Educators protested together for students and high school students, in order to support them. About 150 people gathered in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Friday in support of the student protests in Serbia.
Actions were held in several cities on Friday "Stop, Serbia" by which mail is awarded to those who died in the fall of the canopy of the Novi Sad Railway Station, and the student blockades continued.
Educators protested together for students and high school students, in order to support them. They also demanded the dismissal of the Minister of Education Slavica Đukić Dejanović. They are also dissatisfied with the decision of the Ministry and the Government of Serbia that the winter vacation starts on December 24 and lasts until January 20.
Many educational representatives believe that the goal is to "calm down the situation in the country", as more and more high school students join the blockades.
Support of the Independent Association of Journalists of Vojvodina
The president of the Independent Association of Journalists of Vojvodina, Ana Lalić, supported the journalism students who are blocking the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad and told them that student protests are the main news in Serbia. She said that independent journalists will do "everything to keep it that way".
"For 25 years of my career as a journalist, I have never had any stage fright, but today is how I feel because I have enormous respect for your responsibility and determination," Lalić told the students.
She added that independent journalists are helping students "in the best way possible" by reporting on all their activities and everything related to the protests.
"Our task is not to let you stop being the main news, because you are the main news in Serbia, despite all the unsuccessful attempts of the regime to divert the attention of the public in order to avoid criminal responsibility for the tragedy in Novi Sad," Lalić said.
She added that NDNV and the Coalition for Media Freedom provide "unreserved support" to the students.
"In addition to the unreserved support you have from us, you also have enormous respect for the courage you display in the fight for justice and truth," said Lalić.
Farmers will cook stew
Farmers from the Association of the Initiative for the Survival of Agricultural Producers of Serbia plan to cook stew for students from Novi Sad on Saturday as a sign of support for the protests and do not plan to give up regardless of the warning from the Security and Information Agency (BIA) that their tractors will be confiscated if they go to that point. of the city.
Blockade in Valjevo
The students of the Valjevo High School were joined in the protest blockade in front of the school today by the students of the Technical High School in Valjevo.
In the previous days, Valjevo high school students were already joined by students of the Economics, Medicine and Music schools in this city.
This time, the students were accompanied by members of the four education unions operating in Valjevo schools, who are on a one-day strike today.
The students in the blockade, despite the heavy rain, were supported by a large number of citizens of Valjevo.
At the same time, there were members of the opposition coalition "sVAnuće" in a fifteen-minute blockade on Fridays at the intersection near the main post office.
When the students of Valjevo secondary schools, after fifteen minutes of silence in front of the gymnasium, reached the main intersection, the members of the "sVAnuće" coalition stepped aside and gave way to them.
Blockade of pupils of the Zemun High School
Traffic blockades for 15 minutes, as a sign of protest for the 15 killed in the fall of the canopy of the Railway station in Novi Sad, were taken over from the students of the Faculty of Agriculture in Zemun on Friday by students of the Zemun Grammar School, led by their female teachers.
The rally, where traffic through the center of Zemun was blocked from 11:52 to 12:07, took place in silence and without incident, and citizens who were stopped in vehicles or in public transport greeted the schoolchildren and students, who numbered several hundred.
The students of the Zemun High School had previously gathered in front of the building, but the teachers recommended them to go inside, so as not to get wet, and to ask the principal for the key to the hall so that they could gather there, because that is their right.
Blockades in Novi Sad without incidents
In several locations in Novi Sad, commemorative blockades, "15 minutes of silence", were once again held on Friday in memory of the victims of the accident at the railway station in that city, when 15 people died after the canopy fell. High school students, students, educators and citizens participated in the blockade of intersections.
Educators, members of the Union of Educators of Vojvodina, gathered on Freedom Square to join the citizens who blocked Mihajla Pupin Boulevard, near the Banovina building.
After that, they continued their journey to the campus of the University of Novi Sad, in order to support the students who have been blocking the university since December 2.
The commemoration was held again at the Vojvodina Radio and Television building in Mišeluk, and the president of the Branch Union of Culture, Art and Media "Nezavisnost" Darko Šper, after the silence, read the Proclamation of the Coalition for Media Freedom and ANEM, which calls on journalists to support students in the fight for the rule of law and a free society.
Blockades were organized, as every time before, at the railway station, at the intersection near the Serbian National Theater, as well as at the Futoska market, where last week an incident was recorded when four men first tried to run over citizens with a Porsche, and then went out to they deal with them.
For the first time, high school students of the "Bogradn Šuput" School of Design blocked the large intersection of Rumenačka and Bulevar Jaša Tomić, students of the "Laza Kostić" Gymnasium, after public class, blocked Heroja Pinkija Street, and students of the "Isidor Bajić" Music School blocked Cara Lazar Blvd.
The students of the "Mileva Marić Einstein" Technical School, which has been blocked since Wednesday, again went to the intersection in front of the school today.
Support for students in Serbia from Berlin
About 150 people gathered in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Friday in support of the student protests in Serbia, writes Deutsche Welle (DW).
The gathering, symbolically, began at 11:52, at the hour and minute when the canopy of the Railway Station in Novi Sad collapsed on November 1, killing 15 people.
Mostly Serbs who live here gathered in Berlin. Actor Dejan Bućin, who lives in Berlin, spoke through a megaphone:
"All of you on the streets of the cities of Serbia, in the amphitheatres of the faculties and in front of them, all of you in the fields and in the factories, know that we are closely following the events in Serbia," he said.
"We note with concern the extent to which you are silenced, eavesdropped and provoked in the most perfidious way." Hold on," Bucin added with applause.
About 150 people gathered in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Friday in support of the student protests in Serbia.
Actor Dejan Bućin, who lives in Berlin, spoke like this: pic.twitter.com/Fw5C0MUffp
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University blockades are underway in Serbia, and the government quickly decided that school vacations would start seven days earlier, since the protest was spreading there as well.
The students demand the prosecution of those responsible for the fall of the canopy as well as the arrest of the attackers of the students.
Source: Deutsche Welle (DW)
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