Against Revolution

The June Postgraduate Association Bulletin (PGA, UCL) advertise a very "exciting" event:

"Quoted:
End of year campaigners' general meeting6 months after the Jeremy Bentham Room was occupied, supporters of the UCL Occupation have organised a big meeting to round off the academic year and work out what we can do to keep fighting cuts, privatisation and marketisation over the summer and into the next academic year. This meeting is open to everyone, from the most involved activists to those who have been meaning to get involved but haven't found the time.

WHERE: Haldane Room, in the UCL Main Cloisters
WHEN: Friday 10th June, from 3pm - then a social.
End of quote".

To me this is crap and a shame that an illegal act -such as the occupation of a public building- is being so tamed, so domesticated, so exploited and so funded. The worst part is this _it is funded, supported, encouraged by the College itself -Faculty? Staff?

You can say: c'mon, you are too radical, what's the problem? You don't know anything and you are judging. You are becoming a grumpy oldie.

Pure crap, I insist.

Of course, the event is advertised in facebook. I took a look and got a bit of the spirit of this comradeship. Apart from the typical "great, great, ooooohhhh, agggggg... I am sooo sorryyyy I will misssss it because...." kind of thing, and here, I have to feed my cat, or my boyfriend is in town or such, and a big kiss and here love you guys, or i'll miss you, I don't know.

Got so tired of this... Today, got so tired of this.

A couple of guys will be late because they have to attend the Whose Uni conference. And what is the Whose Uni Conference? You wonder as I did. Well, it is this _ "and interdisciplinary event that will foster debate on the current crisis in higher education", and it is labeled resistance. Not bad, hm? I am not sure what kind of crisis they talk about. That of students being shit, professors -so to speak- being shit, publications being shit? That of campus brewing terrorists and thieves? That of colleges perverting true and pure knowledge? That of rich professors in Education hiding drugs and narcotics at their mansions for the joy of "under-agers"? That of everybody being cool for smoking marijuana and experiencing new things? If so, certainly, a CRISIS, in plain capitals. So, please, cut the money now!

If I was to attend this "wonderful" conference, Resistance: Crisis - Creation - Action - Critique, I would certainly listen eagerly to Louise Purbick's "Researching Students Demonstrations and Resisting the Police: A Brighton Case Study"...

Resisting the Police?? What are you talking about??

Would it be interesting to know how much money are in this? How much presenters get paid for this? Where is the money coming from? During these week there are brochures available on campus advertising a big, multi-day event on Marxism coming soon... And the look of the brochure is great! I mean, not the miserable one-sheet, black and white leaflet that a little man gives out at the entrance of my Sainsbury on Saturday morning... How much money was it? Who paid for this? Who is behind? There is a student paper, isn't there? Would not be nice to know the answers to these questions?

North, South, East, West: pure crap.
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Ok, that's it. The night is a desert now. And deserts are cold as ice at night.
Oh, God, hear my payer.

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