently prevent workers and youth from demonstrating their anger against the corrupt and fabulously wealthy ruling elite.
In 1989, one million Scots were not paying the poll tax. The All-Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation was also planning organised opposition south of the border. On 1 April 1990, 35 million people would get their poll tax bills and protests were being held throughout England and Wales.
Over the course decades thousands of young children were to suffer horrific sexual abuse at the hands of members of the Catholic clergy around the world while their superiors sought to systematically cover up these crimes.