Grécia: Vitória da Educação Pública e para Tod@s!!!

As notícias que nos chegam de Atenas são tremendamente positivas: o Ministro da Educação grego anunciou que o Governo vai retirar a proposta de lei contra a qual @s estudantes e professor@s greg@s se manifestaram em massa nas ruas e na ocupação dos departamentos universitários!!
Esta é uma primeira grande vitória do movimento estudantil grego (que soube alargar-se a professor@s [não só universitári@s] nesta luta/frente comum)!!!
Abaixo segue mais um relato dos acontecimentos por parte do nosso camarada Yiannis e deixam-se algumas outras ligações [para uma notícia da manifestação da semana passada, nomeadamente a atroz violência policial que pode ser vista em algumas fotografias; e uma outra notícia]:

The facts today (13.June.2006)

397 university departments are now occupied all over the country. The National Federation of University Professors is on a permanent strike and form a common front with the students movement.
Last Thursday (the last national demo in Athens, of approximately 25.000 participants) the Federations of Teachers of Primary (DOE) and Secondary (OLME) education organized a 3-hour strike, in order to participate in the demo.
The rumour today in many major media (including even centre-right press) is that the Government is thinking seriously of withdrawing the law proposal for October. Today and in the next two days there is a new round of General Assemblies in Schools, in order to decide the continuation of the occupations and other actions of resistance and press the government more.

THE BASIC DEMANDS OF THE GREEK STUDENT MOVEMENT, AS THEY HAVE BEEN FORMED BY THE NATIONAL CO-ORDINATION ASSEMBLY OF OCCUPATIONS, ARE:

- Immediate withdrawal of the Law Proposal for the reform of the Legal Framework, that defines the foundation, the principles and the function of higher education in Greece.
- No reform of Article 16 of the Greek Constitution, which forbids the foundation of private universities and defines that public and free education is a right of all people and it is an obligation of the State to provide it.
- Withdrawal of the new laws (that were voted last year) about the initiation of a marketized "evaluation" of universities by external actors of the market and the industry owners, the introduction of managers in every school and the initiation of a sponsored, super-specialized, "life long learning", which will demolish the value of degrees and dismantle the curricula of schools into a personalized addition of credits, without any professional rights.
- Guaranteed professional rights for every student that gets his/her degree.
- Free transfers, accomodation and food for all students.

THE GREEK MINISTER OF EDUCATION JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THE GOVERNMENT WITHDRAWS THE NEW LAW PROPOSAL FOR OCTOBER!!!!!
THE FIRST BIG VICTORY OF THE GREEK STUDENTS MOVEMENT IS A REALITY! WE ARE MORE MASSIVE THAN EVER! THIS MOVEMENT IS LIKE THE FLOWERS THAT BLOSSOM EVERY DAY!
WE CONTINUE: NEW DEMONSTRATION IN ATHENS THIS THURSDAY!

text emailed by Yiannis Bournous.