Sheffield’s feminist student housing campaign | we ran rent strikes that won back millions for students | formerly @/shu.rentstrike and @/rentstrikeuos
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 RADICAL PRIDE IS BACK ON JUNE 23RD
Join us at 1pm at the City Hall for the second year of Sheffield's Radical Pride, free from cops and corporations
🇵🇸 Sheffield students crashed & cancelled the opening ceremony of The Wave 🇵🇸
❌ This new building is funded by money from murderous arms companies
✊ @sheffielduni end your shameful complicity in the Palestinian Genocide
☮️ Ceasefire now!
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RENT STRIKE NOW national network is launching for 2023/24 ✊🏾✊🏻🔥
Join our national organising call to see how you can get organised next year 📞 ‼️
Fill out this sign up form to join (by 1st August if you need BSL interpretation) https://t.co/UJa5urv7EI
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Trans rights are under attack from all sides and an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us
We are calling a protest to reclaim our streets and bring the fight to the government
12pm, 1st April, Dev Green
Welcome to Sheffield Radical Pride!
Globally, Pride has become a watered down, corporate event & we’re here to remind Sheffield it is a protest. Our liberation does not come from corporate or police ‘allyship’ or respectability politics
Watch this space for our next moves.. 👀
An event this Monday by trans artist, Sophie Labelle, is being threatened with violence
We need you all to show up and help keep our community safe @ Central Library, 6:30pm
Wear a mask and don’t arrive or leave alone, message us if you have any questions
Final post about the Sheffield vigil tomorrow with all the information you need in the slides below. Join us in the Peace Pardens or live on instagram (@sheffsolgroup) or at 8pm
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The marketisation of higher education is harming both students and staff, all so universities can make greater profit.
Students have had enough of paying ridiculously high rent for very substandard accommodation
A little bit late but we wanted to round up what has been a truly extraordinary year of student activism in Sheffield - between us and a few dedicated groups we have revitalised student action 🧵
Direct action is the only way we will fight the cost of living crisis, please reach out if you’d like to be involved in running a rent strike in Sheffield!
Rent increases at UoM halls are pushing more students into financial struggle- during a time when the cost-of-living crisis is impacting millions!
First-year students at UoM- get involved with the strike and fill in the form in our bio! Strikers won in 2020, and we can win now!
*Breaking news*
We are over the moon to announce that we have won young co-operators of the year 2022 from @CoopHousingUK Over the last 2 years, we have taken on the challenge of offering a real alternative to landlord & letting agent empires that dominate our corporate cities🧵
Students spend 75% of the average maintenance loan on rent rising to 95%+ in some cities. student housing is dire and the biggest cost for students who are struggling with the cost of living but let’s uncritically invite them to a fair without presenting the other side..
🚨 ROLLS ROYCE, BOEING, BAE FORCED TO SKIP UNI CARRERS FAIR!
Our occupation has shown how one of our demands is possible.
If the VC meets with us to have constructive talks about cutting ties with arms companies, we will leave.
Rishi Sunak will be our second unelected Prime Minister in a row. We need a General Election now!
We are marching from Dev Green to Town Hall, Saturday 29th, 12 Noon.
Join us if you believe in democracy!
https://t.co/cvTxKBU3y9