Inconsistencies in Pristina underground parking lot: Protesters Shoot Locals

A symbolic number of students joined this activity, rejecting “the use of UP's public space from private businesses”.

By the motto “Public meets students” they wrote with spray on the concrete plaques of the former park before Philological, and they put color on the glass of newly opened businesses in this section.

“Today we became fellow students/ and activists/attaining and rejecting UP's public space from private businesses and showing those who are undesirable here”, the announcement said.

<> <> > There's where private businesses are today and a parking lot, once it was a public park. Now here's concrete and usurping. These businesses we're looking at behind us are here against our will and our harm. Three years earlier, the Pristina municipality had begun to erode space, thus starting a process of privatisation, the fruitage of which we are seeing today”.

“UP park usurpation except that it marks a wild intervention in public space, indicates yet another intervention to make the student pocket worse. We are only aware that students are among the most sensitive categories of society, with little state support, poor financial conditions and unconventional treatment. And further privatisation of each service, including food, will further make the student and student poor. We want food and other services within the campus to provide us as public services under the UP, not use as a means to increase business revenues”.

For us, it's unacceptable and it should be illegal to continue what's happening to the UP. Privatisation of UP's public spaces should be halted. Even the few public green spaces that have been used by UP students are now being looted by the private sector. And this has to stop. We cannot allow everything belonging to the public to be put into service for business benefits. We cannot allow our campus to be given private businesses”.

Feminary Thought and Action Initiative requires that:

1. The public park is returned to citizens and banned from this “theft of every corner that belongs to the public - the Pristina Corporation to interrupt this experiment being done on our backs”.

2. UP, professor and student representatives take a stand and oppose “this evil is swallowing public spaces”;

3. Public services, affordable to students/s within the UP.

We are stressing that these businesses are unwanted for us as students. This campus belongs to us and not to private businesses”, it says further in the announcement.