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demonstrations // german // 7 Min // 28.10.2009
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Student uprisings in Austria are expanding. It's not only universities in Vienna that have been occupied, resistance is also stirring in the provinces. Several non-students are expressing their solidarity with the protesters, as a a preliminary peak of the movement showed: Between 10.000 (according to the police) and 50.000 (according to the organisers) protesters were demonstrating in Vienna alone, demanding an immediate improvement of the Austrian education system.
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El Ocaso del Miedo, un cortometraje documental que presenta una secuencia viva que retrata las calles de Santiago en el contexto de las movilizaciones estudiantiles por la educación gratuita, siendo un testimonio audiovisual del enfrentamiento entre los manifestantes y el fuerte estado policial.
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length: 16 min
| date: 30.08.2011
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| On the 10th Anniversary of the Bologna Declarations, 47 ministers of education met at the Hofburg in Vienna. The Bologna process is a political project aiming at creating a single European Higher Education Area by 2010 and putting the economic usability of degrees in the center of attention. Students from many countries formed a large demonstration, moving from the Western Train Station to the Hofburg, to ... more |
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length: 4:41 min
| date: 11.03.2010
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| At least 8,000 students from all over Europe were marching through Vienna in order to protest against negative effects of the Bologna process (see also: Reclaim your Future). |
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length: 6:15 min
| date: 11.03.2010
| video-hits: 1.063
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| In the morning of December 21, 2009, Rector Winkler unexpectedly ordered the eviction of the Main Lecture Hall at the University of Vienna, which had been occupied by students for most of the semester. In the afternoon, students formed a spontaneous protest march. We have followed their march from the C1 lecture hall on the university campus (still occupied at that time) via Mariahilfer Straße (in full ... more |
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length: 6:15 min
| date: 21.12.2009
| video-hits: 204
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| The UniversityBurns compilation, bringing various music genres together, was presented at the University of Vienna’s main lecture hall on December 18, 2009. The United Aliens TV team was actually just there to film Monomania, one of the performing bands (so that’s why you will only see footage of this one band in the video). However, the CD project turned out to be so interesting that we were eager to get to know ... more |
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length: 8:55 min
| date: 20.12.2009
| video-hits: 822
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| During the 2009 student protests, on the occasion of both Mozart’s and the Austrian sculptor Alfred Hrdlicka’s day of death, a small delegation from Salzburg made a performance at Hrdlicka’s memorial against War and Fascism at Albertinaplatz in Vienna. |
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length: 4:30 min
| date: 06.12.2009
| video-hits: 126
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| Even in the southern Austrian province of Carinthia, resistance against the grievances at educational institutions is rising. At the University of Klagenfurt, a group of students has joined the protests and created its own movement. Considering the usual agony, which is still predominant in post-Haider Carinthia, we are taking our hats off to their determination. |
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length: 6:30 min
| date: 23.11.2009
| video-hits: 204
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| It's been a while since the Viennese Burgtheater Burgtheater was an arena for open controversies. These days, the building appears slightly dusty amidst the beginning Christmas trade (i.e. the Christmas market on nearby Rathausplatz). Both university students and their ... more |
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length: 7 min
| date: 14.11.2009
| video-hits: 1.416
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| The student protests continue with a country-wide action day comprising different activities and demonstrations all over Austria. We accompanied one of the two protest maches heading at Urban-Loritz-Platz in Vienna and spoke to some of the protesters about their demands. |
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length: 5:40 min
| date: 05.11.2009
| video-hits: 7.322
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| Two weeks ago, students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna occupied the assemly hall of the university building at Schillerplatz (see also Malen nach Zahlen). They triggered off a movement which took hold of the whole country. We asked the occupants about their motivation, if their demands have changed since the start of the protests and how ... more |
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length: 8:20 min
| date: 02.11.2009
| video-hits: 1.000
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| More than a week ago, students have occupied parts of the Karl Franzens University in Graz, namely the pre-clinic (further information: Uni Graz gehört uns). The structures of the sit-ins are similar to the ones taking place in Vienna: bottom-up protest without any responsible organisers or spreakers. Everyone – not ... more |
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length: 6:20 min
| date: 30.10.2009
| video-hits: 868
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| Student uprisings in Austria are expanding. It's not only universities in Vienna that have been occupied, resistance is also stirring in the provinces. Several non-students are expressing their solidarity with the protesters, as a a preliminary peak of the movement showed: Between 10.000 (according to the police) and 50.000 (according to the organisers) protesters were demonstrating in Vienna alone, demanding ... more |
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length: 7 min
| date: 28.10.2009
| video-hits: 3.740
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| Starting with the student protests at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna – which lead to the occupation of parts of the Academy building on Schillerplatz on October 20 – resistance is stirring at Austrian universities. It is mostly directed against the implementation of a new curriculum system based on bachelor and master studies, but also more generally against business-oriented organisational structures, cuts, ... more |
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length: 6:30 min
| date: 23.10.2009
| video-hits: 1.584
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| An activist describes the current events at the occupied Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna along with some recordings of the first night at the likewise occupied Audimax (major lecture hall) of the University of Vienna. |
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length: 2 min
| date: 22.10.2009
| video-hits: 429
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| Avid for power, the strongest Austrian party SPOe (Social Democratic Party) needs to undermine it's own objectives after the parliamentary elections in order to be able to form a coalition. The party drops it's main pre-election promisses, including the largest and most prominent one: the abolition of university fees (introduced by the previous government). The sellout: students who agree to do 60 hours of work ... more |
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length: 6:30 min
| date: 17.01.2007
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| About 400 protestors gathered for a rally under the Motto "Gehrer, step back" to the ministry of education on Moniritenplatz in Vienna, demanding the minister of education Ms. Gehrer to step back from her office. It soon became clear what should be the next step after that. As shown without any doubt in the footage, the Police broke the ban on wearing of masks at demonstrations once more. Protesters were in good ... more |
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length: 5 min
| date: 26.01.2005
| video-hits: 65
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In autumn 2004, the Austrian student council ÖH wittnessed a sudden reform on student representation. Direct elections on the federal level were abolished, funds and compentences were cut. This will weaken the groups currently dominating the federal student council (mostly affiliated with the social democrats and the greens) and strengthen conservative student groups (affiliated with the ruling ÖVP).
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length: 4 min
| date: 09.12.2004
| video-hits: 55
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| In April 2-3 2004, various Austrian initiatives joined the European action days for a more social Europe. At least 1700 high school and university students joined a protest rally against the policy of low spending for schools and universities. |
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length: 2:30 min
| date: 02.04.2004
| video-hits: 51
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| Students gathere around the University of Vienna to hug it and defend it from the hardliners in the presidency. |
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length: 1:25 min
| date: 21.01.2004
| video-hits: 4
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