On 15 February, Defend the Right to Protest, NCAFC and EAN are holding a ‘Take Back your Campus’ demonstration and rally at Birmingham University.
The demo is being held to protest against the University’s attempts to ban protests on campus.
The 12-month ban was granted by courts after the Uni cracked down on a peaceful occupation last November.
We are appealing to students across the country to join us in making a stand for the right to protest, defend student rights, and show solidarity with victimised occupier Simon Furse.
With the shameful collaboration of the Birmingham Uni Student Guild president, management have singled him out, and he faces expulsion at a misconduct committee.
That uni bosses, paid for with our fees and taxes, can threaten to destroy someone’s future because they stood up against privatising education is bad enough.
But this action is also intended as a warning to the rest of the movement, hoping to intimidate us into silence. If the management at Birmingham uni succeed then it will boost the confidence of other universities to take similar measures.
We all have an interest in defending the right to protest.
February 15 will show the government that we refuse to be intimidated, persecuted and silenced by their paid servants in the courts, police or uni management.
Their repression will come back to haunt them, as more and more people rightly fight back against this injustice.
Defend the right to protest on Feb 15!
When: 15 Feb 2012
Where: Birmingham Guild of Students
Time: 1pm
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