European Meeting of the University Movements: Paris, 11 February 2011

For a New Europe: University Struggles Against Austerity

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European Meeting of the University Movements: Paris, 11 February 2011

From London to Vienna, from Rome to Paris, from Athens to Madrid, a new Europe is emerging. Students and precarious workers, citizens and immigrants, the multitudes are fighting for their lives and future in the front lines against the crisis. Struggling to reappropriate their rights and the shared wealth that they create everyday. Rebelling against the austerity measures that exploit our present and rob us of our future. Raging against the arrogance of power.

Following the collective consensus of last years' “Bologna Burns” meetings in Vienna, London, Paris and Bologna and this years' “Commoninversity” held in Barcelona, Edu-Factory and the Autonomous Education Network join the call for a European meeting for all groups who are involved this common fight to create a powerful network of European of university struggle and beyond. A transnational space to discuss and develop our collective political capacity to counter the attacks against the university and social welfare and to build a new future for everyone.

Through conferences and workshops, panels and assemblies, we will propose the discussion around the key topics of the university, autonomous knowledge production, self-education, networking struggles, transnational political organization and the common.

The time is now upon us to rise up, together, collectively and singularly, to reclaim our lives and build a New Europe based on rights and access. The time has come for us to reclaim what is ours: the common.

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We are students and precarious knowledge-workers who have decided to leave their country, who participate in cultural exchange projects, who are searching for work and hope. We are part of a new generation of migrants in a Europe that claims to be a land of rights but that treats us like merchandise.

Without any social support, trapped between the precariousness of production and social relations, we are the living proof of Europe's failure to provide welfare and knowledge, of neo-liberal policies that have dismantled and privatized our public patrimony, ideologically auctioning it off for “competitive growth”. We live in a Europe subjugated to the interests of banks and businesses where GATS and the Bolkestein directive have undermined the very idea of European citizenship, depriving it of any real meaning, spreading precariousness and poverty.

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