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ALT 40 Young people and scientists are lined up in front of sign reading energy revolution, holding banners about adani. They are inside the energy revolution gallery of the science museum
ALT a crowd of people marching behind a banner reading "sheffield radical pride"
ALT a picture of the CMU fence painted white with "Cockheed Fartin" painted in black, behind a field and in front of a glass library building.
ALT Text reads: “Octagon Dogs present: A Night of Music and Poetry at Sidney and Matilda A student activist fundraiser -Kilario -Our Scouse ‘Girlfriend’ -Open Mic Tickets are priced at: Low Wage/Student: £5.00 Standard: £10.00 Solidarity Ticket: £15.00” Background is cut outs of newspapers and post it’s in a collage with cool swirls in different colours.
ALT A Letter to the Student Movement In the early hours of the 12th of January, the UK and USA launched a bombing campaign against Yemen, including four British Typhoon fighter jets launched from British-occupied Cyprus. This is the latest step of aggression from the imperial core against those resisting western hegemony. It follows Anglo-American backing for the genocidal Saudi bombing campaign of Yemen that has led to what the UN has described as the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis”. It is the first direct use of British troops against Yemen itself in the current conflict (instead of hiding behind the smokescreen of the House of Saud), but follows murderous western interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria in recent years.
ALT This military action can only be viewed as an intervention in support of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. The UK government may wish to whitewash their actions with claims of ‘acting in the interests of global security’, however the truth is far from this. It shows western governments acting purely in defence of western capital - protecting the “free flow of commerce” and propping up the murderous outpost of US imperialism that is the Israeli state. As US supremacy is collapsing, Britain is eagerly rushing to her aid.
ALT Our universities are deeply complicit, with military and “defence” partnerships worth over one billion pounds. This does not just take the form of investments but also direct research partnerships where universities use their students and staff to help develop technology for military use in return for payment from arms manufacturers and the Ministry of “Defence”. Universities are using students’ labour and tuition fees to develop and build weapons, enriching themselves whilst they act to protect the interests of western corporations. A failure to act makes us all complicit in genocide.
ALT We call upon the student movement to take direct action to resist the status of our universities as tools of imperialism. We call on students to fight the arms companies’ and the British military’s recruitment drive across our campuses; investment ties to the arms trade and research partnerships with weapons manufacturers and the armed forces. Shut down careers fairs and recruitment events, occupy management offices and lecture theatres, and blockade arms factories and military bases - think imaginatively about where you can make the biggest impact. Action Against Oxford War Crimes Demilitarise Lancaster Demilitarise UoN Glasgow Against Arms and Fossil Fuels Liverpool Leftist Action Manchester Leftist Action (MMU) Manchester Leftist Action (UoM) Nottingham Solidarity Group Sheffield Action Group Student Action Bristol the October Club (Oxford) UoM Rent Strike Youth Front For Palestine (Y.F.F.P.)
ALT Students in the ground floor of the Owen building atrium with Palestine flags and banners that say ‘¡NO PASARÀN!’ ‘WAR CRIMINALS OUT’ and ‘CUT TIES WITH APARTHEID’
ALT Bird’s Eye view of the atrium completely deserted
ALT A picture of the Sheffield Hallam uni website. There is a picture of the VC’s smiling face and underneath text that says ‘cancelled: the vice-chancellor’s leaving event. Sadly, the event for Professor Sir Chris Husbands this afternoon has been cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience.’
