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From	eustudenten@gmx.net
Date	Fri, 30 Aug 2002 00:29:00 +0200 (MEST)
Subject	ls: Forum Education and Demonstration at september 13 & 14 in Cologne (Germany)

Forum Education and Demonstration at september 13 & 14 in Cologne (Germany)

Latest: During the Forum there will also be an international meeting of
Education is not for sale. points of discussion will be the coordination of
an
European week of protests in november, the EU summit in Copenhagen and the
European Social Forum in Florence.

13.09.2002
Education forum
Neo-Liberalism and the worldwide assault on education

Tuition fees, budget cuts, deregulation, privatisation, lack of democracy -
all a coincidence? Why should education be a commodity for sale? Why are we
denied our basic right to a state-funded education?

GATS, the General Agreement on Trade in Services, is a World Trade
Organisation treaty that will open up public services - like education and
healthcare
- to market competition and ultimately privatisation. Anyone concerned with
putting people before profit must oppose it 100%.


Are study fees and the removal of democratic structures measures designed to
build a completely new, fully commercialized educational system? Who is
intrested in this? How are the GATS negotiations organized? Who is
negotiating?
What are they negotiating? Which developments are currently happening in
Germany and other countries? What kind of resistance is taking place? Can we
resist together with people in other countries?

What is education? What is it good for? Who should education serve? Should
education have a function at all? 

These, and other questions, are those we (i.e. students, pupils and other
intrested people) want to ask ourselves and discuss with each other. We view
this forum as a preparation for the European Social Forum in Florence
(6.-11.
November 2002)

14.09.02  
Down with privatisation! Down with GATS! 
Free education for all!
Demonstrate against tuition fees, privatisation and GATS

On the day of action called by the trade union youth sections and ATTAC, we
aim to organise a series of peaceful protests around education, as part of
the main demonstration against neo-liberalism. We want to protest against
the
introduction of tuition fees in Germany, for free and equal access to
education for all and for the abolition of all fees everywhere. We are also 
protesting against the General Agreement on Trade in Services and the
privatisation of education.

Meet at 2pm, Rudolfplatz, Cologne
Look for the purple banner: "Education is not for sale!" 

Education forum at the FH Köln

12.09.02
doors open at 18.00 h, you can sleep here if you register yourself in
advance (limited space) 
13.09.02
10.00 h central opening discussion
11.00 h Workshop-Round I
13.30 h lunch
14.30 h Workshop-Round II
Round II are the same workshops as in round I so you can visit two workshops

17.00 h central discussion- presentation of the results of the discussions
in the workshops

18.00 h stage discussion "Education in times of globalisation" with 
Karl-Heinz Heinemann, free Journalist
Lars Hüning, media advisor of the CHE (neo-liberal think-tank)
Thomas Fritz, free worker of WEED, Berlin, and active in Attac
Torsten Bultmann, chairman of the BdWi (association of democratic
scientists)
Ulla Lötzer, member of parliament
Markus Struben, coordinator of the ABS in the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen
(organised a lot of protests against study fees)

The Workshops take place from 11 until 13.30 h 
And from 14.30 h until 17.00 h 

1) Globalisation and education
What worldwide changes could the GATS (General Agreement on Trade in
Services) treaty have on education?  How does GATS work? Besides these
questions,
the workshop will also consider the situation in other countries and their
future.
Guests: David Hachfeld (Attac, student of political science at the Free
University Berlin) and Heiner Fechner (to be confirmed, Heiner is from the
fzs,
kind of student union)

2) Pilot projects from the Bertelsmann corporation - The beginning of the
end for public education?
Is the so called autonomy of schools introduced to let private capital get a
grip on our educational system? Which goals are the Bertelsmann corporation
trying to achieve with its pilot project "independent school"? Is the main
purpose for education to make us fit for the labour market?
Guest: Karl-Heinz Heinemann, free Journalist, writes for the School and
university section of the national newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau

3) European protests of pupils and students
This workshop will provide an overview of developments of the protests of
pupils and students in Europe. We also want to discuss about a political
strategy for the fight for free education
Guest: Ole Erdmann of scudag (Network for a union for pupils and studentst),
economics student  at the university of Cologne

4) Democracy in Schools and universities
What do governing bodies look like at the moment? What will change as a
result of commercialisation? How can we achieve more democracy in our
schools and
universities?
Guest: Sarah Stockmann, Landes-SV NRW & scudag-Netzwerk

Contact  and registration  for forum education:

Asta FH Köln
Max Breitzler
0049 (0)221-981670

René Schuijlenburg
0049 (0)171-2169182 
Email: rene@education-is-not-for-sale.org

Ole Erdmann
Email: ole@education-is-not-for-sale.org
(A must if you need a place to sleep!)

Adress where the forum takes place:
FH Köln Standort Süd
Claudiusstr. 1
50678 Köln


More information:

http://www.education-is-not-for-sale.org

Regular updates by mailinglist. Subscription,
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Download Flyer as Word-doc( Information how to get there and
contactadresses):

http://euforthepeople.tripod.com/forumflyereng.doc
Forum Education and Demonstration at september 13 & 14 in Cologne (Germany)


-- 
EU-wide protestcampaign in 2002:
Education is not for sale!
http://www.education-is-not-for-sale.org

Independent news from student- and schoolstudent activists:
http://education.portal.dk3.com/

Die Kampagne education is not for sale kostet viel Geld...

Spendenkonto für die Kampagne:
Sarah Stockmann
Kontonummer: 447 282 51
BLZ:         305 500 00
Sparkasse Neuss
Verwendungszweck: Education is not for sale

We need a lot of money to organize the education is not for 
sale campaign,you could help us by transfering a little gift to:

Sarah Stockmann
Bankaccount: 447282 51
Number of the bank: 305 500 00
Name of the bank: Sparkasse Neuss
Reference: Education is not for sale
City: Neuss
Country: Germany


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