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Benefit action: music or performance on the VU square

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Nijmegen idea: what you sow you reap (throwing seeds on campus with signs)

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Let the union have presentations and information sessions (Q&A) in departments

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Connect with student organizations, such as 3D and Green Office (the latter still has some strike posters in their window!)

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on a social media account there could be a colour code, one for general things, and then other colours per faculty / department etc, if it's specific action / meetings

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The strike date is exam week, consider moving the strike date tot the 17th, together with the UvA, to make a united front

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Pin important information (such as link to planned meetings) on top of WhatsApp group

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Connecting to the mobilization at the VU for cutting ties with oil/extractive industries. We need to build coalitions with other movements for institutional change at the VU

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organise in person events to foster sense of community

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Prepare an outline/information/data on how much cuts are planned for which faculties/domains. We can share existing information on a central level. It would be helpful to share concrete data regarding risks of loss of positions and funding at the VU

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Why not organize actions on 17 March 2025 together with the UvA?

The currently discussed date, 27 March, falls on an exam week and it is a higher treshold, especially for the first action, to cancel exams (rather than cancel a class) for the strike

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Set up a task-force of people familiar with labour law (from unions or lawyers) to prepare a leaftlet explaining the rights to strike (and the protections) for the employees, so that people can understand better what happens if they strike (or if they break a strike)

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We need to inform and build support in the student community. Potential practical idea:

Preparing visuals and announcements that lecturers can share with students (a PPT slides/poster to share, a short text etc.)

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clear communication of:

who is in charge of what (e.g. is there a steering group for wo in actie vu?)

what is already been done and what isn't/who to coordinate with if we want to organise something?

clear understanding of the distinctions and overlap between AOb/FNV/WOinActie

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Make sure not to reduce it to a single one-dimensional issue, it is all connected and therefore make room for connecting the issues (demilitarisation, xenophobia, cutting the humanities, earth sciences, removing student spaces from campus, suppressing anti-genocide organising).

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Encourage staff to mobilise students as well (sending emails, mentioning it in lectures).

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Link the budget cuts to the government spending money on the funding of genocide in Palestine

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Informative posters/flyers about the budget cuts so students understand better what it means for them/education

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Link the budget cuts to increased military spending and this way appeal to anti-war students

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Write teachers to ask if they can inform their students with a short clip at the start of the class.

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Why was the 27th picked as a date?

It's during exam week, so I worry that:

people who hold an exam that day won't want to strike because of how disruptive it would be

people who don't hold exams will strike but it won't have much impact because there are no lectures etc anyway

Wouldn't it be better to choose a day during the lecture period, so that striking would actucally be visible and disruptive, but in a way that more people can get behind?

(It's one thing to cancel a lecture because of a strike, another to cancel an exam)

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Maybe try to do a banner drop or flyer amongst the students