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Hands Off Lewisham Bridge eviction successfully resisted
Due to the numbers of people present, the eviction did not took place. However, the occupation is still under threat of eviction and needs your support. To help out, call the number at the end of this announcement.
We want to let Lewisham Council know that they are evicting people who have been peacefully protesting over the destruction of community education at our school. Lewisham Council still don't have planning permission for their new school. Lewisham Council still haven't told us why the decant had to take place at Easter, when children were taking SATs and banding tests. Lewisham Council still haven't told us why they are prepared to wash their hands of the responsibility of educating our children.
If Lewisham Bridge Primary School is given to Leathersellers we parents will have no say in the governance of our school. Staff will be employed by Leathersellers who will set their own terms and conditions taking those teachers out of a collective national teaching body.
This is privatisation! This is bringing the market into our kids' education, where the only motivation is profit and the only measure is league tables and headcount. Competition will be the name of the game. Trusts and academies will compete for those children they believe to be desirable and leave those whom they don't on the scrapheap. Why have Prendergast rejected the Travellers Education Service that used to be based at the school? Why have Prendergast rejected the proposal to establish a SEN unit at the new school?
A consultation process has already started for a trust led by Goldsmiths University which will govern 3 schools: Addey & Stanhope, Deptford Green and Crossways. It is a process that has exactly the same goal. To take our schools out of the public sector and hand them over to the private sector.
We cannot let them get away with this. We can fight this together and we can win!
Come down to Lewisham Bridge Primary School and let the bailiffs know that we're not going easily.
Hands Off Lewisham Bridge 07946 541 331
WHO RUNS OUR SCHOOLS? - Stop School Trusts in Lewisham!
OPEN PUBLIC MEETING
Goldsmiths Students Union Dixon Road, New Cross, London SE14 Monday 29 June 6.30-7.30pm
Did you know that Lewisham Council and Goldsmiths are proposing to set up a Trust made up of Goldsmiths, Deptford Green, Addey and Stanhope and Crossways Academy?
-Parents – will your child be guaranteed a place at their local school?
-Parents – will you have a voice on the new governing body?
-Staff – who will be your employer?
-Staff – will your pay and conditions be affected?
-Who will own the land and assets of our local schools?
Come along and find out what a Trust really means for education in Lewisham
Speakers from Deptford Green, Lewisham NUT, Crossways Academy, Addey and Stanhope and other local education campaigns
Called by: Lewisham NUT, Lewisham Unison, Goldsmiths UCU, Goldsmiths NUS, Goldsmiths UNISON and Hands Off Lewisham Bridge
Download a flyer here
For more information on the proposed School Trust, read this pamphlet
Minutes of the 17 June exec meeting now online
You can view them here or download as a Word document 
(.doc)
Points-based System for Immigration: How can it be stopped on our campuses?
Wednesday, 17 June, 6PM
Lecture Theatre 106, First Floor, Roberts Building, UCL, Torrington Place(opposite Waterstones, Malet Street).
This meeting is open to anyone interested in discussing the new immigration rules, and to think of ways of campaigning against them. It is called by London Region UCU (HE) and hosted by UCL UCU. It is open to all, not only UCU members.
Speakers:
Frances Webber, campaigning immigration lawyer
Arun Kundnani, editor 'Race and Class'
Ann Singleton, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice, University of Bristol, signatory on Times Higher Education letter, available here: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=406422
For more information, see: http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=3698
For a flyer, click here.
Archive of previous news items:
December 2008 and January 2009
Any questions? email us at
For the statement from the SOAS occupation, click here
For Alberto Toscano's article about the SOAS situation, click here
Read the statement from Sally Hunt on the postponment of the HE ballot, dated 18 May 2009
Read the joint statement against HE job cuts (signed by NUS, UCU, Unison, Unite, GMB and EIS).
