closure against Bologna
Students of the University of Zaragoza Intefacultades locked in the building to protest against the Bologna Process as in many other parts of the state. Remain shut on Tuesday 9 December.
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statement read during the confinement:
Since the Assembly against the Privatization of the University have decided to do an open and peaceful seclusion in the Interfaculty Building, University of Zaragoza to report the implementation of the Bologna Process and its negative impact on the University Public.
want to appeal to students, faculty, administrative staff and those people who wants to show solidarity with the decision to reach out into space we will enable and informed, prepared to participate in activities and ultimately also to lock themselves in defense of a public, accessible to all of society and serve it.
Since 1999, he agreed to create a European Higher Education Area, the Bologna Process has been solidifying and has started to be implemented in many faculties. This process has been marked from the outset by the lack of information and the obscurantism of the responsible institutions. The lack of debate and criticism have been a constant in the last 10 years. As direct consequences: widespread ignorance and indifference about the origin, implications and concretions of a university reform unprecedented.
Since the assembly are aware of the need to change this reality. To this end, dozens of students now occupy this space university with several objectives.
- First, supply a space for study and reflection groups:
- We want to deepen the study of what not explain, we want to know, without intermediaries in the service of private interests " real plans for higher education and not statements of good intentions of ministers;
- We lead the community of students the information that our authorities we are negative and contribute to the establishment of a public space where our voice heard and taken into account.
- Because the students are the ones who can guarantee that behind our claims there is more interest than the defense of an increasingly public university that provides the right to education and not turning it into privilege.
- demand the absolute cessation of the process of European convergence. The EHEA is in terms of background and development approach as an imposition of an absolute to which we will not remain silent @ s.
propose - Alternatively there is a diffusion process and real public debate, in which the university community have access to truthful information and consider your voice to the profound transformation of the aims, structure and resources of the Public University involved in this reform.
- We also express our solidarity with the comrades retaliation from other areas of the English State. In particular with those records and charged at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and episodes of forced eviction, false allegations and arrests that have suffered in recent weeks at the University of Valencia. The University was characterized as a space for criticism, debate, freedom and attacking Bologna are precisely those principles. The student demands calling for dialogue and the university authorities responded with repression and punishment. From Zaragoza we sympathize with all the defendants and to demand records and repression.
- Similarly, we denounce the growing criminalization of student movement. Our total support for the other students @ s lock up for weeks in many cities. This new closure adds to the process of proliferation resistance against a steadily over the ferocious plans of neoliberalism. Movement Bologna against state takes a character that also contribute from Zaragoza. We realize that is a breath that comes and try to keep it.
- Finally, we clarify the characteristics of this closure:
- full responsibility for the maintenance of the space it now occupies,
- respect to the facilities and organization
- assembly-for decision-making related to the closure.
not allow public universities are subject to market rules. We know their dire implications for all the social and knowledge necessary to prevent governed by the principles of capital accumulation.
Today we take a step in the fight. Today, we defending the public university. Bologna
NO, NO the commodification NO to privatization Outside companies University Education is a right, not a business For the Public University to serve the collective good One, hundred and thousand occupied faculties.