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www.edu-factory.org ** *Support for Belgrade University students' protests* Public statement by Freedom Fight and the Coordinating Committee of Workers Protests - Letter of support for the protests by Belgrade University students.[...] *Third day of fee protests at California universities* Demonstrators entered their third day of a building takeover at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday in protest of a tuition increase, an undertaking that a school spokesman called futile.[...] *University sit-ins spread throughout Switzerland* Hundreds of students have occupied the biggest lecture hall at Bern University, preventing more than 1,000 other students from attending lectures. The protests have taken place as part of Global Week of Action ? motto "Education is not for sale" ? which has seen students targeting the educational machine in several European cities. In Switzerland lecture halls have been occupied in Basel, Zurich and Bern.[...] *California Is Burning* Yesterday the University of California Regents walked into a room packed with gasoline and nonchalantly lit their cigars -- handing down tuition increases that will hike 2010 rates 44 percent over 2008, turning higher ed into a gated community for the offspring of California's "Real Housewives" class. Their bet is the usual bet made by the comfortable: Someone else will get scorched.[...] -- subscribe to the mailing list: [email protected] contact us: [email protected] # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]