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20160827 - Journée maintenance pour Surprise Partie, le Grand Surprise du Club Var Mer.
Sur le quai autour du bateau, le moindre espace ombragé est exploité.
Exploitant : Transdev TVO
Réseau : R'Bus (Argenteuil)
Ligne : 5
Lieu : Gare de Sartrouville (Sartrouville, F-78)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/id/35642
Visite d'une exploitation agricole sur terrain sableux et argileux : coupe et observation du sol. Cours d'écologie, séminaire « Terres » portant sur la reconnaissance des principaux types de sols de parcelles agricoles.
Sonchamp 78-Yvelines France
No animals were harmed in the course of making this self portrait.
( I can't say the same for a large number of dog treats..)
Mojo the British Transport Police dog at the ready.
Police and partner agencies have been focusing on young people who run away or go missing from home and those that may exploit them during a week of action that began across Greater Manchester on Monday 14 March.
The focus of the campaign during this year’s week of action has been raising awareness around the strong link between child sexual exploitation and children who go missing.
Going missing can mean bunking off school, staying out overnight, or running away from home for a few days or longer. Whatever the context, the reality is that 95% children at risk from child sexual exploitation have gone missing at least once.
GMP Assistant Chief Constable Rob Potts said: “The statistics speak for themselves – there is a clear correlation between young people at risk of child sexual exploitation and their inclination to run away or go missing.
“More often than not, the young people who do run away do so regularly. This not only places a significant strain on policing but also increases the chances of that person coming to harm.
“Young people are often unaware of the dangers that are posed when they stay away from home without telling anyone and we urge them to keep in touch somehow, whether that’s through a friend, relative or anyone you trust.
“If you have concerns about your child’s whereabouts or don’t know where they are, please contact the police. With our partners in Project Phoenix we are doing all we can to work with these young people to get to the root of the problem, and keep them safe.
“Child sexual exploitation is a horrific crime and we will continue to work hard to both locate and protect those vulnerable to abuse, working with missing children on their return to break the cycle. Officers are patrolling around the clock, and will take robust action to tackle anyone who seeks to exploit these young people.”
Greater Manchester Mayor and Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd said: “Greater Manchester is leading the fight against child sexual exploitation. We’re engaging with local people to raise awareness of the abuse and how to spot the signs, and partner agencies are working together to tackle the issue, bring perpetrators to justice, and provide much-needed support to victims and those at risk, including children who run away or go missing.
“Child sexual exploitation is child sex abuse, plain and simple. We must come down heavily on those who exploit and manipulate vulnerable children for their own sexual pleasure, and arm our young people with the means to keep safe and recognise unhealthy, abusive relationships.”
Paul Maher, Greater Manchester Area Manager at The Children’s Society, which works with children and young people who go missing or are at risk of going missing, said: “Children and young people who go missing are among the most vulnerable children in our society.
“Some may be running from neglect and abuse, family breakdown or drug and alcohol misuse by their parents - while others go missing under the influence of predatory adults seeking to exploit them.
“Whatever the reason for them going missing, we know these children are at particular risk of being sexually exploited or falling victim to other types of harm. Our research has shown that around a quarter are either hurt or harmed in some way.
“That is why it is vital they receive more support at an early stage to help address the issues that cause them to go missing and protect them from the risks of sexual exploitation or becoming a victim of other crimes.”
The week of activity is the latest from Project Phoenix’s ‘It’s Not Okay’ campaign, and will be publicising resources and support related to child sexual exploitation.
‘It’s Not Okay’ was created as part of Project Phoenix, the Greater Manchester response to tackling child sexual exploitation - a collaboration of public and third sector partners throughout Greater Manchester working together to protect young people.
Since the campaign launched in September 2014, public awareness and understanding of child sexual exploitation in Greater Manchester has increased considerably amongst young people and parents and carers, as well as professionals.
In the 18 months since the launch of the ‘It’s Not Okay’ campaign, Project Phoenix has undertaken substantial work with schools, healthcare providers and support services to ensure that vulnerable young people are helped at every stage - from prevention through to support and rehabilitation.
Regular weeks of awareness-raising have included direct engagement with young people and those who care for them; police targeting and disruption, dedicated days of publicity focusing on key trends and close collaboration across Greater Manchester authorities means that hundreds more young people are being identified, educated and safeguarded than ever before. Visit www.itsnotokay.co.uk to find out more.
For more information about Policing in Greater Manchester please visit our website. www.gmp.police.uk
To report crime call police on 101 the national non-emergency number.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
The Story of Cambrian Colliery.
The Latin name for Wales was 'Cambria', hence the extension 'Cambrian' (properly pronounced as Cam-bree-an) for things Welsh, including 'Welshman'. Cambrian also refers to rock formations of 550-500 million years ago, making it an apt name for the colliery which once sat at the back of the Clydach Valley. Cambrian Colliery had four coal-producing shafts: Nos. 1 and 2, sunk 1872-74; No. 3, sinking completed June 1891; and No. 4, sinking completed by early 1914 at latest. No.2 pit closed in 1956 and No.3 in 1936. In exploiting the Pentre, 2ft. 9in, Six Feet, Red (Vein), Nine Feet, Bute, Yard and Five Feet seams (listed in geological order of descent) the colliery accumulated a massive workforce and this peaked at 4,898 in 1923, with 798 of those (more than the total workforce in some collieries!) being employed at the surface. Three explosions occurred there, one of steam in No. 2 pit's winding engine-house on November 11th, 1900 when four men were killed, and two of firedamp -- March 10th, 1905 in the Six Feet seam, and May 17th, 1965 in the Pentre seam - killing 33 and 31 men respectively.
At its peak Cambrian produced over one million tons of saleable coal per annum, extracted via the heading and stall, fully hand-won system of working --100% pick and shovel. This system yielded a low output per man-shift and was very wasteful, leaving a large quantity of roof-supporting pillars of coal in the workings. The coal was released from the face by a collier, lying on his side with mandrel in hand, perilously undercutting the seam at the bottom and propping its upper level as he advanced, hoping it did not collapse whilst he was under it. When he had sufficiently undercut the seam he carefully knocked out the props, thus bringing down large sections of the face. Usually, the fallen coal had to be reduced to lesser but still large sizes that could be lifted into the tram, but as the use of shovels was prohibited to prevent unwanted small coal entering, smaller lumps were gathered by hand, placed into and discharged from large steel scoops known as curling boxes. In low seams, the box was pushed ahead of or dragged behind the user for the duration of the coal-filling, a process which could last eight hours. This was merely one aspect of a punishing, soul-destroying method of work that caused early deaths, and engendered deformities of the body and premature aging of many colliers and their boys. Although those numbers are unknown they must be considered as many thousands, for in 1913, in Rhondda alone, almost ten million tons of coal was produced in this inefficient, torturous way. This method of work continued for the first fifty or sixty years or so of Cambrian's life, until the advent of conveyors; these were later augmented by the introduction of pneumatic picks and compressed air or electrically driven, seam undercutting machines, which in No. 1 pit were replaced in the late 1950s by sophisticated, mechanised systems. All of these systems employed the long-wall method of extraction, one which left no coal in its wake, and where, particularly on mechanised faces, the work was less arduous than the heading and stall method.
Cambrian's history cannot be recounted without mention of David Alfred Thomas. The son of Cambrian's co-founder Samuel Thomas, D.A. Thomas was a hard, much despised man, whose greed and desire to dominate would have a devastating effect on lives in mid-Rhondda. An enormously wealthy but mean and cold-hearted man, he had no interest in the welfare of his workers, an attitude confirmed by the absence in the Clydach Valley of any social institutions or facilities created at his behest, a lack of benevolence which starkly contrasted to the munificence of the respected coal-owner and philanthropist Archibald Hood at the nearby, and also mighty, Llwynypia Colliery. Thomas aspired to control South Wales' coal production and thereby regulate the price he paid the workforce to produce it. To enable this he established the Cambrian Combine, a group which controlled Cambrian, Llwynypia (after Hood's death), Naval, Ely, Nantgwyn and Britannic (Gilfach Goch) Collieries and attempted to force colliers at the small Ely colliery to sign a disadvantageous Bute seam price list, one unsigned at all the other collieries but which, if signed at Ely, would have applied to all, and netted the Combine many millions of pounds in extra profit. The proposed price-list contained no concessions for abnormal conditions of any kind; if the collier needed to fill six trams to earn a reasonable wage, but was restricted by the conditions to two, three or four, then the revenue from that number of trams would be deemed his contract earnings for that day, and would not attract any allowances! The Ely workmen refused to sign the price-list and the owners responded in August 1910 by locking the gates to the workforce, setting in motion circumstances which culminated in the South Wales Miners Federation declaring an official strike from November 1st 1910. It is recorded that the next ten months were a bloody and brutal period in Rhondda's history, with one miner killed by 'blows to the head with a blunt instrument'. Eventually the physical actions of the strikers at the six collieries were quelled, their aggression reduced to a simmering resentment in the face of an overpowering presence of 1500 imported police and six regiments of soldiers. In September 1911, despite their fortitude and courage, the dire circumstances in which they and their families existed compelled a return to work. After ten months opposition it was a bitter eating of the leek, but their struggles had not been completely in vain, for even amongst Britain's establishment society there were those with uneasy consciences, they who realised that no man would put his family through such degradation without just cause. This consensus gathered pace and resulted in the 1912 enactment of a law that gave the workmen guarantee of a minimum daily wage. In their massively prominent contribution to the establishment of that right the men of Cambrian, Llwynypia, Naval, Nantgwyn, Ely and Britannic created a legend that exists to this day; in defeat they and their families had exhibited unparalleled courage and unquenchable spirit, qualities which Rhondda miners were once more forced to display in the fight against the Thatcher administration almost seventy years later. By their very nature, collieries were crucibles of socialism, and from Llwynypia Colliery in 1910 sprang two leaders in 31 years old Will John and 28 years old John Hopla. Leaders of the Combine Workmen's Committee during the strike, they were impatient with William 'Mabon' Abraham, President of the South Wales Miners Federation, whom they viewed as placatory, and too close to the coal-owners. Perhaps singled out as examples, John and Hopla (the latter died in 1914) were each punished with a jail sentence of one year for their parts in 'unlawful assembly and rioting' at Ely Colliery in 1911. In 1920 Will John entered Parliament as MP. for Rhondda West, and was followed in 1933 by Cambrian workman and Workmen's Committee delegate Will Mainwaring who represented Rhondda East. As a 27 years old in 1911, Mainwaring had also brushed with the police, fighting alongside other miners in Tonypandy street skirmishes. All three were men without agendas, each impelled from within to fight the injustice of an iniquitous system under which colliers and boys were compelled to risk their lives and health for a pittance, a degrading process that stripped them of dignity. John, Hopla, Mainwaring -- they were inspirational, giants of their time, and men of unequalled conviction whose names quickly entered folklore, ones remembered in Rhondda over a century later.
The passing of that century has also allowed the truth to be known about the Bute seam and its contentious price-list. The writer, and others from a small, dwindling band who worked in the Bute until its 1964 abandonment at Cambrian, remember it as a dangerous, often geologically disturbed seam that was overlain by a measure of solid rock many yards in thickness. Between the bottom of the solid rock and the top of the Bute seam there existed a consolidated layer of mud and clay known as shale, which when disturbed as the coal was worked, exhibited its friable nature. This caused the collier to spend much time packing roof cavities with pieces of timber, preventing the crumbly shale losing contact with the upper rock layer. If not supported, that layer would inevitably converge and collapse, sometimes spectacularly so, making a complete coal-face inaccessible. Such dangers often caused a fireman or over-man to instruct the collier to stand 'notched timber'; this was the best system of conventional roof support and involved the use of timber 'arms' and 'collars' of circular cross-section, all notched by hatchet in Welsh style, interlocked when erected. They were more substantial and durable, but more time-consuming in preparation and erection than the arrangement of two un-notched timber arms (posts), merely placed under a horizontal wooden prop ('flat') of semi-circular cross-section. Nevertheless, even the notched arrangement, set on a solid rock floor, could prove fallible to the enormous roof pressure of the converging rock when the crumbling shale 'melted' -- disintegrated -- above the roof props.
When it was attempted to work the Bute with a reduced seam height it was incredible to see arms, notched or un-notched driven through its false floor, an eight inch thick bed of rock, a mudstone also known as 'bunker' or 'clod'. Such irresistible pressure ('squeeze'), exerted over the collier's entire workplace prevented the normal separation of coal from the face. Many millions of tons of Bute coal were produced in Rhondda but even with the benefits of a pneumatic pick and a conveyor, when a combination of the above negatives occurred, it was often impossible for a collier to fill his quota - confirmation of the contentions by heading and stall colliers at Ely Colliery in 1910-11, who worked it without mechanical advantages! It is also worthy of mention that at Cambrian the brief mechanisation of one Bute district proved to be totally impractical because of its overall treacherous nature, underlining the fact that man was the most versatile coal-winning machine ever employed underground.
Cambrian closed on September 24th, 1966. It was then working the hugely unprofitable Lower Nine Feet / Bute seam in No.4 pit, and the limited reserves of the thin, thirty-four inches thick Pentre seam in No.1. In its last full financial year of 1965-66, with a manpower of 781 men (inc. surface workers) it produced 187,600 saleable tons, at a loss of £1.90 per ton - £356,000 in total. Many years of unprofitability had preceded that deficit and with the once bounteous reserves of its 2,000 acres area of extraction completely exhausted, the colliery had arrived at the end of its life. Its demolition, and the subsequent landscaping of the site, has obliterated every aspect of a workplace that entered the souls of those who worked there, a unique place whose disappearance has left a muted community and silent valley. Only those who remember it during its industrial period will know how great the contrast is. Bill Richards. © 2015.
Digital Media Technical Exploitation Instructor Christopher Esposito leads a class on computer forensic examination to US Army ROTC Cadets during the NFSTC@FIU 2018 Biometrics Internship. Photo by Michelle Chernicoff
Exploitant : Keolis CIF
Réseau : Navette Substitution SNCF Île-de-France
Ligne : Navette Transilien H
Lieu : Gare d'Épinay – Villetaneuse (Épinay-sur-Seine, F-93)
Exploitant : Cars Lacroix
Réseau : ValParisis
Ligne : 30-05
Lieu : MJC (Sartrouville, F-78)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/id/30655
Exploitant : Transdev Montesson les Rabaux
Réseau : Entre Seine et Forêt
Ligne : 21
Lieu : Les Pins Clos Courché (Marly-le-Roi, F-78)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/vehicule/21766
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An activist with a placard among other animal rights protesters in Parliament Square on 26 August 2023. They had just completed a march from Marble Arch to the square. According to an activist I talked to, they were demanding the end to all types of animal exploitation and highlighting universal veganism as not only the only ethical and humane option, but as also a vital tool to prevent catastrophic climate change.
Here are four good reasons to go vegan in 2023
Animal Welfare: By not using or consuming animal products you are helping to reduce harm to animals and supporting their well-being. You should choose veganism if you believe in treating animals with kindness and respect.
Health Benefits: Vegan diets can lower the risk of heart disease, certain cancers, and type 2 diabetes. They typically include more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, which are good for your health.
Environmental Impact: Producing plant-based foods typically has a much smaller environmental footprint than raising animals for meat. It can help combat issues of immense importance to the planet's future, particularly by reducing methane emissions and deforestation and thereby mitigating climate change.
Resource Conservation: A vegan diet requires fewer resources like water and land compared to a diet heavy in animal products. It's a more sustainable choice for the planet's future.
Exploitant : Cars Lacroix
Réseau : ValParisis
Ligne : 30-05
Lieu : Gare de Sartrouville (Sartrouville, F-78)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/id/25510
Shipwrecks
By the middle of the 1850s the settlement and exploitation of the lands along the southern fringe of Georgian Bay had sparked a rise in the volume of commercial shipping.
Cabot Head stood abreast of the Bay’s principal shipping route. From the Tobermory narrows the inbound passage to the head of the Bay, or to ports such as Owen Sound or Collingwood, brings the rocky shore below the Head uncomfortably close.
Inevitably, this turn in the coast was regarded by the sailor with apprehension, and justifiably so as events would show.
The earliest marine disaster known to have occurred in the vicinity of Cabot Head involved a small schooner owned by George Newcombe, of Owen Sound, on December 11, 1856.
Another wreck linked to the Georgian Bay fishery took place in 1863 when the 10-ton schooner Pioneer, owned by John Frame, of Colpoys Bay, was lost in the entrance to Wingfield Basin.
October of 1884 was one of the worst months in the long chronicle of Bruce Peninsula marine disasters. The barque Arabia went down off Echo Island, near Tobermory, on the 5th and not far to the northeast on the 22nd the schooner Golden West was lost at Snake Island. While the West was breaking up on a reef off that desolate place, the three-masted Shandon, laden with coal from Ashtabula, Ohio, for Owen Sound, was struggling in deep water in the same storm not far away.
On October 7, 1886, the lumber-laden Bentley, Captain Read, was sailing alone from Parry Sound to Oswego, N.Y., when a gale drove her into the shallows near Cabot Head.
In the meantime, the same storm completed the destruction of the John Bentley. The small steambarge Kincardine was launched at Port Dalhousie in 1871. The sinking of the Mary Ann Hulbert was the worst schooner disaster in the history of Lake Superior. The tragedy was compounded by the later realization that only the name of the captain was known, leaving the families and friends of the others always to wonder what became, of their loved ones who disappeared in 1883. While the remains of the Cabot Head shipwrecks lie almost entirely hidden beneath the surface of Georgian Bay, one old hulk has defied storm and fire and time and is readily visible, tucked away in the northwest corner of Wingfield Basin.
from:
Friends of Cabot Head Lighthouse
The London School of Exploitation Under Occupation: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Students Stand Against Exploitation and Corporate Education: Vera Anstey Suite: Old Building, London School of Economics, London, March 20, 2015.
Statement from the Occupation:
Why we are occupying
We have have occupied the Vera Anstey Suite, the central meeting room of the university administration, to demand a change to the current university system.
LSE is the epitome of the neoliberal university. Universities are increasingly implementing the privatised, profit-driven, and bureaucratic ‘business model’ of higher education, which locks students into huge debts and turns the university into a degree-factory and students into consumers. LSE has become the model for the transformation of the other university systems in Britain and beyond. Massive indebtedness, market-driven benchmarks, and subordination to corporate interests have deeply perverted what we think university and education should be about.
We demand an education that is liberating – which does not have a price tag. We want a university run by students, lecturers and workers.
When a University becomes a business the whole of student life is transformed. When a university is more concerned with its image, its marketability and the ‘added value’ of its degrees, the student is no longer a student - they become a commodity and education becomes a service. Institutional sexism and racism, as well as conditions of work for staff and lecturers, becomes a distraction for an institution geared to profit.
We join the ongoing struggles in the UK, Europe and the world to reject this system that has changed not only our education but our entire society. From the occupations in Sheffield, Warwick, Birmingham and Oxford, to the ongoing collective takeover of the University of Amsterdam– students have made clear that the current system simply cannot continue.
We are not alone in this struggle.
Why Occupy?
In this occupation we aim to create an open, creative and liberated space, where all are free to participate in the building of a new directly democratic, non-hierarchical and universally accessible education: The Free University of London.
The space will be organized around the creation of workshops, discussions and meetings to share ideas freely. Knowledge is not a commodity but something precious and valuable in its own right. And we hope to prove, if only within a limited time and space, that education can be free.This liberated space should also be a space for an open discussion on the direction this university and our educational system as a whole is heading. We want to emphasise that this process is not only for students, and we encourage the participation of all LSE staff, non-academic and academic.
We base our struggle on principles of equality, direct democracy, solidarity, mutual care and support. These are our current demands which we invite all to openly discuss, debate and add to.
1 - Free and universally accessible education not geared to making profit
We demand that the management of LSE lobby the government to scrap tuition fees for both domestic and international students.
2 - Workers Rights
In solidarity with the LSE workers, we demand real job security, an end to zero-hour contracts, fair remuneration and a drastic reduction in the gap between the highest and lowest paid employees.
3 - Genuine University Democracy
We demand a student-staff council, directly elected by students and academic and non-academic staff, responsible for making all managerial decisions of the institution.
4 - Divestment
We demand that the school cuts its ties to exploitative and destructive organisations, such as those involved in wars, military occupations and the destruction of the planet. This includes but is not limited to immediate divestment from the fossil fuel industry and from all companies which make a profit from the Israeli state’s occupation of Palestine.
5 - Liberation
We demand that LSE changes its harassment policy, and to have zero tolerance to harassment.
We demand that LSE does not implement the Counter Terrorism Bill that criminalises dissent, particularly targeting Muslim students and staff.
We demand that the police are not allowed on campus.
We demand that LSE becomes a liberated space free of racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia and religious discrimination.
We demand that the school immediately reinstates the old ethics code and makes it legally binding, in line with the recently passed SU motion.
We demand that the school ensures the security and equality of international students, particularly with regards to their precarious visa status, and fully include them in our project for a free university.
Exploitant : Transdev Marne et Morin
Réseau : Pays de Meaux
Ligne : 03
Lieu : Gare de Meaux (Meaux, F-77)
Liens TC Infos :
94560 : tc-infos.fr/id/51908
Le site archéologique de Champlieu par "Emilie Thibaut", publié le 27/04/10
Le site de Champlieu, sur la commune d’Orrouy (Oise), propriété de l’Etat, est bien connu pour les ruines spectaculaires qu’il présente sur le plateau surplombant la vallée de l’Automne, à une vingtaine de kilomètres au nord-est de Senlis, sur la lisière sud de la forêt domaniale de Compiègne. Il s’étend de part et d’autre de la voie romaine Senlis-Soissons.
Il a la chance de bénéficier d’un bon état de connaissance. Le site est bien connu et exploité depuis au moins le XVIe. Mais c’est à l’abbé Carlier que l’on doit la plus ancienne mention de découvertes archéologiques, en 1748 : il y reconnait un camp romain du Ve.
E. Caillette de l’Hervilliers revendique le titre d’avoir été le premier archéologue à fouiller de façon méthodique à Champlieu, grâce à des crédits dégagés par Prosper Mérimée et Charles Lenormant, de l’Institut. Ses investigations portèrent sur le théâtre, en 1851. C’était le départ d’une longue controverse : la disparition de la plus grande partie du matériel, l’absence de relevés puis la remise en question des résultats des fouilles napoléoniennes obligèrent à tout reprendre.
Un site préromain
Champlieu était située, avant la Conquête romaine, en territoire suession et à la limite des Bellovaques. Mais on ignore son nom à l’époque romaine. Elle était peut-être une agglomération secondaire ou oppidum perché, car les recherches effectuées entre 1977 et 1981 ont mis au jour un ou plusieurs bâtiments en matériaux légers ainsi que des fibules fragmentaires et tordues rappelant bien des rites préromains et des occupations primitives de sanctuaires antiques. Une certaine durée postérieure à la Conquête doit être admise, avant que les premières traces de romanisation ne soient perçues.
Les premiers temps de la colonisation
Avec la Conquête, le site est probablement réoccupé par des légionnaires romains, dès l’époque augustéenne. Avec eux, se développeraient des activités économiques importantes, agricoles et artisanales que l’on attribuerait à un fossé très large, retrouvé près des thermes, servant de dépotoirs, et qui révèlerait la présence proche d’un abattoir de boucherie; et à un four de potier, ou un dépotoir de four, indiquant des activités de céramistes gallo-belges itinérants se déplaçant avec les armées. Mais surtout, selon Inge Nielsen, la plus grande avancée des légionnaires serait celle de la construction des thermes, qui estime que ce type ont pu être un model culturel pour les élites gauloises qui l’ont emprunté très vite au monde romain.
Les débuts romains de Champlieu
A des dates très proches, sur une période de 30 à 40 ans à compter de 20 à 30 ans après la Conquête, au moins deux autres constructions, orientées est-ouest sont installées à l’emplacement du précédent ; le premier étant une pièce centrale : une cella bordée par au moins une galerie centrale ; le deuxième étant peut-être un bâtiment annexe. Mais ça n’est qu’au moins avec le début du règne de Claude, qu’un premier édifice religieux de construction monumentale leurs succède, implanté sur la zone la plus élevée. Le plan est de tradition romano-celtique : une simple grande pièce, ouverte à l’est, avec une cella, qu’entoure une double galerie de circulation quadrangulaire. Peut-être y avait-il un autel ou une statue de part et d’autre de la cella. Il est utilisé jusqu’au moins 110 de notre ère.
Champlieu romanisée
Ce ne serait qu’au IIe que se réaliserait le grand développement du site avec un nouveau temple, un théâtre et des thermes. Ces constructions relèveraient d’un même programme urbanistique visant à rendre cette zone plus habitée et plus propre à un nouveau rôle économique. L’agglomération se diviserait en quartiers. Il est indéniable qu’un axe de circulation Senlis-Soissons existait avant la voie qui est traditionnellement attribuée à Claude. Le théâtre s’installe sur une ancienne zone d’habitats. Orienté nord-est, en direction de la forêt, il présente la forme typique d’un demi-cercle outrepassé, avec les gradins en hémicycle. Il semble que seuls les gradins d’honneur de la partie basse aient été en pierre, les autres étaient en bois. Le diamètre maximum est de 71,40 m. d’est en ouest et de 49 m. du nord au sud, ce qui laisse estimer qu’il pouvait accueillir 4000 spectateurs. On a là une technique mixte qui combine la tradition romaine et celle du théâtre en pierre de la fin de l’époque hellénistique, que l’on retrouve dans les petites agglomérations ou de sanctuaires ruraux comme ceux de Vendeuil-Caply, Ribemont-sur-Ancre Il est possible que la naissance d’un temple monumental, superposant l’édifice rituel précédent, soit due à la volonté de relier cette aire sacrée existante depuis les premiers temps de Champlieu aux nouvelles constructions et au tissu urbain ; et de créer alors un forum ou espace public trapézoïdale, entouré par le temple et le théâtre. D’ailleurs, le long côté, au nord, reprend la direction est-ouest rituelle et culturelle du temple, tandis que le petit côté coïncide avec l’orientation du théâtre. Le temple comporte un podium avec un carré interne surélevé destiné à la cella. Ce qui prouve que les traditions gauloises perduraient encore. Les thermes, quant à elles, occupent les quartiers artisanaux et commerçants, donc, selon la Société Historique de Compiègne, l’extrémité sud-est de l’ensemble ; soit à 30 m. au sud du théâtre. Relativement exigües (périmètre de 53* 23 m.), elles sont orientées nord-ouest/sud-est. Le bâtiment est articulé en deux parties, selon un schéma distributif de type linéaire : au nord-ouest, un grand atrium à colonnes de 20*23 m et les pièces thermales au sud-est avec des cours en périphérie. Pour conclure, une enceinte tardive avec tours, ressemblant à un bastion et reliant le théâtre et les temples, aurait été construite, contemporaine aux invasions.
V/Champlieu médiévale Une motte a été aménagée dans le temple partiellement ruiné, à l’époque médiévale ; après l’abandon de la motte, les derniers murs romains encore en élévation, devenus partie intégrante de la fortification, ont été récupérés. Le hameau de Champlieu fut rattaché à une date assez reculée de l’époque médiévale à la commune d’Orrouy (canton de Crépy-en-Valois, arrondissement de Senlis (Oise)). Sur une superficie communale de 1683 ha, le terroir de Champlieu en annexe un tiers environ, dont 300 ha sont exploités en culture. Les vestiges des bâtiments du Moyen Age et des Temps Modernes sont quasi inexistants et rien ne permet de restituer ou d’imaginer la répartition entre l’espace construit et l’espace cultivé à l’époque médiévale Faute de documents particuliers, il faut suivre la destinée d’Orrouy pour connaitre celle de Champlieu, rattachée administrativement à cette commune à une date inconnue. Il semble quelque peu ardu d’expliquer les mutations qui ont conduit Champlieu d’agglomération antique à minuscule bourgade médiévale autrement que par des lieux communs tel que famines, épidémies… Il faut considérer son rôle, tant sur le plan politique qu’économique, comme modeste. Au XVIIIe, l’agglomération de Champlieu paraît comme essentiellement rurale avec, cependant, des débouchés relativement importants vers les professions qu’offre la forêt. Les deux paroisses ont une structure sociale organisée, mais le potentiel économique, administratif et seigneurial, se tient au chef-lieu qu’est Orrouy. Aucun évènement particulier ne semble s’être produit sur ce territoire jusqu’à la guerre de 1914-1918 ; le Haut Commandement ayant transformé, en 1916, « La Plaine des Ouis » en un petit champ de bataille.
Exploitant : Transdev TVO
Réseau : R'Bus (Argenteuil)
Ligne : 1
Lieu : Mont Olivet (Sartrouville, F-78)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/vehicule/35133
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Pour assurer les dispositions de la convention du 15 janvier 1881 qui a créée la ligne d'Australie et qui prévoie un départ de Marseille toutes les 4 semaines avec des paquebots assurant une traversée avec une vitesse de 15 nœuds aux essais et une vitesse d'exploitation de 13 nœuds, la Compagnie des Services Contractuels des Messageries Maritimes fera construire 7 paquebots aux chantiers navals de La Ciotat entre 1881 et 1884.
Les coques auront les mêmes dimensions que celle du SAGHALIEN construit en 1880 sur les plans de Vésigné pour la ligne de Chine. Par contre la machine aura une puissance de 500 cv de plus. Ces paquebots seront gréés en 3 mâts barque, puis par la suite transformés en 3 mâts goélette en perdant leurs vergues et leurs guis avant la 1ère guerre mondiale de 1914 à laquelle seul le SALAZIE ne participera pas car perdu par échouage à Madagascar en 1912.
SALAZIE sera lancé le 8 avril 1883 sous le contrôle de l'ingénieur Risbec. Il porte le nom d'une région de l'île de La Réunion
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Caractéristiques :
Paquebot poste à hélice avec 2 cheminées. Avant droit et long gaillard, roof arrière entre les 2èmes et 3èmes mâts. Gréé en 3 mâts barque à l'origine.
Longueur : 130,75 mHT – 126,15 mPP
Largeur : 12,6 m
Jauge brute : 4256 tjb
Port en lourd : 2450 tonnes
Déplacement : 6900 tonnes avec 6.75 m de TE
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Propulsion et installations :
Une machine compound à 3 cylindres HPØ 1,10m - MP Ø 1.53m- HP Ø 1.53m - Course 1.10m
8 chaudières cylindriques à 6 kg/cm²
Chauffe au charbon
Puissance : 3400 CV
Vitesse : 15,6 nœuds aux essais.
1 hélice
2 cheminées
1885/1886 – Installation d'un salon de musique
1886/1887 – Installation à La Ciotat d'un éclairage électrique par lampes à incandescences
1895 Modification de la propulsion. Machine à triple expansion
Puissance portée à 4000 cv
Vitesse passant à 16 nœuds aux essais
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Personnel :
État-major : 11 officiers
Équipage : 185 Maitres, matelots et ADSG
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Passagers
90 en premières classes
44 en secondes classes
75 en troisièmes classes
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LIGNES :
1883 le 23 novembre Premier départ de Marseille pour l'Extrême-Orient, il inaugure la nouvelle ligne Suez – Mahé des Seychelles – La Réunion – Maurice – Australie – Nouvelle Calédonie. Il effectuera un second voyage sur la même ligne.
1983 le 27 septembre première traversée de nuit du canal de Suez avec un projecteur
1882-1890, assure la ligne Marseille-Nouméa par la Réunion et Sydney.
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Événements remarquables :
1886, il gagne de vitesse le HOHENSTAUFEN de la Norddeutscher Lloyd entre Adélaïde et Melbourne.
1889 (d'aucuns donnent la date de 1888) Il gagne de vitesse le VALETTA de la P&O entre Suez et Aden.
1891, il passe sur la ligne de Chine et subit des transformations (reçoit une machine à triple expansion, plus puissante).
1896 le 3 mai, s'échoue pendant 24 heures devant Djibouti.
1904 Il assure après cette date les lignes d’Égypte, d'Extrême Orient ou de Madagascar, selon les besoins.
1912 le 23 novembre: Il quitte Diégo-Suarez pour Tamatave. A 100 milles au sud il est pris dans un cyclone exceptionnel. Après 24h de lutte il se retrouve désemparé par des amarres balayées du pont et qui vont se prendre dans l'hélice. Dans la soirée du 24 novembre, il finit par s'échouer sur l'ilot de ''Nosy Akoumby'' au nord de ''Vohémar'' (Madagascar). Les passagers doivent camper pendant 3 jours sur l'îlot avant d'être rapatriés par l'EUGENE GROSOS de la Compagnie Havraise Péninsulaire. L'épave est irrécupérable et sera vendue sur place.
NB: Sur le site de Monsieur Philippe Ramona '' -http://www.messageries-maritimes.org/salazie.htm'' - Vous pouvez lire ''un voyage de Colombo à Nagasaki à bord du SALAZIE en 1901'', et ''un voyage de Marseille à Shangai à bord du SALAZIE en 1902''
YARRA : 1884-1917
Historique de la flotte des Messageries Maritimes du commandant Lanfant
Le grand Siècle des Messageries Maritimes du Dr Paul Bois Tome V
Encyclopédie des Messageries Maritimes de Philippe Ramona (site sur le web)
Le forum des anciens des Messageries. De nombreuses photographies, anecdotes et précisons sont régulièrement mises en ligne.
Monsieur Xavier Escallier qui a très amicalement mis à ma disposition sa collection de cartes postales des Messageries.
Les différents sites internet sur la marine marchande, qu'ils soient Britanniques, Espagnols, Français ou autres.
Différents ouvrages personnel sur l'histoire de la marine marchande française.
Indexe (1) : Données du commandant Lanfant dans ouvrage.
Indexe (2) : Données du Docteur Paul Bois dans son ouvrage.
Indexe (3) : Données de Mr Philippe Ramona sur son site web
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Afin d'assumer les dispositions de la convention de 1881 créant la ligne d'Australie et prévoyant un départ de Marseille toutes les 4 semaines, avec une vitesse d'exploitation de 13 nœuds et une réserve de deux nœuds aux essais, 7 paquebots furent construits à La Ciotat entre 1881 et 1884. NATAL – MELBOURNE – CALÉDONIEN – SYDNEY – SALAZIE – YARRA – OCÉANIEN. La coque à la même dimension que celle du SAGHALIEN (plans de Vésigné lancé le 25 juillet 1880 pour la ligne de Chine) mais la machine a 500cv de plus. Ils sont au départ, gréés en 3 mâts-barque, transformés ultérieurement en 3 mâts-goélette, ils perdront vergues et guis avant la guerre de 14
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YARRA : Construit aux chantiers de La Ciotat.
1883 le 12 août : Lancement par Risbec. Il est le premier navire des Messageries à avoir un éclairage électrique à incandescence dès sa construction. On y fera un essai de téléphone intérieur avec 2 postes ‘’Ader’’. Nommé d’après le fleuve arrosant Melbourne.
1884 en février : Livraison. Peint en noir.
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CARACTÉRISTIQUES :
Paquebot poste à hélice avec 2 cheminées. Avant droit et long gaillard, roof arrière entre les 2èmes et 3èmes mâts. Gréé en 3 mâts barque à l'origine.
Longueur : 130,75 mHT – 127,15 mPP
Largeur : 12,7 m
Jauge brute : 4242 tjb (1) 4155tjb (2)
Jauge nette : 2084 tjn
Port en lourd : 2450 tonnes
Déplacement : 6900 tonnes avec 6.75 m de TE (1) - 5900 tonnes (2)
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PROPULSION :
Une machine compound à 3 cylindres : Petit Ø 1,10m - Grand Ø 1.53m- Grand Ø 1.53m - Course 1.10m
8 chaudières cylindriques à 6 kg/cm²
Chauffe au charbon
Puissance : 3400 CV
Vitesse : 15,6 nœuds aux essais.
1 hélice
2 cheminées
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TRANSFORMATIONS :
1885/86 : Transformation pour adjoindre un salon de musique. Ce salon recevra 8 tableaux de Cordouan et 4 de Mlle Maurel.
1895 : Transformations identique à celle du CALÉDONIEN - Machine transformée en triple expansion HP, MP et BP.
Puissance : portée à 4000 cv
Vitesse : Il atteindra 16.8 nds aux essais.
Allongement du roof arrière.
Dépose des vergues
Rehaussement des cheminées
Repeint en blanc.
1905 : Repeint en noir.
1911 à 1912 : Révision complète de la machine et des chaudières
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PERSONNEL :
1895 Machine transformée en triple expansion HP, MP et BP. Puissance portée à 4000 cv il atteindra 16.8 nds aux essais.
Allongement du roof arrière.
Dépose des vergues
Rehaussement des cheminées
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PASSAGERS :
90 en premières classes
44 en secondes classes
75 en troisièmes classes
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LIGNE : NB : Quelques désaccords sur les dates entre le Cdt Lanfant(1), le Dr Paul Bois(2) et Mr Philippe Ramona (3)
1884 le 13 février : Premier départ sous les ordres du Commandant Vincent sur la ligne Australie Nouvelle Calédonie. Départ de Marseille – Suez – Mahé des Seychelles – La Réunion – Maurice – Australie – Nouvelle Calédonie.
1905 à 1907(1) : Alternativement sur la ligne d’Australie et la ligne d‘Extrême-Orient.
1909 à 1914(1) : Placé sur la ligne d’Australie uniquement.
1897 à 1909(2) (3) : Alternativement sur la ligne d’Australie et la ligne d‘Extrême-Orient
1914 à 1917 (3): Affecté à la ligne de Madagascar
1909 à 1917(2): Affecté à la ligne de Madagascar.
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ÉVÉNEMENTS :
1892 le 20 juin (1) : Aborde et coule par temps de brume, dans le port de Marseille, la tartane FAMILLE NOMBREUSE.
1915 (1) S’échoue à la pointe des Galets (Le Port à La Réunion) Il restera en cale sèche à Maurice durant 45 jours pour les différentes réparations.
1917 le 26 mai (1) : Durant le voyage postal retour de Madagascar entre Port Saïd et Marseille, en convoi avec les paquebots OCÉANIEN et EMPEREUR NICHOLAS II étant escorté par le torpilleur ARBALÈTE, la canonnière DÉDAIGNEUSE ainsi que le HSM LILY, il reçoit une torpille dans la soute à charbon bâbord avant. Il coulera en 10 minutes. Les passagers et l’équipage sont recueillis par les navires d’escorte. Mais il y a plusieurs disparus dont 7 chauffeurs Arabes.
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RETRAIT et FIN:
2017 le 26 mai : Torpillé par l’UC74 (2). Il coule en dix minutes entrainant la mort de 38 passagers sur 534 ainsi que de 8 membres de l’équipage.
The London School of Exploitation Under Occupation: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Students Stand Against Exploitation and Corporate Education: Vera Anstey Suite: Old Building, London School of Economics, London, March 20, 2015.
Statement from the Occupation:
Why we are occupying
We have have occupied the Vera Anstey Suite, the central meeting room of the university administration, to demand a change to the current university system.
LSE is the epitome of the neoliberal university. Universities are increasingly implementing the privatised, profit-driven, and bureaucratic ‘business model’ of higher education, which locks students into huge debts and turns the university into a degree-factory and students into consumers. LSE has become the model for the transformation of the other university systems in Britain and beyond. Massive indebtedness, market-driven benchmarks, and subordination to corporate interests have deeply perverted what we think university and education should be about.
We demand an education that is liberating – which does not have a price tag. We want a university run by students, lecturers and workers.
When a University becomes a business the whole of student life is transformed. When a university is more concerned with its image, its marketability and the ‘added value’ of its degrees, the student is no longer a student - they become a commodity and education becomes a service. Institutional sexism and racism, as well as conditions of work for staff and lecturers, becomes a distraction for an institution geared to profit.
We join the ongoing struggles in the UK, Europe and the world to reject this system that has changed not only our education but our entire society. From the occupations in Sheffield, Warwick, Birmingham and Oxford, to the ongoing collective takeover of the University of Amsterdam– students have made clear that the current system simply cannot continue.
We are not alone in this struggle.
Why Occupy?
In this occupation we aim to create an open, creative and liberated space, where all are free to participate in the building of a new directly democratic, non-hierarchical and universally accessible education: The Free University of London.
The space will be organized around the creation of workshops, discussions and meetings to share ideas freely. Knowledge is not a commodity but something precious and valuable in its own right. And we hope to prove, if only within a limited time and space, that education can be free.This liberated space should also be a space for an open discussion on the direction this university and our educational system as a whole is heading. We want to emphasise that this process is not only for students, and we encourage the participation of all LSE staff, non-academic and academic.
We base our struggle on principles of equality, direct democracy, solidarity, mutual care and support. These are our current demands which we invite all to openly discuss, debate and add to.
1 - Free and universally accessible education not geared to making profit
We demand that the management of LSE lobby the government to scrap tuition fees for both domestic and international students.
2 - Workers Rights
In solidarity with the LSE workers, we demand real job security, an end to zero-hour contracts, fair remuneration and a drastic reduction in the gap between the highest and lowest paid employees.
3 - Genuine University Democracy
We demand a student-staff council, directly elected by students and academic and non-academic staff, responsible for making all managerial decisions of the institution.
4 - Divestment
We demand that the school cuts its ties to exploitative and destructive organisations, such as those involved in wars, military occupations and the destruction of the planet. This includes but is not limited to immediate divestment from the fossil fuel industry and from all companies which make a profit from the Israeli state’s occupation of Palestine.
5 - Liberation
We demand that LSE changes its harassment policy, and to have zero tolerance to harassment.
We demand that LSE does not implement the Counter Terrorism Bill that criminalises dissent, particularly targeting Muslim students and staff.
We demand that the police are not allowed on campus.
We demand that LSE becomes a liberated space free of racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia and religious discrimination.
We demand that the school immediately reinstates the old ethics code and makes it legally binding, in line with the recently passed SU motion.
We demand that the school ensures the security and equality of international students, particularly with regards to their precarious visa status, and fully include them in our project for a free university.
Children across Greater Manchester have watched a compelling play warning them about criminal exploitation from county lines organised crime groups.
Greater Manchester’s Programme Challenger – a joint partnership to tackle serious and organised crime together – funded Rochdale-based theatre company Breaking Barriers to deliver the series ‘Crossing the Line’ to children in year six at 50 primary schools.
Over a month the play was rolled out to schools in Bury, Salford, Stockport, Tameside and Trafford for children to learn how to spot the signs of exploitation to prevent and protect them from criminal gangs seeking to recruit them as drug mules.
The production explores grooming through a monologue from an 18-year-old man and his younger brother aged 15. He talks about the criminal gang members trying to give him gifts in return for running their drug errands.
‘Crossing the Line’ also incorporated discussions with the children to teach them about healthy choices and relationships, learning to say no, how to handle pressure from older people as well as educate children on where to go for help and advice if they have concerns.
One of the pupils who watched the play said: “The play has helped me see how criminal gangs can manipulate you by trying to make you feel special and part of their family, then force you to do things for them.
“It has taught me to never join a gang as it could harm your future and instead to stay in school, get a good education and job.
“If someone finds themselves in this situation, they should speak to anyone they can trust, such as their mum or dad, a teacher, the police or even Childline.”
A county line is the advertisement of class A drugs via a mobile phone, known as a ‘graft line’, the drugs are then moved by dealers from one area to another as well as to other places across the country.
The organised crime groups will often exploit children to transport the drugs and money profited from its supply.
Detective Chief Inspector Claire McGuire, from Programme Challenger’s Organised Crime Coordination Unit, said: “Young and vulnerable children are sadly targeted and groomed by county lines criminal networks to be recruited to travel across the country to deliver drugs and money.
“They can find themselves in situations that often seem impossible to get out of which can have a detrimental impact on their life and their future.
It’s therefore imperative we intervene as soon as possible, inform children early on to prevent this from happening and protect them from the harm caused by organised criminality.
“Breaking Barriers work is a creative way to grab a child’s attention, it educates and engages with them on the signs to look out for and where to turn to for help and advice. The feedback we have had from them, and the teachers has been brilliant.”
Deputy Mayor for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Fire, Bev Hughes, said: “We must educate children early on the signs of criminal exploitation and this work is vital in doing that.
It’s great to see such a creative play being used to deliver an important message and schools have been a wonderful support with this.
Lots of young people across Greater Manchester are now more aware of the signs of criminal exploitation and know help and support is available to them.”
Parvez Qadir, Director of Breaking Barriers, said: “Crossing the Line tackles difficult themes around grooming and exploitation used by criminal gangs to control young people to travel their drugs for them. Using the power of creativity,
I wrote the piece to tour in schools to educate, inform and offer safe pathways for young people out of child criminal exploitation.
“The facilitated workshop is a safe place for difficult questions for young people, teachers and parents to discuss those
themes.
I hope “Crossing the Line” can educate young people to make safe and healthier choices.”
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Ligne : T6
Lieu : Pôle d'Échanges SNCF (Évreux, F-27)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/vehicule/17739
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The London School of Exploitation Under Occupation: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Students Stand Against Exploitation and Corporate Education: Vera Anstey Suite: Old Building, London School of Economics, London, March 20, 2015.
Statement from the Occupation:
Why we are occupying
We have have occupied the Vera Anstey Suite, the central meeting room of the university administration, to demand a change to the current university system.
LSE is the epitome of the neoliberal university. Universities are increasingly implementing the privatised, profit-driven, and bureaucratic ‘business model’ of higher education, which locks students into huge debts and turns the university into a degree-factory and students into consumers. LSE has become the model for the transformation of the other university systems in Britain and beyond. Massive indebtedness, market-driven benchmarks, and subordination to corporate interests have deeply perverted what we think university and education should be about.
We demand an education that is liberating – which does not have a price tag. We want a university run by students, lecturers and workers.
When a University becomes a business the whole of student life is transformed. When a university is more concerned with its image, its marketability and the ‘added value’ of its degrees, the student is no longer a student - they become a commodity and education becomes a service. Institutional sexism and racism, as well as conditions of work for staff and lecturers, becomes a distraction for an institution geared to profit.
We join the ongoing struggles in the UK, Europe and the world to reject this system that has changed not only our education but our entire society. From the occupations in Sheffield, Warwick, Birmingham and Oxford, to the ongoing collective takeover of the University of Amsterdam– students have made clear that the current system simply cannot continue.
We are not alone in this struggle.
Why Occupy?
In this occupation we aim to create an open, creative and liberated space, where all are free to participate in the building of a new directly democratic, non-hierarchical and universally accessible education: The Free University of London.
The space will be organized around the creation of workshops, discussions and meetings to share ideas freely. Knowledge is not a commodity but something precious and valuable in its own right. And we hope to prove, if only within a limited time and space, that education can be free.This liberated space should also be a space for an open discussion on the direction this university and our educational system as a whole is heading. We want to emphasise that this process is not only for students, and we encourage the participation of all LSE staff, non-academic and academic.
We base our struggle on principles of equality, direct democracy, solidarity, mutual care and support. These are our current demands which we invite all to openly discuss, debate and add to.
1 - Free and universally accessible education not geared to making profit
We demand that the management of LSE lobby the government to scrap tuition fees for both domestic and international students.
2 - Workers Rights
In solidarity with the LSE workers, we demand real job security, an end to zero-hour contracts, fair remuneration and a drastic reduction in the gap between the highest and lowest paid employees.
3 - Genuine University Democracy
We demand a student-staff council, directly elected by students and academic and non-academic staff, responsible for making all managerial decisions of the institution.
4 - Divestment
We demand that the school cuts its ties to exploitative and destructive organisations, such as those involved in wars, military occupations and the destruction of the planet. This includes but is not limited to immediate divestment from the fossil fuel industry and from all companies which make a profit from the Israeli state’s occupation of Palestine.
5 - Liberation
We demand that LSE changes its harassment policy, and to have zero tolerance to harassment.
We demand that LSE does not implement the Counter Terrorism Bill that criminalises dissent, particularly targeting Muslim students and staff.
We demand that the police are not allowed on campus.
We demand that LSE becomes a liberated space free of racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia and religious discrimination.
We demand that the school immediately reinstates the old ethics code and makes it legally binding, in line with the recently passed SU motion.
We demand that the school ensures the security and equality of international students, particularly with regards to their precarious visa status, and fully include them in our project for a free university.