Tens of Italian universities under occupation, hundreds of high schools blocked, thousands of students in the streets. The school reform proposed by the minister of education Maria Stella Gelmini has ignited the biggest wave of student protest in Italy since the 70s. The reform which entails severe cuts to the Italian public education system has managed to do what no other policy of the new Berlusconi's cabinet had managed to do: mobilising a tamed opposition and opening breaches in a public opinion which during the last two years has been effectively seduced by the artful media mogul and politician.

We will have two special guests coming from Italy to speak at the Anomalous Wave event: Paolo Do and Gigi Roggiero. They are both research students who have participated in the protests and who are part of the edu-factory project [ http://www.edu-factory.org/].