Q: What are you protesting?
A: We are dissatisfied with the catastrophic policies that are being systematically implemented on both the global and the local level, not only within the educational system, but also in all segments of the society. Although we see their causes within a far wider context, we have found the direct motive for action in the clear intent of the government structures to gradually commercialise education, which represents the first step toward the potential privatisation of public educational institutions, that is, the property of all citizens. The right to an education is the fundamental right of every citizen of this country. Rights are not there to be bargained with, nor offered up on the market. (more…)

1. Why are you occupying the faculty instead of addressing the Ministry?
• the faculty is a public institution; we think it is legitimate to use it as a means and place for the articulation of public interests;
• the faculty as symbolic capital has great significance as a historically privileged place for articulation of critical thought (both abroad and in the local context);
• we think that socio-humanistic institutions complete their social function and responsibility for the society only when they rise critically against the processes we consider to be socially destructive; we consider commercialization to be among these processes;
• the autonomy of the University represents a strategic reserve for the articulation of positions for which there is no place elsewhere within the media and institutional space. (more…)