North East Uni Alliance Meeting

Tomorrow will see the meeting of representatives from anti-cuts groups across the North East in Middlesbrough, in an attempt to better co-ordinate our campaign and to build a stronger relationship between our North Eastern Institutions. Ideally we want reps from as many groups as possible to attend, this includes schools and colleges.

At the meeting we will be discussing the different plans of action we may have and working out how best to support each other and make maximum impact (preferably non-violent!) Several people have also mentioned that we will be discussing the creation of a Union of North East Institutions of which reps of each group will be members. This would be especially useful as our true Union the NUS seems fairly unsupportive and our SU's have so far not shown any signs of taking the lead.

This is truly a historic movement we are living through: students are taking action to save their education, and taking action independantly of their SUs. School and College students have joined us in a fight which is rightfully theirs and never (in my lifetime at least) have I know my generation so united.

We have high hopes for the future of this campaign and we hope the meeting tomorrow will be the sucessful first of many!