"International Student Movement"

During the last chat meeting [Feb.28th] we agreed that co-ordinating education protests on a global level for November 2010 is a good idea.

Since the chat was only joined by about 15 activists in 7 countries we decided not to make any final decisions regarding November and united protests yet.

According to this poll there is a significant interest in having globally co-ordinated protests against the increasing commercialisation and privatisation of public education and for free and emancipatory education in November.

The big question now is, what we should call for: a "Global Week of Action" or a "Global Month of Action"?

So we have the following choices:

• Declaring November 2010 a "Global Month of Action" [specific name would still need to be discussed]; pro: each group will be more flexible to pick the time frame they prefer to concentrate on within the month + protests have time to develop and create a dynamic; cons: it might be more difficult to portray actions within 30 days as a united protest!
  

• Calling for a "Global Week of Action": Nov.1-7th

• Calling for a "GWA": Nov.8-14th

• Calling for a "GWA": Nov.15-21st

• Calling for a "GWA": Nov.22-28th

It is VERY important to agree on a common time frame TOGETHER.
Therefore please leave a message as a comment below stating your preference or send a mail to united.for.education[at]gmail.com

The final chat meeting to decide this together will take place on March7th at 4pm GMT. Education activists worldwide are welcome  - as always :)
Event page on facebook.