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Timetable for London FreeSchool Weekender

Europe | Social Centres / Free Spaces | Education

from email, 14 November 2008: 21st – 23rd November 2008: A weekend of free workshops promoting community learning and skill-sharing in autonomous spaces across London. more

Gelmini Law voted in, Italy, student revolt spreads

Europe | Insurrection | Education

from various sources, 30 October 2008: An hour ago the Gelmini decree was voted by the Senate into law. Immediately there was a big reaction from students across Italy. In Rome they also had to confront fascist student organizations. In Milano, an unauthorized demo of 2000 highschool students traversed the city center where and was charged at several points by riot cops.  more

News from "The Wave" student / worker movement in Italy

Europe | Analysis | Actions | Education

from email, 29 October 2008: "A mass movement is developing in Italy, sparked by the government reforms on education which include introducing an apartheid system in schools - this means that immigrant children will be segregated from italian "natives". Currently a lot of universities are being occupied with mass assemblies numbered in their thousands. The movement is similar in scope to the anti-CPE movement which developed in France two years. What is developing is a potential mass confrontation with the state, who are insisting they will use heavy force to evict the students form the universities..." more

Kick 'em off campus @ Sheffield University

Europe | Against War | Education

from email, 24 September 2008: Tuesday 30th September, 6-7pm in The Dales (Upstairs above the Source in the Student Union). Come hear about our
ongoing campaign to kick army recruiters and arms manufacturers out of our uni. Plus a student speaker from a successful campaign that banned military recruitment from their university campus. more

London Free School Weekender, 21st - 23rd November 2008

Europe | Social Centres / Free Spaces | Education

from email, 21 October 2008: The London FreeSchool is planning another event for November 21st - 23rd 2008 to include free workshops, skill-sharing and discussion on various topics. more

Exciting weekend of student climate gatherings

Europe | Climate Camp 2008 | Environment / Climate Change | Education

from email, 11 April 2008: The weekend of the 19th to 20th April will see two national student climate gatherings take place at the London Action Resource Centre. The first for Climate Camp, and the second for the Student Climate Project. Please forward this message far and wide and persuade all to come along. You don't have to be a student, and crash space is available! more

SDS Call to Action: endorse and participate in shutting down the RNC

RNC-DNC Conventions 2008 | North America | Education

from activategr, 31 March 2008: Over the past year, organizing against the 2008 Republican National Convention (RNC)--which will take place from September 1 through 4 in St. Paul--has grown at a considerable pace. At our 2007 national convention, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) passed a proposal endorsing the work of groups organizing against the RNC and encouraging folks within SDS to organize against both the RNC and the DNC. more

Student Climate Project: Tour of Climate Action '08

Europe | Environment / Climate Change | Education

from email, 14 February 2008: Be part of building a mass student anti-Climate Change movement! Our first tour event will be held in Cambridge in February. Be sure to get involved! more

Campus Tour of Climate Action 2008 - meeting 19-20 January @ The Common Place, Leeds

Europe | Environment / Climate Change | Education

from the Student Climate Project, 10 December 2007: "Planning is beginning for a radical Tour of Climate Action around the UK's campuses and universities. The tour is being organised by The Student Climate Project, a new non-hierarchical collection of students from around the UK aiming to inspire radical climate activism amongst the wider body of students. The Student Climate Project needs more people onboard, and has its next open national planning meeting in Leeds from the 19th-20th January 2008 at the Common Place, Leeds. All our welcome!..." more

Update from Greece: Ongoing repression, tear gas and arrests

Insurrection | Education

8 March: The main Administration Building of the UOA in downtown Athens is occupied by students who seeked refuge there from the savage police crackdown. There have been at least 15 arrests and many more short-time arrests by the police, 40 or more people are badly hit at hospitals. Please translate & circulate.

... The student movement once again proved, with its massive and militant presence in the streets of Athens, that it's alive and continues to build a huge barricade against the restructuring of education and labor... more

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