referendum 2009 manifestos

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Speak up and get heard Referendum 2009

Read the manifestos and decide if you are:

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Campaigning begins: Tues 17 Nov. 9am

Deadline for email vote request: Mon 23 Nov. 9am

Deadline for email vote: Tues 24 Nov. 5pm

Voting: Tues 24 Nov. 9am - 7pm. The Hive

Referendum 2009 - The Dates

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"The Union should stock the minimum copies possible of the Daily Mail."

" The Union will stock, where available, East Anglian grown fruit and vegetables."

"The Union should lobby the University to build a multi-storey car park."

"The Union should boycott Coca-Cola."

Referendum 2009 - The questions

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Referendum 2009 - The vote

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There are two ways you can vote:

A) Bring your campus card along to the Hive on Tuesday 24 November 9am-7pm to cast your vote by a paper ballot.

B) If you are not going to be on the campus when the ballot boxes are open you may vote electronically. Simply follow these steps:

1. In order to obtain electronic ballot papers email [email protected] from your own @uea.ac.uk email address.2. You must include your full name and registration number and explain why you will not be on the campus during the election period eg. studying abroad, on a placement etc.3. You must apply for electronic ballot papers before 9am on Monday 23 November 2009.4. The relevant electronic ballot papers will be sent to your @uea.ac.uk email address on or before 12.00 noon on Monday 23 November 2009.5. You must return the ballot papers from your @uea.ac.uk email address before 9am on Tuesday 24 November 2009.6. Providing that you have not already voted in person your electronic ballot papers will be placed in a ballot box before the count.7. Only the Deputy Returning Officer and the Returning Officer will have access to the [email protected] account.

The results will be posted on www.ueastudent.com after the count which takes place immediately after voting finishes.

Any complaints or questions about the election process? –then email the Deputy Returning Officer, Natasha Barnes [email protected]

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"The Union should stock the minimum copies possible of the Daily Mail."


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Vote ‘YES’ tofewer Daily Mails

Facebook: ‘Daily Fail’

Vote YES to fewer sTuesday, Week 10, 9-7 pm. The Hive

- all you need is your campus card and your conscience

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HOMOPHOBICJan Moir’s snide-filled article is but the latest in a wave of homophobic articles in the Mail. Labeling the late Stephen Gateley’s lifestyle ‘unnatural’, and commenting ‘isn’t it charming how homosexuals rally like-minded chaps to their cause?’, this newspaper peddles a kind of narrow-minded, mean-spirited bigotry we should be working to dispel, not support.

RACISTTo:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: Response Source - (Request for personal case study)QUERY: I am urgently looking for anonymous horror stories of people who have em-ployed Eastern European staff, only for them to steal from them, disappear, or have lied about their resident status. We can pay you £100 for taking part, and I promise it will be anonymous, just a quick phone call. Could you email me asap? Many thanks, Diana

Need they say more?

SEXIST‘Feminism, anti-racism and gay rights thus turned men, white people and Christians into the enemies of decency who were forced to jump through hoops to prove their virtue’, according to Mail columnist Mela-nie Phillips. This from the same paper that referred to Britain’s first female Home Secretary as a ‘buxom barmaid who fell in with a bad lot’. Yeah, right

This isn’t about freedom of speech It’s about deciding what kind of union we want.

The money our union makes from its commercial services (including the paper shop) is invested in all the things that make our union great: clubs, societies, events, support, cam-paigns, representation and democracy, to name but a few.

By selling the Daily Mail, we both help to sustain these bigots, but we also profit ourselves. Off the back of homophobia, sexism, and racism, we try to construct an inclusive, support-ive, and positive students’ union.

If people want to buy the Mail elsewhere, so be it. Our union shouldn’t be making a profit from it.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS FOR ALL OR NONE Should we Ban the Daily Mail? The union is asking students if it should sell as few copies of the Daily Mail as it can. This will mean that many students and members of staff won't be able to buy the paper on campus.

Should we ban things we disagree with?

We don't believe that the union should limit what political literature people have easy access simply because we disagree with it.

Don't we have the right to control what is in our union shops?

Of course we do, but the question becomes- how much control should the majority have to influence the minority. Do we really want the union to be able to influence what we read and by extension what we think.

Will “minimising the number of copies of the Daily Mail we sell,” make any difference?

Going a head with the current plans will neither hurt the Daily Mail, nor make students less intolerant. The Daily Mail is a homophobic, racist hate filled rag, yet to limit access to the paper won't stop people from being prejudice, but will instead make it appear that we are afraid to debate with people we disagree with.

VOTE NO TO CENSORSHIP. VOTE NO

In the Hive on Tuesday the 24th.

“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.”~John Stuart Mill (On Liberty).

“ The Union will stock, where available, East Anglian grown fruit and vegetables.”


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Abstain

Vote against the Fruit and Vegetable Policy Ballot

Four Reasons to Vote No:

1. Passing the policy would mean a reduction in student choice. Students should be free to buy locally sourced produce if they want to but this should be left up to the individual.

2. Implementing this policy might make fruit and vegetables more expensive as the Union would be limited as to which suppliers it could choose. The Union should try and sell produce to students for the cheapest price possible.

3. Just because fruit and vegetable is grown in East Anglia it does not mean reduced food miles. Often

produce from East Anglia will be taken to London for sale and then transported back again. The Union should take a cleverer

approach to reducing its carbon emissions.

4. If we limit the UFO produce to being only from East Anglia then students might see a reduction in quality as the Union would have a limited range of suppliers to negotiate with.

Vote in the Hive on 9am on Tuesday 24th November. Or email [email protected] before 5pm on Monday 23rd

November to request an electronic vote.

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“The Union should lobby the University to build a multi-storey car park.”


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Can’t Park?

Say YES to the new Car Park

Referendum: Tuesday 24th 0900-1900, The Hive

Would you like to be able to park on campus?

Would you like to be able to park closer to your lectures?

Would you like to be able to drive to campus when it rains?

The University has planning permission to build a multi-storey car park on the existing one. The new 5-storey car park would be mostly underground, meaning it would be un-noticeable once built.

We support a car park that is open to both staff and students equally. This would mean that students could park closer to lectures, and not have a twenty minute walk down to the current student car park.

Currently, students have to park a 20 minute walk away from the campus. A twenty minute walk in the rain isn’t a nice experience first thing in the morning. The alternative is paying the £8 per day to park in the main car park.

Would you like to be able to park your car when you want and leave when you want?

This would all change with a new car park. Make a difference to the 30% of students who are local, vote to the new car park.

The current student car park doesn’t allow you in after 2pm, and you cant leave the car park after 6:30pm. This means you have to go and move your car if you have a lecture that ends at 7, and actually want to go home.

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We are against the building ofWe are against the building of

a multi-storey car park at UEA a multi-storey car park at UEA

because it will involve;because it will involve;

Costs of 10 million poundsEquivalent to;

- 1/4 of 13,000

students tuition fees.

- An extension

to the library.

- 168,000 hours or 7,000

days of lecture time.

- 6 years worth of free bus

passes for all students.

- Policy has been passed in 2005 for the union to register it's

opposition to a multi-storey carpark. It has lapsed but then

tuition fees were lower, now they are HIGHER -this is

your money that will be spent.

- There are cheaper and more environmentally friendly options

such as pushing for better bus routes, fairer parking and an

integrated transport policy.

- Vote no! and make a financially and environmentally sound decision.

- For campaign info/assistance contact; [email protected]

“The Union should boycott Coca-Cola.”


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Abstain

We Decide: Our Union,

Our Ethics

Vote YES to

the Coca-Cola

Boycott

Vote YES to the Coca-Cola BoycottTuesday, Week 10, 9-7 pm in The Hive

Why?The Coca-Cola company has been accused of failing to ensure the safety of it’s workers in Columbia, and their response to the unionisation of workers is unacceptable.

According to reports, the Coca-Cola company’s response to paramilitary attacks are at best to turn a blind eye to them, and at worst to provide financial support and actively collude with the paramilitary organisations in an attempt to break up the unions.

We are a Union, not a Business -

These actions show that large companies think they can do what they please:

we disagree

This Union should be guided by it’s members’ high moral standards;

This Union should represent the views of its members, not just do what is profitable;

This Union, and others, should stand up for the rights of workers who are beingintimidated or denied their right to unionise.

Let people make up their own mind over Coke’s reputation and vote to keep it in our shops and bars. We won’t impact on Coke’s practices if we remove it. There is no ethical alternative to Coke in our bars and they’ll be no ethical option for diabetics with Diet Coke removed in our shops. There’s been no change in the argument since 2006 when Coke was brought back.

Let people make up their own mind over Coke’s reputation and vote to keep it in our shops and bars. We won’t impact on Coke’s practices if we remove it. There is no ethical alternative to Coke in our bars and they’ll be no ethical option for diabetics with Diet Coke removed in our shops. There’s been no change in the argument since 2006 when Coke was brought back.

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