Students Occupy University College of London’s Slade School of Art

Students occupy Slade School of Art

Days after University College of London (UCL) students occupied the school’s Jeremy Bentham Room, art students at UCL’s Slade School staged a second occupation, extending the initial set of demands to include grievances specific to the arts and humanities departments.  These are but two of the dozens of buildings occupied by students in the UK in opposition to tuition fee hikes and the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance.

The Carrotworkers Collective, Space Hijackers, and Laboratory for Insurrectionary Imagination have lent their support to the students, with three days of “alternative education, art, activism and disobedience” planned for this weekend.  Already, students have created solidarity dance-offs between occupied campuses, choreographed evasive swarms, and there are more acts of creative disruption to come.