“Around 500 staff and students gathered in front of the library to hear the readings of the alleged ‘radical material’.”

It was the case that many people myself included were neither staff nor student, or connected to the university, it is also the case that this event has more far reaching implications than just academic freedom, and is reflected by who came out in Hich’s support.

The mainstream press have put this across as as a student demonstration, which I feel relegates anyone who is not a student to a spectator, and we should try to not use the same language.

Dave Douglass an activist during the Miners strike of the 80’s pointed out afterwards that the slogan “The Miners united will never be defeated” was not true, the slogan should have been “the workers united…..

The story has broke international news, resistance and support should be international, and the attempts to isolated it to a few hundred students in Nottingham by the press also countered.

Good luck

Free Hich!