Passing along what happened today as part of the no cuts campaign at the University of Sussex:
This is a statement from the group who have occupied the conference room in Bramber House:
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.
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Press contact:
Solomon Schonfield Telephone: 07906 565 925 Email: sussexstopthecuts100 at googlemail.com