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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">welcome to the 1st of the twice monthly ROU DIGESTED!</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Strike/Occupy/Transform...Strike!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Thurs March 24<sup>th</sup> Members of UCU at colleges
and universities across the UK, and here in Leeds, will be on strike in a row
over changes to pension schemes, jobs losses and pay cuts. In Leeds there will
also be a local dispute on Tues 22<sup>nd</sup>. Download posters from our
website, join campaigns across Facebook, agitate in your schools and
workplaces...and join staff on the picket lines.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://leedsucu.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/key-action-dates/" target="_blank">http://leedsucu.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/key-action-dates/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Strike/Occupy/Transform...Occupy!</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Sat 26<sup>th</sup> March we’ll be occupying (at least)
the streets of London. It’s the big TUC demo, but there are numerous feeder
marches and extra-curricular activities on that day. Worth noting may be the
students starting from ULU, Mallet Street, at 11am. There’s rumour of breakfast
for those who can get there for 10am... <a href="http://studentassembly.org.uk/">http://studentassembly.org.uk/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And the UKuncut occupations of Oxford Street: <a href="http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/">http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Strike/Occupy/Transform....Transform!</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">The next concept meeting will be on the 30th March
and will look at how</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">class is created in modern capitalism. We will look
at precarity as the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">basis for a new class composition. Keep watching
the website for details!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.reallyopenuniversity.org/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">www.reallyopenuniversity.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And if you can’t make that, some ROU folk will be around and
attending key events (especially on 19<sup>th</sup> and 29<sup>th</sup>) at the
Temporary Arts Space happening in the Light from 16<sup>th</sup> to 31<sup>st</sup>
March. A host of interesting discussions, if you’re on Facebook check out<b style=""><i style=""> </i></b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alternative-Strategies-Temporary-Space-Leeds/198546060169961"><b style=""><i style="">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alternative-Strategies-Temporary-Space-Leeds/198546060169961</i></b></a><b style=""><i style="">.</i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And if you’re down London early, you may want to feast your
brains on a Precarity People’s Trial, a free event at the ICA. See <a href="http://www.precariousworkersbrigarde.tumbr.com/">www.precariousworkersbrigarde.tumbr.com</a>
for more details.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Latest on website</b>
–</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you haven’t looked at our website lately, there’s some
insightful new articles you may want to check out. Latest up are “Where next
for Art in Manchester?” from Manchester Mule, and a no holds barred report “On
the Occupation at the Uni of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Warts and All”. There’s also
a ‘Global Protest Map Time-Lapse Video” marking the major uprisings from Dec 18
to Mar 7. And the highly popular article from our friends at The Paper: ‘What
Academics Do When They Protest’.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.reallyopenuniversity,org/">www.reallyopenuniversity,org</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Latest locally:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In case you were thinking these cuts are just the evil
necessaries of a cash strapped society, it’s worth checking out the latest
revelations into ROU’s best friend Michael Arthur. He’s had a mere £42,000 in
expenses over the past 3 years, on top of his annual salary of £253,000 and a
rent free flat to top him up. He even likes to claim £3.50 for his train
snacks.<span style=""> </span>This bill is picked up by Leeds
University Finances and partly funded by student tuition fees.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Luckily for Michael Arthur, he’ll be able to upgrade his
train snacks and his 5 * hotels and restaurants, because tuition fees will be
rising to £9,000 from 2012.<span style=""> </span>Check <a href="http://www.leedstudent.org/">www.leedstudent.org</a> for more on this.</p>