Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Protests against education cuts at Hornsey School for Girls
Students at Hornsey School for Girls staged a sit down protest against the education cuts in their playground this morning. The school gates were then locked and no-one was being allowed to leave. The police were also called.
Several students who left earlier were approached by the police at Turnpike Lane station who were asking which school they attended and where they were going and why.
(thanks to Andy for this info)
Several students who left earlier were approached by the police at Turnpike Lane station who were asking which school they attended and where they were going and why.
(thanks to Andy for this info)
Tags for Forum Posts: education_cuts, hornsey_school_for_girls, public spending cuts
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Footage from later in the day (after mainstream press had gone home) has been put on the Guardian site showing police horses charging the crowd. It looks eyewateringly scary. OK it's not Kabul, but I would not want a naive child of mine going on a demo where this is seen as an acceptable police tactic.
So the idea is, intimidation, dont come on demo's kids if you don't want to risk being kettled for hours and being kicked by a running horse.
Doesnt matter how good the police Risk Assessment is, they can't guarantee not to injure anyone if they do this.
I remember writing the first time I saw a kettle used - it did not have that name then, it was obviously just being tested out, it was on a march through West Ham in about 1980 that blocked the main road and was simply crunched up and shuffled into a side road. They did a bit of compression first, and people were yelling that there were small children in the crush and someone having an asthma attack, cops just laughed. I wrote then, that if the police want to remove everyone from a demo that is anything but tough, able-bodied, battle-ready and wearing body armour, this is a good tactic. As long as the crowd is mixed, it's harder for those bent on affray to be successful. Treat a crowd as an enemy army, then don't be surprised if some little soldiers start to pop up. Who was it said something about By Any Means Necessary?
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Pamish, I think you are spot on.
SuburbanSlice on Flickr has a set of photos taken at the demo with her own analysis
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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This newish use of the words kettle and kettling doesn't yet seem to have reached the online Oxford English Dictionary. When it appears in one of the quarterly updates I'm curious to see if the OED uses the definition of "containment and controlled dispersal" ─ the official phrase used in discussions at the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) meetings.
But there's a curious thing about all the main current OED definitions of kettle. They are not just containers - but have the explicit purpose of heating things up.
Journalist Laurie Penny writes from her personal experience Inside the Whitehall Kettle. It's another piece of the jigsaw of voices and snapshots and impressions.
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Laurie Penny's is a great article, required reading for anyone thinking of going on a demo, ie dress warm and bring food and drink enough for several hours. Dressing warm brings the bonus of providing layers of padding, don't forget a hat though that won't help with a direct truncheon blow. Crash helmets/cycle helmets will attract blows to the shoulder instead. Maybe those daft-looking* Russian tank driver hats can be reinforced inside with layers of foam.
The comments include a link to this article about the 'planted' police van, theories to and fro.
* I've got one, regardless. And mine has a genuine tank driver's red star badge.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Too cold to demonstrate! So numbers down today. However those that are have clearly learnt a thing or two from last weeks experience, starting the demonstration earlier at the surprise of the police & running in difference directions in smaller groups, basically causing peaceful chaos, determined to be heard. :)
BBC: Tuition fee protesters in 'cat and mouse' with police.
BBC: protests organised using social media
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Well yes Will I bet you could. You have your degree. Start saving up for your child's, with these interest rates it'll take a while.
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'cause you do your intro, argue your points, then wrap up with a conclusion. :)
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I said it was neither an indication nor a contra-indication (your shoddy postings).
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I thought you said that you were an accountant. Accountants have degrees. Forgive me if I'm wrong but your literacy levels are no indication either way.
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Accountants can't spell or add. Unfortunately they run the country. Them and the lawyers & economists. Send them all off on ships to Australia.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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"Born in the 1990s, they're quoting Harry Potter rather than Che Guevera."
-BBC News education correspondent on the Hogwarts sit-in at Jeremy Bentham Hall UCL.
Yeah, wha'ever. HP's easier to spell for our education correspondent.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Setz on
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