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Daily Archives: December 10, 2010
We LOVE you PEOPLE!!
Its true! We’ve said it before but just to make it abundantly clear: this is a BIG SHOUT OUT to all those who’ve donated us food and other supplies :-] Your generous mutual aid and solidarity is keeping our bodies and faith in humanity alive and kicking. THANKYOU!
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Support for Bath Spa Occupation
If you live in Bath (or don’t mind making the trip from Bristol), Bath Spa Occupation could do with some love and food too! They have a facebook page too. Think they have open access so go visit them!
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Charles & Camilla car attack
some interesting language use here (logical gymnastics). I also see
parallels on that level with the management’s emails… I’ve used << >>
around quoted bits.
Security analyst and former police officer Charles Shoebridge said armed royal protection officers travelling with the couple would have considered opening fire had they perceived a threat to their passengers.
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“Some of the demonstrators yesterday were carrying petrol, specifically to use in arson attacks. If the can of paint had been a can of petrol, it would have been very different.”
If someone had had an anti tank gun, it also would have been very
different, what’s his point?
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Browne’s Gamble – Stefan Collini
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n21/stefan-collini/brownes-gamble
Much of the initial response to the Browne Report seems to have missed the point. Its proposals have been discussed almost entirely in terms of ‘a rise in fees’. Analysis has largely concentrated on the amount graduates might pay and on which social groups may gain or lose by comparison with the present system. In other words, the discussion has focused narrowly on the potential financial implications for the individual student, and here it should be recognised that some of the details of Browne’s proposed system of graduate contributions to the cost of fees are, if his premises are granted, an improvement on the present patchwork arrangements.
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