----- Original Message ----- From: <Juventudes at ainfos.ca>; <Libertarias at ainfos.ca>; "Bolivia" <jjll_bolivia at hotmail.com> To: <a-infos-en at ainfos.ca> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 3:22 PM Subject: (en) Bolivia: Anarchists occupy the University (ca)
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> Below a note from GRUPO ANARQUISTA REVUELTA which has occupied
> together with students and professors the biggest Bolivian
> university, to demand that the persecution against leftists cease.
> Both government and rector, knowing the last stand of anti-capitalist
> groups is the Social Communication Faculty have cracked down on this
> to extirpate any rebellious socialist seed from it. LET THEM KNOW
> THEY ARE NOT ALONE!
>
> Strike and occupation in Journalism Faculty , for teacher-student
> dignity and for regaining university autonomy.
>
> The hard fight the students and some professors have been carrying on
> in the Journalism Faculty in La Paz San Andrés University, is at a
> turning point. Facing the authoritarian and fascist aggression
> from some university authorities with clear connections to political
> party interests, (they have only one purpose - total elimination of
> the last progressive and critical stand in the university)
> the radicalisation of the conflict becomes the only way out for a
> student sector that has suffered the total curbing of their liberties
> - from ignoring the decisions taken in assemblies to the imposing of
> a pseudo-student centre maintained only with the help of criminal
> groups, such as the one known as "cartel central", to the rector?s
> forging processes and threats of expulsion. After several
> weeks of a hunger strike, in which the dean himself participated, and
> in the face of the aggression, insensibility and total absence of any
> desire to arrive at a solution though dialogue an occupation of the
> place was decided by the students' self-defence committees, to avoid
> the lives of the hunger strikers being endangered: the picket #3
> formed by students and professors and the picket "Domitila Chungara",
> by seven female comrade students. Their petition has, amongst other
> things, the following points: Suspension of the charges against
> professors and students, respect for the assembly as the maximum
> decision body, non- acknowledgement of the student centre building
> process (as it is just the rector?s creation), cancelling the fraud
> examinations, instituted with the aim of imposing lecturers from his
> political party (MNR) and respect for the autonomy and
> dignity of Journalism studies. We emphasize the negative role the
> university authorities are playing and the clear intentional,
> persecution purposes with our companions, professors and students,
> leftist sympathizers or activists, or just intellectuals who are
> critical of the system, such as the case with our anarchist companion
> Juan Perelman, Philosophy and History Professor and member of #3
> picket. As we know the repressive brutality and the fascist mentality
> of the rector Taboada, we hold the university authorities responsible
> for any action perpetrated against the students and professors who
> are inside the Journalist Faculty Building. The health of the hunger
> strikers is beginning to deteriorate and there have already been two
> pickets that had to quit after nearly 15 days of hunger strike, a
> violent intervention against the remaining pickets would endanger the
> lives of our companions, who we see daily giving their vitality for
> dignity and autonomy. We strongly appeal to the international
> solidarity and to the libertarian internationalism to speak up
> against any violent intervention from the state repression forces as
> this fight is beyond the Faculty of Journalism and the
> student sector, as it includes workers, family fathers, foreign
> students and activists, all of them joined the self-defence
> committees as at any time an inhuman police aggression may happen.
>
> Long live the heroic hunger strike of the Journalism Faculty!!!
>
> Let?s stand against aggression to our companions and their lives
> being threatened!!!
>
> Never any aggression without answer, in the face of Rector Taboada?s
> fascism!!!
>
>
> Press release from the ?grupo revuelta?, part of the students
> self-defence committee.
>
> Write to: rascolnikof at hotmail.com
> www.nodo50.org/jjll.bolivia/jjll/jjll.in...
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