'AFuturethatWorks' Manchester rally. Website URL : On Saturday 29 January UCU is joining with the TUC and the National Union of Students to host a march and rally in Manchester for 'A Future that Works'. poster (.pdf) [62kb] flier (.pdf) [49kb] Manchester rally The rally's themes are the cuts in access to education and its impact on young people. The abolition of the Education Maintenance Allowance, the increase in university tuition fees, record levels of youth unemployment, and the coalition government's programme of vicious and unnecessary cuts are hitting Britain's young people hard.
Manchester has been chosen because the North West has the highest rate of youth unemployment in the UK and because the city has both the largest university and college in the country. Manchester march and rally details Speakers are currently being confirmed and will include local, regional and national representatives from UCU and other unions, the TUC, NUS and other partner organisations. Accessibility information. Photo : yfrog.com/gzt3ixgj - Shared by JaneWatkinson. Share photos on Twitter. Graham Smith at TUC Rally, Manchester 29.1.11. Share photos on Twitter. Share photos on Twitter. Share photos on Twitter. Photo : yfrog.com/h8xbkvlj - Shared by EdinUniAntiCuts. Photo : yfrog.com/gyic3voj - Shared by EdinUniAntiCuts.
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Ukuncut #demo2011 #EDL #racism RT @OxUniCampaign If you thought nothing of it until Aaron Porter sp. Ukuncut #demo2011 #EDL #racism RT @OxUniCampaign If you thought nothing of it until Aaron Porter sp. Student leader Aaron Porter barracked with anti-Semitic insults. Students Protest In Manchester And London Over Tuition Fees And Cuts. Police arrested at least 16 people after angry students rampaged in the centre of Manchester during a day of nationwide protest at the coalition's spending cuts. Around 80 protesters were "kettled" by scores of officers in the heart of the city as startled shoppers looked on.
They had broken away from the main rally in the city, staged to coincide with another huge demonstration in London. Both protests had started with little indication of the violence seen during the rallies last year. But the Manchester demonstration descended into violence when a minority broke through police lines and headed for the city centre. They were chased by mounted police as they ran through the streets. Protesters, some wearing balaclavas, wrestled with police on the ground. Protesters also attacked high street shops, demanding outside Top Man, Vodafone and Next "pay your taxes". Greater Manchester Police said a "small group" were disrupting businesses and putting "themselves and others at risk". Left-wing students in vicious racist attack on fellow union leader. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 12:22 GMT, 15 March 2011 14 arrests in Manchester as protesters call for resignation of NUS president London demonstrators clash with police Placards warn: Ben Ali, Mubarak...Cameron, you are next The national president of the NUS pulled out of speaking at a student fees rally after being surrounded by demonstrators calling for his resignation and shouting anti-Semitic insults at him.
Aaron Porter had to be escorted to safety by police this morning as he made his way to his offices in Manchester. Protesters shouted ‘Students, workers, hear our shout! We want Aaron Porter out!’ And ‘Aaron Porter we know you, you’re a f******* Tory too!’ One photographer reported chants of ‘Tory Jew scum’ directed at Mr Porter, who is facing calls to step down as NUS president by members of the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts, who claim he has ‘lost the confidence of the movement’.
A group of officers guide Mr Porter unscathed to his office. Student infighting harms our cause | Aaron Porter. Student protesters in London in November: I will back action that is supported by students’ unions and where adequate safety arrangements are made. Photograph: Fernanda Nalin for the Guardian A couple of pieces on Comment is free over recent weeks have suggested that the National Union of Students no longer represents the views and wishes of students, and that NUS has been inactive since calling what is still the largest student demonstration for a generation.
While I am certain that those who wrote the pieces care passionately about these issues, they represent few people other than themselves and I feel it is important to respond to the misinformation that has nonetheless been taken as fact by some. Far from being inactive, the NUS has continued to lead the movement that was spurred into action by the government's vicious attacks on young people in general and, more specifically, our education.
On Aaron Porter and those anti-semitic comments | SarahMcCulloch.com | Activism, spirituality and opinion. So, 4000 people marched in Manchester on Saturday against the cuts to education with the TUC, the NUS, EAN, NCAF, Manchester Against Cuts and Fees, and I’m sure a whole bunch of other organisations as well that felt like telling people to go march on the 29th of January. Instead of covering that, or the police brutality that landed at least person in hospital that I know of, dozens more battered, and got 25 people arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong place, the media decided to go with “NUS President attacked by anti-semitic abuse”. Tracking down this origins of this story leads to a Daily Mail article, in which an anonymous photographer heard the words “Tory Jew scum” being shouted at Aaron.
That’s a pretty serious allegation. Unfortunately, people just repeating it over and over again on their Facebook statuses does not make it true. Watch the video all the way through, then go back and listen hard at 5:39. . * At 2:15, that person shouting “”sell-out”? Be Sociable, Share! ?Alex Andrews? You’re viewing a beta release of the Guardian’s responsive website. We’d love to hear your feedback Opt-out and return to our current site Alex Andrews Alex Andrews is a writer, programmer and academic. He is interested in the history of neoliberalism, global social movements, political religion and the ways capitalism and opposition to it has been changed by computing and the internet. 'Big society' can give power back to communities Alex Andrews: Networks of solidarity will allow people to survive austerity, while directing their anger against the forces that created the situation 114 comments Praying for a revolution in economics Alex Andrews: Greenspan's crisis of faith exposes the scientific veneer of economics for what it is, revealing what amounts to a religion 156 comments Most popular Popular.
Aaron Porter. Background and positions held[edit] In 2010, Porter lived with his parents in Norbury, south London. His father is a policeman who grew up in London and his mother is a teacher from Trinidad.[2] Prior to becoming NUS President, Porter was twice elected as the NUS Vice-President (Higher Education), serving from July 2008 to June 2010.[5] He was the first officer from the University of Leicester Students' Union to be elected to the National Union of Students' Executive Committee.[6] Presidency of the National Union of Students[edit] Post-Presidency[edit] Porter now holds a portfolio of roles primarily in the higher education sector.
He is Director of External Affairs for the National Centre for Universities and Business, Associate Director (Governance) for the Leadership Foundation,[24] Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Winchester and is on the Advisory Board for the Office for Fair Access (OFFA).[25] References[edit] External links[edit]
Aaron Porter (AaronPorter) Student protesters target NUS president. Students run through the streets of Manchester as they protest against public spending cuts and the increase in tuition fees. Photograph: Andrew Yates/AFP/Getty Images As thousands of people joined student rallies in Manchester and London today to protest against public spending cuts and the rise in tuition fees, the National Union of Students leader Aaron Porter had to be escorted by police away from angry crowds calling for his resignation. Some of the protestors in Manchester turned on Porter – who had been due to speak at a rally in the city – calling him a "Tory too".
Porter had previously been calling for unity in the student movement, which has fractured as opinions differ over how best to conduct the demos and sit-ins being organised around the country against the cuts and fee increases. Eggs and oranges were also thrown by a handful of the protesters at Shane Chowen, the NUS vice-president, when he tried to address the crowd.
"Pay your tax, pay your tax," they chanted. Hundreds of students chase Aaron Porter through Manchester. Author: AWL students at the Manchester protest National Union of Students President Aaron Porter was unable to speak at the rally of today's NUS/UCU demonstration in Manchester, after hundreds of angry students chased him off the streets. As protesters gathered at the starting point on Oxford Road, about thirty activists from Hull Students Against Fees and Cuts and Leeds University Against Cuts accosted Porter and demanded that he justify his record. Instead of engaging with us, Porter turned and hurried off - only to find himself followed by growing numbers of demonstrators from across the North. Within a couple of minutes he was literally being chased through the streets of Manchester by almost half those who had gathered at that point - perhaps about five hundred people - with chants including "Students, workers, hear us shout, Aaron Porter sold us out" and "Porter - out".
Eventually he took refuge in Manchester Metropolitan Union, protected by a heavy cordon of riot police. Students and unions stage protests over fees and cuts. 29 January 2011Last updated at 22:40 Anger on the streets of London over student fees and public spending cuts Protests have been held in London and Manchester against higher tuition fees and public spending cuts. Thousands attended a rally in Manchester organised by students and trade unions, accusing the government of "betraying" young people.
There were 16 arrests after disturbances when a group broke away from the main body of protesters. In central London, thousands of students staged a noisy protest march through Whitehall and Westminster. The event in London was more peaceful than recent tuition fee marches - with some of the protesters afterwards heading to join demonstrations outside the Egyptian embassy. But police said they detained six people during the march in the capital - with groups of protesters "still roaming around the West End" in the late afternoon. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote End QuoteDavid WillettsUniversities Minister 'Betrayal' Analysis Social networking.
Students join unions to protest against cuts. By Caroline Copley and Tim Castle LONDON Sat Jan 29, 2011 7:57pm GMT LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters took to the streets on Saturday in a new wave of protests against government plans to hike university tuition fees and scrap education grants. The protests in London and Manchester are the first major demonstrations since late last year when students laid siege to London's government district and attacked a limousine carrying heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles and his wife.
Saturday's protests were largely peaceful. Holding banners marked "What Parliament does, the streets can undo" about 3,000 noisy but good-humoured protesters marched through central London to Westminster. Ciara Squires, 18, from Portsmouth, at Queen Mary (London University) said she was marching for her 16-year-old sister: "Education should be free. Media reports said six people had been arrested following a minor scuffle. Whose Streets? Our Streets! - Pyongyang City Sessions. Police officers at manchester protest today with no visible I.