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NEWS RELEASE about EducationDirect Action posted on January 27, 2011 by Tami Starlight

SFU STUDENTS TO CONFRONT BOARD OF GOVERNORS OVER GOLDCORP DONATION

SFU Students against the goldcorp donation, Gentrification, DTES, SFU

by SFU Against Goldcorp and Gentrification

Activists take the stairway in todays demo
Activists take the stairway in todays demo
Activists chant, stick signed petitions & pound on the door to the SFU Govenors meeting
Activists chant, stick signed petitions & pound on the door to the SFU Govenors meeting

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 27, 2011

News contact:  Jennifer Scott, Teaching Support Staff Union, 604.726.8140
SFU Against Goldcorp and Gentrification (SAGG)

SFU STUDENTS TO CONFRONT BOARD OF GOVERNORS OVER GOLDCORP DONATION
Rally planned outside SFU Harbour Centre today to protest lack of university accountability and to deliver four demands to the SFU Board of Governors

Event:    Student demonstration
Where:   SFU Harbour Centre (555 W. Hastings St)
When:    3pm Thursday January 27

What:     Faculty, students, and staff from SFU are rallying in downtown Vancouver today to protest a lack of transparency and communication surrounding Goldcorp's $10 000 000 purchase of naming rights at SFU's centre for Contemporary Arts.

The rally will assemble at 3 pm, Thursday, Jan 27th in front of Harbour Centre and march en masse to the Segal Graduate Centre for Business located at 500 Granville St, where the Board of Governors meeting is taking place. The assembly of students, faculty and union workers will deliver a gold confetti bedazzled collection of petitions to the SFU Board of Governors meeting, where they were denied their request to make a presentation.

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Media contact: Jennifer Scott, Organizer, Teaching Support Staff Union, 604.726.8140

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