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Arms Investment Demo - Monday 5th Wk - 1.45 - Protest University Gag on Student Calls for Socially Responsible Investment in Oxford

****University Gags Student Calls for Socially Responsible Investment (SRI)****

Demonstration Outside University Council – Monday 5th Week (Tomorrow) - 1.45 – 2.15 – Be there!

(Meet 1.45 at Oxford University Press Building, Great Clarendon Street Entrance just off Walton Street)

Since 2001 Students in Oxford have been calling on the University to invest its £2bn ethically. We don’t want our education funded by investment income from the Arms Trade – and we believe that a University, an institution set up for education and progress, should be use its funds to support companies which sell weapons and torture implements to corrupt governments, or engage in the destruction of the environment.

On Monday of 5th Week – University Council were due to receive a paper from OUSU and the SRI Campaign – calling for them to engage genuinely with Socially Responsible Investment – and to look to take Oxford money out of the Arms Trade. They have known about this paper since at least November 2005. On Friday - they decided they didn’t want to see the paper. They decided not to listen to the thousands of students who have put their names behind the calls of the SRI Campaign.

We need to show that this University cannot ignore its students any more. Spare just 30 minutes of your Monday to make sure every member of Council has to walk past you on their way into their meeting – and see that the students they are trying to silence are not going to go away.

You can find a map to OUP where Council takes place here: http://www.oup.co.uk/images/map.gif . We’ll be meeting near reception at 1.45 to greet all the Council Members as they enter for Council to start at 2.15. Please make the effort to be there...

**Any questions? Call:

Emma Norris: 07811745413

Richard Ollerhead: 07814 396013

Tim Davies: 07834856303

Please forward this message to any relevant mailing lists you have access to…

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More information on the background of the SRI Campaign is below, or is available at www.srioxford.org.uk

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Posted on 12/02/06 by Anon

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