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dimarts, 16 de març del 2010
dilluns, 22 de febrer del 2010
Links to posts from 2008-2009 academic year
- 22nd May: Alternative University
- 21st may: Professors and Admin. Personnel Protest
- 18th May: 58 and More Besides
- 18th May: Students Charged - PRESS RELEASE
- 14th May: Occupation Ends in Vandalised Bank
- 5th May: Mundet Redecoration
- 1st May: Alternative Demonstration
- 29th April: Students Occupy Education Ministry
- 28th April: Occupations and Demonstration
- 25th April: College Occupations
- 30th March: Student Ends Hunger Strike
- 29th March: Student Hospitalised Following Hunger Strike
- 26th March: Manifesto Read During Demonstration
- 24th March: Status of Student Occupations
- 18th March: Police Responses to the Charges on Protesters
- 18th March: Chronicle of the Night Time Rally Following the Eviction
- 18th March: Personal Testimony of the Eviction from the Historic Building University Occupation
- 18th March: Eviction of Students from the University of Barcelona
- 13th March: Student Eviction from Pompeu Fabra University
- 12th March: Chronicle of Demonstration
19th Feb: Occupied Student's Room
Before and after!
A classroom has been liberated in the University of Barcelona's pedagogy campus. The following manifesto has been published by students:
Students have occupied and taken over the running of a classroom in order to teach in a space of learning liberated from the confines of the academic environment.
Various students here want to expose and criticise the state of our university. We're denouncing the imposition of the EHEA as the new mercantile model for education. Our obligation as students of pedagogy, social education, social work, teacher training, psychology and audiovisual communication is to fight in order to gain political and pedagogic processes which guarantee emancipation and self-organisation.
Confronted by institutional violence, the students at Mundet Campus have decided to modify the structure and function of the university by creating a place where students can create, generate and experience new educational methodologies. In this space the student community can exercise critical thought without the interference of the university system and its politics.
The fundamentals of the project are:
- Build up a new education model to aid social change and thus confront the current authoritarian model
- Bring social realities into the faculties
- Create a space in which students from different discliplines can meet
- Work towards a critical university open to its social context, rather than a corporate tool
More education (including the manifesto in its original Catalan) can be found here
dimecres, 11 de novembre del 2009
Free University Activities: 12th - 18th November
Activities in:
La Rimaia (Casanova 17)
La Teixidora (Marià Aguilló 35)
Barrilonia (Rambla del Raval)
La Rosa Negra (Roser 30, metro Paral.lel)
Thursday 12
Fine Arts Faculty (UB)- Anti Repression Day. 1200-1800.
Fine Arts Faculty (UB)- Anti Repression Day. 1200-1800.
La Rimaia- Class: First aid. 1830.
Plaça Universitat- unitary demo "Stop Repressió"/"Sembrem Llibertat". organised by Grup Denùncia 18M. 19h
La Rosa Negra- Screening: Brazil (with food). 2000.
Friday 13
Rimaia- Class: First aid. 1830.
Rimaia- Institutional Revolutionary audiovisual. Session IV: Copyleft (with invited groups: Riot cinema collective, eXgae, Traxtore). 2100-2300.
Barrilonia- Party: 26th Anniversary of the Zapatista uprising. 2100-2300.
Rimaia- Institutional Revolutionary audiovisual. Session IV: Copyleft (with invited groups: Riot cinema collective, eXgae, Traxtore). 2100-2300.
Barrilonia- Party: 26th Anniversary of the Zapatista uprising. 2100-2300.
Saturday 14
Rimaia- Workshop. Co-ordinating syndicalised workers. 1200-2200.
Rimaia -Talk: An anarco-syndicalist response to the crisis. 1900.
Barrilonia- Supper with screening of Zapatista film "Corazon del tiempo". 2100.
Sunday 15
Barrilonia- Popular paella eat-in and play against political and domestic violence in Mexico. 1400.
Barrilonia- Popular paella eat-in and play against political and domestic violence in Mexico. 1400.
Barrilonia- Workshop: Theatre for the oppressed. 1700-2000.
Barrilonia- Screening: "In this world" dir. Michale Winterbottom. 2000-2300.
Teixidora- Workshop: Bodily expression (held be Rebel'art). TIME UNKNOWN.
Teixidora- Workshop: Bodily expression (held be Rebel'art). TIME UNKNOWN.
Barrilonia- Class: Life drawing. 1700-2000.
Rimaia- Class: Electricity. 1800.
Barrilonia- Assembly: Feminist group L’estisores (pro-choice). TIME UNKNOWN.
Biology faculty (UB)- Fundraiser and talk. TIME UNKNOWN.
Tuesday 17
Barrilonia- Assembly: Feminist group L’estisores (pro-choice). TIME UNKNOWN.
Biology faculty (UB)- Fundraiser and talk. TIME UNKNOWN.
Tuesday 17
La Rimaia- Class: Electricity. 1800-2000.
Wednesday 18
Ciutat de la Justicia- Protest rally (Denuncia18M). 1000.
Ciutat de la Justicia- Protest rally (Denuncia18M). 1000.
La Rimaia- Class: Electricity. 1800-2000.
The library and tearoom in La Rimaia are open everyday from 1700-2100.
10th Nov: Anti-Repression Press Conference
This is a translation of the communiqué read out in a press conference held today outside the central University of Barcelona building (site of the 18th March eviction last year). This forms part of a week of general activities to highlight the court cases that will be held on the 18th and 26th November for those charged on the 18th March.
The movement's lawyer, Jaume Assens
On the 20th November it will have been a year since the occupation of the "rectorat" (grand entrance) of the University of Barcelona. However, it's already been years since students have been organising in order to paralyse the European Higher Education Area and create a space of debate regarding its implementation and the function of universities in society. A stronge and persistent students movement was formed as a response to an imposed market-orientated education reform. From the rectorat of the UB the conflict was visualised to society the movement gained strength. Students, in seeing that they wouldn't be given a voice, had decided to speak without permission.
During that time academic authorities, politicians and the commercial media practised an information-based counter-offensive taking two forms: on the one hand, they pettily badmouthed the student movement and discredited their arguments with cooked up information, on the other hand, they upped their attempts to sell the reforms. The UB tried for a PR victory, with the constant use of the word "dialogue", and a clean "police-free campus" image (painting itself as an exception amongst the other universities) to the point where members of the management claimed that "the day the police step foot in this university I'll resign".
On the 18th March this hypocrisy was made obvious to everyone.
The UB's good image, and the endangerment of "academic normality", which in reality don't amount to anything, were the arguments used by university president Dídac Ramírez for letting riot squads into the building. The repression that we lived through on the 18th March started inside the rectorat, without warning, in a violent eviction confronted with the students' passive resistence. During the morning, at midday and at night police brigades charged on protesters, journalists and passers-by brutally and indiscriminately.
The actions of the repressing forces ended with 6 detentions and hundreds injured, many of whom were hit in legally prohibited parts of their body (the head, the hands, etc.). Today there are more than 58 people charged.
It remains very clear that, behind the armed police officers who chased, harassed, threatened and humiliated so many people, there was a well defined repressive strategy being put in place by academic and political authorities. No kind of responsibility has been assumed for what happened that day, or for the effects that are still suffered to this day. Rather, in many cases the actions were justified by the authorities, who went so far as to call for harsher repression. The only action undertaken was to sack Rafael Olmos, then head of the police, only to later reinstate him a little later.
We must also take this opportunity to denounce the manipulation of information in the media over the following days, in which the number of injured police officers given was at one point greater than that of injured protesters.
Faced with the impunity which shields those responsible, it was necessary to gather the testimonies and documents to make a collective denunciation. We have united more than a hundred people to denounce the abuses committed.
We have decided to use a legal route to make the denunciation. On the 18th September a dispute against the police force was presented through the legal system, although we still don't know if this has been accepted or rejected. The fact that the police brigades didn't carry identification on their uniforms, makes this route difficult, but we hope it will go some way to save the events from being forgotten. Therefore we are making the dispute public today.
We are here to say that we haven't forgotten and we will continue to fight, even despite the political and mediatic silence, we won't just stand by. We are here to denounce and dismantle a judicial system thought out and orquestrated by those in power, a judicial system which is normalising repression against anyone who speaks out.
We demand to see those responsible brought to justice, not with words but with actions (resignations), In the Interior Department, in the police force, amongst the presidents of Catalan universities, in the "Innovation, Universities and Business" Department and in the Commission for Universities and Research.
We will rally against repression on the 12th at Plaça Universitat.
We will also rally at the courthouses on the days 18th and 26th in protest at the trials for those evicted and charged with public disorder.
The movement's lawyer, Jaume AssensOn the 20th November it will have been a year since the occupation of the "rectorat" (grand entrance) of the University of Barcelona. However, it's already been years since students have been organising in order to paralyse the European Higher Education Area and create a space of debate regarding its implementation and the function of universities in society. A stronge and persistent students movement was formed as a response to an imposed market-orientated education reform. From the rectorat of the UB the conflict was visualised to society the movement gained strength. Students, in seeing that they wouldn't be given a voice, had decided to speak without permission.
During that time academic authorities, politicians and the commercial media practised an information-based counter-offensive taking two forms: on the one hand, they pettily badmouthed the student movement and discredited their arguments with cooked up information, on the other hand, they upped their attempts to sell the reforms. The UB tried for a PR victory, with the constant use of the word "dialogue", and a clean "police-free campus" image (painting itself as an exception amongst the other universities) to the point where members of the management claimed that "the day the police step foot in this university I'll resign".
On the 18th March this hypocrisy was made obvious to everyone.
The UB's good image, and the endangerment of "academic normality", which in reality don't amount to anything, were the arguments used by university president Dídac Ramírez for letting riot squads into the building. The repression that we lived through on the 18th March started inside the rectorat, without warning, in a violent eviction confronted with the students' passive resistence. During the morning, at midday and at night police brigades charged on protesters, journalists and passers-by brutally and indiscriminately.
The actions of the repressing forces ended with 6 detentions and hundreds injured, many of whom were hit in legally prohibited parts of their body (the head, the hands, etc.). Today there are more than 58 people charged.
It remains very clear that, behind the armed police officers who chased, harassed, threatened and humiliated so many people, there was a well defined repressive strategy being put in place by academic and political authorities. No kind of responsibility has been assumed for what happened that day, or for the effects that are still suffered to this day. Rather, in many cases the actions were justified by the authorities, who went so far as to call for harsher repression. The only action undertaken was to sack Rafael Olmos, then head of the police, only to later reinstate him a little later.
We must also take this opportunity to denounce the manipulation of information in the media over the following days, in which the number of injured police officers given was at one point greater than that of injured protesters.
Faced with the impunity which shields those responsible, it was necessary to gather the testimonies and documents to make a collective denunciation. We have united more than a hundred people to denounce the abuses committed.
We have decided to use a legal route to make the denunciation. On the 18th September a dispute against the police force was presented through the legal system, although we still don't know if this has been accepted or rejected. The fact that the police brigades didn't carry identification on their uniforms, makes this route difficult, but we hope it will go some way to save the events from being forgotten. Therefore we are making the dispute public today.
We are here to say that we haven't forgotten and we will continue to fight, even despite the political and mediatic silence, we won't just stand by. We are here to denounce and dismantle a judicial system thought out and orquestrated by those in power, a judicial system which is normalising repression against anyone who speaks out.
We demand to see those responsible brought to justice, not with words but with actions (resignations), In the Interior Department, in the police force, amongst the presidents of Catalan universities, in the "Innovation, Universities and Business" Department and in the Commission for Universities and Research.
We will rally against repression on the 12th at Plaça Universitat.
We will also rally at the courthouses on the days 18th and 26th in protest at the trials for those evicted and charged with public disorder.
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