Reverse Teaching Strike for Palestine

Civil disobedience action and reverse teaching strike in support of the Palestinian people. An initiative by workers of Italian Universities.

Reverse Teaching Strike for Palestine
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The campaign

The Reverse Teaching Strike for Palestine is a civil disobedience action promoted by workers of Italian Universities in support of the Palestinian people and against the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Objectives

The campaign aims to ensure that Rectors and Academic Senates of Italian universities commit to:

  • SEVER RELATIONS AND COLLABORATIONS between Italian Universities AND THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS, since boycott, divestment and sanctions – in this case, following the legacy of Palestinian protest – remain important peaceful political instruments that can exert fundamental pressure in the evolution of conflicts

  • INTERRUPT PROJECTS and every form of collaboration between Italian Universities with ENTITIES and COMPANIES directly or indirectly involved in the war industry, both in production and in the arms market, undertaking a more serious and profound reflection on the demilitarization of knowledge spaces

  • ESTABLISH AN AD HOC FUND for collaboration in teaching and research capable of SUPPORTING THE PALESTINIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM, now severely at risk, through a dedicated scientific collaboration program, with the design and application of multiple exchange forms, for material and immaterial support of school education at all levels

  • EXERCISE CONCRETE ACTION in the matter of MOBILITY JUSTICE, i.e., direct and substantial pressure by CRUI on the competent Italian institutions, so that Palestinians engaged in the cultural and research field can actually move and access educational opportunities

How to participate

This section is dedicated to sharing experiences and reporting events related to the Reverse Teaching Strike campaign.

Share a teaching experience

If you have organized or participated in reverse teaching activities, share your experience with us. Your proposals can be adopted by other teachers and students.

Submit a teaching experience

Report an event

Have you organized or know of an event related to the campaign? Let us know to include it in the national calendar of initiatives.

Report an event

What it means to join

Workers will implement a series of actions including:

  • DEDICATING PART OF LESSONS to deepening and debating with students on the ongoing genocide and related themes from historical, political, cultural and social perspectives

  • PARTIALLY REPLACING THE REGULAR CONDUCT OF THEIR LESSONS with OPEN SEMINARS IN SQUARES and/or other public places, creating a NATIONAL NETWORK of common events and open self-training for everyone

  • STARTING LESSONS WITH COMMUNICATION OF THE REASONS FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION in the civil disobedience action and reverse strike, each according to content and languages deemed most appropriate (including silence)

  • SUPPORTING other MOBILIZATIONS AND STRIKES THAT WILL BE PROMOTED

  • ORGANIZING with students AWARENESS ACTIVITIES such as EVENING FLASH MOBS, etc., in strong collaboration with civil society associations and student movements

This campaign stems from the commitment of ParTeR and other Italian academic organizations and associations for justice and peace in Palestine: ESS - Emancipatory Social Science, Sociologia di Posizione, SIAC - Italian Society of Cultural Anthropology, RUP - Research and University for Palestine, SIAA - Italian Society of Applied Anthropology, Antropolog3 per la Palestina, Sinistra Studentesca Universitaria Parma, CIAC - Immigration Asylum International Cooperation Center of Parma and province, Casa della Pace di Parma, Simbdea - Italian Society for Museography and Demo-ethno-anthropological Heritage, Iris - Tools and resources for local development, Escapes - Laboratory of critical studies on forced migrations.