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29 November 2010

“No one is going to do this for us, so we’d better get it right“

Why the university occupations are giving students a crash course in political activism.

By Sofie Buckland

The defining image of the student occupation at University College London is probably a MacBook. Walk past security, through the corridor plastered with hand-made signs, and into the brightly-lit Jeremy Bentham Room, which is overflowing with students, and you’ll be struck by the proliferation of laptops. Clusters of large tables are dominated by them, supporting the core of the UCL occupation: the working groups.

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