Michael_chessum : On BBC I called @GuildofStudents... Student occupation of Great Hall, 1968. National Demonstration by Birmingham FOR Birmingham. Slaney_Street : Facebook deleted @DefendEdBrum... Canribm : @DefendEdBrum what's happened... DefendEdBrum : @canribm seems birmingham... National Demonstration and Meeting in Birmingham. Occupy_sussex : Students just occupied the... Occupy_sussex : Campus security pointing out... Arts_attack : Photography is art. Disgusting... Occupy_sussex : sussex represented in Birmingham! Resistancerprt : Graffiti inside the clock tower... Resistancerprt : Security staff are filming... The simple image sharer. Davidgraeber : @occupy_sussex amazing! And... Occupy_sussex : Police still kettling nearly... Police-accused-of-kettling-student-protesters-at-a-national-demonstration-in-birmingham-9095907. Students accused police of holding protesters in a “kettle” for up to four hours, with no access to food, water or toilet facilities, before making arrests for offences including aggravated trespass, assault and criminal damage.
The police deny kettling any “lawful protest”. Police were called at around 5pm after receiving reports of demonstrators throwing smoke bombs, breaking down doors, and allegations of assault against university staff. Almost all the protesters were then held in a raised courtyard for several hours, before being searched by police and asked to give their details on camera. Many students claimed they had witnessed arrests when people refused to give their details to police as a requirement to leave the kettle. Simon Natas, from law firm ITN Solicitors, told The Independent that the High Court had “ruled that it was unlawful for the police to require people to provide their names and addresses as a condition of release from a kettle or containment”.
News Editor interviews Police Inspector for Edgbaston. West-Midlands Police: 13 arrests at University demo. Man jailed for stalking ex-girlfriend in days before her death An Oldbury man is starting a two year sentence after admitting stalking a former girlfriend, who ultimately ended her own life following his unwarranted attention.
Ryan Dey was arrested in November last year, a month after the death of Kamaljit Sidhu [pictured left]. Dey was accused of harassing and stalking his former partner for several months before the 29-year-old jumped from a bridge over the M6 motorway near to Great Barr. Full Story. West-Midlands Police: 13 arrests at University demo.
Bail conditions. RichoRed : let's make a list of things... Michael_chessum : @WMPolice you can arrest someone... Michael_chessum : Correction: some bail conditions... JOINT PRESS RELEASE: ESCALATION OF REPRESSION AS STUDENTS PLEDGE TO MOBILISE. Joint press release from Defend Education Birmingham, Defend the Right to Protest and the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts.
Contact 07964791663, 07835769988, 07842765067. Occupy Sussex - PRESS RELEASE - BIRMINGHAM ARRESTS, AaronBastani : 2 charged with violent disorder... AaronBastani : My guess is that crook, lying... Michael_chessum : @WMPolice dubious defence to... Banned from Birmingham. On Wednesday 29 January, 150 students from around the country met at Birmingham University to discuss the next steps in their campaigns against the privatisation of education, outsourcing of university services and selling off of student debt.
After the meeting, the students picked up red and black flags, put on masks and marched around the campus. Some unfurled a banner from the top of Old Joe, the university’s clock tower named after Joseph Chamberlain. Others spray painted and chalked slogans onto the red brick walls: ‘Occupy, Strike, Resist’; ‘No more 1984.’ When protesters tried to enter university buildings, security tried to stop them. There was some pushing and shoving. A group of up to 100 protesters were surrounded by police. Of the 13 arrested, some were held in custody for more than 24 hours.
Deborah Hermanns , Arrested, suspended, then banned from elections: my student experience. On January 29, students from across the country gathered at the University of Birmingham to discuss the future of the student movement and develop a set of shared demands opposing the privatisation of education and calling for improved pay and conditions for university workers.
Following the meeting students held a demonstration on campus and proceeded to occupy the Great Hall. The occupation was broken up by security and the West Midlands Police. Students were then kettled for up to four hours and denied access to shelter, food, water and toilets. Thirteen students were eventually arrested, with one student being hospitalised. In the following account, Deborah Hermanns, a student at the University of Birmingham, describes her experience of being arrested and released without charge and the University's decision to suspend her and four other students. 'Arrested, suspended, then banned from elections: my student experience' More like this ▾ Drop the suspensions. Facebook. Deborah Hermanns , Arrested, suspended, then banned from elections: my student experience. Conflict of interest.
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Article by R Brennan The recent suspension of five students from the University of Birmingham after the demonstration on the 29th of january has bought to the attention of many of the other students and staff the unjust procedures in place at the University. When dissenting student and staff voices are heard, management are quick to repress them through various means – disciplinaries, suspensions, promotion freezes and department cuts. Despite this, the University management have other, less open and more insidious ways of silencing independent thought and action from their students. Suffering from mild anxiety attacks after having been seriously intimidated by a member of security staff during the occupation at Horton Grange Conference Centre and having been kettled for four hours by police at the national demonstration on the 29th, I was advised by friends to go see the University Counselling Service.
Univ of Birmingham: Counselling and Wellbeing. Psychological, emotional and practical support during your studies.
The Counselling and Wellbeing Services at 3 Elms Road are available to all registered students at the university. Our aim is to help you to be free enough from psychological distress to derive the maximum benefit from your studies and your social life whilst at Birmingham. Our services The full range of what we offer students at the University. Feeling desperate? What to do if you feel you need immediate help. Can professional support help me? Online counselling Could online counselling benefit you? Is your service confidential? Deborah Hermanns @University of Birmingham Guild of Students.
At last year's conference I experienced an NUS which is elitist, bureucratic and driven by one group of people.
Said group could prevent the success of any motions which they did not agree with, including quite some either submitted by our students or supported by Guild policy. It was not a pleasant experience and being completely new to the whole process it did not feel like I was doing a good job at passing policy representative of the opinions of our students back in Birmingham. This is the exact reason why I want to go back this year and actually try to make a difference.
I have a much better understanding of the NUS now and will be able to properly contribute. Free speech under threat in UK universities. Five University of Birmingham students were suspended following a national demonstration on campus on Wednesday 29 January (Online report, 30 January).
An email from Dr Chris Twine, director of student services, was sent around the College of Social Sciences stating that the five students "have been suspended from study and barred from University premises with immediate effect" and are "not to be allowed access to any teaching or learning activities". These suspensions follow a national meeting and demonstration at the university, which culminated in an occupation of the Aston Webb's Great Hall. When the students attempted to peacefully leave the hall, they were kettled by police officers and university security.
The five were held for more than four hours, before being released, one by one, to be questioned by the police at 6pm that evening. Noam Chomsky and Ken Loach criticise University of Birmingham suspensions. Noam Chomsky and Ken Loach are among a host of academics, artists and politicians to condemn the suspension of five university students who took part in a protest on their campus. DefendEdBrum : The suspended students aren't... Public_uni : MT “@DefendEdBrum: we're... Michael_chessum : Another night exploring joys... Occupy_sussex : image of bail conditions on...
Confrontation between protesters and security at national demonstration. FreezePage. LondonStudent : We've heard that 1 Birmingham... Student protest in Birmingham leads to 14 arrests. Students clashed with police at a protest in Birmingham last night, which led to 14 arrests. Nine men and five women, all aged under 24 and from across the country, were arrested on suspicion of offences including aggravated trespass, assault and criminal damage. Students had gathered on Wednesday in a national demonstration, to discuss the future for student protest.
Later on, the atmosphere turned tense as students clashed with security staff and police. Protesters from over 10 universities unveiled banners and chanted campaign slogans. Some managed to break into the Aston Webb building and the clock tower to hang banners and shout anti-police chants. Three men charged after Wednesday’s protests Redbrick. Two further people have been charged with violent disorder following a Defend Education protest at the University of Birmingham on Wednesday afternoon. The name, age and address of one of the men cannot be confirmed as he has refused to provide these details to police. He is due at Birmingham Magistrates Court this morning (31 January) along with another man, who gave his details as 30-year-old Panagiodis Theodoropoulos of Arncliffe Terrace, Bradford. They will appear along with 22-year-old Simon Furse, who has also been charged with violent disorder. Newcastle Free Education Network, Demonstration: Birmingham 29/1/2014.
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