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The Interview: How to Occupy a University? The pro-Palestine Student Occupation of Ljubljana University
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The Interview: How to Occupy a University? The pro-Palestine Student Occupation of Ljubljana University

By Justas Korsakovas / 14 birželio, 2025

From the 8th of May, 2024 a few dozen students occupied part of the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) at the University of Ljubljana, demanding the institution to recognise Israel’s actions in Palestine as a genocide. After a six day occupation the Faculty accepted their demands and released a statement condemning the genocide in Palestine.

I sat down with Anja and Gaj, the activists who participated in the occupation of the FSS and who continue to organize for Palestine today. We discussed how the occupation was organized, what challenges the students faced, and what a potential organizer could learn from their experience.

The Pending Movement: What Can Mental Health Workers Do?
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The Pending Movement: What Can Mental Health Workers Do?

By Paulius Garmus / 10 gegužės, 2022

Currently, the public discourse around mental health is severely underdeveloped. For example, conversations around mental health tend to focus only on the personal responsibility of the individual. By contrast, Extinction Rebellion’s call for collective action goes beyond urging individuals to recycle and use less plastic. Likewise, the public discourse on mental health should go beyond urging individuals to think positively, take yoga classes, eat healthily, exercise more, and so forth. Mental health illnesses do not appear in a vacuum. No mental illness was caused by a lack of yoga. The narrative of the public mental health has to become systemic.