{"id":7415,"date":"2017-10-17T10:45:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T09:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=7415"},"modified":"2017-10-17T10:45:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T09:45:46","slug":"commemoration-day-demo-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/commemoration-day-demo-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemoration Day Demo: 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October 1979 Imperial College Students&#8217; Union staged a series of protests against government education cuts. Occupation of the Senior Dining Room was one part of these protests. Another took place on Commemoration Day itself. Those who took part in the occupation, together with many others carrying placards and wearing black armbands, joined in a &#8220;Funeral March&#8221; following a black coffin, held aloft by six students, through the Beit building and on a journey around the Royal Albert Hall. Students were already leafleting the parents and other visitors to the ceremony in the Albert Hall.<\/p>\n<p>STOIC were there to record the event and reporter Bob Powell spoke to a future ICU President John Passmore. Note that the incorrect name was used by Mike Prosser in the studio introduction to the news report.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i2jbvyX9DHE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw October 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Commemoration Day in October 1979 Imperial College Students&#8217; Union staged a series of protests against government education cuts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[431,80,82],"tags":[749,212,975,89],"class_list":["post-7415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graduation","category-people","category-student-life","tag-commemoration-day","tag-stoic","tag-student-union","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Commemoration Day Demo: 1979 - Imperial College Video Archive Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/commemoration-day-demo-1979\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Commemoration Day Demo: 1979 - Imperial College Video Archive Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Commemoration Day in October 1979 Imperial College Students&#039; 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