[lg policy] Catalonia: Teachers in the Balearic Islands go back on strike over so-called "trilingualism decree"

[Davyth Hicks]

Thanks for posting this Rubén, its very helpful. We're working on this 
situation at the moment.

Davyth Hicks
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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
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> *Teachers in the Balearic Islands go back on strike*
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> *The Assemblea Docents [Educators Assembly] denounce death threats 
> received by some strikers*
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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 Assemblea Docents [Educators Assembly] 
> <http://assembleadocentsib.blogspot.com.es/> 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.
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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.
>
> March attended the December assembly to show his appreciation for the 
> support that he had received since the disciplinary action had been filed.
>
> *The green revolt, summarized in video*
> The Educators Assembly has published a video on YouTube called AnyZero 
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFD1qHDtCNs>, 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.
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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?"
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> *Death threats reported*
> The Assemblea Docents of the Balearic Islands denounces, via this 
> correspondence 
> <http://assembleadocentsib.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/preocupant-mostra-de-postures-violentes.html>, 
> 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 this Facebook group page 
> <https://www.facebook.com/groups/205790636259038/?fref=ts>, 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 full article here (in 
> Catalan) 
> <http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/4165535/20140106/lassemblea-docents-denuncia-amenaces-mort-mestres-vaguistes.html>.
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> <http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/4165568/20140107/teachers-in-the-balearic-islands-go-back-strike.html>
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> Rubén Fernández Asensio
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