Art associations, SANU, PEN Center, NKSS, AICA, university and scientific workers, individuals, petition signatories, provide support for democratic organizing and student demands, stressing the urgency of their fulfillment
Associations of drama and visual artists, as well as writers, the Serbian PEN Center, the Association of the Independent Cultural Scene of Serbia, the Serbian section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), the Academic Committee for Higher Education of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, as well as numerous prominent actors in culture, university and scientific workers, supported students blocking university faculties throughout Serbia, demanding responsibility for the death of 15 people during the fall of the canopy at the Railway Station in Novi Sad, publication of documentation on the reconstruction station buildings, as well as prosecuting those responsible for attacks on students who were paying respect to the victims of that accident.
Petitions
University and scientific workers have launched a petition supporting the student demands, stating that the students are protesting the violation of civil rights, including intimidation, illegal detentions, unjustified measures of detention and incomprehensible treatment of the prosecution, both towards their colleagues and other citizens. which require the determination of responsibility for the fall of the canopy at the Railway Station in Novi Sad.
"We believe that solidarity and justice are key to building a good society and that students have always been the ones who defended them most heartily, providing a key incentive. Therefore, we provide support for democratic organization and student demands, stressing the urgency of their fulfillment", stated the initiators of the petition, which after the first days has more than 2.000 signatures.
The Center for Cultural Decontamination initiated the signing of a petition of solidarity of actors in culture with students in the blockade, which initially had one hundred signatures. They stated that "it is the moment to show with our name and surname that we recognize the language of democracy that is born from the ashes of institutions destroyed by the legal and political violence of the ruling regime".
Actors
Actors in Belgrade and Novi Sad joined the "Stop Serbia" campaign. In Belgrade, the action was held this Friday at Trg Republike, and in Novi Sad in front of the Youth Theater, from where the actors went to the Zmaj Jovina monument to join the students of the Academy of Arts.
The ensembles of 15 theaters supported the students on Saturday in the form of a video.
These are the ensembles of the national theaters of Sombor, Niš, Zrenjanin, Belgrade, Pristina, then Teatra na Brdu, Atelier 212, Yugoslav Drama Theater, Serbian National Theater Novi Sad, Belgrade Drama Theater, Terazije Theater, Boško Buha Theater, Duško Radović Small Theater, Puls Theater Lazarevac, Theater for Children and Youth Kragujevac.
UDUS and UKS
UDUS appealed to everyone to respect everyone's right to support the call of this association or not, and thus to protect each other from anyone's attempt to divide them or incite each other.
If the demands are not fulfilled by Saturday, December 21, UDUS announced that it will invite colleagues to take further steps, expressing the belief that the public and unreserved support of drama artists to students should continue until their demands are met, that is, until the blockades end.
"In a convincing and uncompromising way, the students showed that they are the conscience of Serbia", stated the Board of Directors of the Serbian PEN Center, showing solidarity with the students in their "peaceful and non-violent struggle to prosecute those responsible, to condemn and punish corruption, to establish the foundations a just society, for a future with clean hands and a brave heart".
The Association of Writers of Serbia (UKS) pointed out that "the state and society are free and democratic if they are made up of free and equal citizens." The state and society can be, in an economic sense, richer or poorer, but they are certainly fundamentally poor if their freedom, equality before the law, democracy, equality and readiness for dialogue are in a chronic deficit".
Sanu
The Academic Committee for Higher Education of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) "considers it positive that young people who strive for the highest levels of education and on whom the future of our country largely depends, have their own opinion about the society they live in and are ready to express their views clearly and express publicly", it was stated in the announcement.
ULUS and AICA
Members of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS) highlight "attacks on our fellow citizens who persist in these demands, paying tribute to the innocent martyrs in Novi Sad", considering them unacceptable.
The Serbian section of AICA expressed its support for the students and professors regarding the blockades of the faculties and joined their demands, condemning "the violence and pressures they face, both students and all the citizens of Serbia who are protesting, demanding responsibility for the crime in Novi Sad, as and for arresting activists and police torture".
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