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This text petitions for dismissal of the indictment against six young activists and/or for their release. These six young civil activists and union members from Belgrade have been in custody since September, 2009 under the charge of committing ‘an act of international terrorism’ for which, under the Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia, a prison term of between three and fifteen years is foreseen.  The trial will commence on 17th February 2010.

On http://emancipating-education-for-all.org you can find the result of an attempt to list most of the protests related to "neoliberal reforms" within public education systems around the world.

On March 11 and 12 2010 the education ministers of 46 European countries will celebrate the 10-years anniversary of the Bologna-process in Vienna and Budapest.
Considering the current situation and the ongoing protests in many European Universities this celebration is a mockery for all of us.

Until recently, anyone who suggested nationalising the banks would have been derided as a ‘quack’ and a ‘crank’, as lacking the most basic understanding of the functioning of a ‘complex, globalised world’. The grip of ‘orthodoxy’ disqualified the idea, and many more, without the need even to offer a counter-argument.
And yet, in this time of intersecting crises, when it seems like everything could, and should, have changed, it paradoxically feels as though very little has.

Zwanzig Jahre nach der Wende im Herbst 1989 stellt Boris Buden in seinem neuen Buch eine radikale Zeitdiagnose: Seit dem Kollaps der kommunistischen Regime, in dem nicht nur Diktatur und Planwirtschaft, sondern die Ära der industriellen Moderne selbst untergegangen sind, hat sich die Zukunft verabschiedet.

From 5. to 6. Dec. about 50 activists occupied a vacant building in the Universitätsstraße, Vienna. This occupation is the kick-off of further activities in order to build up the Solidarity University in Vienna. Activists will continue the struggle for adequate space for KriSU.

“We won’t pay for your crisis!” has echoed throughout universities worldwide. The significance of this is that the statement’s momentum has not only spread throughout educational institutions, but has also been present in other areas of society, bringing attention to the general failure of neoliberal capitalism and its appropriation of all spheres of life.

The new website of the specialization Theory (Bachelor Media and Arts) at the Zurich University of the Arts is online now.

A new publication with contribution by Jean Baudrillard, Igor Chubarov, an interview with Jerko Denegri, Branislav Dimitrijević, Hal Foster, Dejan Kršić, Nenad Malešević, Metahaven, Borislav Mikulić, Barbara Predan, Jacques Rancière, Feđa Vukić and WHW collective.

Statement from the arts and cultural sector in solidarity with the protests on Austrian universities.

After a manifestation of students today against the bologna-process and in solidarity withe the squating of the academy of fine arts two days ago, parts of the university of vienna have been occupied spontanously. Right now there are 2000 students participating in the occupation.

In July this year, The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, a UK based art activists' collective was commissioned by the Copenhagen Centre for Contemporary Art to make a new piece of work for Rethink an exhibition of “political” art during the December UN climate change summit. Last week the gallery pulled out claiming it could no longer continue to support the project for “practical reasons”. In fact they were frightened that the project involved non-violent civil disobedience and that this might be disapproved of by their funders.

“From Lesvos to an unknown land”: this was the response given by Mr X. at the NoBorder Camp in Mytilini, when asked where he planned to go after his arrival in Athens. Mr X. was acting as a spokesperson for a Somalian group, who, along with migrants from Afghanistan and Eritrea, were released from the “Pagani Welcome Centre” shortly before the official start of the NoBorder Camp. Pagani, the “reception centre” of Lesvos; the detention centre with a capacity of 250 people was filled with around 1,000 occupants – men, women and children – in August, when the Camp took place. Needless to say, Pagani was totally over-booked. A video made with a camera smuggled into the centre by one of the transit migrants clearly documents the unbearable conditions in which they were being detained.

The new issue of the magazine Chto Delat on "The Great Method" and Chto Delat's video film "Partisan Songspiel. Belgrade Story" are now available online.

Málaga ya lo sabía, pero además lo vio. El pasado 18 de septiembre lascalles del centro de Málaga presenciaron una manifestación como no serecuerda en esta ciudad tal vez desde las movilizaciones por el “No a laGuerra”. Más de mil personas exigieron otro modelo de ciudad, clamaroncontra la privatización de los espacios públicos, contra eldesmantelamiento de la cultura, contra la ciudad escaparate, contra lapolítica de los solares y la destrucción. Más de mil personas exigieronel derecho a la ciudad. Su voz gritó que la Casa Invisible debecontinuar, que la Casa Invisible continuará.