UERJ Ocupada - Cotidiano (2009)

In September 2008, students from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) held a meeting to decide the segment's position on the teachers' strike. The assembly brought together more than 500 students, where they discussed the problems facing the university, the lack of a scholarship policy for quota students and popular students, the lack of day care, inter-campus buses, student housing, a student restaurant, the misery of public investments in the university, which to this day, even after the radicalization of the student movement, is falling apart. Attached is the final outcome of the state government, which, in addition to all this accumulation of structural problems, still wanted to cut 6% of the UERJ budget. It was common for a popular student to have to decide between eating or going to class, like the collapse of the roof on the 12th floor of the building a year earlier. This and many other injustices were denounced and ended up mobilizing students to occupy the university's rectory for 20 days straight. The film "UERJ Ocupada - Cotidiano" shows the days that passed in the occupation: assemblies, political discussions, conflicts, the repression of security against the movement; among other events that today make up the historic occupation of UERJ.