Cambridge Gaza Solidarity is disappointed to report that efforts to go through official channels of communication with Law students have been refused by the Faculty.
We would like to ask all Law students to feedback to us. Our email address is cambridgeoccupation@live.com
We are having a meeting at 17:30 today in LG17 – Please do all come.
The Faculty doesn't want to support the occupation. It makes sense since they are not a political organization.
ReplyDeleteHold on. You mean that demands formulated over the course of a week by a systematically-biased quorum of partially-educated activists with no experience in international diplomacy might not prescribe the appropriate course of action in response to this crisis? This is madness!
ReplyDeleteOnly a sadist with a heart of stone would fail to laugh out loud.
ReplyDeleteThis is getting better and better.
ReplyDeleteI mean how dare the law faculty not crumble instantly in the face of your righteous anger.
How very dare they!
We shall, we shall not be moved... hey, power is supposed to let us speak unto it, not hurt us!
ReplyDeletesorry did any of you read the post before you commented on it.
ReplyDeleteAlec macpherson has critisised us before because we didn't reach out to enough students.
And now that we have tried to and the faculty has refused to allow the very thing they have suggested in the past, it's our fault.
many of you have critisised because we didn't go through the proper channels, this is what happens if you try to.
I would just like to restate my total support for the occupation and would like to thank all those who oppose it for highlighting just how weak the opposition position is.
and I'd just like to say again: What have you done to help Gaza which would be on a scale even approaching what we could win from the university?
ReplyDeleteIf you feel so strongly have you gone to the building to tell them? or are you too scared to come out from behind the computer screens and agrue with someone who can respond directly
For a protest which is unlikely to achieve its demands, whose demands are unlikely to have any impact on international foreign policies and whose undertaking is likely if anything to heighten tensions between the belligerents, the thousands of man-hours committed to this event could have easily done more to help Gaza. I'm going to guess conservatively that you've kept a party averaging 10. You've been there for about 120 hours. Your time is worth at least £10 an hour to the corporations that endlessly petition us for it. That's £12,000 of humanitarian aid that could have gone to Gaza. Think about it.
ReplyDeleteFull disclosure: none of my charitable giving has gone directly to Gaza thus far, primarily because in a global context it's one of the most unsustainable forms of humanitarian relief available to be supported.
First the lowest numbers were 30
ReplyDeletesecond my wage is £6.50 an hour
third are you really saying that if i hadn't protested that there would be twelve grand winging it's way to gaza now?
I have given my last two pay packets to charity but if I do this why should the university not have to do something as well
Will is just saying you could have given your time over to fundraising for a respectable charity instead of holding an academic institution to ransom.
ReplyDeleteExactly - and would have spent the time doing some proper productive hard work rather than sitting around painting banners and holding hilariously democratic discussions.
ReplyDelete> First the lowest numbers were 30
> second my wage is £6.50 an hour
Thanks; I revise my envelope estimate at £23,400 then.
> I have given my last two pay packets to charity but if I do this why should the university not have to do something as well
The university is a non-profit institution and employs plenty of people to make its decisions without your assistance. Ultimately, there is more suffering in Gaza than there would have been had you put in some overtime rather than gone to the Law Faculty and sent the proceeds that way. The futility of your actual choice doesn't compel the university any more to act in response to the Gaza crisis than it should have before, and certainly not in the unilateral manner asked by the occupation.
>> I have given my last two pay packets to charity but if I do this why should the university not have to do something as well
ReplyDeleteTwo thoughts. First, I have difficulty believing you have done so. Second, it's your choice. Kant would have said that if one expects reward or reciprocation for a charitable act, it ceases to be worthy. Then again, Kant also objected to free-thinking Jews, so you may still have got along with him.