Reel News Issue 26 Out Now

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Full issue includes:

• TORY SCUM HERE WE COME! Students lead the resistance
• 1) Tory Scum Here We Come! - Short Version (Reel News) 13:36 The rise of the incredible student movement, in a short version for trade union and other meetings.
• 2) Tory Scum Here We Come! - Full Version (Reel News) 66:03
• Part 1: Day X1 …

Posted by Laurie Penny - 01 December 2010 17:44

In Trafalgar Square, the worst November snowstorms in decades are pummelling thousands of teenage protesters more effectively than any police kettle. The cops are there anyway, of course, clotting every exit from the square like rotten yellow scabs, sealing off the social dissidence from the more compliant tissue of the body politic. Right now Her M…

The longest video i have seen so far about the day of action on 30th November (dayx2). It gives a really good impression of the dynamic and energy of the day.

The parliament vote on tuition fees has been confirmed as being Thursday 9th December.

Commentators are saying that by quickly scheduling it for Thursday evening MPs from Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland will miss the vote.

Student protests against the fees were already being planned but will have to be accelerated. NUS president has responded saying NUS will organise national day of action …

A few pics uploaded to flickr from yesterday's DayX2 student fees/anti-cuts demonstrations in London.

(Pics are Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs or Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic CC license)

Thousands of students and austerity cuts protestors took to the streets of London on DayX2 in another national day of action [uk reports]. Refusing to be stopped by hundreds of police officers [1,2] they took their protest mobile, marching miles across the capital city chanting slogans, chased by a police force playing catch up [report + pics]. Later having returned to Trafalgar Square clashes saw…

After some awesome time all over central london, with protesters refusing to be told where to protest and successfully avoiding the health and safety risk posed by police to get hypothermia and dehydration, everyone assembles back at trafalgar square. Lots of people voluntarily walk into the kettle, but even though police is now stopping the protest from actually beig and effective protest, that i…

Some pics of the day, and general impressions and musings.

Check out the reports on the occupation of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and why this happened. 

Get to trafalgar square at about 1pm, and everyone's gone already. Luckily Imc timeline knows where people took off to. But once you lost the protest, there's no way of catching up. For the largest part people are just m…

At about 5:30pm the 2-300 people still in the detainment zone at Trafalgar Square tried to break out. Being on the other side of the police line was not all that pleasant, as there were quite a few bottles (mostly plastic) as well as sticks, firecrackers and smokebombs coming our way. Some serious anger and the only thing stopping people were the vans parked behind the lines. The officers at one p…

As part of today's DayX2 student's protests the University For Strategic Optimism has given a second lecture in a Tesco's megastore in London's Old Kent Road.

• See video here

A few thoughts in response to Cameron's article in the Evening Standard



I spent the day out on the streets of London today.



I'm not a student myself anymore but I had a day free from work at last so I thought I'd take the opportunity to show some solidarity with the schoolkids and students. 



I have to say I was impressed. Despite the snowstorm and freezing winds blowing through us, people were sti…

Please find below the statement from the King's College London occupation, please circulate this as soon as possible





Students at King’s College London have peacefully occupied a large lecture theatre (K2.31) on the Strand Campus to express their outrage at the government’s proposed cuts and rises in tuition fees. We ask the management of King’s College London to support us in our campaign to oppose…

Around 2pm: The demonstration which left Trafalgar Square has grown after walking all the way up to Oxford Street and breaking through police lines who tried to split the demo in The Strand.

Dayx2 gainst cuts and student fees: About 600-800 people met at Trafalgar Square at noon.

Almost on the minute at 12 the crowd started mooving, but the police had blocked off Whitehall completely with vans and police lines.

The whole demo spontanously - to the suprise of the police - turned right into St James Park.

The SLADE SCHOOL OF ART has just been occupied by students, which means two buildings in the stunning UCL campus are now under occupation.  They are planning 3 days of alternative education, art, activism and disobedience this weekend,  from Friday night 3rd to Sunday 5th December.

After, in good faith, having provided thorough information and help to the London Metropolitan Police yesterday, the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts

is appalled with the police aggressiveness towards students protesters in London today.

Whitehall had been, despite the Met’s agreement with the route to follow, pre-emptively blocked.

Several police vans (including one with horses for …

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LIVE TIMELINE (for info on what happened when) and check TUMBLEWIRE too

After the Lewisham Council meeting was disrupted the previous night [video 1, 2; article 1, 2] with mainstream reporting 4 arrests, and Top Shop being blockaded, there was a call for the 2nd day of action, or DayX2, against the cuts today. A Kettle Carnival is announced for noon at Trafalgar Square, as well as a Black Triangl…

Inspired by the recent student protests and angry about proposed local cuts people in Lewisham stormed the Town Hall where a vote on the cuts was taking place after the number of people allowed into the meeting was cut.

Around 100 people tried to force their way into the building. Extra riot police were sent to the town hall along with police horses and dogs to disperse the protest using force.

ANGRY clashes broke out in Lewisham, London, on Monday night as police stopped campaigners from attending a key council meeting.

Video of clashes with police at Lewisham Town Hall 29/11/10 when protesters interrupted a crucial council meeting.

Countrywide

Organise: A committee in every college, A co-ordination for every city.

We need to keep up the momentum of the 24th: our campaigns need to speed up.

Wherever you are, organise something for Tuesday 30th November!