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Read More www.edu-factory.org *>>> Rome, Once Again, again the Wave! * *18th March, Generalization of the Strike! **These days after different and spreading actions, the anomalous wave is back and it?s even more angry! * The demonstration against the chancellor Frati at La Sapienza in Rome took place yesterday to condemn the denounce of 40 students acted by the ?rampant baron?: another attack at the right of dissent that aims to criminalize students and researchers. During the last week police charged students of Milano, Padova, Cagliari and Torino who were contesting university government, fascists groups and education?s law. This is the answer of governement and academy to students mobilizations. *But the Wave is not dead, the Wave is not a memory of youth, the Wave is alive and doesn?t want to stop, the Wave makes fear! *www.uniriot.org Communiqu? of LaSapienza*: The Wave cannot be stopped <http://www.edu-factory.org/edu15/index.php?option=com_content& view=article&id=133:once-again-again-the-wave-&catid=34:struggles&Item id=53> * * >>> In Finland, Friday 13 March 2009 was a national day of action against the new University Act. There were bigger and smaller demonstrations, discussion meetings and occupations at least in Helsinki, Jyv??skyl??, Joensuu, Oulu and Tampere. * The Finnish Parliament will decide about the law proposal during the spring. Among the university staff and students, there is a strong opposition to the new law - but this opposition has been ignored until now. Only recently, since Opiskelijatoiminta began organizing protests against the law, the critical discussions about the transformations of the university have started to gain more publicity.* [...]<http://www.edu-factory.org/edu15/index.php?option=com_content&vi ew=article&id=131:universitarians-in-mobilization-&catid=34:struggles& Itemid=53> * * >>> Constitutive on the "International Day of Action against the Commercialization of Education" on Nov.5th 2008, the International Students Movement is calling for a Global Week of Action in April 2009 (20/04 ? 29/04).* We are a loose network of various progressive (student) groups from close to 30 countries on 5 continents. What unites us is the struggle against the increasing commercialization of education and for emancipating public education accessible to all members of society. More and more groups realize that forces responsible for this development ? the privatisation and commodification of education (like many other aspects of life) ? function globally. And we can only effectively counter them, if we unite in our struggle.* [...]*<http://www.edu-factory.org/edu15/index.php?option=com_content&v iew=article&id=132:call-for-a-global-week-of-action-2009&catid=34:stru ggles&Itemid=53> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org