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Thanks for posting this Rubén, its very helpful. We're working on
this situation at the moment. <br>
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Davyth Hicks<br>
Eurolang/ European Language Equality Network (ELEN)<br>
Brussels<br>
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On 09/01/2014 21:26, Rubén Fernández Asensio wrote:
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Dimarts/Tuesday 07.01.2014 06:00<br>
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<big><strong>Teachers in the Balearic Islands go back on strike</strong></big><br>
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<strong>The Assemblea Docents [Educators Assembly] denounce
death threats received by some strikers</strong><br>
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The teachers had announced already that the disciplinary action
filed against the director of the Marratxí High School, Jaume
March, would not go unanswered. The special <a
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href="http://assembleadocentsib.blogspot.com.es/">Assemblea
Docents [Educators Assembly]</a> that took place before
Christmas in Petra agreed to go back on strike today. It is a
one-day strike, but they have not ruled out new actions later
on. The assembly also remarked that the controversial
trilingualism decree (TIL)—in which education in Catalan was
reduced ostensibly to favor English but in reality to favor
Spanish—was not being followed in the classrooms.<br>
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The action against March was begun with the argument that the
center was not guaranteeing the right of education during the
strike, an accusation that the assembly considers 'pathetic' and
ambiguous, as well as an attempt to manipulate the education
community.<br>
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March attended the December assembly to show his appreciation
for the support that he had received since the disciplinary
action had been filed.<br>
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<strong>The green revolt, summarized in video</strong><br>
The Educators Assembly has published a video on YouTube called <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFD1qHDtCNs">AnyZero</a>,
in which they summarize in two and a half minutes the reasons
why the educational community and a broad sector of the public
in the Balearics decided to stand their ground last year against
the educational policy of the Balearic Government and the
application of the so-called Integrated Language Decree (TIL).
It is called the 'green revolt' because of the green t-shirts
worn by supporters.<br>
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The video, which includes shots of the huge demonstrations of
2013, is introduced with this text: "In 2013, the world saw a
new historic revolution and suprisingly, this time it was
educational and Mallorcan! Can you imagine if it is possible to
change the world, and if, in addition, the change begins in
Mallorca?"</div>
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<div><strong>Death threats reported</strong></div>
<div>The Assemblea Docents of the Balearic Islands denounces, via
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://assembleadocentsib.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/preocupant-mostra-de-postures-violentes.html">this
correspondence</a>, violent threats, including death threats,
against striking teachers. "In social media, the most extreme
positions are expressed with absolute impunity and already go
beyond the habitual insults that striking teachers have received
on Facebook and the No Vaig De Vaga pages. They have gone from
being offensive to being threatening, and to calling for people
to go out and carry out their threats,' said the Assembly in the
memo. Indeed, on <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/205790636259038/?fref=ts">this
Facebook group page</a>, comments have been published (in
Spanish) in the last few hours like "I want everyone who wears a
green Crida t-shirt to know that when I see you, I feel like
running you over with my car and leaving you there", "Rebellion
is a crime and in war it's punished by firing squad", or "Let's
see if the council starts the fire and roasts them once and for
all in the main square". You can read the <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/4165535/20140106/lassemblea-docents-denuncia-amenaces-mort-mestres-vaguistes.html">full
article here (in Catalan)</a>.<br>
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<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/4165568/20140107/teachers-in-the-balearic-islands-go-back-strike.html">http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/4165568/20140107/teachers-in-the-balearic-islands-go-back-strike.html</a>><br>
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