Students are planning a protest in support of the Save Democracy Campaign on a university campus in the coming week.
Sussex University’s Students’ Union said: “The Save Democracy Campaign is a new initiative aimed at alerting world leaders, international and local non-state governance providers/actors, civil society and many more, to rise in defence of democracy in a way that makes it much more safe and secure for sustainable development to take place.
“The campaign will speak to several issues undermining democracy around the world. More importantly, we will stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine, and in defence of democracy in general.”
The demo is due to take place at noon on Thursday (17 March) in Library Square on Sussex University’s Falmer campus.
The organisers referred to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – or Global Goals – and said: “Delivering a better life for everyone, a goal enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), can only be attained and sustained in an atmosphere of peace and accountability.
“This is recognised in SDG16, which calls on global citizens and leaders to ‘promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels’.
“Yet today, democracy is under threats and attacks from multiple angles.
“Discrediting a democratic process for personal and political gains, fuelling hate crimes by unguarded utterances (especially by people in positions of authority), incessant military coups without strong condemnation and deterrence, racial gestures and profiling, sexual harassment/violence in schools and places of work, clamping down on dissident voices and restriction of freedom at the poll all put democracy under serious attack across the globe.
“To defend democracy, democratic government leaders must renew their commitment to fulfilling its fundamental promises of ‘liberties and rights’, ‘equality and justice’ and ‘accountability to the people’ by delivering on election promises and public accountability and commitment to the principle of natural law that all men are created equal and that no individual should be discriminated against because of the colour of their skin or denied life opportunities because of their place of birth.”
Yet more wasting time with protests, that will not make the slightest difference. Yet more Orwellian doublethink. They would be far more useful spending time collecting and giving money to the various charities that are helping Ukraine.
Are these the same Students that are against Statues of people like CHURCHIL ? Democracy did not just happen millions have died for it.
Presumably the same “democratic” students who hounded professor Stock out of her job and would impose their woke ultra distorted views of history on us and ‘cancel’ anyone who has the temerity to disagree with them.
Agree plus i bet they are against Churchill statues too the man that helped them get the freedoms they enjoy now.
Sounds like an excuse for a demo to exercise their democratic right to disturb others while not achieving anything.
Members of the student body which forced Professor Kathleen Stock out of her job for defending women’s sex-based legal rights, now lecture us on the preservation of “democracy”. Presumably, they consider Stock to be one of those “people in positions of authority” who has fuelled “hate crimes by unguarded utterances“ – in other words by exercising her right to free speech. It is beyond irony that Sussex University students call on leaders to fulfil their “fundamental promises” of “equality and justice” by “commitment to the principle of natural law that all men (sic) are created equal and that no individual should be discriminated against because of the colour of their skin or denied life opportunities because of their place of birth.” How revealing that equal rights for women doesn’t get a look in.