Massive Strikes of Catalan university and high school students to defend the 1-Oct Referendum
see also latest 28/09 Catalans begin Occupying 2702 Polling Stations./ Google ordered to Delete Voting App
School students block main highways in Barcelona 27 /09/17
Student unions caledl for a mobilization from the classrooms between Wednesday and Friday.
Students are expected to block roads, occupy buildings and are supported by the teachers, and left wing unions. the State prosecutors sent warnings that teachers and parents will be held responsible for any damage.
The Student Union also convened a general strike at High Schools on Wednesday 27, and urged students to join the demonstrations planned at noon.
Representatives of platform ‘Universities for a Republic’, at a press conference (ACN)
The unitary platform “Universities for the Republic” has called a two-day strike in Catalan universities – Thursday, 28, and Friday, 29 – to denounce what they consider “the judicial and police prosecution we suffer from the Spanish State and the hidden state of emergency that has been installed in Catalonia “.
The anarchist General Confederation of Workers (CGT) of Catalonia and various smaller unions have presented a notice of call for a general strike from wed Oct 3rd. see here https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/…/catalan-referendum-c…/ ….
Catalan Police have been ordered by the Central Govt to seal off the over 2000 polling stations before Sunday and charge those responsible for allowing them, many of them school principles.
The local police have neither the capacity nor the will to break up the expected mass pickets, and National and paramilitary forces are being deployed.
The Student Platform spokesman, Jordi Vives, has demanded that next Sunday, he can vote.“That on October 1 the referendum can be held in full normality in order to start the path to the constituent process.”
The students have confirmed that they will keep up the occupation of the historic building of the University of Barcelona to make it a meeting point for the people mobilized.The Lleida and Girona Universities are also permanently occupied
The parties and organizations that support the platform and the call for strike are: AEP, AJEC, AJUP, Arran, ANJI, CEUCAT, CNJC, FNEC, Students Front, JCC, JERC, JNC, SEPC and Unió Joves Pagesos.
For its part, the Union of Students of the Catalan Countries (which includes valencia, The Balearics, parts of France..) have called for two days of strike to high school students. 
The USTEC · STEs teachers’ union has said it is supportive of the student unions and asks teachers not to hinder their mobilization or to provide evidence with academic effects these days.
The anarchist General Confederation of Workers (CGT) of Catalonia and various smaller unions have presented a notice of call for a general strike from wed Oct 3rd. see here https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2017/09/24/catalan-referendum-campaign-takes-off/
Spanish State accuses 100,000 Catalans of Sedition
Everyone in this photo below could receive eight to ten years in jail, but from ten to 15 years if they are people who are an authority. The State Attorney General has opened a case for sedition during the 20 Sept. blocking by demonstrators of police raiding Catalan Govt buildings.
The raids were by the paramilitary ex fascist Guardia Civil force, at least 5000 of whom have been drafted into Catalonia to prevent the Referendum on Independence on Sunday 1st October.The crime of sedition, included in article 544 of the Spanish Criminal Code, includes:
“Those who, without being within the rebellion offense, are publicly and tumultuously lined up to prevent, through force or extra legal channels, the application of laws or any authority, … “.
Convocades vagues d’estudiants d’universitat i secundària per defensar l’1-O
El portaveu de la Plataforma, Jordi Vives, ha reclamat que diumenge que ve es pugui votar.
“Que l’1 d’octubre es pugui celebrar el referèndum amb total normalitat per poder iniciar el camí cap al procés constituent.”
Els estudiants han confirmat que mantindran l’ocupació de l’edifici històric de la Universitat de Barcelona per convertir-lo en un punt de trobada de les persones mobilitzades.
Els partits i organitzacions que donen suport a la plataforma i a la convocatòria de vaga són: AEP, AJEC, AJUP, Arran, ANJI, CEUCAT, CNJC, FNEC, Front d’Estudiants, JCC, JERC, JNC, SEPC i Unió Joves Pagesos.
Per la seva part, el Sindicat d’Estudiants dels Països Catalans han convocat dos dies de vaga als estudiants de secundària. Són el dimecres 27 i el dijous 28. El Sindicat d’Estudiants també convoca vaga general als instituts el dimecres 27, i insta els estudiants a les manifestacions previstes al migdia.
El sindicat de professors USTEC·STEs ha dit que se solidaritza amb els sindicats d’estudiants i demana als professors que no obstaculitzin la mobilització ni posin proves amb efectes acadèmics aquests dies.
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According to Al Jazeera, the student general strike has started and hundreds of thousands of students are presently in the streets.
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“La plate-forme unitaire «Universités pour la République» a appelé une grève de deux jours dans les universités catalanes: jeudi 28 et vendredi 29 pour dénoncer ce qu’elles considèrent «les poursuites judiciaires et policières que nous subissons l’Etat espagnol et l’état caché d’urgence qui a été installé en Catalogne “.
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