"We are here because we think it is absurd that these are the priorities of Minister Anna Maria Bernini and Crui. The priorities for them are to look for the most effective way to silence and keep students happy when we have been denouncing for months a rotten university system, which thrives on sexual harassment and blackmail to female students and researchers, who live on the right to study which is increasingly lacking, from collapsing classrooms, from public student residences which are lacking and then the important complicity with the war industries".
Filippo Gilardi of Cambiare Rotta said it at the press conference organized in front of the Crui by the student collective, in Rome, the day after the meeting between the Minister of University and Research Bernini and the rectors of Italy.
"When we have to deal with how to repress students and keep them quiet and good we see that we immediately organize ourselves to mobilize all the rectors of Italy and the minister herself", he adds.
The students point out that they have been called "intolerant", but ask themselves "who are they?".
"Are they the ones who don't want the students to intervene within the few spaces of what should be democratic bodies or are we the ones who try to carry forward the demands of the university students?", asks Gilardi again, speaking of the fact that they have not received "responses from the rector of the Sapienza Antonella Polimeni after the request to intervene in the academic senate was refused".
The students of Cambiare Rotta ask for a public university system that takes into consideration the "true needs" of students and that they are "listened to by the rectors". Also present at the conference in front of Cruiera were students from Pisa and Naples.
CamillaDiurno had chained herself in front of the prefecture after the events in Pisa, "to put what is and has been the Palestinian question back at the centre. We wanted to put students, those who are in the squares, back at the centre. The prefect had only listened to CGIL CISLLE UIL which was not there "were.
The unions who until a few weeks earlier did not want Palestinian flags at the demonstrations do not represent us", he says.
For Marta Di Giacomo, who comes from Naples, "the students of this country are not violent criminals but intolerant towards the violence of the genocide in Palestine".
"We are in the streets - she adds - to say that we students are all the same thing. There are no good guys and bad guys, the only bad guys are in the government, they are those who continue to send funding, weapons and solidarity to Israel".
The Cambiare Rotta conference in front of the Crui headquarters ended with the chants "Free free Palestine" and "Out of Israel from the university", without any tension.
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