From the Greek Streets – 02 Dec 2010
Category: Statements of Support
By staff writers – 16 November 2010
Over one hundred professors, academics and staff from British universities have signed a letter backing students who occupied Tory HQ as part of the recent anti-cuts demonstration.
Writing to the independent newspaper, they congratulate staff, students and [a]t least 50,000 people [who] took to the streets to oppose the coalition government’s devastating proposals for education.”
Distancing themselves from those who criticised the occupation of the Conservative Party HQ, they say: “The real violence in this situation relates not to a smashed window but to the destructive impact of the cuts and privatisation that will follow if tuition fees are increased and if massive reductions in Higher Education funding are implemented.”
The academics add: “[Last] Wednesday’s events demonstrate the deep hostility in the UK towards the cuts proposed in the Comprehensive Spending Review. We hope that this marks the beginning of a sustained defence of public services and welfare provision as well as higher education.”
The GDSC supports those protesters who are being criminalised by the British media and state for their just stand against the cuts to our education by the Con-Dem government.
Like the Gaza demonstrators, the students are acting out of a sense of duty to their fellow humans. While the students in this country are not being attacked in the way the people of Gaza were in the war crimes committed against them resulting in 1,500 deaths, many of whom were children, these students are nonetheless defending the right for their younger brothers and sisters to be able to go into higher education.
We wish the student movement all the best, and stand with them in full solidarity and hope that they have all preparations in place for their activism such as legal observers at protests, defence committee set up to defend those criminalised.
GDSC
Associated Press of Pakistan – 11th April 2010
Leading British Muslim lawmaker Lord Nazir Ahmed has flayed harsh sentences awarded against those who staged demonstration outside Israeli Embassy in January this year on the occasion of first anniversary of Jewish State aggression against Gaza in which some 1400 Palestinians died.
“This network of BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) groups calls upon all groups and individuals committed to Palestinian freedom to support all those charged, sentenced or imprisoned for BDS and other opposition to Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity”.
Boycott Israel Network, Coalbrookdale, UK, March, 2010
We support and salute your willingness to suffer the consequences that come with demonstrating in a ‘free’ Western country against the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against us, the Palestinians of Gaza, crimes that the entire world witnessed.
