[www-features] posted, imatge needed: PROPOSAL: Education, Greece

[wowi]

Hi LA,

i've posted the feature..

but i need a link to an image that can appear with this feature. should 
i the author be stated as athens indymedia?

wowi.


LA wrote:
> GREECE, EDUCATION
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> University and high-school students opposed to the new education measures
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> <p>An intense atmosphere is spread around the Greek Universities, since
> students protest against the governmental policies to be implied in
> higher education. The right-wing student party (associated with the
> government) keeps on harassing the decision processes, by terrorizing,
> mis-informing and blocking the decisions.</p>
>
> <p>On Thursday 9th of October, the Student Union general assembly in
> Athens Economics University (ASOE) ended with a violent conflict when
> extreme right-wing fanatics invaded the building, resulting to one
> member of the ASOE Anarchist Place being led to the hospital, as the
> people who had been in the building resisted. A violent confrontation
> also took place in University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, when the
> right-wing party refused to accept the decision that had just made by
> the general assembly.
> </p><p>
> So far about 70 university schools are being occupied by their students,
> while the education sector is going through a massive outrage against
> the governmental policies of funding reduce and the gradual
> privatization efforts.</p>
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> <p>For more than six weeks, on the beginning of the school year, the
> preliminary-school teachers have maintained a <a
> href="http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=582927">militant 
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> strike</a>, demanding increase of funding in the education and a
> teaching bonus which would give an end to the misery of their salary
> (both were forgotten promises of the government). In solidarity to the
> preliminary teachers, the high-school teachers kept striking for three
> weeks.</p>
>
> <p>During October, one thousand of senior high schools were occupied by
> their students, in spite of violent attacks against the occupations by
> conservative elements. High school students are opposed to the increase
> of the passing grade for entering the higher education and join the
> widespread outcry against the funding cut-off.</p> Photos: <A
> HREF="http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=588454">[1]</A>, 
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> <a
> href="http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=en&article_id=590912">[2]</a>
> <p style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 1px">
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> <p>Lots of university and higher technical institutions are also under
> occupation; their number is expected to <a
> href="http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=591663">rise 
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> rapidly</a> within the next couple of weeks, as the Ministry of
> Education insists on the draft law which was confronted by a one-month
> general student strike in June.  The governmental plans include a
> Constitutional Revision to allow Non-Public Universities, the gradual
> abolishment of the academic asylum, a time-limit on the university
> studies, an effort to restrict provision of free books and an underlying
> will to enforce privatization.</p>
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> <p style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 1px">On the other side, the
> greek police, after severly beating middle-aged teachers two weeks ago,
> continues its terrorising and suppresing activity: following the end of
> the <a
> href="http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=en&article_id=590922">education 
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> demonstration</a> in Athens on the <b>25th of October</b>, the cops
> attacked two demonstrators from the block of the Anti-authoritarian
> Movement. The two, as well as another two students who were also
> attacked, were on their way out of the demo. Following their beating the
> first two were carried <a
> href="http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=590874">to
> the hospital</a> for first aid while at the same time they were facing
> charges for 2 felonies and 4 misdemeanours! Only the misdemeanour
> charges went ahead and they are expected to stand trial later on in the
> week. (Photos: <a
> href="http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=en&article_id=591019">Thessaloniki</a></p>
>
> <p style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 1px"><b>27/10</b> The riot
> police in Thessaloniki also <a
> href="http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=en&article_id=592027#592771">attacked 
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> the demonstration</a> of the Anti-authoritarian movement who were
> protesting against fascist-style school marches commemorating a national
> day. Tear gas was sprayed right in the middle of the parade. At the same
> time, preliminary school teachers in strike, were trying sneak in the
> parade and put up their banner.
> <p style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 1px"><b>28/10</b> The stylish
> national student parades all over Greece were injected with the growing
> reaction against the education reforms. Several groups of militant
> high-school students and teachers in strike managed to disrupt the
> national-day student parades and let them evolve as demonstrations
> within the streets. (Photos: <a
> href="http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=593290">Xanthi</a>,<a 
>
> href="http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=593174"Patra</a>, 
>
> )  Right-wing sport fans beat a pupils' demo in an Athens district
> (Zografou).
>
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