[spectre] Italian universities occupied by thousands

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re all,

last day was an historical day in Rome, where the State University "La
Sapienza"  has  been  occupied  by  an  assembly  of  5.000  students,
following  with a demonstration  that counted  10.000 on  the streets,
parallel to another demonstrations  in Milano which gathered the young
"flexible" and precarious workers and students under the Borsa, symbol
of the stock exchange market of the falling capitalism.

The  protest  topics  range  from  fighting  privatisation  of  statal
education (progressing in an uncontrolled  way in the past 10 years in
Italy and still pushed  forward by current Berlusconi's government) to
opposing the  use of public money  to pay the failure  of a capitalist
system - a strong contradiction  in terms that will hopefully mobilise
more young generation in Europe.

here it follows the communication by the students assembly:



University is not going to pay your crisis!!

This  morning in  La Sapienza  University of  Rome has  taken  place a
general assembly  , partecipated by  over 10.000 students,  asking the
Director Luigi  Frati to  suspend lessons and  the academic year  as a
protest against  law 133, that will cause  definitive privatization of
italian university, massive job cuts and huge cuts of public foundings
for research and education.

After  the negative  response of  the Director,  he students  left the
University Town for an unauthorized demonstration that blocked various
main roads of Rome, directing  itself to the Minister of Finance (that
has the  main responsibility of  the Law 133).  After half an  hour of
siege to the  minister, which included a launch  of eggs and shoutings
like "the university  is not going to pay  your crisis!!", the massive
demonstration started to move again through the city reaching the main
railway station  of Rome, Roma  Termini. The station has  been blocked
for one hour, after some tension with the few cops that were following
the demonstration.

 ( see videos on websites )

Then  everybody moved  back  to  the University  Town,  where we  held
another assembly  to decide the occupation of  the Literature Faculty,
and to prepare the general strike called from independent trade unions
and  social movements  for tomorrow  morning. The  students  from high
schools, universities  and even child schools  (yes!) will partecipate
to the demonstration. The partecipation and determination expressed by
the students  shows as  the opposition to  the annihilation  of public
university  is   strong  in  Rome   and  in  all  the   other  italian
universities.

 Stay tuned !!!!! on:
 - http://www.globalproject.info  
 - http://www.uniriot.org 



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