#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #GREECE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Greece, APO, land & freedom:[#Thesaloniki] Evacuations and reoccupations at the Medical University of #Athens (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 On Thursday 25/8, the Self-Managing Medical Canteen of AUTH was evacuated and on

the morning of Friday 26/8, the space was reoccupied, while after an intervention
with the president of the school, all the items inside were taken back. ---- On
the morning of Thursday 8/25, the Self-Managed Medical Clinic was evacuated,
without the immediate raid of the police and laudatory announcements, but as a
sign of the new normality imposed by the educational restructuring. Taking
advantage of the dead period of the summer, the authorities moved a large part of
the hangout's equipment to an adjacent warehouse and ironed the doors to cut off
access to it. The evacuation operation is in full accord with the increased
scrutiny and sterilization of universities more broadly.

The university they evangelize and so painstakingly seek to form with the law
4777/21 offers public education to those who manage to pass the Minimum Admission
Base and secure a place in some faculty, with the risk of it being merged or
abolished and offers a useless degree. At the same time, to the uncertain future
and precariousness faced by the youth more broadly, the weight of the erasure and
the matriculation limit is added, making the degree seem like a race.

On the morning of Friday 26/8, the solidarity crowd mobilized and intervened with
the president of the Medical Department of AUTH. He himself knew very well about
the visit he would receive, that's why he had taken care to bring security trying
to delay the meeting with the solidarity world. In fact, he asked to set up a
small committee with which he would talk. When it was realized that he could not
enforce any of the conditions he was constantly setting, he was forced to come.

The president was appointed for his series of managerial achievements in
upgrading the school. He proudly stated that his department is self-funded by the
fee-paying undergrads and grads, talked about college-style upgrades to the
faculty, and how he vacated the hangout because it wasn't providing any benefit
to his business operations. He even acted unaware of the police attacks against
the students throughout the previous period.

The entrepreneurial university that the president described is the essence of
educational restructuring. Schools function as points of profit and capital
attraction, and students become customers and unpaid workers for research and
industry.

They dream of universities in their own right, full of police and ruffians,
knowledge a commodity with client relationships, student groups looking for
money, far from social needs and the class majority. The abolition of asylum, as
initiated by SYRIZA and finalized by law 4623/19, gave the green light to the
dissolution of public education and the further devaluation of the social base.

Finally the solidarity people took back the things of the hangout, cut the
soldering iron and reopened the hangout.

It becomes clear, therefore, that we are not going to let our spaces become a
ballast of their repressive and entrepreneurial views. We will defend campus
sit-ins and sit-ins with all our might, refusing to accept the transformation of
universities into completely sterile prison-like environments that reek of
repression. With our weapons of self-organization and solidarity to defend public
education - as opposed to that of class barriers -, occupations and asylum,
against the all-frontal attack of state and capital.

Quieta Movere Anarchist Student Assembly

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