The Campus Access Policy (CAP), introduced on June 27th, is bad news for free speech. Mark Scott’s email announcing the new policy as “ensuring a safe and welcoming campus” is doublespeak that hides his real agenda: revoking the right of students and staff to organise freely.
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On the morning of May 10, pro-Palestine activists blockaded the premises of Bisalloy Steels in Unanderra for their role in arming the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The picket, organised by Wollongong Friends of Palestine, targeted Bisalloy due to their contract with the Israeli firm Rafael Advanced Defence Systems.
Day 17 at the University of Sydney’s Gaza solidarity encampment saw participation in the Student Strike for Palestine and attendance at the National Tertiary Education Union’s (NTEU) Sydney Branch vote on a motion to “endorse the institutional academic boycott of Israeli universities, and to cut ties with the war industry.”
After marching from the USyd Quadrangle to the UTS Central Building, the rally escalated. Following the speeches, students stormed Broadway and occupied the Broadway Shopping Centre.
The rally was organised by activist groups Students Against War and UTS Staff for Palestine, and called for USyd and UTS to cut their ties with Israel and arms manufacturers.
“You don’t want protests in the ports, declare that you will not move any Israeli- owned or made goods.”
