Tag Archives: Occupation
Student Occupation: A brief legal guide
This is intended as a useful guide only, as with any occupation there should be at least one person present or available with a working knowledge of the law. Trespass The act of trespass is a civil matter, not a criminal one, so no one should be threatened with arrest for simple trespass. Aggravated trespass [...]
Defiant Middlesex students
UPDATE: OCCUPATION ENDED. The students decided to end their occupation the afternoon of Saturday 15th May after a court injunction came in to effect that morning. The occupiers remain in belligerent mood despite the bullying tactics of the university management. As they declared upon leaving – This occupation is over; the campaign continues. Occupiers at [...]
Getting Active: Revolting students
At the University of Sussex, Brighton 106 students took militant action and occupied the top floor of an on-campus building on Feb 8th against the threat of compulsory staff redundancies and course cuts. The occupiers strategically chose the conference centre room so as not to disrupt fellow students but rather to disrupt a “key part [...]
Community action against school closure
Parents from Wishaw, North Lanarkshire vowed to fight on against the impending closure of their local primary school despite being forced to end their occupation after threats by the authorities to send the pupils elsewhere until they left. The five protestors, including four parents and one grandmother, took direct action as part of the Glasgow [...]
