Anti City Academy protest camp defies eviction order

16.07.2008
Today Teach­ers and their sup­port­ers were cel­e­brat­ing as the dead­line to leave their protest camp expired with­out the threat­ened evic­tion. Offi­cers of the coun­cil were present but announced that they would only ‘report back’ the sit­u­a­tion. Bailiffs were seen cas­ing the area ear­li­er before the dead­line.

Academy squat banner16.07.2008
Today Teach­ers and their sup­port­ers were cel­e­brat­ing as the dead­line to leave their protest camp expired with­out the threat­ened evic­tion. Offi­cers of the coun­cil were present but announced that they would only ‘report back’ the sit­u­a­tion. Bailiffs were seen cas­ing the area ear­li­er before the dead­line.

Part of the protest is on the roof so it could well take Brent coun­cil a while to organ­ise the evic­tion. Today a unex­pect­ed­ly high num­ber of sup­port­ers and local res­i­dents came out to block the removal of the protest camp. Mem­bers of the local RMT and TSSA branch­es, who were hav­ing their month­ly meet­ings near­by, also turned out to reg­is­ter their dis­gust at gov­ern­ment plans to pri­va­tise local edu­ca­tion.