LSE Students Occupy Against University’s Ties To Libyan Regime
Uniriot Roma | 23.02.2011 12:40 | Anti-militarism | Education | Social Struggles
At 7PM on February 22nd, Students at the LSE began an occupation of the Senior Common Room in the Old Building (Houghton St.) against the LSE’s regarding their association with the Libyan regime. In light of recent events the LSE administration announced that they would no longer be accepting the money from the Gaddafi family. They have already accepted £300,000 and were scheduled to receive and additional £1.2.
UPDATE: This morning LSE students occupied the office of director Howard Davies in protest at the university's links to the Libyan regime.
UPDATE: This morning LSE students occupied the office of director Howard Davies in protest at the university's links to the Libyan regime.
Students are demanding:
a) A public statement by the LSE administration denouncing the recent gross violations of human rights by the Gaddafi regime and Saif Gaddafi’s violent threats against the protesters in Libya
b) A formal commitment by the LSE refraining from cooperating with the Libyan regime and any other dictatorial regimes that are known to be implicated in gross violations of human rights.
c) Rejecting the rest of the yearly installments that are being received from the £1.5 Million donation of the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation (GICDF) and work towards creating a scholarship fund for underprivileged Libyan students using the £300k that LSE has already accepted and not spent yet.
d) Revoking Saif Gaddafi's LSE alumni status, as his public statement on Sunday 20th of February and the various reports issued by International Human Rights Organisations clearly demonstrate that he is implicated in the killing of innocent civilians as well as other human rights violations. His association with the LSE community and particularly its student body is a disgrace that is not tolerated by the LSE staff, students and alumni.
e) Publicly committing that no grants from officials of such oppressive regimes will be accepted in the future by establishing a set of standards and a process of democratic decision-making with student representation that determines whether or not the School should accept money coming from controversial donors.
Failing to do these would not only betray the LSE's ethical values, it would also tarnish the School's reputation in a region whose people are currently fighting to reclaim their freedom from corrupt dictatorships--and are winning the fight so far.
Following the publication of these demands LSE students will occupy a space on LSE campus.
a) A public statement by the LSE administration denouncing the recent gross violations of human rights by the Gaddafi regime and Saif Gaddafi’s violent threats against the protesters in Libya
b) A formal commitment by the LSE refraining from cooperating with the Libyan regime and any other dictatorial regimes that are known to be implicated in gross violations of human rights.
c) Rejecting the rest of the yearly installments that are being received from the £1.5 Million donation of the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation (GICDF) and work towards creating a scholarship fund for underprivileged Libyan students using the £300k that LSE has already accepted and not spent yet.
d) Revoking Saif Gaddafi's LSE alumni status, as his public statement on Sunday 20th of February and the various reports issued by International Human Rights Organisations clearly demonstrate that he is implicated in the killing of innocent civilians as well as other human rights violations. His association with the LSE community and particularly its student body is a disgrace that is not tolerated by the LSE staff, students and alumni.
e) Publicly committing that no grants from officials of such oppressive regimes will be accepted in the future by establishing a set of standards and a process of democratic decision-making with student representation that determines whether or not the School should accept money coming from controversial donors.
Failing to do these would not only betray the LSE's ethical values, it would also tarnish the School's reputation in a region whose people are currently fighting to reclaim their freedom from corrupt dictatorships--and are winning the fight so far.
Following the publication of these demands LSE students will occupy a space on LSE campus.
Uniriot Roma
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Why has it taken this long?
23.02.2011 18:31
antifa
fuck students
23.02.2011 21:36
who cares
tyrants
23.02.2011 22:28
antifa
fuck antifa
24.02.2011 10:39
Removal of saddam from power was NOT the purpose of the invasion of Iraq. Any country invading another is WRONG. 1 million dead Iraqis is WRONG. Half a million dead Iraqi children by sanctions before the war was WRONG. If people of a country rise up and want to change the order, good for them. You can FUCK RIGHT OFF. You prick.
You might support British and Yank murderous occupations, but I for one do not.
No cognitive dissonance here.
who cares
Long memory
24.02.2011 11:58
Ashok Kumar, who is education officer for the LSE students' union, said:
"I think it's reprehensible that the university continues to benefit from money that was stolen from the Libyan people and it's only right to return it to the people who are now being murdered in the streets fighting for their freedom."
Fine words Ashok , however we must wonder why it took until now for it to be "reprehensible", was it not two years ago ?
Gaddafi's second son Saif al-Islam, who studied at the university from 2003 to 2008 also failed to attract and protest from the Students Union, was it ok because he funded parties and outings ?
Marvo the memory man
Obvious you don't care
24.02.2011 12:23
Oh, you mean like Saddam invading Kuwait? And we shouldn't have invaded France in 1944, either? Memo: apologise to the French.
'1 million dead Iraqis is WRONG.'
You're quite RIGHT it's WRONG. Because nothing like a million Iraqis died as a result of the 2003 invasion.
'Half a million dead Iraqi children by sanctions before the war was WRONG.'
You're quite RIGHT it's WRONG. Because nothing like a half a million Iraqi children died as a result of the sanctions.
'If people of a country rise up and want to change the order, good for them.'
And if they're held down by secret police, by the military and security services, we just walk away whistling 'It's nothing to do with us'. I think you might be better off posting under the name 'Pontius Pilate'
'You can FUCK RIGHT OFF. You prick.'
I do admire the level of intellectual debate you can meet on the forum.
antifa
stop using the name of REAL anti-facists
24.02.2011 13:37
Don't like the level of my debate? too bad. Apologists and supporters of genocide can all FUCK OFF.
i care
Real debate
24.02.2011 14:13
You mean, like all those in the LSE who supported Gaddaffi only a year or so ago?
antifa
definition of genocide
24.02.2011 14:58
...any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
– Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2[3]
FTP
And your point
24.02.2011 15:12
antifa
Debate without evidence?
24.02.2011 15:36
What are you referring to here?
Proof please
not genocide
25.02.2011 13:57
FTP
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