Press review: Il Manifesto October 18.
PROCESSIONS The embrace between the school and base unions
30 000 in Milan a lesson
Mariangela Maturi
MILAN
The 30 thousand people march against the Gelmini and cuts to the school as one comment: "They were years that I could not see an event like this." It is not just a matter of numbers but of quality of participation: the smile of a boy of twenty years, even identifying his professor in the group of teachers, pursues him and greeted him with a "good prof" Milan is not that more can. 'Stuff ever, especially for those who know the school and knows what it means to be on opposite sides of the chair, "says a teacher. An even more striking, given that many Milanese have gone to swell the huge procession in Rome.
E 'success because The school has towed his irrepressible heterogeneity also seizing the march called by the grassroots unions. In the square, the members of Cub and Cobas, as expected, but also many "rebel" members and trade union CGIL. People who have no intention of waiting on 30 for the general strike. Rather than make it two, and rushed in a procession with faculty, students, technical and administrative staff of institutions of all levels. Even the staff of the State University group that adheres to the FLC CGIL has joined in the mass, and the university it was half closed. Such as schools, which according to the Cobas in the big cities come to peaks of 60% for membership in the strike. "For once brought together all the square, "says Michele Corsi Network schools.
The colorful snake collection of primary schools around the world: there are teachers, parents and children, many belonging to schools and groups self-organized network of institutions. Their parade starts Missori. A few hundred meters away, in another square, the footage of the students meet in dribs and drabs after the pegs before the various universities and high schools. Open dance colleges with sound system crammed on vans, followed closely doctoral fellows under the auspices of "The future belongs to those who research," closes the footage of the various university faculties and academies.
at Porta Romana, the two processions meet. And there, the miracle. By the two sides will look, smell it from afar. The cordons of police separating them melt on the sides of the course and to the applause students throw themselves into the arms of their teachers. That receive them, because this time we feel united. The event is now a single, double, mixes, blends: the Minister of Education was able to pull off a miracle. Everywhere you turn, the climate is positive: on the one hand, a teacher guide icy unleashed his class and shrugs: "What should I do about it, are boys." Across a small child holding the hand of her mother and that of the teacher. The back carries a color chart: "We defend and Anna Francis." And when asked who they are, made a surprised face, "The teachers should perhaps go away." Jump to explain what will happen to the school. Other than Anna and Francis. The parade of yesterday there were Lucia, Paolo and Manuela, who when they pass in front of a private school they watch their peers at the window and mitered to say, "Come down, come on ... What are you doing there?", Showing the banner "Mariastella you do the janitor."
"A very positive result - said Luciano Muhlbauer, Regional Councillor PRC - confirming the national trend anti-Gelmini. Let us rejoice today, but we have a lot of foresight in looking to the future. " All right, that is. The school is appropriate on this day e delle strade di Milano. Un giovane cammina con il cartello «Io voglio fare ricerca», alla sua sinistra procede anche la maestra «Non una di meno». Davanti a loro, uno dei tanti iscritti alle scuole primarie, «I bambini migranti sono la nostra ricchezza». C'è anche un fuoriprogramma, quando dal palazzo della Borsa viene srotolato uno striscione con 95 tesi sulla precarietà.
Dopo qualche ora, tutti a casa a piedi, ché non ci sono mezzi. Gli universitari si spostano alla facoltà di Scienze politiche, dove un'assemblea decide per l'occupazione e la «notte bianca» di protesta, in attesa degli «Stati generali» dell'istruzione organizzata per martedì prossimo. Il bello deve ancora venire, so do those two little boys shouting "Oh Professor, I'll see you tomorrow." And for once, are almost happy to go to school.
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