#Worldwide #Information #Blogger #LucSchrijvers: #Past2 #Update: #anarchist #information from all over the #world - 21.05.2020

Today's Topics:

   
1.  afed.cz: An absurd plan in every way -- Kolektová's
      commentary on the plan for the expansion of Ruzyne Airport.
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Britain, anarchist cmmunist group ACG: The Johnson
      government and its responses to Coronavirus 
     (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Italy, UNICOBAS: MOTION PROPOSATION FOR A FORMATIVE (and
      non-SUMATING) ASSESSMENT TO BE PRESENT AND APPROVED 
      BY TEACHERS
      COLLEGES (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1



Prague ---- On Thursday, May 14, we took part in a demonstration in Prague in front of the Ministry of Finance building organized by the
Extinction Rebellion initiative against the expansion of Prague Airport, into which the government wants to pour a total of 55 billion
crowns. In a context where 70% of airports are already used by foreign tourists and Prague is already overloaded with tourism, this does not
make sense at all. ---- The growing flood of tourists in Prague is causing not only numerous problems for the inhabitants of the city
center, but also huge pressure on the real estate market. Because of platforms like Airbnb, tenants have to compete with tourists together.
As we know, in this unequal battle, tourists and many Praguers are winning to leave their homes to short-term visitors. Gradually, flats in
the long-term rental market are declining, rents are rising and real estate prices are rising.

Giving 55 billion for the unnecessary development of tourism at a time when so many people are addressing existential needs, is not only
absurd but also vulgar. For example, the money could help solve the housing crisis, which will return in full if the government does not
finally enforce the law on social housing and does not start investing in this area.

The plan to expand the airport is also meaningless in the context of the fight against global warming, which requires the Czech Republic to
reduce emissions. At the same time, they are already so high that the average population of the Czech Republic is the fifth largest in the
EU, the twentyth largest polluter in the world.

Airports are not an infrastructure for everyone. It is mainly a source of profit for those who profit from mass tourism at the expense of
other inhabitants of the city. Locals do not use air transport much. Only 10 percent of those who can afford to go on vacation fly on vacation.

In a country where many people do not have stable housing and where air pollution is a serious problem, investment in air transport is
unacceptable.
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Let us add that the mayors of the Prague-Nebušice and Prague-Suchdol districts, which are severely affected by the operation of the airport,
also spoke at the demonstration, which was attended by fifty people. Extinction Rebellion activists ended the event by smearing the ministry
in red and attaching a "Ministry of Billionaires Rescue" sign to the entrance. The police forcibly detained three participants in the event.

Related links:
Photo report: Money for the landscape or the air? The first post-crown demo
Money for the country, not for the air. Activists protested against the expansion of the airport

https://www.afed.cz/text/7174/ve-vsech-ohledech-absurdni-plan

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When Boris Johnson breezed into Number 10 Downing Street, he must have thought what a lark it all was. A long held desire to be Leader has
motivated him for decades and finally he got his wish. Granted, he had the difficult job of sorting out Brexit, but he had won the election
on such a basis and wasn't really thinking ahead. ---- Johnson's time as London Mayor illustrated how when it came to it, any commitment to
a leadership role has been part-time. What he did as London Mayor, he is doing now. ---- He missed the first five meetings of Cobra, the
cross-departmental meetings that are meant to respond to emergencies, concerning the coronavirus. On January 31st, he turned down the
European scheme to supply PPE equipment, and on February 13th failed to respond to a conference call to coordinate a response to coronavirus
on a European level. As the crisis developed, he went on holiday, two days after Exeter University published a warning that coronavirus
could kill 45 million people worldwide.

On 26th January the Johnson regime announced its murderous Herd Immunity strategy. On the 29th January Johnson went off to his country manor.

On March 2nd, he finally attended a Cobra meeting, and again turned down the offer of PPE from the EU. On March 3rd, scientists warned
against shaking hands and Johnson responds by boasting about shaking the hands of coronavirus patents. The following day the government
halted its daily updates on the pandemic, later being forced to reinstate them.

On 7th March, Johnson attended the Six Nations match, with 82,000 others. Two days later, the government said there was no reason why
sporting events should be cancelled, later compounding this by saying that banning the Cheltenham fixture would have little effect on the
spread of the virus. He thought lightly enough of the unfolding horror to joke that the plan to build new ventilators should be called
Operation Last Gasp.

On March 19th, elderly patients suffering from coronavirus were returned to care homes, resulting in the huge number, at least a quarter of
recorded coronavirus deaths, of fatalities both among residents and care workers. At the same time the government took coronavirus off its
High Consequences Infectious Diseases list. This meant that health authorities had no legal requirement to provide PPE to health workers.

On March 20th the government stated that it had a grip on supplying PPE to health workers. This is not borne out by health workers, who
testify about dire shortages of PPE. The British Medical Association backs this up. The shortage of PPE continues over the coming weeks,
with the government repeatedly and falsely stating that the problem has been solved. Whilst this is going on, PPE equipment manufactured in
the UK is being shipped to Europe, whilst manufacturers' offers of turning out PPE are ignored.

The government repeatedly fails to record deaths from coronavirus at home and at care homes, only reporting deaths in hospitals. This is
followed by the government announcing on March 23rd that testing kits for 10 million key workers would be supplied. In actual fact, only
5,000 tests are made available.

On May 1st the government announced it has carried out 100,000 tests. In fact, it is soon discovered that the tests have not been carried
out or the results have not been received. In a panic, the government then orders the posting out of 42,000 kits. There is no return address
on the kits, and when people call the government hotline to ask where to send them, are told to throw the kits away!

On May 10th Johnson issued a confused and confusing statement about a phased ending of certain lockdown restrictions. He did this without
consulting with members of his Cabinet, and insists that he has consulted with the governments in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
These deny any knowledge of consultation.

The UK now has the highest number of deaths from coronavirus in Europe, even with the limited figures released by the government. A more
inclusive total which would include deaths at home and at care homes would be nearer 58,000 only beaten by the USA at 80,000 and with a much
larger population. Meanwhile Johnson and his chums are pushing for a relaxation of the lockdown, whilst no significant reduction in death
rates has occurred.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/05/15/the-johnson-government-and-its-responses-to-coronavirus/

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ON TRAINING ASSESSMENT FOR A.S. 2019/2020 ---- The closure of the Schools for contagion containment measures from Covid 19 has resulted in
the continuity of the CONTINUITY of educational action and despite the commendable effort of all teachers and teachers to maintain
pedagogical continuity and an emotional relationship affective with their pupils that helped them give meaning and meaning to the
disruptions brought in everyone's life by the pandemic, marked a deep fracture in learning paths. ---- School is, in fact, a specific space
and physical place, but not separated from the world and not in antithesis with it, where each student and each student not only learn to
experience, but also to process the same through the universe of symbolic and cultural codes of knowledge that are called disciplines at
school. School is a structured time, once thought of, an educational time that supports personalities and bodies that enter into
relationship. School sociality is a special sociality because in relationships that structure in its space time you learn in synchronicity
yet everyone in their own time.
In this space and in this time of educational relationships, because relationships that rebuild, depending on the multiplicity of looks on
the world, the universes of culture, boys and girls, children and girls enter every day: they are a space and a public time where you learn
precisely because you are together.
The pandemic has disrupted the daily experience that our pupils do every day, marking a boundary between their private spaces and that
special public space where they learn to mean the complexity of the world, experimenting and remeaning it. It is not true that the school
has continued and continues: the "Dad" imposed and overlapping for decree to science and consciousness of teachers who had already put
strategies and resources in place, was an experiment of through some functional modes of teaching, but with the limit of bringing everything
back to another space, if not "privatistic" (on platforms often intended for business and the absence of privacy), certainly more subjective
and closed. Space retired, becoming a variant of the private area, that of a sociality lived through a screen, of a word interrupted by
imperfect connections. We also know from the monitoring and empirical data that the space that kept inside the most fragile, the most needy
of points and bodies, in many cases, disappearing, lost them (ISTAT data report 33,8 % nonexistent connections or precarious - since it
reaches 41,6 % in the South).
Distance teaching has amplified the dimensions, both in terms " qualitative " and " quantity ", of school dispersion. It has accentuated
distances, exacerbated the effects of old and new poverty, as well as the constraints due to the economic and cultural status of the
families of each of our pupils and our pupils, where we should " remove economic and social obstacles which, limiting In fact, freedom and
equality of citizens, prevent the full development of the human person " (Art. 3 of the Italian Constitution).
It follows from this that a numerical scale evaluation, as provided for in Ministerial Ordinance No. 11 of 16/5/2020 just approved, would
not translate the complexity of the multiple meanings that boys and girls, children and girls have given to the experience of social spacing
and the impossibility of being directly reached by the school and the peers group Good morning.
The absolutely atypical school year that is closing requires a training evaluation, adapted to the real processes made possible by the
situation. Therefore, an assessment capable of taking into account, with qualitative / descriptive instruments and not with measurements
meeting the "objectivity" criteria already shaky in normal times, let alone in abnormal times like these.
This is why I am
THE COLLEGE OF TEACHERS OF THE __________________________________ reunited on the day __________ from hours __________ to hours ______________,
visas:
Articles 3, 33 and 34 of the Italian Constitution; Article 7 of the Dlgs. 297/1994; Articles 2 and 4 of the DLG. vo 62/2017;
CONSIDED:
the health emergency and activities carried out through distance teaching;
The willingness of the teachers of this institution to end this school year amputee-force amputated by doing " seriously ", as " seriously "
have operated, taking into account the presence of Bes, DSA and disadvantaged pupils,
DELIBERA:
that the final evaluation, even with reference to what has been done during the school closing period for the Covid 19 emergency, is
organized priority in a synthetic / descriptive judgement in which observations on the cognitive (and emotional) learning paths of each
student or pupil based on the information collected and previous work done in the first part of the current school year and also taking into
account any previous school years.

https://www.facebook.com/segretario.unicobas/posts/2341764996116012

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