LS2 interviews Johnny Knoxville and Leftfield CD (I) :::, Ul !!2 ~ (I) E :::, tudent ~ www.leedsstudent.org included Leeds Met student Kady Another student was attacked by Laura Mackenzie h:C:ff bu~din~r! i~i~:~~~o refie~erp~: ~nind Leeds Student Editor Tate who could be seen flying a ~~~~~!!rthe ~tt:O ;~:n~~lice j!e~ytryin~n~~ leavfr~~ 'Leeds' flag by the protester~ below. extinguisher down into the crowd was not asfed at any point to leave Another member exdus1vely told below. This was filmed and the building by the police, or any Roehampton University told Leeds Huridreds of student protesters Leeds Student that he had made it photographed by many in _the crowd other officials or employees of the Student "T was just saying to the took over Conservative . Party up to the roof after hearing a and would later receive wide building. boliceman, 'Mate I can't move back' Headquarters on Wednesday leaving policeman say "oh· fuck it, we'll leave condemnation from across the One police officer said: "We can it, we'll let it go". world. hold you for as long as we want." b~;ogf ;~d jh~t tf!;J ;: [i~thth! ~dl~~~=~::!,~: 0 But on reaching the roof Leeds The reporter was only able to testicles as well" failure. had~~~= <;i th~r, d:~~~~t~a~i~ ~~ 0 50 students were said to have After demonstrators slipped past part because his Dad had lost his job f!1~~~:fy ~ei~ed ns~~;:_edstu1ent! ~~;~:sent~ve b~1di~te at!tion~ police to make their way to the roof, to the cuts, also adm!tted to having Union of Journalists (NUJ) arrived ~ilJba:k.eRita1 b~olfu~~; s~<le;~ chaos erupted below with trapped b~ilch~d ~ fire extingwsher inside the :a~h ~~h~/a~sg~~lf :;~@:~~~~o:1~~ at the scene and told the police that 1 students smashing the 'vVindows of drink and food to their fellow the}:' were breaking the law by ~~sa~~l~~;~~ L::sb5t~3e~~!id~ the building from the inside and Lee~s Student can reveal that demonstrators. holding members of the _press. 'The police have been quite police attacking innocent students protestors were removing electrical Back on the ground, a struggle reasonable. They ?-id actuallh hit that who ~ere trying to escape the fixtures from walls as well as lat~~PI:ctdty r~s~~~rfn~ufur:e~f had broken out Detween police and flooding the stairwell with water students who were able to access the the student protestors who Weyi~ t=i~nna12/ ~~her;~ke~_u1 inc£e:J~~tuj~~e;~:~etl)~ only news from multiple fire hoses .. building after its glass front was outnumbered them by several actually thint the police have been organisation to have a reporter on On on.e of the floors leading off brought down by angry protestors. hundred. Both sides were injured in quite good today and I'm willing to the rooftop with the student of the stairwell Leeds Student found Upon leaving the rooftop Leeds the battle. put that on record." demonstrators. a conference room recently Student was brevented from leavin~ One of the Leeds Student team The Metropolitan Police Members of socialist organisation abandoned, its contents ravaged by was struck on the head by a police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson Revolution were among th~ first to the new occupiers. ~in~~~hni/ot!r ~~~~!;t:~ ¥~s described his force's perfonnance as reach the top of the building, and Moments before Leeds Student was despite the fact that Leeds ~!~d:~:d~~~l1Js~l~~~~~t his press uan embarrassment to London". 02 Frid ay, November 12, 2010 I www.leedsstudent.org I Leeds Student Boy about campus// Leadei:s My homeboy Guy Fawkes took than thirty-nine Leeds Student's views on this week's hot topics centre srage last weekend minutes of shit Well, I say weekend: but students and an alright tum one-night of fun into a three-day one-minute rave-up. It happened on Halloween finale. too: by the time Sunday came round, Maybe it was I was sick of running into because the Frankenstein's monster when magic of first nipping down shop. year has gone or the fact I didn't have On Friday, ACTUAL bonfire a sparkler (Boy about campus can get night, I put on my twat·hat and away with something sparkly: headed down to the bonfire on Hyde metrosexual, in nit) but this year's No justice for Park. Pathetic effort, I've seer:i lig;hter show was an utter shambles. It flames bigger than that. l d1dn t go looked like a bunch of 12 year old support my homie last year because chavs were setting them off. Boy the weather was so shit and the mud about campus would have done would have ruined my high -tops. better in his own back garden, with a But, this could well be boy about tenners worth of fireworks from students campus' last one in Leeds I felt a bit Sainsburys. Or maybe the obliged. government budget cuts have also Got myself a burger and settled in crept into the firework allowance: a good open space and the fireworks Cammers and (leggy don't want Commentators are calling it the biggest protest of Scotland's support in an English political cause. set off: strai&ht behind the bloody students to have a oit of good dean our generation, and Leeds Student who were The media have been pulling out the usual trees. Couldn t they have shot them fun on bonfire night. So much for big reporting from the thick of it definitely agree. stereotypes of the student, with The Sun calling higher? I swear the shittest 12th man society'. We were there at both the peaceful part of the us "brainless" and Daily Mail flaunting their in the cricket uni fourths couJd throw Talking of cuts, being a sensationalist views again. We just love how many a ball higher than they were going. conscientious boy about campus, I protest in Parliament Square and the more There was literally no place in the revived the student protest and militant part in which Conservative Party contradictions they can pack into one article, whole of Hyde Park where the bolled it down to London on Headquarters at 30 Millbank was placed under leading with the protest as "middle class" and fireworks were not blocked from Wednesday for a bit of demolition. siege by a horde of angry protesters, who saying it was lead by "masked thugs" and view. Alright, there may have been But scanning the paper this week it proceeded to pelt police with bottles, flares and "anarchists" in the same breath. the odd big high firework but the seems I don't really need bother placard sticks. The Daily Mail, self-appointed defenders of the display just went on and fucking on. chatting that. The news team have Windows were smashed, riot police confronted British moral code, have even launched a 'witch Boy about campus would rather see been all over that shit like a tramp and the building scrawled with anarchist graffiti hunt' to unmask those implicated in the Millbank just five minutes of visual inspiration, over chips. Peace. in a 1960s style onslaught. For one moment, madness. In a move that would make McCarthy Leeds Student forgot they were in Britain, as pi-oud, they have put pressure on Leeds University Have the Con-Dems taken the people commented that this was like being Union to out the guilty. amongst protesters in France or Greece. The lingering question from the protest is, has magic out of education for you? One couldn't help thinking that they were in the violence undermined the argument? Get in touch with us at [email protected] the process of making history (and a lot of Leeds Student can understand why students carnage). turned to extreme measures to make their voice In fact, Leeds Student's Editor Laura heard, after all, the Lib Dems have stabbed every MacKenzie, was the only reporter to make it on to single student voter in the back when they signed the roof and report on those who had made it to the NUS infamous pledge to abolish tuition fees. the top of the Tory Towers, and as a result the Clegg's pitiful comment that at the time he national and international media were coming to "thought he could do it" on Questiontime is Leeds Student for the inside scoop. hollow and too little. However certain newspapers have taken it Students certainly made their voice heard, and upon themselves to go after students and criticise now the government will have to sit up and take them for channelling their anger in a violent notice that this will not go unchallenged. In the manner. However, on the other side the President words of Aaron Porter, "the resistance starts of the National Union of Students, Aaron Porte,r here." does not believe it was students behind the siege. However, Leeds Student does not condone He instead blamed it on "others who have come violence in any way shape of form. We can't help out and used this opportunity to hijack a peaceful thinking that things escalated for the worse at protest". Millbank and the tactless actions of a minority, But everyone who Leeds Student spoke to at such as the protester who threw the fire the Millbank building was a student. The only extinguisher off the roof, undermine the whole ones who weren't university students were sixth integrity of the student cause.