"International Student Movement"

~ DISCUSSION ~
GLOBAL EDUCATION STRIKE 2012
to Resist increasing Privatisation and Commercialisation of Education and fight for
Free Emancipatory Education?

★ ★ GLOBAL CHAT MEETING - May 5th (saturday) ★ ★

Why strike together globally?

People worldwide are struggling against the increasing commercialisation of education and fighting for free emancipatory education.

Massive staff cuts, budget cuts, privatisation, de-democratisation within schools and universities, tuition fees hike, an increasing pressure to perform, and increasing influences of 'private economic actors' on teaching and research - it's the same shit everywhere!

To resist these effects from the current dominating economic system and fight for alternatives together we - participants of a first chat meeting on April 28th - believe it is time to call for a first coordinated strike at educational institutions across the world. Furthermore such an action would encourage a desperately needed public discussion on the actual purpose of education for the individual as well as society at large. It could also point out the global dimension of the struggle and therefore put greater emphasis on the actual root of the problems we are all experiencing.

After the 1st chat meeting on April 28th

Participants of the first chat meeting where we discussed the idea to call for a Global Education Strike agreed on the following:

• Set up a poll to collect feedback from groups and individuals worldwide on preferences regarding the exact date for the strike: http://www.emancipating-education-for-all.org/global_education_strike_2012_poll
  All should also feel encouraged to explain their preference by sending a mail to the global ISM mailing list: [email protected] or to .
• Invite to another chat meeting on May 5th (Saturday) to agree on a common date and make further coordinations: http://ism-global.net/global_chat_may5

How to share your thoughts and stay connected:

• send an e-mail to the global ISM mailing list: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/international_students_movement ()
• post a comment after siging up to the website. You can do so here: http://www.emancipating-education-for-all.org/user/register - after signing in go back here to post the comment: http://www.emancipating-education-for-all.org/discussion_global_education_strike_2012
• post on the wall of the global ISM page/ group on facebook

~ one world - one struggle ~