What’s Planned in Brighton?

UPDATE from a comment on the N24 Walkout page:

“Anonymous Stringer Pupil said (at November 23, 2010 at 10:57 pm)

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This is to confirm of a mass stringer walkout
Despite our attendance in this group we estimate lots more.”

Since Wednesday the 10th people all over the country have been talking about the cuts and what they mean for us. Not just in the universities and the colleges: people are talking everywhere about welfare reform, pension reform, public sector job losses, everything. But it’s in education things are moving quickest: local November 24th events are being organised all over the country, with sixth-formers making links with university students everywhere.

Sixth-form and secondary school teachers are widely reported to be quietly encouraging discussion of the cuts amongst their students, and even participation in the N24 walkout, and the NUT executive has called on teachers not to discipline pupils taking part; 300 academics were even more explicit in a letter to the Guardian. Both are in the hard copy of the bulletin. In Brighton things are happening too. We’ve tried to clarify what’s planned.

MAIN PROPOSAL

Students from every school, college and university in Brighton to walk out from their institution – according to different timetables, information below – and meet at 2pm on Dyke Road – possibly Dyke Road Park? – near BHASVIC, for a march past Churchhill Square to Victoria Gardens. This route for the march has been negotiated with the police by the ‘Fight The Fees’ anti-cuts group.

COLLEGES

The different colleges have different plans and different problems. We don’t know all the details: we’ve specified what we’ve been able to find out. At BHASVIC, where the demo’s meeting, the consensus seems to be begin congregating from 1:20 pm, with a walkout at 2 for the demo – despite an effort by the principal to push it back to 2:45. Students at other colleges are going to walk out before 2 and go to Dyke Road Park.

UNIVERSITIES

Sussex students have organised a meet-up at the Falmer campus at 12 pm; then they’ll get the train into town for 1:45 and get to BHASVIC by 2. Brighton students are congregating at BHASVIC at 2.

SCHOOLS

Priory School looks set to walk out for a demo at 11am through Lewes, before coming into town – with Sussex students? – for the BHASVIC thing. There are signs on the internet of participation by Dorothy Stringer – and there are (insubstatial) rumours about mobilisation at Falmer School too.