Students against Occupation will be ready with coffee and cake for a dialogue with the University of Copenhagen all day Wednesday. Students against Occupation have no plans to leave their tent camp on the University of Copenhagen campus, even as summer vacation approaches. This was made clear at a press conference Tuesday evening, where three spokespersons from the movement participated. “We have a sense that it is being deliberately drawn out, maybe in an attempt to pull us into the summer vacation. But of course, we have no plans to leave just because summer vacation is starting,” one of the spokespersons stated.
They will be sitting with cake and coffee in the camp on campus ready for a conversation with the university management and board on Wednesday, they said. The press conference Tuesday evening follows a statement from the university to stop the dialogue with the students. Previously, meetings had been held between the students and the university management. But the university has stopped the dialogue after a blockade in front of the university’s administration building on Friday. The University of Copenhagen wrote Tuesday morning on X, that “you cannot threaten, harass, or destroy your way to a special right at our university.”
However, this statement is an “disproportionate overreaction,” according to Students against Occupation. “We think it is a gross misrepresentation to describe the blockade as threatening, harassing, or destructive. It was not Students against Occupation who were behind it, but we have seen pictures and videos. All we have seen shows a constructive and good dialogue between the demonstrators, KU’s (University of Copenhagen) workers, and the police, who did not intervene but were simply present,” one of the spokespersons said. It is noted that only administrative staff were denied entry. No students were denied education.