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Student protests on Hamburg University)

Ahnert-Rohlfs Protest Zone - Hamburg University - Planet Hamburg:

Protests and hunger strikes are taking place on Hamburg University campus, students of the free-association movement "Rockers Of Knowledge" and several splintering faculties are objecting to new controversial NDA by-laws, with claims this would lead to a truth designed for profit and shareholders, not for the public benefit.

The new measures dubbed the Imperial Academics Security Act (Abbv: IASA) have been quietly added under proposed revisions into the annual funding agreements made between Hamburg University Administration (Abbv: HUA), the Imperial treasurer of Hamburg, and Geschiet Logistik Contributions. (The latter a Non-Profit GmbH subsidiary of Imperial Shipping).

Several clauses and their sub-contents aim to patent and copyright-protect all recording & publishing of information, sourced either on or from the campus, including information gathered from equipment off campus relating to emissions sourced within HUA property. Furthermore, academic pursuits and developments are being restricted to patent and copyright holders, most of those being Geschiet Logistik Contributions partnerships and those under contractual agreements conducted on HUA-owned facilities and property.

The protest zone is a region around the stellar cartography laboratories of the Ahnert-Rohlfs campus and its plaza. Organizers are disrupting public transport access to the campus on both surface and subterranean levels, with protestors erecting barricades in transit tunnels to counter university security responses. Imperial riot police have been deployed in limited numbers to assist university security efforts, and to contain protests from expanding beyond the campus. Neighbouring subterranean access routes have either been blocked off by police to delay supporters getting into the protest zone, or are facing direct opposition from the protestors themselves. Several arrests have taken place on the outside of the defined protest zone, many of those have been charged with suspicions of supporting protestors, or obstruction of justice.

Small organized counter-protests, led by the Conservative Education Forum, have assembled in recent days outside the campus. Their stance, as described by representative Ernest Schroeder were that: "HUA amendments to the IASA are necessary to the education and employment security of future students," and that the free-association blockade of the Ahnert-Rohlfs campus "Purposefully impair Rheinland's industrial growth and security." Neural net comments from Conservative Education Forum affiliates described student protestors as "Influenced by foreign affairs to stop Rheinland's technological progression." While some individuals said to "Send them to get a degree on Hammersee instead." None of the counter-protestors willing to give statements are related to any of the Hamburg University faculties or enrolled there as students.

With university security and police forces restricting the entrance of independent media and other commuters. Once our teams had established the opinions of those active outside the student and faculty protests, we couldn't settle knowing that alone, especially without speaking to those inside the protest zone. We'd met a few households within the residential blocks near the protests; many were supportive of their students taking part in the free-association protests. While some had even made phone calls to those within the protest zone to try and help our journalists get inside. Those involved wanted to remain anonymous in fear of state retaliation for their solidarity with the protestors.

But our journalists had gained their ticket into the protest zone, thanks to the efforts of activist students taking part in supply efforts from above the permafrost surface. We were told to report as freely as we wanted, as long as we also ferried enough medical supplies and food rations through the cramped, disused maze of service tunnels.

Once inside the plaza of the Ahnert-Rohlfs campus, it was clear that the political motives were common to everyone present here: 'direct action in the name of public concern', and feeling that state censorship will ultimately bury certifiable evidence collected by independent observers. Many had participated to object and resist corporate interests becoming paramount in faculty affairs, especially over the truth in scientific experimentation -- hoping it's not too late to be ignored.

The "Rockers of Knowledge" are the student led left wing free-association group that have taken up a majority of the organising, stating they were mobilizing to support professors and tutors in their roles while protests are ongoing, some have set up streaming systems and ad-hoc neural net broadcasting equipment to allow professors to lecture for free, even if some are hunger striking during this heavy labour of love for their work. Their aim is to openly host and publish as many of the findings as possible in defiance of the IASA, allowing some live seminars to be broadcasted within the protest zone, even with monitoring equipment liberated from the University's own labs. Students both independent and of the free-association were forming lines against security forces near the tunnels outside, and co-coordinating their actions and protestor needs in and around the protest zone.

Astrologists & Astrophysicists professors were furious about the restriction made by the NDA by-laws, openly educating about the emissions they found relating to the Hamburg University explosion with a deamnd for the public to develop from them, and distributing the Bundschuh release of confidential documents that discredit the MND report of a lone Unioner terrorist and a conventional high-explosives being used. Physicists consider the epicenter of the Hamburg University blast 'hot', akin to a fission meltdown of unfathomable energy, yet any findings can't be published unless agreed to by Imperial Shipping. Many taking efforts to distribute them in similar fashion to state banned literature.

Environmentalists within the protestors consider this a step closer to a "manufactured Munich disaster" and accusing Imperial shipping of covering up its mistakes. Even medical faculties of both students and professors from neighboring campuses have arrived, in concern of the health effects from lingering emissions, and to provide medical assistance to protestors.

But all were present knowing what they supported would put them at risk with the HUA, their future careers, and their own personal safety from state retaliation.

One hunger strike activist is sociology professor Ines Rüttinger, who had joined the free-association during the beginning of the protest had said "I do not fear the silence of my mouth and stomach anymore; I fear the silence of the truth." She'd spoken with news teams between her broadcasted lectures in the subterranean plaza close to student dormitories. "Ja, the sight of all these people here today -- wunderbar!... You speak to any dedicated scientist or professor here today, it doesn't matter about their field, there is nothing more important to them than getting the facts correct before they can conduct their work."

"And today, the HUA and their financiers told us that they want us to work 'without the facts'. I can only see this as an expansion on the §2.5. subversive conduct law, but against scientific reality!" Ruttinger has been lecturing on the threats that specific law had on scientific development, repeating that message within the same clothes she had started in since this week, with data-padds and cameras running on portable batteries communally sourced from supporters. "We're not happy about that today, or tomorrow, or forever! So people have found their own ways to defy that, teaching the truth so they can do what is right! That is why we are happy to be doing this!"

It is unknown how long the protests will persist, commercial franchise owners are concerned that the losses their businesses located on-campus face are not covered under insurance, and the HUA have voiced the protests have caused a drop in foreign student attraction and the welfare of students. Geschiet Logistik Contributions have already forwarded requests to the police to disperse 'rioters', as their assets and investments are put at risk of unrecoverable losses and a detriment to Imperial security. While protestors are wondering how long their barricades or food supplies will last, or how much of the research will be published so that enough people listen.

Many of them accept this protest won't last longer than the end of the week, expecting that HUA and Imperial authorities will dissolve this concerned assembly one way or another, silencing them by force to comply, or for another unsatisfying compromise to be made between the public and elites, similar to the Holstein accords. Demands are being met by the protestors' own self-determination.

We asked Ruttinger if she would protest again if the free-association demands weren't met, her words before returning to their in-field seminar was: "Yes. I have diabetes with no healthcare assistance, I live fifty kilometers from the blast zone, I'm likely getting fired from the university... So what matters most to me, is what I do here today, for it to help everyone else... If I'm at the next protest, I would say the same thing!" And said with a smile, one so sure that she was confident this protest would always be worthwhile. "Even if I don't make it through this one."

- Roland Uhlig, Free Union Press, Underground Schreiber

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