{"id":6892,"date":"2017-02-15T07:49:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T07:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6892"},"modified":"2017-02-15T07:49:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T07:49:46","slug":"building-bridges-not-walls-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/02\/15\/building-bridges-not-walls-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Building bridges, not walls in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the slogan of an event in London on Sunday which I missed. \u00a0It was billed as a national summit and had the title:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TRUMP BREXIT &amp; BEYOND<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was organised by NUS, SOAS student union and LIBER8 Education. \u00a0I only heard about it on Monday and it was obviously a riot (in the best progressive sense). \u00a0Speakers included Malia Bouattia, Hareem Ghani, Yasser Louatti, Waqar Hussain and Janaya Khan \u2013 and \"many others tbc\". \u00a0It went on for 7 hours with more workshops than you could shake a stick at.<\/p>\n<p>I was, as they say: <em>d\u00e9<\/em><i>sol\u00e9, and\u00a0<\/i>I could have gone as I was in London. \u00a0As it was I spend three of those hours in a pub in Tottenham having lunch, drinking (rather good) craft ale, and doing quizzes. \u00a0It was obvious to me afterwards that the pub was full of people who'd not heard of the event either otherwise they'd obviously have gone; we'd have been fighting our way onto the tube\u00a0at Seven Sisters in our anxiety to be there on time.<\/p>\n<p>I learned all about this at NUS where I went to the latest sustainability working group. \u00a0This was, of course, as stimulating as ever, and (an obviously heretical thought) was probably more entertaining\u00a0than the summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the slogan of an event in London on Sunday which I missed. \u00a0It was billed as a national summit and had the title: TRUMP BREXIT &amp; BEYOND It was organised by NUS, SOAS student union and LIBER8 Education....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}