School Student Festivals :To change the world is neither madness, nor utopia… it is justice!

The first weekend of May marked the beginning of the KNE School Student Festivals, taking place in municipalities and neighborhoods, towns and villages across the country, with over 100 events under the slogan: “To change the world is neither madness, nor utopia… it is justice!” The events will conclude in mid-June.

This year, as always, the KNE School Student Festivals will give thousands of school students the opportunity to express themselves, to discuss what they are experiencing during this period, to create, and to feel optimistic about their future. With their passion and thirst for music, dance, theater, and sports, they will send the strongest message: they refuse to accept a world full of exploitation and injustice, a world where the profits of the few murder their lives and dreams. They declare that their future and lives are not for sale.

The students who recently took to the streets by thousands, denouncing that “when a child says ‘I can’t breathe,’ that’s what makes the state a murderer,” will meet again—this time at their own creative and diverse celebrations. They will paint banners with their dreams, sing about their hopes and concerns, satirize the suffocating aspects of their daily lives, and show that through their struggles they have the power to take matters into their own hands, to win a life with modern rights for all! In this struggle, now enriched with their own recent experiences, an even stronger KKE and KNE is needed.

Below are some snapshots from the first School Student Festivals that have already taken place: