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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28./29. August: Enough-Festival at Parkplatz
On 29 and 30 August, a place will be created on Park Platz (www.park-platz.org) in Zürich where various groups, initiatives and projects will report on their work and share their experiences. These are days of networking, mobilisation and critical debate, with a diverse programme of different contributions – with the aim of raising people’s awareness…
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Programme politique: La Charte de Lampedusa
L’Ecole Autonome de Zurich a decidé d’accepter la Charte de Lampedusa comme programme politique. Le texte sur cette page est une version courte.
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Open letter from the ASZ on the political situation and the talks with the city
The Autonomous Schule Zürich (ASZ) will continue its courses with immediate effect in part of the former ZHdK premises at Sihlquai 125. The self-organized migrant education project has thus found a space in the middle of the city for its continued existence. The ASZ is willing to continue talks with the city. A longer-term stay…
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“There must be a place for the autonomous school” – the ASZ in the university
It was both a familiar and unfamiliar picture that presented itself on Monday afternoon in the atrium of the University of Zürich. Familiar in the sense that more than a hundred people were gathered at the round tables studying their worksheets, learning vocabulary and engaging in lively discussions. Unusual in that most of them were…
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Turning Sechseläutenplatz into a classroom
Over 150 course participants, facilitators and activists from the Autonome Schule Zürich (ASZ) turned Sechseläutenplatz into a classroom this Friday afternoon, November 6. The self-organised education project is still looking for a new school building. Lessons in the open air – here we go! #zuerimachplatz for the #asz! pic.twitter.com/h5e4Xrbjfd — ASZ (@aszbfa) 6. November 2015 Education…
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ASZ and Right to Stay activist driven to suicide by the deportation policy– protest today at 16:00 Helvetiaplatz
“I don’t know what will happen next. Every time I go out, I pray to God that will come back again.” On 2.5., the ASZ and Right to Stay activist Moncef S. was found dead in in the cellar of his former flat. He had committed suicide. Moncef had been in deportation detention since mid-March.…
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Suicide of an ASZ and Right to Stay activist because of impending deportation: 500 people stage a protest
On 2.5., the ASZ and Right to Stay activist Moncef S. was found dead in in the cellar of his former flat. He had committed suicide. Moncef had been in deportation detention since mid-March. As he learned about his impending deportation last week, he tried to take his own life in the airport prison. He…
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A Successful ASZ campaign in the Municipal House
The entire lesson revolved around the question of how the school should get a new school building. This is because the ASZ has to leave its current location at the Güterbahnhof at the end of April and despite an intensive search, it has not yet found an alternative. A school instead of prisons Right on…
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A brochure for room search
The ASZ has produced a brochure to help homeowners search for rooms effectively. It can be downloaded here and used for your own information or to pass on to others. Answers from property owners
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Supporters organisations, groups and individuals
When the ASZ had to leave its barracks on the Güterbahnhof site in spring 2013, it launched a solidarity campaign to find broad support for its project. As the following list of individuals and groups shows, we succeeded: The Autonomous School Zurich (ASZ) urgently needs a new space. At the end of March, it will…