Germany: More than 250,000 take to the Streets

In June pupils and students in Germany took part in mass demonstrations, occupations and blockades in the “Education Strike 2009”. Protesters demanded e.g. the reorganisation of the very clumsily introduced Bachelor and Master structures, free access to and the democratisation of the education system, smaller classes, and the scrapping of the three tiered German school system (unsurprisingly a persons’ class background and nationality largely determines where they end up).