Teach-Outs & Picketing
A summary of activities taking place in the next phase of action from Wednesday 15th – Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Wednesday 15th March – Budget Day / National Day of Action
| Time | Activity | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|
| from 8:30 | Picketing entrances. Materials can be collected from Gower Street Main Gates from 8am | UCL entrances | |
| from 10:30 | Strike TV: Dispatches from the physical picket lines, followed by Protest song sheet making session and solidarity chat | Online – please register in advance | |
| followed by National Demo and Carnival | |||
| 11:30 | UCU Meet-Up: Speaker’s Corner | Speaker’s Corner | |
| 12:00 | Main Assembly | Park Lane (by Grosvenor Hotel) | |
| March to Trafalgar Square for Carnival | |||
Thursday 16th March
| Time | Activity | Location |
| from 8:30 | Picketing entrances. Materials can be collected from Gower Street Main Gates from 8am | UCL entrances |
| 10:00 | Teach-Out: The Politics of Julian Assange Case: A trade union issue- Dr John Rees (Goldsmiths University) – also on Strike TV | UCL Main Gates |
| 11:00-11:30 | Strike TV: Solidarity chat and dispatches from the physical picket lines | Online – please register in advance |
| 11:30-12:00 | Strike TV: Songs of Protest with Hugh Goodacre now with songbook! | Online – please register in advance |
| 11:30 | Teach-Out: Is Cultural Appropriation Inevitable? An exploration of cultural exchange, appropriation and appreciation – El Belisario | Institute of Americas |
| 12:00-14:00 | Hybrid Strike Meeting with free tea and coffee (bring your own lunch) | OneKX, 120 Cromer Street, WC1H 8BS or Online (12:00-13:00) – please register in advance |
| 14:00-17:00 | UCL SciTeachOut 2023: Andrea Sella, Chris Howard | Mineral Room, 1st floor of the Natural History Museum |
Friday 17th March
| Time | Activity | Location | ||||
| from 8:30 | Picketing entrances. Materials can be collected from Gower Street Main Gates from 8am | UCL entrances | ||||
| 10:30 | Teach-Out: Improving women’s political representation: Brazilian civil society organisations and their efforts to impact who gets elected to office – Malu Gatto | Institute of Americas | ||||
| 10:30 | Teach-Out: Office dispossession and Masterplan futures absurdist happening / installation -Theo Bryer and others | IOE | ||||
| 10:30-13:00 | Strike TV: 10:30-11:00 Dispatches from the physical picket lines. 11:00-11:30 Multilingual protest songs playlist session. Come and share a protest song that you know! No singing required. We’ll play the songs on YouTube. 11:30-12:00 Solidarity chat 12:00-13:00 Hybrid Strike Meeting | Online – please register in advance | ||||
| 12:00-14:00 | Strike Meeting with free tea and coffee (bring your own lunch) | OneKX, 120 Cromer Street, WC1H 8BS | ||||
| 14:00 | Teach-Out: How striking can help us to get us within the Doughnut – Beth Stratford | OneKX, 120 Crom | ||||
Monday 20th March
| Time | Activity | Location | ||||
| from 8:30 | Picketing entrances. Materials can be collected from Gower Street Main Gates from 8am | UCL entrances | ||||
| 10:30 | Teach-Out: Protest and Cultural significance of Vietnam war in the US – Milla May Garrow | Institute of Americas | ||||
| 10:30 | Teach-Out: “Neoliberal University: what does this (even) mean?” – Sergio Grazios | IOE | ||||
| 12:00-14:00 | Hybrid Strike Meeting with free tea and coffee (bring your own lunch) | OneKX, 120 Cromer Street, WC1H 8BS or Online – please register in advance | ||||
Tuesday 21st March
| from 8:30 | Picketing entrances. Materials can be collected from Gower Street Main Gates from 8am | UCL entrances | |||||
| 10:00 | Teach-Out: The Match Girls and the Four Fights – Margot Finn and Jack Saunders | Student Centre/Gordon Square picket | |||||
| 10:30 | Teach-Out: Minimalism as a political stance – Robert Delaney | Institute of Americas | |||||
| 10:30 | Teach-Out: What is the Future for Teacher Education – Seán Doyle | IOE | |||||
| From 12:00 | UCU London Region March to ParliamentAssemble 12 noon, UCEA HQ, Tavistock Square At 1pm: March to Parliament | ||||||
Wednesday 22nd March
| from 8:30 | Picketing entrances. Materials can be collected from Gower Street Main Gates from 8am | UCL entrances | ||||
| 10:00 | Picket Block Dance Party! – bring sharing food! | 26 Bedford Way | ||||
| 10:30 | Teach-Out: Precarity and casualisation – ‘Stories from people on a research contract -Meena Khatwa | IOE | ||||
| 10:30 | Teach-Out: Autonomy and Solidarity: Multi-Racial Feminist Organising 1970s-2000s – Frankie Chappell | Institute of Americas | ||||
| 11:00 | Teach-Out: Building deconstructive machines followed by a talk on the ‘Science for People’ movement – Zak Lakota-Baldwin | UCL Science and Technology Studies, 22 Gordon Square | ||||
| 12:00-14:00 | Hybrid Strike Meeting with free tea and coffee (bring your own lunch) | OneKX, 120 Cromer Street, WC1H 8BS or Online – please register in advance | ||||