Court intervention at Middlesex

This arrived half an hour ago, but I was teaching a makeup class and am just seeing it now:

“Last night the University served a High Court Injunction to end the student occupation of the Mansion Building. It went into effect at 8am this morning, Saturday 15 May.

People are gathering now at Trent Park to support the campaign to save Philosophy at Middlesex (directions below), and Tariq Ali will give a talk in front of the Mansion Building this afternoon at 3:30pm. For more information go to http://www.savemdxphil.com .

Please circulate this message to everyone who is sympathetic to the campaign.”

For those in the London area:

“Directions to the Middlesex University Trent Park campus.

The main building on the Trent Park campus is known as the ‘Mansion Building’. The nearest tube station is Oakwood on the Piccadilly line, which is the penultimate stop (zone 5), heading north. From King’s Cross, for instance, it usually takes around 40 minutes to get to Oakwood. It is then another 15 minutes or so to get from Oakwood to Trent Park itself, either on foot along Snakes Lane, or else by waiting for the free minibus service that the university operates between Oakwood station and Trent Park. The service runs every fifteen minutes between 7:00am and around midnight (or around 10pm, during vacations). The bus stop for the minibus is to the left of the exit to Oakwood station, on the same side of the road.

You’ll find a basic map at http://www.mdx.ac.uk/campus/trentpark/travel.htm, and a more detailed one at http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=529250&y=196750&z=1&sv=529250,196750&st=4&ar=N&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf.

If you’re on foot and have a little extra time, the walk from Cockfosters tube station through Trent Park (via the ‘monument’) takes a couple more minutes but is more atmospheric; there’s a map at http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=528750&y=196750&z=1&sv=528750,196750&st=4&ar=N&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf”