Student network, with government security decree restricting spaces for dissent

"With the new security decree, the Government once again chooses to respond to social conflicts with new repressive measures and a tightening of sanctions, rather than addressing the root causes of the discomfort. A choice that risks compressing the right to demonstrate and the spaces for democratic participation".

This was declared by Angela Verdecchia, national coordinator of the Middle School Student Network.

"While the tools of control multiply, thousands of young people are faced with unsustainable rents, precariousness, difficulties in accessing education and a lack of prospects.

Security is not built by criminalizing dissent, but by investing in public schools, welfare, the right to housing and accessible meeting spaces. Condemning violence does not mean accepting that the protest is treated as a problem of public order."

"We are concerned by a model that favors repression over social prevention. The right to demonstrate and express dissent is fundamental in a democracy. Public resources must guarantee rights and opportunities, not fuel an exclusively punitive logic."

Verdecchia therefore relaunches the mobilization of November 20th: "Do not intimidate us. We are the Fuoriclasse generation and we do not resign ourselves to precariousness, inequalities and the absence of a future. We invite students and all social groups to mobilize for a society that puts people, knowledge and rights at the centre. Faced with more repression, we respond with more participation and solidarity".

"Our message is clear: money for schools, not for repression and wars. The mobilization continues. Towards November 20", concludes the Student Network.