[Educationforall] Building Occupation in Progress at the University of Sussex

[Wayne Scherer]

Building Occupation in Progress, University of Sussex

Students at the University of Sussex are occupying their university's


conference center to protest cuts to classes and employee layoffs:



http://defendsussex.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/occupation-statement-1/



Occupation Statement 1



We have occupied the top floor of Bramber House, University of Sussex,

Brighton. There are 106 of us.



The decision to occupy has been taken after weeks of concerted

campaigning during which the university management have repeatedly

failed to take away the threat of compulsory redundancies and course

cuts.



We recognise that an attack on education workers is an attack on us.



The room we have occupied is not a lecture theatre but a conference

centre. As such, we are not disrupting the education of our fellow

students; rather, we are disrupting a key part of management’s

strategy to run the university as a profitable business.



They’re occupying everywhere in waves across California, New York,

Greece, Croatia, Germany and Austria and elsewhere – and not only in

the universities. We send greetings of solidarity and cheerful grins

to all those occupation movements and everyone else fighting the pay

cuts, cuts in services and jobs which will multiply everywhere as

bosses and states try and pull out of the crisis.



But we are the crisis.



Profitability mean nothing against the livelihoods destroyed, lost

homes, austerity measures, green or otherwise. We just heard we’ve

increased ‘operational costs’ – they’d set out the building for a

meeting and now they’ll have to do it again



We’ll show them “operational costs.”



Occupy again and again and again.



NO CUTS ANYWHERE.



THE UNIVERSITY IS A FACTORY. STRIKE. OCCUPY.



-All the occupiers of the 8th of February.



 		 	   		  
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