tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post3850935878140645692..comments2024-03-18T08:20:19.461+00:00Comments on Transpontine: Strike and occupation at GoldsmithsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-25331215586002980652011-03-25T11:46:28.562+00:002011-03-25T11:46:28.562+00:00Occupying Deptford Town Hall is the lamest form of...Occupying Deptford Town Hall is the lamest form of political protest.<br />Goldsmiths is a liberal institution, the management dislike this Government's policies towards HE as much as anyone in the country. Should they really be a priority target for civil action, or is it just that occupying is incredibly easy, comfortable and with low-level retributive consequences. It's not like occupying an actual arm of the state is it? The immediate effect that it has is do make study more difficult for the occupier's fellow students, who have classes and assessment disrupted. Secondly, it creates much more work for the very staff who were striking, as they have to find solutions to the problems caused as well as manage their normal workloads. And then the ancillary staff (admin, security, cleaners) have to do loads more to try to fulfill the university's responsibility to students.<br />I strongly suspect that those involved don't have a clue what they are doing: they just muddy the waters and make it more difficult to achieve anything meaningful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com