Global Week of Action is HERE
As some of you may know, Global Week of Action Against the Commercialization of Education is 4/20-29. Via Mo from the Emancipating Education for All website, here are some highlights of the last two days.
-More than 500 students and pupils kicked off the Global Week of Action with a demonstration through the old town of Heidelberg, Germany right after a general assembly on campus.
-Tampere, Finland. The day began with lowering a banner from the rooftop of the university, followed by a welcoming speech and everyone entering the university. There were several dozen participants. Societal songs were sung inside the university. Actions executed by the student movement in Tampere and elsewhere in Finland were presented.
There was a discussion on which themes the student movement should grab in the future, both inside and outside universities. Students' monetary situation and basic security matters were also discussed, as well as the administration of spaces at university and general societal situation.
After the opening of Global Action Week documentaries were shown as a basis for discussion. The chosen documentaries were "The Potentiality of Storming Heaven", "Money as Debt" and "Good Copy/Bad Copy". [The following day,] the student movement served free soup and provided information in front of a university building as part of a boycott on Sodexo (there is a Sodexo restaurant in the building). A reporter from a prime Finnish newspaper documented the action, as well as several other medias.
On-going reading circles at the university presented themselves, and there were public discussions on selected texts by Bourdieu, Gramsci and on a pamphlet called "Wissensarbeit Macht Frei".
In the evening a Finnish movie called "Vihreä leski" [Green widow] was shown. The movie is about the anxiety and alienation caused by suburbanity.
- Zagreb, Croatia.
The Independent Student Initiative for the Right to Free Education has organized a peaceful occupation of the Faculty of Philosophy.
The occupation has been initiated as a mean to promote their demand for free education for all. They have stopped classes and exams, and have organized various lectures, discussion and movie screenings instead of normal classes.
They'll be translating some of their press releases in English and German, to make the information about the occupation available to others outside the region. Right now, their materials are only available in Croatian, at this web page: slobodnifilozofski.bloger.hr
Video, unfortunately only in Croatian, is available here.
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