bravery fighting injustice

more stuff on the student movement in france

an article in english: http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/5865

- a list of universities which are (according to http://www.stopcpe.net) at the moment on strike: Aix-Marseille 1, Aix-Marseille 2, Aix-Marseille 3, Amiens, Angers Artois, Avignon, Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux 3, Brest, Caen, Clermont 2, Chambéry, Corte, Dijon, Grenoble 1, Grenoble 2, Grenoble 3, La Rochelle, Le Havre, Le Mans, Lille 1, Lille 2, Lille 3, Limoges, Lorient, Lyon 2, Metz, Montpellier 2, Montpellier 3, Nancy 1, Nancy 2, Nantes, Orléans, Pau, Poitiers, Rennes1, Rennes 2, Rouen, Reims, St Etienne, Toulouse 2, Toulouse 3, Tours, Paris 1, Paris 3, Paris 4, Paris 5, Paris 6, Paris 7, Paris 8, Paris 10, Paris 11, Paris 12, Paris 13, Evry, Marne La Vallée, Versailles, St Quentin

in solidarity,

hagakure 1

[...]

covetousness, anger and foolishnes are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things. Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery

[...]

from hagakure, by yamamoto tsenumoto.

My interpretation:

Covetousness=> greed, unjustice, exploitation

Anger=> revenge, militarism, over-competition

Foolishness=> lack of education, dogmatism, lack of critical judgement

End these, act intelligently, humanly and bravely to end these, and good things will grow.

STOP PRESS sussex university ocupation

SUSSEX UNIVERSITY LIBRARY IS UNDER OCCUPATION BY ITS STUDENTS

Over 100 students are as I type holding Sussex University Library open all night in protest against the continued corporatisation and degradation of this Universities standards. Workshops, film showings, a naked space and old fashioned reading (!) are being held. The occupation is organised by hourly meetings open to all occupiers.

The 'Learn-in' started at 9:30, when the library was due to shut, and will go on through the night.

More information and photos to follow.

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The released manifesto reads as follows:

We are here because the standards at Sussex University re falling. We believe that the recent cuts to the library epitomize the problems facing students at this university. We believe that we are entitled to a high level of education and that large seminars and few resources, either academic or material, are not going to achieve this. We regret that this action may inconvenience library staff and we stress that this action is in opposition to the library cutbacks and redundancies perpetrated by university senior management. We demand more transparency from the university and that it calls an emergency council meeting, open to all students, during term. We want to show the university the extent and level of discontent among students and we wish to show our complete support for the aims of the sortUSout campaign [the general campaign against the cuts at the Uni of Sussex], as well as the staff in all their industrial action.

Contact for all,
Books for all,
Housing for all,
Food for all,
Free education for all.

As Students we are turning our words into action;
As students we demand the university to do the same.

Education the world over is under attack through privatisation and corporatisation: prioritising profit over the right to free education. From Bogota to Paris, our struggle at Sussex University is global.

5 STOP PRESS student movement in france

there is at the moment a broad school & university student movement in france against a new "employment law" for workers under 26, which will e.g. de facto strip young workers of their right of joining a union. Hundreds of thousand of university & high school students, supported by some of the unions have demonstrated in the last six weeks against the governments attacks on their rights, nearly all universities are on strike, several of them and some schools are occupied by students. yesterday, the "sorbonne" (oldest university in paris, "french oxbridge" which had been also occupied was violently evicted by the crs (french riot police, much more brutal than their british counterpart)

more informations (sorry, french) here:

- http://stopcpe.net/cpe/ (general campaign site) & http://www.stopcpe.net/regions/ (blog with regional news & photos)
- http://paris.indymedia.org/ (indymedia paris) & http://paris.indymedia.org/article.php3?id_article=53216 (photos of the eviction of the sorbonne)

- http://www.phototheque.org/169.html (photos of the demonstrations)
- http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/social/20060311.OBS0144.html -
- http://archquo.nouvelobs.com/cgi/idxlist2?a=art&aaaammjj=200603;&aaaammjj2=20060312&amjg=200603&num=000001135&m1=sorbonne&m2=&m3=&rubrique=&rubrique_sci=&amj1=&amj2=&host=http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/&debut=20060225 (some more photos)

- http://www.sud-etudiant.org/ (radikal french student organisation)