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Bristol universities to improve food sustainability
By Phoebe Cole, Tuesday Feb 9, 2021
The University of Bristol and the UWE Bristol are taking part in the Bristol Bites Back Better campaign, which is working to build a food system for the city’s future.
“The actions already taken by the universities in the past few years and those planned for 2021 show real determination to do better,” says Joy Carey, the coordinator of Bristol Bites Back Better.
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“As big organisations, they are demonstrating how positive change can be made and we are excited to engage the student population further in the coming weeks and months as they too will be a key part of creating a better, fairer, and more sustainable food system for our city.”
Meet the student rent strikers fighting back and refusing to pay rent in January
‘There is no way the uni was 100 per cent honest’
4 months ago
Pissed off with conditions in halls, and at feeling unsupported and lured back to uni on false promises, thousands of students have refused to pay millions of pounds in rent this term – an unprecedented number.
Now at the end of a tumultuous term, rent strikers have won various rent reductions from their unis, and a network has spread beyond Manchester and Bristol.
They’re gearing up across the country to withhold money next term and try and force change from their uni.