Free Education for Everyone (FEE) QUB extends its unreserved support and solidarity to all striking public sector workers on November 30th . We will be joining strikers tomorrow, and call on all students to do the same. Stand in solidarity with your lecturers by: refusing to attend scab classes and joining picket lines/marches across the…
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Statement of Support with USI Occupations
Today, Tuesday the 29th of November, several officers from the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) took part in consecutive occupations of two government buildings, that of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation for 15 minutes, and the Department of Social Protection for a longer period. The Free Education for Everyone (FEE) student campaign…
8 FEE QUB members elected to student council
Originally posted over at the Student Observer Eight activists from Free Education for Everyone in Queens University Belfast were elected to the Student Council in elections which were held yesterday. The establishment of FEE QUB along with FEE Derry over the last year has now made the Free Education for Everyone Campaign an island wide…
Student protesters march through Belfast
Yesterday, hundreds of university and school students took to the streets and marched to save education from cutbacks and fee rises! On the march there was a Free Education Bloc which contained people from the Free Education for Everyone Campaign at QUB, our sister group The Northern Ireland Student Assembly (NISA) and activists from FEE…
FEE CALL FOR SUPPORTING UCU STRIKE ACTION IN THE NORTH
FEE QUB Statement: “The implementation of draconian cuts in the North are soon to become a reality with severe attacks on every sector within society. Citizens in the North are expected to lie down and accept job redundancies, poorer resources with less funding, pay cuts, the slashing of benefits and an array of additional crippling…
Defend Simon McConville!
Protester Simon McConville is up in courth on the 5th of January, alongside another activist, for his participation in the anti-fee hike and anti-EMA scrappage protests in Belfast on the 9th of December, 2010. Simon is being charged with disorderly conduct, obstructing the road and starting a riotous protest (initiating the peaceful sit-down protest on…
Photo Report: Queens University Belfast Occupation 30/11/2010
A group of around 30 protesters gathered at 1pm outside the vice chancellor’s office at Queens University main building. Our intention was to occupy his office but the security quickly barricaded the doors, so the group ended up moving towards the main hall, which contained a meeting of around 100 delegates discussing, as we were…
A Review of the Queen’s University Occupation of 30/11/2010
What was the protest about? The protest against the Con-Dem led hike in university fees began outside the Lanyon building of QUB at 1pm on Tuesday. The protest was called by FEE (Free Education for Everyone), a grassroots group campaigning against the proposed £9,000 tuition fees for higher education. The target of the protest was…
Defend Gerry Carroll! Student activist in the dock
SWP member and anti cuts campaigner Gerry Carroll is up in court on the 5th of January. He is charged with committing a Provocative Act, Resisting Police and Obstructing Lawful Activity in a Public Place —charges Gerry strongly denies. Gerry was arrested while attending the student Protest against fees at city hall. Police wish to…
1500-2000 in Belfast Protest Against Fees Increase and EMA Cuts
This report comes to us from indymedia.ie Approximately 1500-2000 people took the streets in Belfast today, marching from schools and universities to congregate at the City Hall, Belfast to protest the proposed increase in fees, which could see people being charged up to £9,000 a year for tuition. The protest was also against the cuts…