Shouting ‘War out of the university’, the students gathered on the lawn of La Sapienza and began walking in a procession through the avenues of the university under the watchful eye of the police. They display flags and billboards. In one you see Meloni and Netanyahu shaking bloody hands. “Throughout Italy, students are mobilizing, there is a community that does not want to get blood on its hands. The rector and the academic Senate must demonstrate that bridges with war must be severed, only in this way can bridges for peace be built “, says Filippo Girardi of Cambiare Rotta.
The demonstrators left the university city of Sapienza in a procession but were blocked by the police in Viale Regina Elena. According to what the FGC boys said, at least three boys were stopped and there were some injured. “Faced with the mobilization of today’s students, Sapienza’s response was once again an armored Academic Senate and the rapid response. The university is willing to charge its own students rather than listen to the requests of thousands of students, researchers and teachers. The Rector assume his responsibilities: immediate resignation!”, they write on social media. “During the procession they stopped two comrades, we want to reach the police station but the police prevent us from passing and charge the students. Furthermore, the Academic Senate decides condemning the massacre and asking for a ceasefire, but it is only a declaration to clear their conscience. Not a word on the agreements. No concrete intention to stop complicity in the genocide. The Senate’s response to our requests is shameful. And the police charges are shameful.” The young people from the Collettivi Sapienza coordination say it and then write on social media.
Video Students protest at Sapienza University for Palestine
“My closeness to the rector, Antonella Polimeni. What is happening at La Sapienza University is shameful. Legitimate protest can never lead to violence and abuse. The Senate’s decision highlights that the academic community does not accept impositions from a minority that would like to isolate Italian universities from international content. Research cannot be boycotted”. University Minister Anna Maria Bernini wrote this on social media.
Meanwhile, two students chained themselves to the totem in front of the entrance to the Rectorate of La Sapienza University in Rome to “request the stop of the university’s agreements with Israel and the resignation of the rector Polimeni from the Med Or foundation”.
“We are tired of not receiving answers and for this reason we will remain here until we receive them” say the students of Cambiare Rotta. For two days the girls and boys of the collectives had been in tents in the university “against the genocide”.
“We ask that today’s Academic Senate – says Cambiare Rotta – take sides against the genocide in Palestine through: the application of sanctions against Israel: blocking any collaboration with the Technion of Haifa, the Israeli universities, and the Maeci ban; the break of any research and/or teaching agreement with the war industry (Leonardo Spa., Thales Alenia and others) and with the armed forces (with the Italian Army, with the Air Force, with the Navy – like the next Mare Aperto 2024 exercise – and with NATO); the resignation of the Rector from the scientific technical committee of the MedOr Foundation of Leonardo Spa”.
“If the Rector really wants to build bridges of peace, she should immediately cut ties with war”, underline the students as they make an appointment for the garrison at 3.30pm – when the academic senate will begin – on the lawn, inside the university city.
For further information Agenzia ANSA Senate of La Sapienza University: ‘Pain for the war but no to the boycott’ – News – Ansa.it In joint session with the Board of Directors (ANSA)
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