Students occupy ClockTower of Auckland University demanding free education, and the resignation of Vice-Chancellor Stuart McCutcheon, Students march to Aotea square to join Occupy Auckand movement.
we are the university students have occupied the student clocked out either the university clocktown there's 55 people and they're currently speaking with the security guards about the situation i've been told that um they can leave but if they leave they can't come back in and the guys are dedicated and they're going to stick to it and i've got 10 demands which are demands are one free education unconditional two sac mccutcheon and walsh as acting vice chancellors and restructure university university into a public forum three remove trespass on marcus and wiki four ask for ngati far to a blessing five decisions on courses based on scholarly and social benefits rather than financial needs six security guards employed for the safety of students and not surveillance and cops and no cops on campus and cops not to be called in response number seven the university should be bound by the government's facilitation with the involvement of the teachers the tertiary education union eight the university to work to remove the voluntary student movement bill and nine government fund um the government funds student unions unconditionally with nine demands thank you our 10th demand was free pizza thank you i heard a rumor that the security don't know what the [ __ ] to do got you a lot of food got heaps of food i'm just going to tie it up with my pad okay that should hold it's really heavy that's okay so i'm bruce kaine from sociology um just come from the clock tower where students and staff are occupying um the uh room uh there's about um what 40 people left in the building um planning an indefinite occupation from what i can make out um we've had collective decision making and we've also talked about various things such as going across the library forum obviously solidarity people out here with the um uh with the global occupations taking place uh in auckland centre and so forth but yeah um it's continuing and uh spirits are high they've got food security are backing off i've seen the vice chancellor by the way just on on the first floor there looking very concerned um and yeah um i think all is looking good yeah don't know how long they're gonna stay there thank you excuse me okay so now we are sitting here outside the cloth tower and we are doing this as a sign of solidarity with the students presently occupying the clock tower we are doing this because of our protests against fees rising alongside as was said earlier vice chancellor salaries um and now we're just waiting for the police to carry us off students and staff in solidarity with other students and staff what we're protesting what we're opposed to is a rise in fees economies in shambles it's the fault of the politicians the bankers and the investors and they're making students pay for it so we're here to say hell no if you're getting a rise in the salary and rise in pay as the vc just did then we're sure as hell getting a reduction in student fees the university [ __ ] step the uh we are the university we are the university we are the university we are the university we university and student but primarily students excellent job trying to get their message across and now we're going to join the wider movement that is occupying aotearoa square upset concerned frustrated with corporate greed defeated people got the power stronger every hour getting stronger every hour stronger every hour you