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!

Riot Police clashes with protestors: videos

                                                                                                                                                                                    

Remember what I posted earlier about the injuries my friend sustained?

This video shows an example of how it happened. Riot Police clash with protestors in Parliament Square.

Review of December 9th 2010- DEMO DAY

So we marched, and in london we screamed, and in york we shouted, and we occupied and we marched again, with our placards and slogans, with our drums and our mates. And in some towns we got violent, and the police gave us a kicking, in london we were charged at by men on horse-back and beaten with batons (which are designed to break bone).  And still they voted for cuts.

But guess what.

We forced 3/4 of the Lib dems to vote against their own party.
They say this is the end? That's the biggest lib dem rebellion in years! This is not the end by far!
We can force this coalition to its knees and it is already crumbling.
The fact that they reacted so extremely to the protestors outside parliament yesterday proves just how scared they are of us. The fact that they deployed mount police to CHARGE the protestors, shows how terrified they are. 'the jackal is most ferocious when cornered' because it knows its in its death throes. The coalition is up against the wall, and they will try to hit us and beat us back with their riot police and their policies, but we are not going to give into that, OH NO. We will keep on at them, we will get organised and we will fight this battle on the internet, in the council chamber, on the streets AND IN PARLIAMENT. We do have people speaking for us, we do have people who support us, the fact that the york march once again got cheered on by passers by, is proof of that, the fact that the policeman in charge came up and shook our hands, is proof of that. We have never been alone in this, and we will keep organising ourselves. Our generation has finally woken up, we finally have something to bring us together, and by hell the coalition have no idea what they've done.
We will make sure they know soon enough.