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UK: University of East London to be closed on 1-2 April - when an Alternative G8 Summit planned

01 March 2009

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The Alternative London Summit (website, link). The speakers include Tony Benn, Mark Thomas, Ken Livingstone, John McDonnell MP, Tariq Ali, Jean Lambert Green MEP and Paaul Mason, BBC Newsnight’s Economics Editor.

Online Petition (link): "We are writing to you to express our anger following your decision to cancel permission to hold the planned UCU (University and College Union) sponsored alternative summit and close down the university on Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd of April 2009. We are urging you to reconsider both of these decisions."

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