Anti-extremism group Student Rights was instrumental in applying pressure to get the event cancelled.
Director Raheem Kassam said:”It’s great to see that after the combined efforts of Peter Tatchell and Student Rights, UCL have decided to cancel this event.
“Abu Usamah has advocated violence and hate speech, which has no place on university campuses.”
The UCLU spokeswoman said [...]
Today, Student Rights launches it’s latest campaign, “We Live In A Democracy.” Register for our event on Facebook by clicking here.
The campaign seeks to highlight the fact that today, in the United Kingdom, we live within a liberal democracy, where freedom of speech and freedom from oppression are key aspects of our lives. These liberties [...]
Yesterday a group of about forty students from the SOAS Stop the War Society stopped traffic as they lay in the road ‘dying’ outside the Houses of Parliament and proceeded to march around Parliament Square to the gates of Downing Street in protest of the war in Afghanistan. Whether or not one agrees with [...]
Today, the students of the London School of Economics and Political Science voted in favour of the motion put forward at the UGM for, “Twinning with the Islamic University of Gaza”. This contentious motion caused largescale controversy this afternoon as various groups protested for and against the motion on Houghton Street.
The motion passed by 153 [...]
Today, Student Rights have been made aware of an impending speech to be given by controversial Imam Abu Usamah who has previously been noted as endorsing the murder of gay people and of Muslims who give up their faith.
UPDATE: Following conversations between Student Rights National Director Raheem Kassam and UCLU executive members, UCL [...]
The editor of Times Higher Education defended the University of Buckingham’s Vice-Chancellor Terence Kealey’s freedom of speech and defended his right to academic freedom when he wrote in September 2009 a piece entitled ‘Lust’ that caused a considerable amount of controversy. Kealey wrote that:
Normal girls – more interested in abs than in labs, more interested [...]
On Tuesday, a record turnout of over 650 students took seats at the EUSA AGM. Seats in George Square Lecture Theatre were filled, whilst over 100 more students were directed to Appleton Tower to take part via a video link.
Students voted strongly in favour of a motion that would have enabled EUSA to [...]
An update from the Student Rights gallery for the 19th November. This week, we’re promoting the image to go alongside the current Student Rights campaign, “We Live in a Democracy”.
The Old Lecture Theatre at the LSE on the 12th November 2009 was the location for a Union General Meeting with a difference for two reasons. The first was that this weekly meeting was so obviously quorate (1% of the University in attendance) that the organisers did not have to count the people present.
The second [...]
During the last month, Academy Award Winner Emma Thompson is quoted to have said that Exeter is very ‘white and middle class’ after her adopted Rwandan son, Tindyebwa Agaba, experienced racism in his first year at the university. He also alleges that the subject matter on his Politics and International Relations degree, when referring to [...]
