Protect the Public University - Warwick 22nd april2013. Warwick suspends prominent critic of higher education policy. PROTECT THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY – WARWICK. PPU Warwick @PPU_Warwick sur Twitter. Fb: Protect the Public University - Warwick. Fb: Protect the Public University Forum 22april2013. Joseph Fox. DorothyAPickard : @PPU_Warwick Looking good Senate... Objectives. Words of support: Letter from (Warwick) Academics: The occupations library includes. PPU_Warwick : The occupation's library includes... The Occupied Times: Warwick University Council Chamber Occupied. On Friday afternoon a group of Warwick University students from Protect the Public University – Warwick occupied the University Council Chamber.
They are protesting against the Warwick Vice-Chancellor’s pay increase of £42,000 as part of a deeper opposition to the continuing marketisation and privatisation of higher education. At a time when students are facing increasingly high graduate debts and financial uncertainty and university staff are experiencing a real wage pay cut, Protect the Public University – Warwick feels immediate action must take place to ensure these radical changes are contested. For example, current students receiving a full maintenance loan along with their tuition loan on a three-year degree will have a post-university debt of £43,500. And now it has been reported that graduates are facing the threat of an increase in their interest payments: This action takes place at a time of resurgence in student activism.
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Apr 29, 01:01 This is shocking and frankly disgusting. Protect the Public University « The Boar. Photo: Dorothy Allen-Pickard Students occupying Senate House continued their protest against the ‘marketisation and privatisation’ of university over the weekend, and have vowed to remain there indefinitely.
The building’s Council Chamber has been occupied by a group of around twenty student protesters calling themselves ‘Protect the Public University – Warwick’ since last Friday. The group published a list of seven objectives on Saturday afternoon, which includes the objective that vice-chancellor Nigel Thrift “relinquishes his unjustifiable pay increase” and uses it to fund a bursary for students from the local community. A spokesperson for the group told the Boar that morale in the room is “very high” and that they have been holding meetings three or four times a day. Professors lend support to Senate House occupation « The Boar. Prof.
John Holmwood of Nottingham University addressing students outside Senate House / Photo by Michael Allen The University has refused to engage with the students occupying Senate House to protest the “marketisation and privatisation” of higher education despite several professors voicing their support for the occupation on Tuesday. Gurminder K Bhambra, Professor of Sociology at Warwick, John Holmwood, Professor of Sociology at Nottingham University, and Michael Niblett, Research Fellow in the Yesu Perusad Centre for Caribbean Studies at Warwick gave talks outside Senate House to over one hundred students in support of the objectives of ‘Protect the Public University – Warwick’ (PPU), the group of around twenty students occupying the Senate House Council Chamber. The ‘open teach-in’ was introduced by Steven Barrell, a Phd Philosophy student, who called Nigel Thrift’s £42,000 pay rise ‘grotesque’.
Protesters set up camp outside Senate House « The Boar. Photo: John Servante Prospective students and parents visiting Warwick for the official Open Day today were met by protesters who had set up camp on the field in front of Senate House.
A group of students, who call themselves ‘Protect the Public University – Warwick’ (PPU) set up nine tents at about 7.30am this morning. They handed out information to parents and prospective students and explained the objectives of their protest. “It’s just as radical as it was twenty-five years ago,” said a 51-year-old mother and Warwick alumna, who works as an art teacher, gesturing at Senate House. She had travelled from London as her son was hoping to study Maths at Warwick. “Education should be free for everyone,” she added. Theboar: *Senate House occupation ends. Protesters outside Senate House after leaving peacefully / Photo: Michael Allen The occupation of Senate House by anti-privatisation protestors ended peacefully this afternoon.
The around twenty students from ‘Protect the Public University – Warwick’ (PPU) occupying the building left through the front door of Senate House at around 4.15pm today. Just before that time, the protesters from the camp outside approached the entrance of Senate House to congratulate and embrace the inside protesters as they left. Protesters embracing after leaving Senate House / Photo: Michael Allen Security permitted the inside protesters to leave the building without hindrance. Guardian: Students occupy Warwick in protest at vice-chancellor's pay rise. A group of more than 20 Warwick students are occupying the university's council chamber in protest against the £42,000 pay rise of its vice-chancellor Nigel Thrift.
The group, which calls itself Protect the Public University, says Thrift's pay packet – which now totals £316,000 – reflects the marketisation of higher education. It says: "There is currently no space for dialogue over the future of our own university. We are occupying this council chamber in order to open that space, to start that dialogue and to make our voices heard. " THE: Students occupy Warwick council chamber. Students are occupying the University of Warwick’s council chamber to protest against the “marketisation of higher education”.
About 20 students from a group called Protect the Public University – Warwick entered the university premises on Friday for a “meeting of indefinite length”. They want to highlight the issue of student debt caused by the trebling of tuition fees last autumn and lack of progress made by Russell Group universities in recruiting students from poor families. “Universities are becoming the site of extraordinary inequalities,” said a spokesman for the group. Protestors also have a list of grievances against Warwick, including the £42,000 pay hike awarded to its vice-chancellor Nigel Thrift last year. Warwick-university-buildings-occupied-in-privatisation-protest-8667161. The group calls itself Protect the Public University – Warwick (PPU) and has outlined eight ‘objectives’, including that Vice Chancellor Nigel Thrift give up his £42,000 pay rise and use it to fund a bursary for local students.
Warwick’s academic registrar Michael Glover has refused to engage with the students and said in a letter sent to the occupiers and seen by The Independent that the occupation was having ‘a number of negative impacts on the operation of the university’. Read more: The Warwick University protest is yet another sign that students aren't going to take it any more Mr Glover demands that the group set an end date for their occupation and has labelled the indefinite extension of the occupation “totally unacceptable”. “The university has shown no interest in opening dialogue and it's resorting to intimidation,” said a spokesperson for the occupiers. Supporters wore squares of yellow cloth to show their solidarity with the occupation.
Warwick-university-occupation-ends-peacefully-8671103. A spokesperson from ‘Protect the Public University – Warwick’ (PPU) said: “We thought it was important that this didn’t drag out to the end of term and the university didn’t resort to the disproportionate use of legal methods or disciplinary action to threaten us out.”
Around 20 students, who had occupied the university’s Senate House since last week, left the building at 4.15pm on Saturday. Security permitted them to leave without hindrance. An anonymous member of the group, who had been inside, said: “It’s so weird to be outside. I haven’t slept properly for eight days.” Inequality and the University. British politics has been strangely quiet about the topic of inequality. Courage, in two movements. Last month, I wrote asking what the ‘fearless’ university might feel like. I wanted to highlight two very different, but not unrelated, examples that came to my attention in recent days. Each speaks to a different kind of courage that I am interested in exploring in relation to one another.
3CosasCampaign : #3cosas with warwick uni... Warwick for Free Education. Warwick For Free Education. WFFE (@WarwickFreeEd) Warwick students in free education protest sit-in get dragged and CS sprayed. Taser drawn. YouTube. Warwick Students In Free Education Protest Sit-in Get Dragged And CS Sprayed Taser Drawn. Warwick Free Education sit in attacked by police. Tom McArthur sur Twitter : "Looks like a drawn Taser to me, @WMPolice. Sounds like one too -... Youtube. Police Brutality on Warwick Campus. At the peaceful sit-in at the bottom floor of senate house police were called and reacted with extreme, disproportionate and unprovoked violence. Several police cars turned up and a police riot van as well as a police dog. We formed a human chain but they broke through using CS spray (active agent in tear gas) on many activists at close quarters, a taser gun was held up and threatened, it was also suspected to be used.
Activists were punched, pushed onto the floor, dragged, rammed by their throat into the wall and kneed in the face. We were staging a peaceful protest and it was totally unprecedented; we were sitting in a circle talking in university space. At least 20 students were assaulted by university security and police. Police Arrest 3 Students And Use CS Spray During Anti-Fees Protest At Warwick.
RaW News sur Twitter : "BREAKING: 8 police cars on campus and arrests made after Senate House protest."... Harry Horton sur Twitter : "@aeon456 drawing a Taser is classified as use - see here:... Oscar Webb on Twitter: "W Midlands police said "officers... worked... to ensure everyone was safe" I'd certainly feel safe being CS gassed and threatened w/ a taser"
Against Fees & Cuts sur Twitter : "Students camping out in Coventry Central Police Station for those arrested at Warwick. #solidarity #freeeducation. Shocking video: Police CS spray protesting Warwick University students. Footage show ugly scenes as cops make arrests at 'sit-in' protest over tuition fees Warning: Video contains adult language Three people have been arrested after ugly scenes broke out during a protest at Warwick University.
A video has also emerged which appears to capture the moment protesters, from campaign group Warwick for Free Education, were CS sprayed by police. Police use CS spray and Taser at Warwick University protest. Mr Green said that he had been to hospital last night. "I've spent most of the morning resting. When I woke up I could barely see," he said. "I'm going to see the doctor again soon. There's a lot of pain in my left eye. " 'No alternative' AV05. Amnesty UK sur Twitter : "CS gas used and Taser drawn at @warwickuni protest by @WMPolice. A #taser is not a crowd-control device: Concerns over police CS gas and Taser use at Warwick University protest. ‘We’re worried that West Midlands Police are becoming increasingly trigger-happy with Tasers’ - Oliver Sprague Reacting to reports that police deployed CS gas and a Taser electro-shock weapon in their response to a protest by students at Warwick University in Coventry yesterday, Amnesty International UK Arms Control Director Oliver Sprague said: “Videos of the incident and accounts from several eyewitnesses raise serious concerns about whether the police acted heavy-handedly and seriously endangered people at the scene.
“Eyewitnesses report that CS gas was used in a relatively confined space against peaceful protesters posing no threat, while one police officer is clearly seen discharging a Taser into the air for a prolonged period - an action that could have caused serious injury if gas had been ignited. “A Taser is only supposed to be used by police as a ‘distance-control’ weapon when confronting dangerous individuals - it should never be used as a crowd-control device. Amnesty UK on Twitter: "@WMPolice Does West Midlands Police policy allow for continuous firing of the weapon whilst in a crowd like that?"
UK Midlands outrage: Police teargas and 'assault' students protesting tuition fees — RT UK. UK police armed with Taser 'use CS gas during peaceful student protest' Videos posted online today appeared to show police officers using physical force and CS gas against students at a sit-in protest against tuition fees. Solidarity with Warwick students. Warwick Alumni Demand an Apology to Students.
S on Twitter: "Students have stopped the VC's gala dinner by occupying the Rootes building. #copsoffcampus #acab #Warwickprotest" Students at University of Warwick force open Senate House doors in #CopsOffCampus protest. Craig McVegas sur Twitter : "This photo by @Jake_Photo really made me laugh. Impenetrable chair fortress! @CharlottEngland @VICEUK @WarwickFreeEd. RaW News sur Twitter : "@BBCNewsbeat Warwick students occupy a campus building as part of their #copsoffcampus demonstration...
Warwick University Occupation Demands- 04/12/2014. On the third of December 2014, police officers were called to Warwick campus by university management and unlawfully attacked peaceful protesters. Warwick University Occupation Demands- 04/12/2014. Michael Segalov sur Twitter : "Warwick is occupied. #copsoffcampus #freeeducation... Warwick University reoccupied as free education action continue nationwide. Contact: 07821731481, 07850652962, 07989235178, 07891714146, 07749263622 #copsoffcampus protest draws 1000 activists from across the UKSolidarity actions in four cities, including occupationsConference Centre occupied by hundreds of activistsLocal protests planned for SaturdayAmnesty International expresses “concern”
The University have asked us to leave, here’s our response. Earlier this afternoon, we received a visit from the University’s Academic Registrar and the Head of Security. They delivered us this letter. We are very disappointed that instead of responding to our reasonable demands and entering into negotiations, they have decided to issue us a letter trying to make us leave. Ewa Jasiewicz sur Twitter : "Staying put. Visit #warwickprotest! MT @NCAFC_UK: Warwick Uni have asked students to leave. Occupiers respond here: S sur Twitter : "Access! #copsoffcampus #warwickprotest... S sur Twitter : "Solidarity demo w/ occupiers. #copsoffcampus #warwickprotest... The Further Criminalisation of Student Protest. The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement has served as a reminder of the wider politics of austerity and its beneficiaries in the form of tax cuts and those at its detriment experiencing wage freezes and cuts in services and benefits.
“WTF is happening?!” – Warwick, the police and the new student movement. Images of pepper spray and a Taser on a university campus were shocking, but if the new student movement is to dig its heels in it can expect more where that came from. “What the fuck is happening?!” Cried a woman two metres away from me, holding one hand to her mouth while the other tried to keep her camera focused on the police. Within seconds, a generous spray of CS gas was discharged on a group who were filming with their smartphones, trying to capture some sense of the chaos. If you’ve never been CS gassed, you don’t want to be.