Some personal impressions during the "Bologna Burns" protests and "counter-summit" in Vienna
[March 11-14th]

A New Website for the Counter Summit of European Education Ministers has been Born.

see:

http://www.demotix.com/news/249413/occupied-fu-berlin-lecture-room-1a-ev...

further (in German language) on

http://wikinews030.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/berliner-polizei-meldet-verd...

Just found this in my inbox and was asked to publish it here:

To the brave occupants of the Sussex University,

[UPDATE: according to messages on twitter the University of Rotterdam is being occupied now as well]

Call for International Day Of Action on March 4, 2010
In Defense of Public Education And Against Privatization

To all student, worker, and teacher organizations and activists worldwide:

As my first post on here I would like to first say hello to all the fellow activists out there in Europe and America. Well done you have successfully implemented pressure on the government and leaders of your universities and begun the mobilisation of students in the name of free education, for this I congratulate you.

France: Youth is waking
Yesterday in France, a national call for strike was launched in
Education; 1/3 of teachers were in strike; and a lot of people in the
streets (8000 in Paris). The best new is the come back of youth; in all
the General Assemblies, students were many, more than they were since
the beginning of the new scholar year. The hope comes from high school
pupils who blocked and came in the demonstration in mass. A new day of action and held of GA is announced for December 3th.

nov 11th/12th - berlin - Free University Berlin

students of the free university today sqatted the audimax der FU. the HU, which sqatted its main meeting room, was evacuated a few minutes before midnight.

see details (in german language) on http://wp.me/psdI6-wu