This morning - “23rd April 2010- police forces arrested an activist under the charge of misappropriation and disturbances. The arrest was characterized by irregularities like lying about the availability of his lawyer in the moment.

It is related to an action made by the Bolonia Fucking Up Group in which a multinational “La Casa del Libro” was expropriated during the counter summit between 8th and 14th April in Madrid.

His case is not isolated, other activists have been called to declare to police forces. It reflects the opportunism and excess with which repression to students has been made during and after the countersummit. Once again we see how police forces coerce and control those whose only transgression has been to think and act politically to denounce the situation we live in a world that is obviously unjust.

Call for Statewide Days of Action Around UC Regents’ Meeting, May 18-20

In Chile and Puerto Rico, in Austria, Greece, Italy, and Croatia, and in 33 states in the US—all over the world we are experiencing the systematic dismantling of education systems that supposedly serve the public. Students all over the world have begun to respond, through occupations, strikes, shutdowns, blockades, and other forms of direct action. We are starting to take back what is ours. The UC Regents have formed the UC Commission on the Future: a body that will be meeting May 18-20 at UC San Francisco and again this summer to solidify the current cuts.

Seattle, WA--    On Thursday April 8, students, workers, and instructors welcomed an unfamiliar face to a publicly advertised meeting for a campus-wide strike May 3rd. 

A woman who identified herself simply as “Tani" described herself as an "alum" of UW who was passionate about the cuts. She also said that her father worked with Waste Management and she was in the meeting to find out what the May 3rd strike committee was involved in with regards to the Teamsters' recent call for a strike. "Tani" actively participated in the planning meeting for a large-scale action demanding immigrant and worker justice, student access to UW, and smaller class sizes and writing center to improve education. The following week, however, student activists accidently bumped into “Tani” again—this time, though, as Officer Tanesha van Leuven of the UWPD. We have reason to believe that Tani was sent by the University of Washington to spy on the meeting.

FULLERTON, California – On April 16th, the Orange County DA’s office issued notices to the students involved in the occupation of Cal State Fullerton’s Humanities building on March 3rd, 2010 that read in part:
A complaint was filed in the North Justice Center charging that on or about 03-03-2010 you committed a violation of section(s)

602(m) PC TRESPASS – OCCUPATION BY SQUATTER

It appears as though all of those charged have received the same court date, May 6th at 8:30AM at the North Justice Center in Fullerton.

These notices appeared after the detained students were told matter-of-factly by the police present that they would not be cited or charged, only banned from campus for 7 days, and that the only further consequences, should there be any, would come down from the university’s own student conduct hearings. More