protest

On the day of the release of the Government’s Autumn Budget 2017,  the University’s Socialist Students Society organised a day of action to protest Tory policies. The protest was part of a nationwide Socialist Students’ campaign on university campuses on 22 November. Will Sharland, the president of UoN’s Socialist...

This morning students and academic staff at the University of Nottingham (UoN) took to Trent Courtyard to protest the University not implementing a Living Wage. Around a hundred students and staff members gathered early Tuesday morning carrying cleaning supplies to show solidarity with the cleaning staff, the University’s lowest-paid...

The Living Wage Campaign at the University of Nottingham is seeking to convince the University to implement a living wage for its lowest-paid employees. The campaign, led by a cross-party student group, is working to ensure that the University’s cleaning, catering, and estate staff are paid fairly in accordance...

Yesterday, 30th October 2017, the University of Nottingham (UoN) Left Society staged a protest at the East Midlands Conference Centre during the 2017 Science and Technology Fair. The fair focused on internships and graduate employment opportunities for students studying STEM subjects- science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Thus, the careers...

As a student, one is probably in that ‘adolescent’ bracket of society and thus statistically more likely to engage in activism. Activism is a term which often receives negative connotations, but it simply means actively attempting to achieve a social, economic or political objective. Doing some or all of...

He is beauty, he is grace. He’s a tyrannical sexist fatcat. And Nottingham has had Trump on the brain for quite a while now. But just what do we think of our American ‘friend’? “People of all ages seemed to be voicing their compassion for refugees and for women”...

Protesters gathered on King Street last night (30th Jan) to take a stand against Donald Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’ executive order. The legislation has been described as a ‘Muslim ban’ as it involves suspending people from Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Iran and Yemen, all of which are devout Islamic...