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		<title>JUSTICE FOR ALFIE MEADOWS: DROP THE CHARGES NOW</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Petition This Petition was initiated by the Defend the Right to Protest Campaign. Signatories include: Tariq Ali, Gigi Ibrahim (Egyptian activist and blogger), John McDonnell (MP), Liam Burns (NUS President), Zita Holbourne (PCS NEC), Mark Thomas (Comedian) and Jody McIntyre (Journalist and Equality Movement Activist). On 9th December 2010, tens of thousands &#8230; <a href="http://ucuatbsu.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/justice-for-alfie-meadows-drop-the-charges-now/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ucuatbsu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16598999&amp;post=558&amp;subd=ucuatbsu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Companies do far better when the workplace is unionised than when not</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new TUC publication, Unions At Work  shows that individual workers and perhaps more surprisingly, companies themselves, do far better when the workplace is unionised than when not. In unionised workplaces staff turnover is less, time-off for sickness is less, &#8230; <a href="http://ucuatbsu.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/552/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ucuatbsu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16598999&amp;post=552&amp;subd=ucuatbsu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Early Day Motion 2632 on Forced Academies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following Early Day Motion had been submitted by David Lammy MP in Parliament. The more MPs sign it the clearer it is that there is widespread opposition to Forced Academies. Please contact your MP immediately and ask them to &#8230; <a href="http://ucuatbsu.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/early-day-motion-2632-on-forced-academies-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ucuatbsu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16598999&amp;post=542&amp;subd=ucuatbsu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NASUWT refuses to sign “scandalous” pensions deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tim Lezard - 29th January 2012, 8.00 GMT NASUWT members have said the government’s “scandalous” Heads of Agreement document is set to “wreak a massive injustice to teachers” The union, along with fellow teachers’ unions NUT, UCAC and UCU, refused to sign &#8230; <a href="http://ucuatbsu.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/nasuwt-refuses-to-sign-scandalous-pensions-deal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ucuatbsu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16598999&amp;post=524&amp;subd=ucuatbsu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Government number crunchers rule against pension privatisation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Pete Murray - 27th January 2012, 15.23 GMT Five hundred staff at the Audit Commission begin a work to rule next week over pensions in the first ever industrial action at the financial watchdog The staff, who are members of Prospect, are fighting &#8230; <a href="http://ucuatbsu.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/government-number-crunchers-rule-against-pension-privatisation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ucuatbsu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16598999&amp;post=519&amp;subd=ucuatbsu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Student Loan Fury</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article from U.S. magazine CounterPunch perhaps gives us a picture of the future of the U.K. HE system if the ConDems get their way. WEEKEND EDITION NOVEMBER 25-27, 2011 213 Anthropology&#8217;s Shadow World of Debt and Despair Student Loan &#8230; <a href="http://ucuatbsu.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/u-s-student-loan-fury/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ucuatbsu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16598999&amp;post=510&amp;subd=ucuatbsu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tory striker: Michael Gove</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tory striker: Michael Gove (front, left with the placard) holds a sign saying &#8216;NUJ Official Picket Line Don&#8217;t Cross&#8217; as he joins in a walkout himself at 1989 Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009849/Michael-Gove-strike-young-newspaper-reporter.html#ixzz1ceIy4gfY<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ucuatbsu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16598999&amp;post=504&amp;subd=ucuatbsu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PUBLIC SERVICE GOLD PLATED PENSIONS (ALLEGEDLY!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>America&#8217;s growing anti-intellectualism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opinion Paul Rosenberg concludes his analysis of critical deficits leading to the &#8220;Occupy&#8221; movement sweeping the nation. Paul Rosenberg Last Modified: 12 Oct 2011 14:26   Occupy Wall Street protester holds a sign while participating in a park near Wall Street in &#8230; <a href="http://ucuatbsu.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/americas-growing-anti-intellectualism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ucuatbsu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16598999&amp;post=482&amp;subd=ucuatbsu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Activism Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve clipped this out of, Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992), a documentary film that explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, a linguist, intellectual, and political activist. Created by two Canadian filmmakers, Mark Achbar and &#8230; <a href="http://ucuatbsu.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/how-activism-works/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ucuatbsu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16598999&amp;post=479&amp;subd=ucuatbsu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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