The collectives of cultural institutions that are on the republican and city budgets also responded to the students' call for a general strike on Friday, they are calling architects to a meeting in front of the General Staff, the NBS says that the student house...
Apart from 284 trade union organizations gathered in Serbian Cultural Union which was published yesterday work stoppage, on Friday many other cultural institutions and cultural workers will also strike.
Drama of the National Theatre
The Drama Ensemble of the National Theater in Belgrade will hold a one-hour warning strike on Friday. They thereby comply with legal norms, so that their members are not financially penalized. They remind that this form of strike, by law, means a warning to the employer that, if the conditions are not met, they will proceed to a total work stoppage.
It is not yet known whether there will be performances on Friday War and peace on Velika, or rather Small matrimonial crimes on stage "Raša Plaović".
The acting union "Singlus" will hold a one-hour warning strike on Saturday, January 25, and will most likely spend it communicating with the audience that comes to the performances that evening.
As we unofficially learn, Serbian actors are starting a seven-day strike tomorrow.
Libraries
In the National Library of Serbia, the majority of employees responded to the one-hour warning strike on Thursday. In the hall in front of the entrance, those gathered paid their respects to the victims of Novi Sad with a fifteen-minute silence, and on behalf of the NBS collective, they supported the students in the blockade.
They pasted posters on the glass walls of NBS: "NBS is also a student house", "In the silence of the library, silence echoes louder", "Librarians are with the students", "Culture is on the edge", "Non-culture is not an option", "Unreachable 1%" .
The National Library of Serbia is closed on Friday. The doors will be locked and employees will be in the lobby.
The public library "Vuk Karadzic" from Kragujevac, by the decision of more than 90 percent of the employees, will suspend work tomorrow from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., announced the portal Glas Šumadije.
KCB
The cultural center of Belgrade will not be open tomorrow.
"As the students of the University of Arts wrote in their letter, the values they stand for, which are justice, security and freedom, concern the common good of all citizens." That is why the Cultural Center of Belgrade joins this joint struggle led by our future colleagues and collaborators, and we suspend work for an hour on Thursday, January 23, and on Friday, January 24, we completely suspend work by unanimous decision of the collective, and in accordance with the decision of the Union of independent trade unions of Serbia," the KCB announcement reads.
Rally in front of the General Staff
The Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments is closed on Fridays.
On Friday at 11:52 the association of architects, ICOM, Evropa Nostra together with the youth will be in front of the General Staff.
Publishers
And the Association of Professional Publishers goes on a general strike. In the announcement, they state that they are responding to the call of the students in order to "be with all citizens who will suspend work and scheduled activities on that day as a form of general civil disobedience."
Publishing house Clio joins the strike and says: "We have better things to do than work!"
The bookstore of the publishing house "Geopoetika" will not be open on Friday.
"Laguna and Delphi have always fought for justice, freedom of thought and speech. Now our support is needed for students and educators who are fighting for a fair value system," the largest publisher in the country said in a statement.
The film industry
The film industry announces a general strike on Friday "We've lost the film!"
In support of the students, producers, directors, screenwriters, actors, editors, directors of photography, distributors, exhibitors and other film workers gathered around several professional associations are going on strike because "it is the responsibility of all of us to provide support to the students", the statement of the professional associations says. .
On Friday, "all activities in the film industry will stop - from filming, preparations and rehearsals, post-production, promotional activities and showing films in cinemas in Serbia, and film workers, instead of at their workplaces, will gather in cinemas across the country, where they will spend time together with students, young people and other citizens, as a sign of solidarity and support".
MIND
The Association of Music Artists of Serbia (UMUS) announced today that it fully supports the student protests and joins the call for a general strike of cultural artists. The announcement, in which they offer all their professional help in addition to support for students, was signed by 96 members, prominent artists of the representative Association of Music Artists of Serbia.
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