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¡ Viva la revolución !

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People,

I haven’t been on Tumblr for two days now, but this has a very good reason! Together with around 500 people I occupied one of our biggest lecture halls…they already started on Tuesday, I joined them on Thursday morning.

We did this to protest against the horrendous grievances in our education system and we wanted to force finally a communication with our principals. In a plenum we wrote an open letter to our principal in which we requested an open dialogue. Later, in the late evening, they refused to comment on the current situation.

First I only wanted to do my shifts to watch out for the police as we always had to fear being evacuated. Everything stayed silent until 5 a.m. in the morning. Most of the 100 people left were sleeping as some of them were already in this building for more than 2 days, some without sleep. I was cleaning the front hall when I suddenly (and not without a reason, we had some indications) got a really bad feeling. We were maybe 10 people that were awake and we discussed whether to wake up all the people or not. We hadn’t to discuss this for longer than 20 minutes as suddenly we got the news from the nightshift that there were coming 20 police vans arriving at the back of the university. Two of us ran upstairs and woke up the people which was difficult, because they were lying around everywhere in the biggest building of our university. The rest ran outside looking for the police coming.

I ran outside after waking up the people. I can’t, like some people of us who had been there, afford to get arrest and said that already in advance so we were around 20 people standing on the big place infront of our university, being closed in by hundreds and hundreds of policemen (and -women). The following three hours were exhausting, cold, all of the people who stayed in there were CARRIED outside as they refused to walk out on their own, one by one.

Note: One has to say the police was really cool. Immediately after their arrival we gave them flyers so that they were “offically informed” about our intention, they talked to us, they treated us in a good way and later in the morning, when we had our next plenum at 10, they were really nice. I think most of them were with us (one of them even said he could understand us after we thanked him for staying so calm) and just followed their orders.

The situation right now? I had to leave the plenum around noon yesterday as I just couldn’t stand on my own feet anymore and I had to drive home to my parents where I am right now.

The lecture hall in the university is evacuated, BUT another lecture hall in another university in Cologne (FH Köln) is occupied since Friday! And they are pretty much sure not to be evacuated on the weekend. Cologne is burning, we have to keep the fire alive!!  Pictures will follow.

THANKS FOR NOT TELLING ME YOU HAVE BEEN THERE!!!!!!