Programme for the Counter-Summit in Brussels/Louvain!!

The first three days of the counter-summit will happen in Brussels and will consist in workshops dedicated to reflectivity. The last two days will be dedicated to demonstrations and other actions prepared during the counter-summit.

Saturday, April 25

9h30 – 12h30: Bologna Process, national reforms and resistances.

General assembly: discussion about the state of advancement of Bologna process and the resistances in each country.

14h – 18h00: International Workshops

18h: Common appreciation of the workshops

Sunday, April 26

All day: International Workshops

18h: Common appreciation of the workshops

Monday, April 27

9h30 – 12h30: Preparation of the actions occurring on April 28 and 29, and discussion on the European perspectives of fight.

14h00 – xxxx : Writing of an alternative to the Bologna Declaration

Tuesday, April 28

10h: Demonstration in Leuven for the opening of the ministerial conference

14h: Demonstration in Brussels, « Gare du Nord », called by the respact platform (www.respact.be)

Wednesday, April 29

Arrival and welcoming of the ministers in Louvain-la-neuve

Furthermore, we make a call for all groups to participate in the demonstration organized by the Féderation des Comités Étudiants (Federation of Student’s Committees) to support Belgian illegal residents. The demonstration will gather students, legal and illegal workers and will happen in Brussels, in the 1st of May.

International Workshops

Regarding the International Workshops, three major axis are proposed :

EDUCATION – UNIVERSITY– SOCIETY
TRANSMISION, PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION OF KNOWLEDGE AND COMPETENCES
LIFE AND ‘MODUS OPERANDI’ OF THE UNIVERSITY

These major themes constitute and arbitrary division: our proposition is to approach their different aspects inside each workshop, if it reveals to be pertinent.

We invite you to prepare workshops locally, in order to start to build the counter-summit. Also, you are invited to indicate to us what you wish to organize. The workshops will be under the initiative of the participants, developed under the major axis and regarding the writing of the Bologna Declaration alternative text.

Other workshops can be freely created outside of these themes. The definitive list of workshops will be published on the Vague Européenne website on April 20. However, they can all take place during the counter-summit.

Intellectual Property
Transmission of knowledge and uneven relations between professors/students
Evaluation (professors, students, research)
The place of research on education
The areas of knowledge
Financing of the Universities
Passion and knowledge vs. The engineering of knowledge
The condition of doctorates and labour division inside universities
Gender issues on education
Democracy in the university : Government, Representation, Management, Self-Management
Equality and Knowledge
The technique and administrative staff, and their role on education and research
Critique initiatives on the borders of University
The guarantees of independence in research
Privatization (sponsors, consultants, private partners...)
Acknowledgement of experiences
Means of expression
Rationalization of offers, centralization/decentralization of masters. Fusion between universities
The space(s) on/of the University: libraries, housing, resources available.
University interchanges
University asylum

Spare workshops

The lobbies (CEO)
Media and social mobilization
The new ways of resistance/repression specifics to universities

Global Week of Action 2009 (April)

Tue, 07/04/2009 - 23:26 — Julien

THE LIST OF SUPPORTERS TO LOUVAIN..

is getting bigger everyday !!!
and best of all, ATTAC france, with its huge network of other european ATTACs just called for major support to the bologna-process counter-summit :) !!!
the following internet buzzing 1h videoconference explaining cristal clear how the bologna-process and the lisbon strategy are going to ruin all our universities worldwide (unfortunately only in french here..) will soon be translated in english and other languages.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8rxrj_du-processus-de-bologne-a-la-lru...
here is the temporary list of supporters coming for the moment (the list in english you can find down this page http://www.louvain2009.com/spip.php?article63 has not been updated so i'm putting the french one):
- Coordination nationale des universités (CNU) France
- Coordination nationale étudiante (CNE) France
- Coordination nationale étudiante allemande
- Coordination nationale étudiante britannique
- Coordination des assemblées étudiantes de Barcelone (CAE)
- Coordination des assemblées étudiantes de Madrid
- Initiative pour l’auto-organisation en primaire et secondaire (Grèce)
- Attac France
- Collectif Indépendance des chercheurs
- Emancipating education for all
- Fac Verte
- La Fédération (Les Alternatifs, l’Association des Communistes Unitaires ( ACU ), la Coordination Nationale de Collectifs Unitaires pour une alternative au libéralisme ( CNCU ), les AlterEkolos, Ecologie Solidaire, Alternative Démocratie Socialisme ( ADS ), le MAI, UTOPIA ainsi que différents groupes locaux)
- Fédération Sud Etudiant
- Groupe Socialiste Internationaliste (LIT-QI)
- Parti communiste français (PCF)
- Parti communiste italien (PdCI)
- Printemps 2010
- Syndicat Etudiant Unitaire et Laïque (SEUL)
- Reclaim your education Danemark
- Anarchistes anti-autoritaristes dans et hors l’école et la faculté (Grèce)
- Assemblée générale de l’occupation du rectorat de Barcelone
- Onda Anomala Bologne
- Onda Anomala Urbino
- Assemblée générale étudiante de Nanterre
- Assemblée génèrale étudiante de Paris 3
- Assemblée générale étudiante de Paris 7
if you know of other organizations in your country (germany, italy, spain, belgium, poland, england, greece, netherlands, finland, sweden, ireland, portugal, lithuania, croatia, austria etc etc) that want, that NEED to come;
please contact:

contact[a]louvain2009.com
travel[a]louvain2009.com
workshop[a]louvain2009.com
contactpress[a]louvain2009.com
so that we can have that list explode :)
and come and support us sometime in english on our site's lighter but english version http://www.louvain2009.com/?lang=en .
see you in louvain !!
EURORESISTANCE and international solidarity !!!

julien from spring 2010
http://groups.google.fr/group/collectif-printemps-2010

Thu, 09/04/2009 - 23:16 — Julien

EUROPE AND WORLD UNITE IN LOUVAIN..

hi all,

here's one of the rare articles in english covering the historical strike (longer than 1968 !!) taking place in french universities (we are now reaching the tenth week of massive strikes all over the country)..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/07/protest-france

all activists in europe; please, we need your support; and you might also need ours..

with the counter-meeting in louvain in 2 weeks to fight back the bologna-process; with also very tough movements in spain, italy, germany, england, finland, denmark.., we have now a small but unique window of opportunity to unite for real.

i don't think activists will surrender in france this time; but we sure are going to need support because the actions are radicalizing and the police is getting more and more violent..

the chance we have here in paris, lyon, toulouse, marseille, strasbourg, rennes, nantes and all over the country.. is that professors and researchers have also been on strike for 10 weeks; the whole university community is fighting back to what we believe to be one of the last chances before education and knowledge falls into the arms of private interests.

we are now ready to litterally "fuck up" the second semester (no exams and still the right for all students to sign up to pass to the next year)..

now's a chance; we don't know if there will be a second one.

i am not afraid to say that i strongly believe that french (it's a question of months only..; "still) free" universities will fight until they fall.. or until we can alltogether open a real way to true free public education.

let's all connect and fight together now.

let's all meet in louvain and together let all the european governments know that we shall not let the bologna-process and the lisbon strategy ruin what we consider to be one of the most precious thing in life: knowledge and education.

see you in louvain in 2 little weeks.. ; france will be there, will you?

julien, spring 2010.

http://groups.google.fr/group/collectif-printemps-2010

Sun, 12/04/2009 - 12:20 — Julien

WHO IS COMING TO LOUVAIN..

hi all,

certainly we will have more infos tonight after the international chat but still, i wanted to make a small statement about "national delegations" participating to the counter-summit of louvain.

for the moment, as centralized on "vague européenne" website, here's a summary of who seems to be confirming to be there:

(http://www.vagueeuropeenne.fr/spip.php?article114 in french, because the english page http://www.vagueeuropeenne.fr/spip.php?article117 is not updated yet )

from Denmark: 2 buses,

from Spain: madrid and barcelona are getting organized together,

from France: 2 buses from paris (1 from "the Sorbonne", 1 from Nanterre); 1 or two buses from lyon, 1 bus from aix-en-provence and st étienne, 1 bus from bordeaux.. + car-pooling + professor and researcher delegations.

any news from Germany or Italy or Belgium or England or any other european country sending "delegations"?

please send all your infos to:

travel [a] louvain2009.com,

contact [a] louvain2009.com,

loic.sud.gsi [a] gmail.com,

so we can have that list progressively filling up and the early feeling that louvain is already a true international counter-meeting.

see you in louvain !!

julien from spring 2010

http://groups.google.fr/group/collectif-printemps-2010

Thu, 30/04/2009 - 22:55 — Julien

ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE ! ! EURORESISTANCE ! ! !

hi all,

the mouvement in universities here in france is now deepening into true resistance (i weigh my words).

researchers, professors and students have been nationally and massively on strike since february the 2nd (three whole months!! now; way more than 1968).

we are now involved with all our guts.

sarkozy and the transnational "neoliberal lobbies" behind him are trying to suffocate us and break through this deep, broad and large mouvement.

it's the brutal strength of "state violence" bought and controlled by neoliberal capitalism against the fierce resistance of a bunch of citizen idealists not willing to take the inexorable plan of a society privatizing education, knowledge; and life in the end..

most of us here are now very well aware:

if we lose now, we lose for the fucking 50 next years.. we cannot lose that fight; not now.

french universities will fight till "knock-out".

national highschool exams are coming.. they will not be assessed.

university exams are coming.. they shall not be assessed.

the strike has to go on and student are bound to get automatically the minimum grade to register to the upper year..

researchers, professors are rather now calling for radical union with students for this ultimate fight against the insane sacrifice of public university.

see these resistance call (in french).. :

http://www.auboutduweb.com/poolp/index.php?post/2009/04/28/APPEL-A-LA-RE...

see this foreseen action of a 99km walk over 4 days from chartres to paris from the 21st to the 24th of may (in french also unfortunately):

http://marchesurparis.unblog.fr/

now is the time for a european/world "revolution" spreading from all universities in europe to the streets..

there will never be a better chance before the next 50 years; we have to catch it now.

may 2009 shall be written in history books.

Spain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Danemark, England, Greece.. ! ! ! !

after the counter-summit in louvain..

One for All and All for One ! ! !

EURORESISTANCE ! ! ! ! !

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