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Students to protest police, education fees

Posted on By 3arabawy

The Socialist Students, and virtually all political student groups, have called for demonstrations in Cairo University and the national universities campuses in the capital and the provinces, 12 noon, 21 Feb, marking International Students Day, calling for the liberation of the campuses from Mubarak’s gestapo agents, and protesting the skyrocketing education fees.

A Jaiku channel has been set up to cover the protests that day. Please join the channel to receive the updates, and if you have any reports to send to the Jaiku channel, then make sure to begin your text message with: #cunow

UK: Storm of student protest over Gaza gathers force

Posted on By 3arabawy

Sit-ins at 16 universities spell return to radicalism, fueled by social networking and blogs, the Guardian reports:

Over the last week, a storm of student protests has gathered over 16 universities across England, suggesting that students are awakening from the political apathy of which they are often accused. It’s enough to bring a tear to the eye of ageing sixties radicals.
Starting at the School of Oriental and African Studies, occupations in protest at events in Gaza spread to King’s College London and the London School of Economics (LSE), then out of the capital to Sussex, Warwick, Newcastle, Oxford, Essex, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan, Bristol, Nottingham, Salford, and Kingston.

Manchester University pro-Gaza student occupation, Photo by Alia Al-Rayani