Occupy LSE - Free University of London. We have have occupied the Vera Anstey Suite, the central meeting room of the university administration, to demand a change to the current university system.
LSE is the epitome of the neoliberal university. Universities are increasingly implementing the privatised, profit-driven, and bureaucratic ‘business model’ of higher education, which locks students into huge debts and turns the university into a degree-factory and students into consumers. LSE has become the model for the transformation of the other university systems in Britain and beyond. Massive indebtedness, market-driven benchmarks, and subordination to corporate interests have deeply perverted what we think university and education should be about. We demand an education that is liberating – which does not have a price tag. Occupy LSE - Free University of London. @LSEOCCUPATION. Occupy LSE - Free University of London — Why we are occupying. Occupy LSE - Free University of London — Why we are occupying.
Casper Thomas sur Twitter : "En hop, daar zijn de eisen. Gaat makkelijk met een kleine club...#LSEOccupation... The Demands of The LSE Occupation, 23/03/2015. The Demands of The LSE Occupation, 23/03/2015. Below is a list of the finalised demands we have formulated and will be taking to negotiations with management.
Free Education We believe that education should be universally accessible. Education is not only a service for those that can afford it. With the aim of universally accessible education, we demand that the university: 1. 2. 3. 4. Workers’ Rights We stand in solidarity with unions representing LSE staff (Unison, UCU and Unite) and we demand: 1. 2. 3. 4. In response to the concerns raised by academic staff we demand: 1. 2. Genuine University Democracy The Occupy LSE group have held democratic consultations with a diverse group of students and staff, both academic and non-academic. 1. 2. 3. Divestment We demand that the school cuts its ties to exploitative and destructive organisations, such as those involved in wars, military occupations, the illegal blacklisting of workers and the destruction of the planet. 1. 2. 3. 4.
LSE Administration: Meet the demands of the LSE Occupation. LSE management have threatened legal action against the students occupying the Vera Anstey Suite.
In light of this we ask that you pledge solidarity with us by signing this petition. Full list of demands: Facebook:
Tweets. BREAKING: Students Occupy LSE. Post By RelatedRelated Post Protest in opposition to ‘Neoliberalisation’Around 20 students occupying Vera Anstey Room in Old BuildingDemands set out online and on social media Doors open all day for ‘workshops’ where all are welcomeCurrent C&W Officer Sebastian Bruhn involved, as is Feminist Society President Natalie NunnOwen Jones weighs in on protest, offering to turn up at 5pm todayNewly elected LSESU Community and Welfare Officer Aysha Al-Fekaiki involved A group, apparently consisting of around 40 LSE students has occupied the Vera Anstey Room in the Old Building.
Students occupy LSE > The Mancunion. "We base our struggle on principles of equality, direct democracy, solidarity, mutual care and support.
" Students Have Occupied LSE Demanding Fairer and Better Education. This morning the London School of Economics woke to find their university occupied by a group of 40 students, most of them studying post-graduate degrees, protesting for better education.
The Occupy LSE movement have locked themselves in the Vera Anstey room in one of LSE’s central buildings. In a statement released on their Facebook and Tumblr pages, Occupy LSE asks the university to put an end to their ‘business model of higher education’ in which students are trapped in debt and turned into consumers. I spoke to one of the occupants, post-graduate Natalie Fiennes, to find out more about their situation and their plans. Fiennes says that the movement had been planned for about 10 days, and that a large group of students had shown a ‘general discontent’ with the way the elite university is ran.
Londense studenten geïnspireerd door Maagdenhuisbezetters. In Londen hebben enkele tientallen studenten de London School of Economics bezet uit protest tegen het ‘neoliberale business model’ van de universiteit.
Ook zij lopen te hoop tegen het management van de universiteit en eisen meer inspraak. Een groep van rond de veertig studenten heeft gisteren een college- en vergaderzaal van de London School of Economics bezet, meldt universiteitskrant BeaverOnline. De groep heeft zich solidair verklaard met de bezetters van het Maagdenhuis in Amsterdam en met studentenprotesten in Sheffield, Warwick en Oxford. Meer inspraak De eisen van de Britse studenten komen voor een groot deel overeen met die van de actievoerders in het Maagdenhuis: meer inspraak van studenten en medewerkers en meer vaste contracten voor het personeel.
Toch zijn er ook verschillen. Londense studenten volgen voorbeeld Maagdenhuisbezetters. De protestdrift van De Nieuwe Universiteit wordt niet alleen binnen de landsgrenzen overgenomen.
In London hebben ongeveer veertig studenten een collegezaal van de London School of Economics bezet met de eis voor meer inspraak, meldt Hoger Onderwijs Persbureau. De bezetters zijn het eens met de protesterende studenten in Amsterdam en willen naast meer inspraak van studenten en docenten, meer vaste contracten voor het universiteitspersoneel.
De Londense studenten gaan zelfs nog wat verder in hun (politieke) eisen: zo willen ze onder andere dat hun universiteit alle samenwerking met de olie-industrie stopzet. Ook organiseren ze, net als de Maagdenhuisbezetters, workshops, debatten en lezingen in de bezette ruimte. Of de Engelsen net zo vasthoudend zijn als de bezetters van het Bungehuis en het Maagdenhuis in hun strijd tegen de universiteit, moet nog blijken. Occupy LSE - Free University of London - 25th March 2015. [Video] London: LSE students stage occupation calling for free education - UK - Newzulu United Kingdom. The 1st Newzulu Reporter Awards ("Newzulu Awards") seeks to award the most outstanding contributions in regards to its newsworthiness and its compelling attributes.
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By Karim Adel El-Sayed Last week, student radicalism in the United Kingdom returned to where it started, the London School of Economics and Political Science, 120 years after the university first opened its doors to students.
On Tuesday evening, March 17, 2015, a group of 20 to 25 mainly postgraduate students occupied the LSE’s Vera Anstey Suite -- the central meeting room of the university administration -- in protest against the neoliberalization of higher education. Their demands are as varied as they are radical. They include: free and universally accessible education, better protection of workers’ rights on campus, an elected staff-student council to run the university, divestment from fossil fuel companies and those that profit from Israel’s occupation of Palestine, as well as demanding that police not be allowed on campus. “We didn’t have any problems with security. The London School of Economics Occupation Is the Latest In A Growing Wave of Student Revolts. Student occupations are spreading across the U.K. ignited by Occupy LSE, a student-staff takeover that began on March 17 at the London School of Economics, a world famous bastion of neoliberal thinking.
So what exactly is going on, and why does it matter? The Free University of London “We wanted to create a radical political space at LSE where staff and student could speak freely,” Ben Tippet, a Masters student in development studies, explained. “We feel the whole university has been depoliticized, with a corporate culture that cares way more about profit than the role of the university in the wider society.” Occupation. “LSE is an institution that fosters the development of political thought and the School welcomes and supports legitimate political engagement and dissent by students.
This includes vigorously upholding our students’ right to protest and their right to free speech. Over the course of the past six weeks the LSE has positively and constructively engaged with a small number of protestors occupying the Vera Anstey Room in protest over a wide range of Higher Education issues. The School has made a number of offers in good faith where it recognises reasonable and legitimate concerns, especially those shared by our wider student body. The protestors have made other demands that are simply unrealistic. Either they delegitimise existing legal, democratic and accountable frameworks, or they fall outside of the School’s own jurisdiction to make good on the changes sought.
Occupation. “LSE is an institution that fosters the development of political thought and the School welcomes and supports legitimate political engagement and dissent by students. This includes vigorously upholding our students’ right to protest and their right to free speech. Over the course of the past six weeks the LSE has positively and constructively engaged with a small number of protestors occupying the Vera Anstey Room in protest over a wide range of Higher Education issues. The School has made a number of offers in good faith where it recognises reasonable and legitimate concerns, especially those shared by our wider student body.
The protestors have made other demands that are simply unrealistic. Either they delegitimise existing legal, democratic and accountable frameworks, or they fall outside of the School’s own jurisdiction to make good on the changes sought. #OccupyLSE to #OccupyGoldsmiths: Uni Management Says 'Enough' OCCUPY LSE - Students Under Seige!
LSE Occupation to end following negotiations - London Student. Above: A banner hangs from a window of the occupied Old Building. Image via London Student/Dea Gjinovci. End of the LSE Occupation. Occupy LSE - Free University of London. On Thursday evening, 30th April 2015, we left the Vera Anstey Suite after a 6 week long occupation at LSE. For the last month and a half we have been fighting for a free and liberated education and for a democratic and socially responsible university. We stand against the way that universities are becoming businesses, driven by market values, towards a system where access is denied to all but the elite. Universities should be a spaces for critical thought where knowledge is prized for individual development and the betterment of society, and not primarily as a means towards economic growth.
This was reflected in our initial statement. It is always difficult to judge the success of a political action, especially one which lasted so long. Maagdenhuis sur Twitter : "Because the #redsquare can indeed be anywhere. In solidarity with @LSEOCCUPATION #maagdenhuis #dnufestival. What we learned from occupying our university. It is less than a week into the new government and some of us would love nothing more than to run screaming for the hills. Yet, amid this bleak political landscape, students have been occupying their universities. Over the last six weeks we occupied the London School of Economics. Our demands concerned issues of free education, workers’ rights, university democracy, divestment and liberation on campus.