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State agents invade the universities of the country on the eve of the 2nd shift

FEDERAL POLICIES, MPS AND PROSECUTORS QUESTION TEACHERS, VETO ACTIVITIES, DEMOLISH BANNERS AND CONFISCATE MATERIALS

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  October 25, 2018 at 9:47

Federal Police penetrated this morning to the headquarters of the Teachers' Union in Campina Grande, Paraíba / Reproduction / Assembly

With the approach of the second round, prosecutors, federal and military police, at the behest of judges or after student inquiries, penetrated public universities across the country to question, intimidate and confiscate materials, as well as to order the repeal of communiqués. The prerogative of the judges is that the materials constitute a campaign for the candidate Fernando Haddad (PT).

On the morning of Thursday (25), armed federal police joined  Association Professor of the Federal University of Campina Grande  (ADUFCG) after a house search and arrest issued by the election judge Horacio Ferreira de Melo Junior, who collect  "Manifest defending democracy and public university"  , signed by a  union and approved by the Assembly category,  they also took the hard disk of the computer from the press office of the Union of Teachers.

"This manifesto has  referenced this content and [reverberates] the full defense of our Union, the  Andes , democracy, democratic freedoms, the defense of the public university, freely and qualitatively, secularly, socially, and finally, the political content of the manifesto collides with one Request that in a way violates this flag, "said Tiago Neves, professor of psychology and social director of ADUFCG.

Manifesto seized by the PF of ADUFCG. Photo: reproduction

Still in Paraíba, men who presented themselves as members of the Regional Electoral Tribunal (TRE)  were interviewing a teacher at the State University of Paraíba on Wednesday (24)  .

"Prosecutors with no documentation and wearing the TRE jacket entered the classroom of a teacher to investigate allegations that a candidate was being promoted,  apparently he was not."  The teacher was working on content from the screening of a movie and they were gone, "said Nelson Júnior, the university's faculty president, in a statement on social networks.

"We want teachers to continue working with their content, the  freedom of political debate is present in our society,  you can not vote in the university's rooms, but you can discuss the political and programmatic content, because  we live in a democracy ", the association president protested.

In another episode, Tuesday (23), police invaded the  Federal Fluminense University (UFF)  in Niterói  to remove an anti-fascist flag that  contained none of the candidates. The  Federal University of São João Del Rei  (MG) also received a letter of notification on Wednesday, which ordered the withdrawal of the grade from the Federal University of São João del Rei in favor of democratic principles and violence in the 2018 presidential election, signed by the Rectorate of the institution. You have 48 hours to remove the contents of the air.

First paragraphs of the UFSJ manifesto. Photo: reproduction;

"The violence affecting minorities in our society today - blacks, Indians, quilombolas, LGBTI +, people with disabilities, women - is spreading to groups that are against the doctrine of one of the candidates, the  university itself, a necessarily democratic, In this context of violence and disrespect for democracy, the pluralistic environment of knowledge production, art and culture has threatened their own existence, "states the University's Communication.

While  lecturing on  fake news  in social media, the Social Sciences course at the  State University of Pará (UEPA), Professor Mario Brazil had his class invaded by the military police. The incident was reported in  a public note from the union of UEPA teachers:

"Professor Mario Brazil said that during a lesson in which he asked students to photograph their slides, he jokingly said they should not make fake messages with these pictures  , so one of the students was insulted as being indirect to them After understanding and leaving the room  , the student's father entered the university accompanied by police officers who inquired of the teacher and forced him to go to the police station to clarify the situation,  and the teacher wisely refused to inform him. that he would only appear with his union and his lawyers and seek dialogue with those present, and at the  moment the police gave up the action, "he said.

According to  the UEPA geographer and Professor Daniel Sombra  , the event is "a clear precedent for university autonomy, plurality of thought, respect for the traditions of the social sciences and restriction of freedom of thought".

In another violation of university autonomy, Judge Rubens Witzel Filho issued a letter of notice to the University of Grande Dourados (MS) on Thursday (25) banning the public class "Crush fascism" on the same day at 10:00 the University.

Mandado used at the Federal University of Campina Grande. Photo: reproduction

Souvenirs made of lead

Eleonora Menicucci,  sociologist  and professor of  public health at  the  Federal University of São Paulo  (UNIFESP), is the situation of concern and concern as these attacks are a blow to university autonomy.

"The only time in my life that they did not have what we did not have was during the time of the civil-military dictatorship, yet  it was expensive to enter the universities, and that worries me a lot."  It's a censorship of thinking 'It's a critique of knowledge and knowledge,' said the sociologist.

Menicucci shows that thinking, knowing and knowing exactly what they are when they are in a social practice: "And this social practice is the manifestation of opposites. Students and faculty and staff who are the tripod that makes up the university must manifest complete freedom. " 

The  Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, PUC-SP, which had been invaded by the forces of repression in 1977 with the arrest of several students their campus, and burned down its theaters, manifested today "  to all manifestations of hatred, intolerance and embarrassment cleared away any kind, in contrast individual and collective, political, economic, social, racial and gender of the entire Brazilian population, to establish the Constitution right  away  . "

The note states that "defending the interests of the Brazilian people, its workers, and the most vulnerable and vulnerable people that is the prime objective of our actions" is now at risk, and stated that they "join those who have one a broad trade union movement that will enable a future that guarantees social justice and full access to the well-being of the Brazilian people as a whole. "

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