Around 150-200 students in Patras took to the streets to decry a law passed by the Ministry of Education, creating a university police force in Greece which would exist for the first time since the fall of the military junta in 1974 after a failed annexation of Cyprus and a student uprising.
Via Δυσήνιος Ίππος & Ελευθεριακό Σχήμα Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών
Around 50 protesters in Portland gathered and marched to demand the abolition of the PPA (Portland Police Association), covering the building with graffiti and lighting fires to cause as much disruption as possible at the sight before dispersing before police arrived.
Around 200 protesters gathered at Georgiou Square in the Greek city of Patras, demanding the end of a law proposed by the ruling right-wing Nea Dimokratia (New Democracy) party, which would reintroduce police to university campuses for the first time since 1975 and set limits on the number of years a student can spend on their degree.
The graduate students of the University of Chicago enacted a strike about a week ago, to switch back to an online curriculum and stop placing the lives of the professors at risk. The University of Chicago has insofar contacted courts to complain about the strike and a lack of ‘education for undergraduates’, but the strike continues at the moment.
Protesters gathered in Berlin in solidarity with persecuted antifascists of Pego, a municipality of Spain near Valencia, which is predominantly Catalan-speaking and […]
