4 Mar
2015
4 Mar
'15
12:55
Bonjour à toutes et à tous,
L'ASSÉ a récemment envoyé une lettre de solidarité au mouvement The New
University à l'Université d'Amsterdam, aux Pays-Bas, suite à l'occupation
de deux pavillons en réponse à des coupures annoncées et contre la dérive
autoritaire et managériale de l'administration de l'université.
Vous pouvez lire sur les enjeux ici:
https://libcom.org/blog/student-protests-escalating-amsterdam-25022015 et
ici
http://www.nltimes.nl/2015/02/13/students-stage-lock-protest-univ-amsterdam…
et si votre niveau d'hollandais le permet, sur leur page Facebook :
https://www.facebook.com/pages/De-Nieuwe-Universiteit-voor-een-democratisch…
Voici la lettre qui a été envoyée:
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STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY
To the New University occupying the Maagdenhuis at the University of
Amsterdam (UvA),
The Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (ASSÉ) expresses
its full solidarity and support in favour of the students and workers
occupying the Maagdenhuis building - since the Bungehuis had been evicted
last week after 11 days of occupation - at the UvA in protest against the
authoritarian managing that leads to cuts to the humanities, and against
the increasing trends of privatization and commodification of
post-secondary education that are ever-present in the Netherlands, in
Quebec, and elsewhere.
Disinvestment from the fundamental public service and common good that is
postsecondary education highlights a growing trend observable worldwide
where the State is increasingly becoming a means to increasing the
privileges of a wealthy elite rather than a collective institution intended
at ameliorating the wellbeing of society. This trend is especially
pernicious when it attacks our Universities, transforming them from a means
of transmitting and developing a society’s cultural, scientific and
artistic patrimony and developing critical thought into a system that is in
service of the neoliberal market.
ASSÉ considers free, quality, secular and emancipatory education to be
fundamental to a society where solidarity and social justice are
fundamental values. The struggle of the students and workers who did occupy
the Bungehuis and do now reclaim the appropriation of the Maagdenhuis is a
clear example of why direct resistance to attacks against these values are
necessary.
In the context of ASSÉ’s current campaign for the protection of the quality
and accessibility of public services including education, we consider your
brave struggle to be interconnected with the struggles that we face in
Quebec. The same managerial and authoritative style of administration
applied at the UvA is present in our own Universities and is in clear
opposition to the values that we hold and the vision education that we
defend.
We consider that from common attacks stem common struggles, and it is in
this spirit that we offer the New University our most sincere support and
solidarity. From Quebec to the Netherlands, mobilization for an
emancipatory, humanistic, and collective education system must be pursued.
In struggle and solidarity,
Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (ASSÉ)
Montreal, Quebec, March 2nd 2015