Students occupy Cambridge Law Faculty

They're making a peaceful protest and it seems they have been sucessful since the BBC have covered it and we are discussing it here. Good for them.

They're making a peaceful protest and it seems they have been sucessful since the BBC have covered it and we are discussing it here. Good for them.

That's the first big step- getting the media's attention. Now it may put Cambridge under more pressure as they are under the spotlight.

Not really, because I couldn't give a rats arse about their political views. All it's done, as with other acts of direct action these days, is just made them look like idiots. It won't change anything. All Cambridge have to do is threaten to expell the lot of them. They'll soon shift.

Hang on - why are these people pressuring the university? What the **** does Cambridge university have to do with Gaza?

I must have missed the part in their mandate that read "to make Mad Vlad give a rats arse".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/7848583.stm

Facebook group here http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=46122018819&ref=mf#/group.php?gid=46122018819 with photos of students sleeping outside and occupying the lecture halls.


Thoughts?
Is this as unbelievably ridiculous as it sounds?

I always find it quite amusing that people would rather do something daft like this instead of actually getting off their arse and doing something meaningful like protesting at the Houses of Parliament or Israeli embassy. I guess the 1hour train ride from Cambridge/London is just too long

Manchester (I think) amnesty were the best. These hardcore protesters refused to move from a lecture theater and a police team were called and they locked everyone in and said they could come out at any time but if they did they couldn't go back in.

So what did these hardened protesters who cared deeply about their fellow students being slaughtered by merciless Israeli soldiers do? Did they brave the protest for days, being starved out and collapsing and having to be rushed to hospital?

Did they go to the toilet in buckets and limit their movement so as to conserve energy?

Did they?

Lecture theater was cleared in four hours

At warwick (I think) Amnesty booked a room to do a sit in and decided not to leave when their time was up, expecting a university official to come straight away. Four hours later one arrived and they told him they weren't leaving until their demands were met. He shrugged and said okay and didn't bother coming back.

A few hours more of boredom drove them out.

Some protesters tried protesting in another big lecture room somewhere else, but there were 20 of them and about 300/400 seats in the lecture hall so everyone just sat around them and they were sentenced to watching a maths lecture and looking like idiots.

Gotta love amnesty student movement

It irritates me: I feel for the people who go to Gaza and help out. I feel for the lawyers, the diplomats, the soldiers, who work tirelessly to resolve issues and promote freedom and a better world. I admire those who accept that you can't change the world with a protest, you have to compromise, you have to concede because politics is about compromising and conceding. These student movements are about having a good time and feeling good about yourself, not about getting things done.

In order to get things done you have to accept that you can't have everything. By choosing to protest for everything ultimately they gain nothing and waste their time.

It irritates me: I feel for the people who go to Gaza and help out. I feel for the lawyers, the diplomats, the soldiers, who work tirelessly to resolve issues and promote freedom and a better world. I admire those who accept that you can't change the world with a protest, you have to compromise, you have to concede because politics is about compromising and conceding. These student movements are about having a good time and feeling good about yourself, not about getting things done.

In order to get things done you have to accept that you can't have everything. By choosing to protest for everything ultimately they gain nothing and waste their time.