As well as trying to keep up to date with my University work studying for my MSc at Queen Mary University of London I have been:

• 22nd Sept HQ and Demo outside Uganda house
• 23rd Sept Meeting Zimbabwe Union of students
• 26th Sept Brighton Freshers fair
• 28th Sept LSE Freshers fair
• 29th Sept Mental Health Awareness Day (Manchester)
• 3rd Oct Cambridge Freshers fair – promoting admission:impossible demo
• 10 – 13th Oct Meetings with NUS staff in regards to bullying campaign
• 14 – 15th Oct BUGS referendum
• 16 – 18th Oct UWE referendum
• 19 – 20th Oct NUSSL board – pushing the “one water” and welfare products
• 21st Oct Meeting with Simon Felton Gen Sec NPC(National Postgraduate Committee)
• 25th Oct Oxford Brookes Union promoting admission:impossible demo
• 29th Oct National Demo
• 31st Nov Diversity day – Joint NUS, NUSSL and AMSU event
• 1st Nov Diversity day – Joint NUS, NUSSL and AMSU event presented a session with Sam Lebens on training staff to deal with issues on a diverse campus
• 1st Nov Met my MP Stephen Timms and David Blunkett – lobbied on the lifting of the cap and the issues that are facing postgraduate students such as career development loans.
• 3rd Nov Disability in Sport day
• 4th Nov Cambridge Union Anti-Racism week, ‘In the Blood’ Theater production
• 7-9th Nov Regional conferences
• 14th Nov National Council
• 15th Nov Imperial Referendum (see photos!)
• 18th Nov Black Students Conference
• 19th Nov Black Students Conference
• 21st Nov Beat Bullying day
• 23rd Nov NEC
• 24th Nov Meeting with West midland police – Welfare products through NUSSL
• 24th Nov Student Media Awards
• 27th Nov Warwick ‘Political correctness – Is it still a necessary’ debate
• 28th Nov NIACE (National Institute of Adult Continuing Education) Annual conference
• 28th Nov Aston Referendum
• 29th Nov Aston Referendum
• 6th Dec Hidden graduates breakfast meeting – Canary wharf – Why do some graduates not go on to graduate jobs and fall into a hidden pool of talent.
• 8th Dec NUSSL board meeting
• 12th Dec Welfare and student rights zone meeting
• 18th Dec NEC

Some of the highlights over the last three months.

In October I demonstrated outside Uganda house in London. Being homosexual is illegal in Uganda. A magazine called Red pepper launched a campaign which called for the Ugandan people to not only report who they suspected of being homosexual but to attack them too. The Red pepper said.

“To show the nation how shocked we are and how fast the terrible vice known as sodomy is eating up our society, we have decided to unleash an exclusive list of men who enjoy taking on fellow men from the rear.”

This is diabolical and it’s right that the NUS LGBT Campaign along with support from others in NUS demonstrated on this issue – well done to Scott and Claire for organising this at such short notice.

While visiting LSE Students Union during fresher’s week I met a student who was quite curious about some of the work that NUS did. I was telling him about the demo that I had been on the week before outside Uganda House and what it was all about. He seemed quite shocked but extremely happy that we had staged the demo, he went in to tell me that he was one of the people that were named in the paper and was proud to see the solidarity that NUS showed on that day.

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