Friday, November 9:
AG at 12:30: strike, blockade and occupation are Revote (465 votes for and 250 voting against blocking) as well as demands :
- The abrogation of the LRU
- Stopping the process of merging the three universities of Aix-Marseille.
- Re-engagement of the financial state universities
- Increasing the number of posts CAPES
also called the AG to participate in Day of Action 14 and 20 November with the railway workers and public employees to bring our demands to the streets and reaffirm our determination to defend the public service.
The day looks set but in the afternoon, the presidency of the university, which trades on each board's procedures for implementing the LRU, we threat of police intervention to dislodge us from our own premises, claiming security reasons that were never met at the Faculty of Letters of Aix-en-Provence since its construction. It attempts to discredit the struggle of students.
Still, the students decide to follow the decisions of the GA and in the evening, occupying the university. It finally later in the evening that do u fifteen vans of riot police will be out of the 80 students strength of the faculty!
Everyone is indignant: indeed is the first time in the history of the university that the forces Agenda occur on this campus! Even during the strikes of 68 or 95 they had not intervened!
From that moment, the university president (who decided this action unilaterally) decide the administrative closure of the building Schuman University of Provence ...
Thus, following the decision of the AGM on November 7, student activists spend their first night in college: we talk (a lot), we debate (much), it coordinates (Much). It prepares the next day by consolidating dams, making banners. Amid chants and discussions are held with a service order to avoid unwanted intrusions ... Fortunately the lecture halls are heated and activists spend a quiet night!
Thursday 8 :
blocking is in place , but according to the vote of the GA is blocking the "flexible" can still move personnel (researchers, administrators) and students CAPES and aggregates.
activists are organizing to set up problems and conflicts and prepare actions and discussions to come. We learn that Paris X simultaneously, Pau, college of science and that of Caen Montpellier II also voted blocking.
Afternoon an event is held in Aix in response to the call for a day National Action issued by the national coordination meeting in Toulouse on 27 and 28 October 2007 . It has between 700 and 800.
Graphic design: © Alexander & Jessica Romero Poaty 
the evening, barricades are ready. Students are reclaiming space. In a corner kitchen improvised. Behind the barricades are decided following the mobilization. The univesité become what it should always be: a place for debate, information sharing. For the first time in years the students are no longer shadows in the corridors but be willing to share and exchange ideas. With the occupation a real sense of community. 
After the General Assembly organized the students to build dams with tables and chairs that prevent them being held. 
blocking doors are made with tables and chairs 
The meeting General who was voted the blocking mass. 
Trade unions protest against the attitude of the presidency of the University of Provence.
The facts are: Tuesday, October 30, following incidents at a share student information, management makes a unilateral decision to close the site until Schuman further notice. Responding to the call of the President, leaders of trade unions say they are unanimously opposed to the closure of the site, they describe the error. Despite this, President maintains its decision.
It also agreed a second meeting with union leaders Monday, November 5 Schuman Centre at 7.30am, to discuss the immediate reopening of the site, and a meeting general staff, later called by the Chair.
However, although no new event has been introduced Tuesday in any emergency, the management of the University decides to change these provisions, without any formal notification to the unions. It is by leakage (an email from a director of the Faculty teachers UFR) we learn that AG is convened by the Presidency on the site of St. Charles, Monday, November 5 - Schuman the site remains so closed that day. And what is that on Friday at 14:30, the Chair informed the unions finally, by a telephone call to their secretaries, the meeting management / union will be held in St. Charles at 9 am and general meeting at 10.30am. The management announced its intention to formally convene the AGM on the evening of Friday through the website of the University (at the time of writing this release, the information is still not passed). She also asked the unions to relay information.
We protest strongly against these measures that are similar to a vulgar manipulation, as well as against the lockout of the Schuman Centre, the incidents did not warrant any Tuesday morning.
This is a blatant provocation of making believe, claiming some flooding individual students are troublemakers who threaten the order and serenity of the University. The future of our university, like all universities in France, can be decided without the participation of students, those most concerned, who have also shown in the past sense of responsibility.
We finally recall that there is no other emergency at the University of Provence, that the university crisis in general, aggravated the crisis law known as "LRU", and he probably should expect a movement of staff and students against this law, as is already the case in other establishments.
We support any initiative to make the debate more democratic. If the President of the University wishes to convene a general assembly, we invite you to do it publicly, transparently and without seeking to exclude anyone by attempts to reduce information. We also invite to make the agenda of this General Assembly the question is really at stake in the current period for the university: the law "LRU" and the merger of three universities - the agenda is still not announced, it is unclear how the issue of organization and mobilization of legitimacy could be one.
The attitude of management, provocative, also reveals a serious mistrust vis-à-vis students, or organizations representing staff and students, and the choice of solutions maneuverability rather than creating a respectful and responsible debate. We already hold management responsible for the consequences that they might have. These measures, which confirm an abusive interpretation of the incidents on Tuesday, are hurting students by depriving them of education and violating their rights. We redemandons the opening of the site without waiting Schuman, we protest against the role that management wants us to take and we reaffirm our right to call the AG in a public and democratic.
Aix, Saturday, November 3, 9:30
The Inter Centre Aix-SNESUP FSU, UNSA Education, FERC-CGT SUP
Press
For several weeks, students and university staff are mobilizing to seek the repeal of Pécresse Law on "freedoms and responsibilities of universities." This law regulates the dismantling of public services of higher education and prepare it for privatization.
Today Tuesday, October 30, 2007 when a filtering device was put in place to inform all users of the University to hold a general meeting, some members of the presidency have attacked the Students who were disseminating leaflets. While things went peacefully, this attitude of the presidency appears to be an unacceptable provocation. Following this altercation, the Presidency has decided to unilaterally the administrative closure of the site Schuman of the University of Provence until Monday, November 5.
Despite this maneuver, which was aimed at preventing students to meet in General Assembly (GA), it has been held, bringing together nearly one thousand students. Students have a huge majority reaffirmed their determination to see this law repealed. This General Assembly has called a massive reinvestment in the state of higher education and supports the struggle of workers in defense of public service. In this sense, the GA calls to join the strike and protests planned for November 20. A demonstration involving between 250 and 300 students was then held in the streets of Aix-en-Provence.
We call on all students and university staff to continue and expand the mobilization until the repeal of the Act and Pécresse to meet in general assembly on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 12:30 pm in the Great Hall of the college of letters from Aix en Provence.
mobilization committee of Aix en Provence.
Photo taken Tuesday, October 30, around 9:30, when the altercation between board members and students disseminating leaflets.
Photo taken during the same day at 11am, during the General Assembly for students on the steps of the college of letters. The VP Chairman reads the press release stating that the evacuation of the university is made for reasons of "sécuritée.
