CALL FOR SUPPORT: STUDENTS OCCUPY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY IN PROTEST

Statement from the occupying students:

On the morning of Wednesday 11th February Edinburgh University students occupied the George Square Lecture Theatre. We have acted against the university because of its financial and commercial links to the apartheid state of Israel, in addition to its unacceptable silence in response to the Gaza conflict, described by the UN President of the General Assemby, Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, as “genocide”. We will sit-in until the heads of the university agree to the following demands.

Broadly, we demand that our university demonstrate what should be its inherent opposition, as an educational institution, to Israel’s illegal and shameful behaviours.

Specifically, to ensure the university publicly manifests its position, we demand:

BOYCOTT – That the university immediately suspend all contracts and relations with companies enabling the conflict and/or occupation, including Eden Springs. This demand is contingent on access to information to establish which other companies are implicated.

DIVESTMENT – That the university divest from and cut all links – specifically on-campus recruitment – with BAE Systems, QinetiQ and all other “arms and defence” manufacturers whose products are proven to be in use by the Israeli military.

SCHOLARSHIPS – That the university make full scholarships available to at least 5 students in Gaza, allowing them to attend Edinburgh University. This is a response to the destruction of their universities by the Israeli military, and to other barriers, physical and psychological, which restrict their right to education.

Read full statement:

http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2833:call-for-solidarity-edinburgh-university-students-action-for-gaza&catid=43&Itemid=200069

Follow the occupation:

http://edinburghunioccupation.wordpress.com/

Please send your messages of support and move motions at your trade union branch and trades councils in support of students in occupation in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

For updates on Glasgow Occupation go to:

www.glasgowunioccupation.blogspot.com

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