On May 7, a protest camp of groups in solidarity with Palestine at the FU got evicted by the police. Over the last few days, we have held numerous discussions to reconstruct what exactly happened on that day and what we think the consequences should be.
This morning, the theater courtyard in the Rost- and Silberlaube at the FU was occupied by activists in solidarity with palestine. As far as we know, the university ordered a police eviction within a very short time without giving any notice. A massive police force then evicted those involved in the occupation, also using physical violence. Outside students and observers also experienced police violence in front of and inside the university buildings.
/ This statement deals with the events at the occupation of lecture hall 1a on 14.12.2023. For various reasons, we have unfortunately only been able to publish it now. It is written with the status as of January 23, 2024 and is intended as a retrospective review of the events. The anti-Semitic attack on a FU student on February 2 is therefore not yet addressed in it. You can find our statement here: //https://astafu.de/node/589/
Since October 7, various groups and individuals at Freie Universität have taken positions on the
On February 21, the Referent*innenrat (AStA) of Humboldt University published a statement, which you can find here: https://astafu.de/node/595
We are joining the statement published on February 21 by the Referent*innenrat (AStA) of Humbolt University and are therefore publishing an excerpt of it on our website. You can find the whole statement on the RefRat website here.
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It has now been almost two months since the Deutschlandsemesterticket was approved by the federal and state governments. The first contracts have been submitted to the student bodies, and for some of them the Germany Semester Ticket is already a done deal. Nevertheless, the Berlin student bodies are not entirely happy with the new ticket, as it still causes too many problems in some areas.
With this statement, the AStA would like to comment on the current events at the FU
Berlin in response to the continuing escalation of violence in Israel and Palestine. We
are primarily addressing all people at the university.
Dear Berlin Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment, Dear Berlin-Brandenburg Transport Association (Verkehrsbund Berlin Brandenburg, VBB),
With this open letter, we call on you to comply with our demands for the preservation of the solidarity-financed semester ticket.
On 23 November 2023, the student general assembly "Gemeinsam gestalten, gemeinsam bestreiken" ("Create together, strike together"), took place, organized by TVStud FU Berlin and the AStA. The following are its demands:
1) University without Tutorials?
Together with students, student workers and scientific workers, the university should be disrupted to the maximum. Additionally, creative approaches to student teaching should be tried. We want to find good agreements as to not interfere with one another.
Joint Statement of the RefRat, the faculty student initiative of the IAAW and the AStA of the FU
Dear students, faculty and staff of the Humboldt-Universität,
We would like to take a joint stand as the faculty student initiative of the IAAW and the council of lecturers on the current accusations against Andreas Eckert as well as on the problem of abuse of power at our university. This statement follows on from the previous communication from the RefRat on the case of Dr. Andreas Kohring and underlines our position on this issue.