Réunion de la coordination nationale du 20 février

Dear activists in Paris,since you are currently also struggling against education reforms (LRU) and the increasing commercialisation of education in general, I hope you are also interested in the following.I am a student activist in Germany and initiator of the "International Day of Action against the Commercialisation of Education", which took place on Nov.5th 2008.Groups in more than 20 countries on 5 continents stood together during the international day of action. You can access a presentation summarizing all the actions on that day here:http://www.archive.org/download/InternationalDayofActionPresentationforDisplay/internationalDayofActionDisplay.pdf (.pdf/~3MB)Furthermore groups around the world protested for free (and emancipating) public education and against the commercialisation of education in the year 2008. I attempted to list most of them here:http://fading-hope.blog-city.com/students_protest_worldwide_against_commercialisation_bologn.htmAs a result of the co-ordination efforts ahead of the international day of action a loose network was created, which now calls itself the "International Students Movement" (because most groups involved are dominated by students, but of course we are open to all social groups struggling against the commercialisation of education and for free and emancipating public education; i.e. teachers, parents, pupils, workers,...).We have international chat conferences regularly and during one of our last chats decided to call for a "Reclaim your Education - Global Week of Action 2009" in April (20/04 - 29/04).For more details regarding the "Reclaim your Education - Global Week of Action 2009" visit this website:http://www.emancipating-education-for-all.org/content/global-week-action-2009Priority for us is to unite groups and movements around the world and promote the global perspective of the struggle. In the end we want to increase the political pressure on a global scale and get governments to implement free public education systems, that are based on an emancipating approach and are accessible to all.The following platforms were set-up to co-ordinate things together:* a website with many different forums to help creating new networks locally and globally: http://www.emancipating-education-for-all.org* a group on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=37734834372 "Reclaim your Education - Global Week of Action 2009!!" (especially for those registered there already)* regular international chat conferences with "group representatives" and inidividual activists; the next one is coming up on Feb. 22nd* a personal mailing list (with more than 250 contacts from around the world), which I use to send out the summaries of the chats and details regarding up-coming chat conferences, as well as some basic information to co-ordinate things (let me know, if you want to be added to the mailing list)So far groups in Bangladesh, the Philippines, France, Spain, Indonesia, Germany, Canada, the UK, Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Luxembourg, Egypt, Ghana, the U.S. of A., Burundi, Togo and Liberia confirmed their interest in the week of action.You can access the current list of supporters here: http://www.emancipating-education-for-all.org/content/list-supporters-global-week-actionSince this issue concerns all of us, I hope we can unite in our efforts.If you have any questions or suggestions, then just drop me (international.students.movement[at]gmail.com) a line.In Solidarity,Mo.