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<u>Building Occupation in Progress, University of Sussex</u><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote"><br>Students at the University of Sussex are occupying their university's<br>
conference center to protest cuts to classes and employee layoffs:<br>
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<a href="http://defendsussex.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/occupation-statement-1/">http://defendsussex.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/occupation-statement-1/</a><br>
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Occupation Statement 1<br>
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We have occupied the top floor of Bramber House, University of Sussex,<br>
Brighton. There are 106 of us.<br>
<br>
The decision to occupy has been taken after weeks of concerted<br>
campaigning during which the university management have repeatedly<br>
failed to take away the threat of compulsory redundancies and course<br>
cuts.<br>
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We recognise that an attack on education workers is an attack on us.<br>
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The room we have occupied is not a lecture theatre but a conference<br>
centre. As such, we are not disrupting the education of our fellow<br>
students; rather, we are disrupting a key part of management’s<br>
strategy to run the university as a profitable business.<br>
<br>
They’re occupying everywhere in waves across California, New York,<br>
Greece, Croatia, Germany and Austria and elsewhere – and not only in<br>
the universities. We send greetings of solidarity and cheerful grins<br>
to all those occupation movements and everyone else fighting the pay<br>
cuts, cuts in services and jobs which will multiply everywhere as<br>
bosses and states try and pull out of the crisis.<br>
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But we are the crisis.<br>
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Profitability mean nothing against the livelihoods destroyed, lost<br>
homes, austerity measures, green or otherwise. We just heard we’ve<br>
increased ‘operational costs’ – they’d set out the building for a<br>
meeting and now they’ll have to do it again<br>
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We’ll show them “operational costs.”<br>
<br>
Occupy again and again and again.<br>
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NO CUTS ANYWHERE.<br>
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THE UNIVERSITY IS A FACTORY. STRIKE. OCCUPY.<br>
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-All the occupiers of the 8th of February.<br>
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