From the Rally

Says our Rector Kevin Dunion in his speech to us: “Your occupation has been peaceful and constructive, and you can indeed leave with your heads held high.” Hear, hear! Currently going around taking stock of our successes, planning for future campaigning, and, yeah, giving ourselves a bit of a pat on the back. Success, victory, [...]

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Our Press Release and Response

So for those begging for more information (come to the rally from 6 til 7!), here’s the press release we sent out about our victory: ———- ST ANDREWS STUDENTS DECLARE VICTORY ON SEVENTH DAY The students of the occupation of United College in St Andrews have announced victory after receiving a statement and accompanying assurances [...]

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Victory!

The campaign has reached an agreement with the university regarding our demands.  We will rally at 6 pm, to vacate the occupation by 7 pm. More details to follow.

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Show Your Support!

We woke up to a lovely, clear (if cold) morning today; we’ve sent four representatives to negotiate with the university. There’s an increased presence of Estates people outside and we have heard that the university will be ‘taking a harder line’. We ask that any supporters who can help come and show a some solidarity [...]

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Two Meetings

At 10 am this morning, Chris Smith and Stephen Magee came to meet with the group as a whole and discuss our demands. At 1 pm we met as a group to discuss the most recent phase of negotiations. The university presented us with a statement at that meeting with the university’s position on the [...]

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MEETING TO DISCUSS DEMANDS, 1:00PM

Last night, we had a meeting with the University, however, we also have another one at 10:00AM this morning. This will be updated with ALL of the news from both negotiations in the morning, as it is nearly 4AM. In solidarity, the Occupation

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Support from IWW and Middle East Expert Stephen Zunes!

Hey all, We recently received two more amazing letters of support! Please stop by today and learn about what’s going on with the occupation!! Solidarity greetings from the North of Scotland region of the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Education Workers Industrial Union Organising Committee (Perthshire-Tayside-Fife-Stirlingshire). Building grassroots solidarity with the working people [...]

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Speakers for tomorrow

Tomorrow (Monday 23rd) we will have more people giving talks on the occupation at 2.30pm in Upper College Hall. Speakers include: – Steve West – Representative of PCS Union – Alan MacKinnon – Chair of Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament EDIT: date changed

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St Salvator’s Quad Rally

We had a great rally in St Salvator’s Quad today! Over a hundred people came to show their support. There were four main speakers:         Pete Cannell from Stop the War Coalition spoke about the extremely successful  Glasgow conference yesterday. He saw the recent student occupations across Scotland as marking a “sea [...]

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Rally on Sunday!

We are holding a rally at 3pm in St. Salvador’s Quad to which we expect the following 4 speakers: Peter Cannell (National Officer of Stop the War Coalition), Richard Haley (Head of Scotland Against Criminalizing Communities), Margaret Pacetta (Glasgow Palestine Human Rights Campaign), And Sarah Glynn (Scottish Jews for a Just Peace).   This is to [...]

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