Vague européenne: rassemblements en Europe le 24/11/09

Points de vue et débats

Information publiée le dimanche 22 novembre 2009 par Bérenger Boulay (source : Pascale Dubus)

La CNU a lancé un appel aux collègues européens et les a invité à organiser des rassemblements et manifestations le mardi 24 novembre 2009 afin d'aboutir à une première journée d'action européenne: A message from the french "Coordination Nationale des Universités" to their european colleagues.

Ci-dessous: premières réponses, de Regensburg et Padoue, de Croatie... + Grève de l'éducation et des services publics en Irlande.

Press release of the assembly of the occupants of the University of Regensburg. Call to action from France for demonstrations in Europe: Regensburg's assembly taking part. German universities encouraged to protest

In France, the scholars and faculties of educational and research institutions encourage colleagues to take part in a common European action day on Tuesday 24 Nov 2009!

We the occupants of the assembly of Regensburg solidarize with this call to action so as to bring the educational and political movement on an international level. Especially the universities in German-speaking regions are encouraged to participate actively in the following call: A message from the french "Coordination Nationale des Universités" to their european colleagues.

Rassemblement à Padoue le 24 novembre + Pétition des enseignants-chercheurs italiens + les étudiants de Padoue relancent aussi un appel pour une grande manifestation à Vienne, à l'occasion de l'anniversaire du processus de Bologne:

Noi studenti a Padova abbiamo in programma un'assemblea il 24 novembre, alle ore 11, al Bo', davanti al rettorato, cioé là dove risiede la più alta carica dell'Università: il rettore. Ci sono altre università che si stanno attivando. Di recente è partita una lettera
anche dai docenti:
http://www.padovainmovimento.org/notizie-e-novita/243-appello-in-difesa-delluniversita-pubblicaSo
Si vuole lanciare tutti assieme, uniti tra tutti i paesi d'Europa, una grande manifestazione a Vienna il 12-13 Marzo, in occasione del decimo anniversario del processo di Bologna, processo che ha dato il via a queste riforme che tanto hanno indignato studenti e professori.
(Nous, étudiant à Padoue, projettons un rassemblement le 24 novembre à 11h, à Bo, devant le rectorat, où siège la plus haute charge de l'Université : le recteur. D'autres universités s'organisent. Une lettre des professeurs est partie récemment :
http://www.padovainmovimento.org/notizie-e-novita/243-appello-in-difesa-delluniversita-pubblicaSo
On veut lancer tout ensemble, dans tous les pays d'Europe, une grande manifestation à Vienna le 12-13 Mars, à l'occasion du dixième anniversaire du processus de Bologne, processus qui a ouvert la voie à ces réformes qui indignent tant étudiants et professeurs).

Voir aussi: Protests during the "anniversary" of the "Bologna process"

U.S. of A. [California]: UCI: Nov 24, 12pm-Rally @ Admin Bldg.

Germany: Regents' conference [from across Germany] will be meeting in Leipzig - bigger protests are expected! - Details [in German]: hrkdemo.blogspot.com

Croatia: Students will begin to squat faculties at the universities in Zagreb, Pula and Rijeka on Nov.23rd - occupations are exected to spread across the country in the following days! - Details [in Croatian]: slobodnifilozofski.com [website in English with a little less info: slobodnifilozofski.org]

Ireland: Irish teachers to strike against spending cuts - grève de l'éducation et des services publics en Irlande le 24-11-2009. Strikes called by the Public Services Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions! - Details available here: ifut.ie

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5AC2WS20091113?sp=true

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Schools will close across Ireland on November 24 as up to 65,000 teachers and lecturers plan to join a strike against the threat of pay cuts in next month's government budget, trade unions said on Friday.
The government insists it must save 4 billion euros (3.6 billion pounds) in the budget for 2010, to be announced on December 9, just to stabilise the deficit at 12 percent of gross domestic product, already four times the level allowed by the European Union.
It plans to derive the bulk of the savings from cutting spending, with no area of expenditure spared and around 1.3 billion euros of cuts sought from the public sector pay bill.
"Teachers, lecturers and other public sector workers are being treated as if they are somehow responsible for causing the crisis in the public finances," Ireland's education unions said in a statement after members voted for industrial action.
The teachers will be joining other workers in the strike. Ireland's largest public sector union IMPACT expects most health, education, civil service and local authority services will shut down for 24 hours on November 24.
The cabinet is waging a publicity campaign to drive home the need to control its finances. Prime Minister Brian Cowen has appeared in several videos posted on the website of his Fianna Fail party since Thursday to explain the plans.
"Our taxes are down by a third," Cowen said in one of the clips. "We are taking in about 32 billion and we are spending 58 billion euros. That's not sustainable; everyone would know that of their own household budget," Cowen said.
The European Commission gave Dublin on Wednesday an extra year until 2014 to cut its deficit to 3 percent of GDP, though the government has said it would first have to focus on next year's gap before it could plan for later years.
The trade unions have got tens of thousands of people onto the streets in two separate demonstrations against the proposed cutbacks in the last week, arguing the fiscal adjustment should be implemented more gradually until 2017.
Most economists say the deficit must be controlled before Ireland can come out of one of the deepest recessions in the western world.
"There is no alternative to spending cuts. The government has to act now," said Colm McCarthy, a lecturer in economics at University College Dublin who led a task force that advised the government to cut spending by 5.3 billion euros, including cuts in jobs and pay.
"There is no point in deferring the adjustment until 2017," McCarthy, whose name for many has become synonymous with the austerity steps, told Reuters on the sidelines of a conference. (Reporting by Andras Gergely; additional reporting by Antonella Ciancio; editing by David Stamp)