Battles in Greece
Filed under: Anti-Fee, Direct Action, Education, Greece, Riot |
Leave a Comment The night of the junta in Athens, was back after 24 years, once again. Policemen of all kinds stormed into Exarchia [a district in Athens center, close to the Polytechnic Uni.] They surrounded cafes, captured and kept the customers and the passers-by like if they were hostages.
Infoshop: Photos from the riots against education reform | Eyewitness Report: 30.000 people march against the education reforms
Student leader jailed for ‘Free Education’ demonstration! – TAKE ACTION NOW
Filed under: Africa, Anti-Dictatorship, Police Brutality, Student Unions, UK |
Leave a Comment The National Union of Students UK have launched a major campaign calling for the immediate release of Promise Mkwananzi, the President of the Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU).
Promise Mkwananzi, and several other student leaders, were arrested on the 13th February 2007 after organising and taking part in a peaceful protest for free, quality education.
More than 600 students, trade unionists, and supporters were demonstrating peacefully when the crowds were dispersed by ruthless riot police and non-uniformed state security agents.
Today, Promise and many of his colleagues are still in prison in Zimbabwe , and fears for their personal safety are mounting.
Click Here to go to a page to send an email to Zimbabwe’s ambassador to the UK.
Greece: This is what democracy looks like
Filed under: Anti-Fee, Direct Action, Education, Greece, Riot, Student Unions |
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Riot police clashed with dozens of hooded youths in central Athens on Thursday during a protest march against the Greek government’s education reforms.
Australia: Unis banning political groups from having stalls
From: Green Left Weekly
A disturbing trend is spreading across Australian universities — some universities have begun barring political groups from orientation week (o-week) events.
The February 16 Sydney Morning Herald reported, “Charles Sturt University will prevent political groups setting up stalls during Orientation Week”. CSU’s Greg Walker “said that political parties would not be allowed to pitch to students during O-Week because it was inappropriate for first-year students’ introduction to the university with their parents”.
A February 15 media release by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) revealed that “Macquarie University management has given the responsibility of running ‘O’ Week activities to ‘Students At Macquarie’ (SAM) — a commercial arm of the student association”. SAM says it will not allow the union or student political groups to have stalls because they are not authorised to participate in o-week. Yet, the media release noted, commercial groups and other off-campus groups will be able to lease space.
Anarchist youth defend university with rocks and petrol bombs
Filed under: Anti-Militarism, Direct Action, Education, Greece, Riot |
Comments (1) THESSALONIKI, Greece: Anarchist youths clashed with riot police for more than three hours in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on Wednesday, hurling rocks and dozens of petrol bombs outside a university building, authorities said. No injuries were reported.
The youths were protesting plans to relax a law that prohibits police from entering university grounds. The ban is often exploited during violent public protests.
One man was arrested and minor damage was caused to nearby buildings.
Police used tear gas against some 250 youths, who had entered the grounds of Thessaloniki University and later confronted riot police guarding a nearby conference center.
It was the latest act of violence involving anarchist groups, which have stepped up a campaign of arson and other attacks in Athens and Thessaloniki.
On Tuesday, anarchist youths attacked the Athens headquarters of Greece’s largest labor union, the GSEE, using rocks, sledgehammers and petrol bombs to damage the building’s entrance.
GSEE leader Yiannis Panagopoulos, who was leaving the building at the time, escaped unharmed.
NYU Republicans to hold anti-immigrant “game” – Community mobilises against Racism
There is something rotten in the state of New York. The New York University Republican club “have scheduled “Find the Illegal Immigrant” for Thursday. In the game, members of the club who present their NYU identification become immigration agents looking for an illegal in the crowd. The agent who successfully identifies the illegal immigrant will reportedly win a gift certificate.” [ Read More ]
Thankfully, some anti-racist activists at NYU have organised a counter-demonstration.
Only in America, land of the free and home of the brave.
(I feel like Puking)
Walk out against bullying in Auckland
Around 250 students at Waiuku College, in Auckland, New Zealand, walked out of assembly last weekend in protest at an incident of bullying last week, that they felt their school had not dealt with. One student was hospitalised in an attack that the students say the school buearacracy failed to deal with.
Students clash with dictatorship in Zimbabwe
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Leave a Comment On Friday Harare witnessed a spate of spontaneous demonstrations by supporters of the Tsvangirai MDC, members of the Zimbabwe National Students Union and activists from the National Constitutional Assembly. In an unprecedented move the protestors defended themselves against the brutal police and ZANU PF youths. It’s reported a police officer was injured during the clashes. Several people were also arrested but we were not able to confirm the figures.
Freelance journalist Itai Dzamara said scores of protestors carrying placards denouncing Robert Mugabe sang revolutionary songs as they marched. But a group of police officers emerged at Angwa Street and started attacking them. One of the people beaten up was Kambuzuma MP Willas Madzimure.
Things Got a Little Bit Crazy At Laurentian University Board of Governors’ Meeting
From: Autonomy and Solidarity
Chaos erupted at Greater Sudbury’s Laurentian University board of governors meeting just as members were about to vote on a tuition fee increase Friday afternoon.
Led by francophone student association president Gabrielle Lemieux, about 30 protesting students shouted slogans about reducing tuition fees. Lemieux is a member of the board of governors. The meeting was open to the public.
One protester ran back and forth across the meeting table.
It’s about bloody time…
Filed under: Anti-Imperialist, Anti-War, Direct Action, US |
Leave a Comment The February 15 student anti-war revolt spread far and wide. It took a message of peace, justice and anti-imperialism deep into the belly of the beast. Now the task for anti-war activists on campuses across the US is to escalate the movement they have initiated, to build larger networks, stronger coalitions, expand their reach into new communities and deepen the current of revolt.
February 15 Web Journal: Updates, Video, Pictures
