Für alle die’s nicht mitbekommen haben, es geht um den “Aktionstag zur Verteidigung von Bildung”: http://www.defendeducation.org/
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Hi, this is a (translated) copy of the newsletter we’ve sent to the assemblies and students here in Barcelona, it includes the bare details of the actions that took place in the US this March 4th and other students actions in the UK and South Africa. We’ve tried to organise the information from different blogs into one list, but it’s not going to be perfect. So to any group we’ve let down: send your communiqués, videos, etc!
Email links are included (where possible) to send solidarity messages to groups which have suffered particular violence and arrests.

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March 4 was a national day of strike and protest in the U.S. under the slogan “Defend Public Education”. Recently there have been major cuts in public funding coupled with increases in the price of tuition. In California there was a 33% increase in tuition fees this year.

In this “virtual protest” you can add your name and comment to a map where the demonstration was held:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&vps=1&jsv=209c&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=107913354454876111730.00048050ff9c357070081

A map of universities participating on the day:

http://studentactivism.net/2010/03/02/march-4-map-updated-with-much-more-to-come/

Actions:

Milwaukee-pacific protest ends in 16 arrested
Web: http://sds-mke.blogspot.com/
Email: mubbesen [at] uwm [dot] edu
New Orleans-poster hanging from the university in solidarity with protests
History (with photo): http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20100113201615185
Berkeley (California) – big protest, groups of school students jumped the fences of their middle schools (Brit Eng: secondary schools) to join the march
Story: http://www.forstudentpower.org/blog/2010/03/04/march-4-quick-update-berkeley
Davis (California) – Protests blocked transport
Video. http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-416217
Irvine (California) – Students briefly occupied the library
Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fenominal/sets/72157623557493556/
Santa Cruz (California) – Protesters blocked the entrances to the building, several cars collided with the crowd.
Story (with photos and video): http://occupyca.wordpress.com/
Los Angeles (California) – Sit-in, all participants released without charge
Fresno (California) – 32 people occupied the administration offices
New School (New York) – The administration building was occupied
Press: http://reoccupied.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/suny-purchase-occupied/
Video: http://www.twitvid.com/80FCC
Hunter (New York) – Concentration with hundreds of participants, a lot of destruction inside the university, a lot of police infiltration and (allegedly) the Trotskyists. In the end there were 3 or 4 arrested.
Story (with photos and videos): http://takethecity.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/march-4th-ny/
Brooklyn College (New York) – poster hanging and self-organized classes
Photo: http://takethecity.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/img_0782.jpg

There were also protests with hundreds of protesters in Seattle and Washington and larger protests in Riverside, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Monterey Bay and San Diego (California).
Videos of San Francisco: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/socialist-worker
Videos of San Diego: http://www.youtube.com/justiceucsd

In the UK the situation is the same, reduced public funding and job cuts at universities. Also “unprofitable” courses are losing resources.

27/02: Protest (with unions) through the streets of Canterbury (United Kingdom) against the cuts in public funding.

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentish_gazette/news/2010/march/1/student_march.aspx

01/03: 200 students and professors have occupied at the University of Westminster (United Kingdom) to protest the public funding cuts and loss of jobs in the institution.

http://fightcutsatuow.blogspot.com/2010/03/students-currently-in-occupation.html

Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldofsky

25/02: Protest andsit-in at the University of Leeds, approx. 100 protesters

http://leedsuniversityagainstcuts.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/student-rally-ends-in-parkinson-sit-in/

05/03: 150 participants demonstrated in Leeds (United Kingdom) to stop job cuts within the university.
Story: http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Staff-and-students-protest-at.6126793.jp

03/03: A protest against cuts ended in an occupation of the University of Sussex with 50 participants. The police came 2 minutes later with dogs, Tasers and pepper spray.
Photos: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/446990.html
Videos: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/446915.html
Email: sussexstopthecuts (at) gmail (dot) com

There has also been a student protest in South Africa, where activists are demanding free university education for the poor. Students picketed the University of Johannesburg with burning tires and demonstrated in the streets, they were dispersed with water cannons by the police.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE6230F4.htm