Update from the students in occupation at Nottingham, who have just been manhandled out of the room by mercenary pigs:

1. 3 gentlemen including steven dudderidge entered the room and read out basically the same statement with regard to our place. he then gave us two minutes or “our guards will remove you”

2. We decided since none of our demand had even been considered to sit at the back of the lecture hall and non-violently resist.

3. 9 or so uniformed security guards entered the room and proceeded to remove the protesters from the floor with force and then throw them out the building into the cold. I do not think it unreasonable to say that this is likely illegal considering these are not police officers but simply security guards. Several screamed out in pain, belts were ripped etc.

4. Once all the protester had been ejected from the room the University guards etc proceeded to begin to look through the objects that remained in the room. This I believe is also a potential legal issue.

Please publicise this immediately and really loudly.

This is what you get when you organise a university around profit. Whatever stands in the way of immediate profit, or threatens the “security” of continued profit, gets forcibly moved out of the way by paid muscle.