"International Student Movement"

Dear colleagues,
As you will have heard, student strikes and protests have been going  
on at several Austrian universities for three weeks now. Recently,  
protests have reached Germany, and lecture theatres at several  
Austrian and German universities remain squatted by protesters.
We, the Researchers and Lecturers of the Viennese Universities,  
declare our full solidarity with the demans of protesting students:
A stop to the stranglehold by economic and political interests on  
teaching and research
The democratization of universities in the EU and world-wide
Free access to education for all
An emancipatory view of education
A stop to the precarization of teachers and researchers
A review of the so-called Bologna process because the latter has  
resulted in an unacceptable reduction in the depth and scope of  
university education in most European countries, combined with a broad  
debate about the future of the education system, its aims and its  
methods.
Over 700 of us have by now declared their solidarity by signing the  
following list:http://unsereuni.at/?page_id=1883. For many of us, a  
tokenistic display of solidarity is not enough. We have therefore  
decided to join the protests and declared an active strike. This means  
that we have opened our courses and lectures to debates about the  
present situation and possible future of the education system and  
society as a whole. We are also taking an active and visible part in  
demonstrations.
We would ask you, dear colleagues, to display your solidarity in any  
way possible, and also to help the protesting students, researchers,  
and lecturers in Austria and Germany by disseminating the attached  
message. Now is the time to act together and stop the demolition of  
the education system before the damage done progresses beyond any  
chance of repair.
The plenum of protesting students in Vienna has asked us to forward  
the attachment to this email to researchers and lecturers all over the  
world.
Kind regards,
AG Öffentlichkeitsarbeit Lehrende & Forschende Wien
(Teachers & Researchers Vienna)
info.squatting.teachers@gmail.com