Autonomous School Zürich
Education for everyone: Self-organised. Emancipatory. Together.
The Autonomous School Zurich is a project against racism and injustice. For more than 15 years, we have been organizing free courses for everyone and creating a community space. We are independent of the state and politically active.
In addition to many courses, we also look after children, run a café and even have our own football team. So we’re always looking for help with the organization, but also offer space for self-realization and learning.
Regardless of your experience, skills, ethnicity, age, gender, etc., you are always welcome at the ASZ!
The ASZ also does political work outside the school:
Together with the Alliance against Racial Profiling, we are committed to combatting racial profiling in Switzerland. We also support the alliance “Wo Unrecht zu Recht wird…” (Where Injustice Becomes Law…). This alliance campaigns against the repressive emergency aid regime for rejected asylum seekers in the canton of Zurich. We are also part of the Justice for Nzoy alliance. Delegates of the ASZ are part of the committee that organizes the charity run “Lauf gegen Rassismus” (Race Against Racism) each year in Zürich, ASZ is among the organisations supported by this charity run.
News
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Information: No new registration for people who have no previous knowledge of German
Unfortunately, we cannot take any new beginners in our German courses at the time. New courses and registration beginning 10th of February 2025.
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Event: Scenes of fleeing
How loved ones get lost in the Mediterranean while fleeing. Or how they lose themselves in the asylum process. Why women* are taking to the streets all over the world – including in Switzerland. But also: how people are joining forces to renovate an important meeting place. How we could restructure the system to empower…
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Event: The Asylum process in Switzerland
Tuesday, 28. January 2025, 18:30 / Autonomous School Zürich, Dachstock, Sihlquai 125, Zürich Anyone who applies for asylum in Switzerland goes through a procedure with an uncertain outcome. How does the asylum procedure work and which criteria are used to make which decision? Who gets “F” and who gets “B”? What rights and restrictions are…
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Between us no borders!
Refugees and migrants, undocumented and illegalised persons, temporarily admitted and rejected persons, precarious and exploited persons, second generation immigrants, and naturalised persons, people in solidarity, grassroots groups and organisations: we are all separated by visible and invisible borders, but we can overcome them together. On 28 September, we will send a strong signal in Bern:…
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Sommerferien / Vacances d’été / Summer Holidays: 15.7.-18.8.2024
The Autonomous School Zürich is on holidays from July 15th till August 18th 2024.
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Summer party
The summer holidays are just around the corner. And with that, a semester at the ASZ is drawing to a close that got off to a turbulent start: a record number of German courses challenged the school office and course organisers in the first few weeks of the semester. In the meantime, the number of…
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Camps are sickening
Many People in Zürich’s asylum camps are sick. And who isn’t sick yet, will become sick there. It doesn’t matter if in federal asylum centers (Bundesasylzentren, BAZ), transit centers (Durchgangszentren, DZ) or even return centers (Rückkehrzentren), in the camps, it is made impossible to live a healthy and dignified life. Together with those directly affected…
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Solidarity with Wilson A.
Not an isolated case! 14 years without justice – info-event about the trial of Wilson A. Racist police violence is systematic and is covered up by the authorities in the vast majority of cases. This makes it all the more important that those affected and activists from various cases network with each other. At the…
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Holidays from 23.12.23 – 07.01.24
The Autonomous School of Zurich will be closed from 23 December 2023 to 7 January 2024. We will be happy to welcome you again in the new year from 8 January 2024. We wish everyone a good end to the year!
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Information event on legal issues concerning Afghan refugees
We cordially invite you to our information event on November 30, 2023. The event will take place together with Freiplatzaktion Zürich at the Autonomous School Zürich. Topics of the evening At this information event, we will talk about the new regulations for refugees from Afghanistan. We will go into more detail on legal questions regarding…