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Comment on Occupation! SAW takes over the Defence Materials Technology Centre by studentsagainstwar

studentsagainstwar — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 01:09:37 +0000

That’s probably true. I’ve seen footage of similar actions in the States and they’ve been met with some pretty brutal responses. We were lucky – after the uni called in riot police with helmets, shields and swinging clubs to break up a three-day occupation in 2004, it backfired spectacularly, and they’re now quite sensitive to the potential publicity disaster that calling in police to smash their students in front of TV cameras can be. We were also lucky to be white, well-off, educated, etc etc…

Comment on Occupation! SAW takes over the Defence Materials Technology Centre by Paul

Paul — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:31:58 +0000

You know, if we pulled that in America, everyone would be tased and arrested.

Comment on More media coverage by Jess

Jess — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:17:52 +0000

Tops article in the Northern Leader Great work Students Against War! To John Norrish: protecting “our soldiers” in offensive wars is still offence; and “[not having] a view on why they should be there” is criminal given the engineering being carried out is for a very specific purpose: oppression, death, poverty and terror for millions to control people and resources.