"International Student Movement"

26/04/2009

All groups are asked to list their reports (incl. videos and pictures), that took place today, inside here!

Planned actions for today (as far as I know):

• U.S. of A. (Minnesota): The Committee on Revolutionizing the AcaDemy (ComRAD) is organizing a Conference: "Reworking the University: Visions, Strategies, Demands" at the University of Minnesota (24 - 26/04). The programme can be accessed here. As part of the week of action and the conference they also call for a collective manifesto. Everyone is invited to contribute.
• Canada (Toronto): Free education week of action at the University of Toronto.

• Croatia (Zagreb): Various
  groups will occupy the university building of one faculty, consisting
  of about 5,000 students. They will offer an alternative programme,
  inform about the Global Week of Action and its development and promote
  the global perspective of our struggle against the commercialization of
  education. (20 - 26/04 or longer)

• Finland: National Week of Action as part of the Global Week of Action
• Russia (Moscow): Groups will hold an open discussion "What education do we want?
  Reforms and alternatives". The discussion targets the recent
  local educational reforms syncronised with the European ones. Among
  the subjects are Bologna reform in Russian universities, school final
  exams and university enterance exams, precarisation of professors' and
  teacers' labor and of ex-students' professional trajectory,
  alternative forms of education and of self-organised institutions.
  Participants are scholars, students, school teachers, pupil,
  university administrators, politically engaged artists, political and
  civil activists. During the debate pictures and videos of protest
  movements in Europe targeting the commercialization of education will
  be displayed.