The Campaign Coalition

The UPSU Campaign Coalition allows societies to come together to network, share views and coordinate joint campaigns. The coalition meets regularly with Student Activities and Development Officer Ben Norman and Student Support officer Kat King to ensure that the union gives full support to student run campaigns.

Currently member societies include:

People & Planet, Socialist Students, Respect, The Feminist Society, LGBT and the 101 Things Society, plus many unaffiliated students.

To see what some of our members stand for please see the following websites:  

People and Planet: http://peopleandplanet.org/

Socialist Party: http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/

Respect: http://www.respectcoalition.org/

Feminist Society: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5330552286

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News 

Fees Campaign: 

Action Day: 2nd February

The coalition will be going to Southampton, meeting up with our regional counterparts to lobby John Denham. local MP and secretary of state for innovation, universities and skills. We shall be presenting our petition to Denham, taking part in a rally and then various workshops and discussions will be taking place on moving the campaign forward.

Fight the Fees: National Protest: 21st February: London

The 21st of feb will witness a national protest against fees to demonstrate that there is a strong and vibrant opposition against government plans to make education available on the ability to pay, not the ability to learn.

The UPSU will be looking to provide transport to go to each of these events. For more info contact the  Student Activities & Development Officer.  

Prayer Space Campaign:

The University has, in principle, agreed to investiage the library as the location for the prayer space. Expect this to be resolved in January.

Current Campaigns

Campaign for an Islamic Prayer Space

This campaign calls for Portsmouth University to provide an out of hours Islamic Prayer room which is open in the evening when students need it. Currently the university provides excellent facilities in the Nuffield centre but the Nuffield closes at 5PM from monday-thursday and at 4:40pm on a Friday. This means that muslim students are unable to fulfill their religious obligations. This campaign is led by the Islamic society but is not just for Muslim students, it is for all students who believe that student welfare should be the universities' top priority.

Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7580881586  

Read the full UPSU report here: upsu_stance_prayer_room

Campaign For Fair Education 

The Campaign for a Fair Education aims to raise awareness of the ever growing inequalities of the education system and aims to campaign, in solidarity with students' unions across the country, in the run up to the top-up fees review.   By joining you can show you are against the growing privatisation of education, against spiraling student debt and for a fairer education system based on ability to learn, not the ability to pay.

We have a Facebook group (of course): http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5559769731 

Download the petition: All signatures will be presented too the Secretary of State for innovation, universities and skills, so every signature counts! (This petition was created by the Socialist Student Society: But feel free to create your own, just bring those signatures to the Sabbatical office at the Students' Union.

Download it here: Fees_petition

As well as the paper petition, which will be presented to John Denham on the 2nd of February, we also have an on-line peititon. Sign it and show your support for a fairer education system:  http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/free-education-for-all-students-in-the-UK

The coalition will be meeting up every Wednesday at   5:30PM Meeting room 2