[Campaignforrealdemocracy] Democracy Villagers / CRD re Fwd: PARIS MEETING

Wed Dec 29 00:11:27 UTC 2010

 Hi again

See below about the topic in question.  Would Democracy Village / Campaign
for Real Democracy / individuals from DV or CRD like to
adhere/support/participate in the Edu-Factory European event and /or send
delegates ? Let me know and I'll relay info, or alt see email address is
below.

Cheers comrades

Mark

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From: info at edu-factory.org <info at edu-factory.org>
Date: 28 December 2010 19:38
Subject: Re: PARIS MEETING
To: marknbarrett at googlemail.com

 Dear Mark,

Thanks for  your proposals, they're very important. We're glad to involve
you in order to participate to the construction of the event.

Moreover, please let us know the names of the participants you know
(collectives, groups, or singular people) to have a list of adhesion to the
event and to arrange the accommodation (for sure we and the Paris activists
guarantee it for all).

Let's keep in touch, and see you in Paris!

edu-factory collective

Da: "Mark Barrett" marknbarrett at googlemail.com
A: info at edu-factory.org
Cc:
Data: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:03:59 +0000
Oggetto: PARIS MEETING

> Hi there
>
> I'd like to participate in the Feb11-13th Paris meeting.
>
> One issue I'd like to see included in the meeting is the future of
> education.. basically what kind of education, from primary school to
> secondary school curriculums to colleges and universities, what kind
> of education do we need to bring about so that we and future
> generations are empowered to build the new / real Europe and "the
> other world" that is possible.
>
> Also I'd like to propose that a simultaneous day of action be called
> from the meeting, for a date - or better still a rolling series of
> dates - to be set, and a call out made for people to walk out / strike
> and to assemble at local town halls, across Europe on that date or
> dates. To begin the process of building the Other Europe, of taking
> power, democratically, community by community by way of Peoples
> Assemblies everywhere, in education establishments, workplaces, local
> communities - real democracy from the ground up. Maybe this should be
> done for a Friday, so we can link the process to a more populist call
> to get the thing started eg for a 3 day weekend (as well as to our
> Muslim brothers and sisters who face abuse across the continent and
> whose day of prayer is not yet honoured )
>
> Anyway, some ideas to put forward. I will also be liasing by email
> with the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC), Education
> Activist Network (EAN) and other British student and education worker
> groups.
>
> Thankyou for organising this!
>
> Mark Barrett
>
> Education Worker & Democracy Activist
> https://groups.google.com/group/project2012/web/crd-principles?hl=en

*PLEASE CIRCULATE*

Dear fellow students et. al.,

A short update and contribution for the organization of the European meeting
planned for 11-13 February in Paris:

Although it might be somewhat superfluous to underline the political
importance of creating effective networks of student struggles in Europe,
I'd simply like raise a few points.

First, based on Edu-Factory's experience, the possibility of gathering
different student movements together for discussion, debate and organization
has always proved to be a positive, constructive and stimulating way of
building new relationships and connections between diverse realities. Beyond
the warmth and quality in direct human interaction (never to be
underestimated), the extensive common character of different movements
nearly always emerges in new and sometimes unexpected forms. Small,
seemingly anecdotal elements of our singular movements that are shared in
these occasions can find echos in other experiences even if we didn't know
that similar conditions exist elsewhere. Likewise, differences between
national and cultural contexts (for example of how the Bologna Process is
being applied differently in different countries) can shed light on each
individual context in new ways and help provide strategies for interpreting
these differences constructively and overcoming the limits and problems that
we face – we learn to read our reality and other realities in new ways, we
learn new languages and new translation skills.

While creating video conferencing systems to connect to other meetings could
be an interesting and productive way to expand the meeting, it is
technically more complicated and, for such a large meeting, difficult to
organize. If there are people who would like to research and organize this
option, it would be welcomed. Although we all realize that traveling is
somewhat

Common projects, common strategies and common campaigns and common tools can
come from these meetings. In our experience, they always usually do. For
these reasons, and others, we think that it is important to try to meet
together in Paris for the weekend of the 11-13 February. We have already had
confirmation from numerous groups in France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Poland,
England.
Logistically speaking, given the short amount of time to organize this
meeting and the winter break, things are still not definitively programmed.
We do have large meeting spaces at our disposition at the University of
Paris 8 for both Friday 11th and Saturday 12th, although we are also waiting
for the confirmation of a different, more central space at the EHSS for both
of these days. These discussions will probably center around university
struggles, issues in knowledge production, the possibility of autonomous
education and the building of transnational struggle networks across Europe
and the globe. The idea is to have a discussion Friday afternoon from 17h.
to 21h. and then again Saturday morning. In our experience, open collective
discussions are usually the best way to give everyone the possibility to
contribute although we could also form multiple smaller groups if there is
the desire to do so.

If there are any groups or individuals that would like to organize a
workshop or discussion, we can discuss here in the list or you can send your
proposals to info at edu-factory.org with PARIS MEETING written clearly in the
subject line.

Instead, on Saturday afternoon, we are trying to organize a discussion
between students and precarious workers' organizations (including the
important "intermittents") for Saturday afternoon about the generalization
of European struggle against austerity and the crisis. This could be an
important occasion for the student movement to create new ties outside of a
strictly university context. Paris is also rich territory to host this
discussion based on the enormous, common mobilization that started this last
fall as you all have seen.

If we can confirm a meeting space for Sunday morning, we will then have a
general assembly open to all social movement organizations, especially
student ones, to discuss the weekend and, hopefully, to plan one or more
common activities for the coming spring – a day of European mobilization is
obviously the first thing that comes to mind, although there are many other
possibilities.

For food and lodging, we are relying on activist networks to host anyone who
wishes to come to Paris for the weekend. We already have many students and
activists that are willing to host. Unfortunately, Paris doesn't offer large
spaces in which to house big groups, but an efficient transportation network
assures that everyone will be within 30 min of the meeting spaces. If you
are planning on coming, I would also recommend Couch Surfing as they have a
very large, active and hospitable community here in Paris. Both university
structures also have very accommodating cafeteria structures where it is
possible to have a large meal for only 3€.

If you are in Paris or have friends or contacts in Paris that can give a
hand in the local organization, please feel free to put them into contact
with Edu-Factory by sending an email to info at edu-factory.org with PARIS
MEETING clearly written in the subject line.

At this point, it is important that those who are already planning in coming
to the meeting to send an email to (guess what?!?) info at edu-factory.org with
PARIS MEETING clearly written in the subject line. The number of people and
the specific needs of the group should be included in the email and we will
find you a collocation in Paris.

I really hope to see as many of you as possible in Paris. Have a good winter
break and a good new year's.

Potentia et excedere,

jason
edu-factory
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