Description
Drawing on our past two years experiences and involvement with mobilisations in campus, this communication considers the meaning and implications of being university students and workers in this hour of genocide. As university students and workers, we have all participated in the movement, in different ways and with different degrees of involvement. We come from different cultural and class backgrounds, and we are at different stages of our lives and careers, but we all share a commitment to justice for Palestine and against imperialism, colonialism and racism in all its forms. Using the pláticas methodology, this communication has been written as a conversation, a mean to pay tribute to the horizontal and democratic spirit and processes we have witnessed and experienced during student occupations across the globe – in contrast with our institutions’ lack of transparency, censorship and unwillingness to dialogue. As such this contribution hopes to convey a story that highlights the disparity between the silence and repression imposed by academic authorities and the everyday radical praxis of students and university workers.
