The Welcome General Meeting held yesterday (09/10/07) was inquorate -
(1% of the union membership is required to be present if someone calls for a quoracy count) -
but c.150 did show up and many thanks to them and to those who stayed to hear George Galloway MP speak.
It is vital that people attend the reconvened meeting next week - Tuesday 16th October at 5.30pm in the Darwin Lecture Theatre.
DONT ATTACK IRAN
UCLU Stop the War has submitted a motion calling for a walk-out of lectures if Iran is attacked (those of you who stayed to hear Galloway speak will be left in no doubt of the catastrophic consequences an attack on Iran would create and the urgency that we as students are able to mobilise swift opposition to any such attack). A walk-out indicates that we cannot continue with life as normal in the event of an attack which would be so disastrous for peace and the people of Iran and the Middle East.
We have also submitted a motion to ban army recruitment on campus to protect UCL students from the military's relentless and desperate recruitment drive and to prevent any from our university becoming embroiled in our current disastrous, brutal and illegal foreign policy.
HANDS OFF OUR UNION - DEFEND DEMOCRACY AT UCL UNION
Most importantly we need students to come to this meeting to defend democracy in our union and the very ability of UCLU societies such as ours to campaign and the ability of ordinary students to vote to carry such motions as the above through as binding union policy.
Students for Democracy at UCL Union have submitted a 'Hands Off Our Union Motion' to scrap the proposals of the Governance Review which will destroy the ability for ordinary UCL students to democratically participate in our union by rendering these general meetings unable to make binding policy and giving a board of trustees, including non-elected non-student 'lay' trustees, who will meet in secret and be completely unnaccountable, the ultimate control of the union and the ability to undemocratically overturn any decisions made at general meetings or Union Council.
see www.sducl.co.uk for more details
(1% of the union membership is required to be present if someone calls for a quoracy count) -
but c.150 did show up and many thanks to them and to those who stayed to hear George Galloway MP speak.
It is vital that people attend the reconvened meeting next week - Tuesday 16th October at 5.30pm in the Darwin Lecture Theatre.
DONT ATTACK IRAN
UCLU Stop the War has submitted a motion calling for a walk-out of lectures if Iran is attacked (those of you who stayed to hear Galloway speak will be left in no doubt of the catastrophic consequences an attack on Iran would create and the urgency that we as students are able to mobilise swift opposition to any such attack). A walk-out indicates that we cannot continue with life as normal in the event of an attack which would be so disastrous for peace and the people of Iran and the Middle East.
We have also submitted a motion to ban army recruitment on campus to protect UCL students from the military's relentless and desperate recruitment drive and to prevent any from our university becoming embroiled in our current disastrous, brutal and illegal foreign policy.
HANDS OFF OUR UNION - DEFEND DEMOCRACY AT UCL UNION
Most importantly we need students to come to this meeting to defend democracy in our union and the very ability of UCLU societies such as ours to campaign and the ability of ordinary students to vote to carry such motions as the above through as binding union policy.
Students for Democracy at UCL Union have submitted a 'Hands Off Our Union Motion' to scrap the proposals of the Governance Review which will destroy the ability for ordinary UCL students to democratically participate in our union by rendering these general meetings unable to make binding policy and giving a board of trustees, including non-elected non-student 'lay' trustees, who will meet in secret and be completely unnaccountable, the ultimate control of the union and the ability to undemocratically overturn any decisions made at general meetings or Union Council.
see www.sducl.co.uk for more details
