Police WILL be on Campus-join the protest.

I cannot believe what the school have done. A couple of months ago the City of London Police, working through the CEMS department, approached the Students' Union to co-host an event with them.

They posed it like this:

The SOAS Centre for Ethnic Minority Studies (CEMS) is hosting a chance for students to ask these questions and discuss contemporary policing with experienced and senior police from the Metropolitan and City Police.

We didnt believe that it was this innocent so asked for more information. 

In further proposals they said they wanted to establish "lasting partnerships" with "senior members of counter-terrorism operations" for "future collaboration" with SOAS students through the Home Office's PREVENT programme and SOAS's CEMS.

The SU exec saw this as an attempt to introduce undercover and not-so-undercover police informants on campus as they have done in many other universities. So they voted against it.

The Police and Paul Webley took one of the Presidents out to a posh lunch to try to win them over.

I submitted a motion to UGM but  unfortunatley due to bureaucratic reasons it didn't make it on the agenda. Read it HERE.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY DID WITH THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE EXHIBITION THAT WE OCCUPIED THE BRUNEI GALLERY OVER. See initial blog post HERE

We invite you to join us in a protest outside the room.

Date: 9th March 2009

Time: 7.15-9pm

Where: G52