http://www.teachersolidarity.com/blog Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:07:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  Picture by Jacqui Birchall of a Morales Resident holding a Tear Gas Cannister thrown into her House by the Security Forces  Teachers in Morelos who have been striking against government plans to privatise schooling in Mexico are being vitimised and need your solidarity urgently http://www.teachersolidarity.com/blog/victimised-morelos-teachers-urgently-need-solidarity/ Rally of South Australian Teachers earlier this Year Members of the Australian Educators' Union (AEU) in South Australia are to strike on November 21st http://www.teachersolidarity.com/blog/south-australia-teachers-to-strike/ Demonstration in Morelos this Month  Teachers and communities are uniting in Southern Mexico to contest education reforms which will damage the education service. Please see previous post. If you have more information about this action please email me on mary@teachersolidarity.com or register on the forum: http://www.teachersolidarity.com/blog/morelos-strike-pictures/  Portuguese Teachers Demonstrating earlier this Year Thousands of Portuguese teachers took to the streets earlier this month to deomonstrate against damaging education reforms http://www.teachersolidarity.com/blog/thousand-of-portuguese-teachers-demonstrate/ German School Students Demonstrating Yesterday Thousands of school students the length and breadth of Germany struck and demonstrated yesterday against the worsening of their education http://www.teachersolidarity.com/blog/thousands-of-german-school-students-strike/ Teachers in Hungary are to demonstrate on November 29th against planned pay cuts. http://www.teachersolidarity.com/blog/hungarian-teachers-to-demonstrate-against-pay-cuts/ Striking Puerto Rican Teachers earlier this Year  Teachers in Puerto Rico - members of the FMPR - which staged a heroic strike earlier this year are resisting attempts by the US public service union SEIU to destroy their union http://www.teachersolidarity.com/blog/puerto-rican-teachers-resist-attempts-to-destroy-union/ Teachers' Demonstration in Mexico There follows an article about the current teachers' strike in Mexico together with a link to a more in depth analysis http://www.teachersolidarity.com/blog/behind-the-mexican-teachers-strike/  Members of JACTO demonstrating earlier this year A strike of teachers in India last week affected 40,000 schools. The teachers are all members of unions affiliated to the Joint Action Committee of Teachers' Organisations (JACTO) http://www.teachersolidarity.com/blog/indian-teachers-leaders-call-off-strike/ A Class inTanzania The Tanzanian Teachers union lodged an appeal last week against the injunction which halted their planned strike earlier this month. http://www.teachersolidarity.com/blog/tanzanian-teachers-fight-injunction/