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His Excellency Mr. President, honourable Members of the Parliamente,
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and guests.
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Good afternoon.
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My name is Ana Julia. I'm a high school student.
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From the Stadual School Senador Manoel Alencar de Guimarães.
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I am sixteen years old. And I am here
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to have a conversation with you and talk about the occupations.
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My innitial question is
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who is the owner of the school? To whom does the school belong?
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I believe everyone here knows this answer.
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And with the trust that you know this answer that I tell you about this movement's legality.
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About its legitimacy. If anyone here still has doubts about it,
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I invite you to see article 16, line 6th of the law 8.069.
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if after reading it, you still doubt the legality of our movement,
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I invite you to be a part of our occupations.
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I invite you to come and visit us
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to see it up close.
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It's an insult to us who are there, dedicating ourselves,
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looking for motivation everyday,
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to be called indoctrinated.
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It's an insult to the students and an insult to the teachers.
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Our difficulty to develop a thought is much bigger than yours.
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We have to get everything the midia shows to us
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go through a compheheension process, a selection process
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for us to be able to find what we will be for or against,
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so we can understand. And it's not an easy process.
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It's not easy for students to simply decide what to fight for.
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But we still raised our heads. And we are facing this.
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We are not there playing, we know what we are fighting for.
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Our flag is Education. Our only flag is Education.
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We are a non-partisan movement. We are the movement made by students for the students.
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We are the movement that worries about the future generations.
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A movement that cares abour our society. That cares about the future of our country.
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What will the future hold for Brazil if we don't care about a generation of people
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that will develop a critical sense, that have a political critical sense.
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of people who cannot read something and simply believe it.
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We need to know what we are reading.We have to be against the functional illiteracy
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which is a big problem, today, in Brazil.
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and this is why we are here. This is why we occupied our own schools.
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It's why we raise the Education flag. It's why we are against the provisional measure.
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Yes, the provisional measure is forseen in the constitution,
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but it is forseen on an emergency basis.
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We know we need a reform in our high school education. Not only that,
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but in the educational system as a whole.
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The education reform is a priority, but we need a reform that has been debated,
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a reform that has been talked about, that has to be made by the professionals in the education field.
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This is the reform we need.
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We need a reform with conversation, something that all of us agree.
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The provisional measure has good points too.
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But it has too many flaws. If we put it into practice now with those flaws
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we will be doomed to failure. Brazil will be doomed to failure.
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We are not only claiming the provisional measure. We also have the commonly known as "Gag Law"
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"Non-partisan School", which is an affront, a school with non-partisan is a school
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with no critical sense, a racist school, a homophobic school.
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A non-partisan school is to tell us, students, young people, society,
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that they want to build an army of non-thinkers. An army that listens and does whatever is told,
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and bow their heads. And we are not this, we have a history,
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in this history we fight against this. And in the middle of the 21st century,
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in 2016, you want to set a project like this one?
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A non-partisan school insults us, humiliates us, tells us that we don't have the capacity
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to think for ourselves. But we have.
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We won't bow down for this. The 241 PEC (Constitutional Amndment Proposal) is another affront to us.
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It's unconstitutional, its an affront to the constitution of 1988.
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In this constitution we have the social security. The 241 PEC puts an end to this.
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It's an affront to the welfare system. It's an affront to health, to education.
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It's an affront to the social assistance. We can't let that happen.
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We can't lie down and accept this.
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We are here for ideals. We, students, are here because of our ideals.
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CESMAG, our school is there, occupied, because of an ideal.
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Because we had an assembly, we voted, we exposed the pros and cons.
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And we saw that we are here for a cause, that our flag is Education.
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And we are not letting it go that easily.
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Nicole is here fighting for Education. She was occupying her school to fight for education.
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Parana's schools and Brazil's schools are doing this for education.
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We are not the to make a mess, we are not there to play.
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We are there for an ideal. We are there to make it clear that we believe in the future of our country.
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This country is ours, it's going to belong to my kids, and to the kids of my kids.
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And I care for this country. We are there because we care.
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Yesterday, I was at Lucas funeral. And I don't recall seeing any of these faces here.
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I can't recall one. You want to tell me... Yes, we knew we were worried.
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You are here representing the state. And I invite you to check your own hands.
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Your hands are dirty with Luca's blood. Not only with his blood, but with all the teenagers,
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students, that are also victims.
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No, no, we aren't.
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Yes, Luca's blood is in your hands. You represent the state.
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I'm going to intevene with all due resect to your age, your family, but in here you can't offend the parliamentary.
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Here... we... I'm going to end this session. I'm going to stop this now.
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I ask for silence or I will end this session now.
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ECA (Child and Adolscent Statute) says-
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Your Excenllency, nobody offended you, here, yesterday.
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So I, as the president, will enforce my authority. I democratically allowed
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you to come here and nobody will be affronted by it.
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Let her conclude, Your Excellency.
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You made a deal with me, yesterday. So she can express herself about the PEC.
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But don't affront any of the parlamentarians. Nobody has their hands full of blood here.
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I am sorry.
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I am sorry but ECA tells us that the responsibility for our adolescents, for our students,
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lies on the society, family and state.
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We, students,
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who are in these schools, are not bums,
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like they say it here.
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How society, outside, says.
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We are there for our ideals, we fight for them,
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we believe them.
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I invite you to go to the occupations, to see our psychological stress.
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To see that is not easy to be there. And that we will keep on fighting.
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We will keep on fighting because we believe in this.
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We will keep on fighting because we are searching for knowledge.
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We won't stop looking for knowledge.
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I invite you to go there. To see the movement for yourselves.
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And you will be welcomed.
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Our idea is to present to you the reasons we are there.
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The Student Movement brought us a much broader knowledge about politics and citizenry.
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than all the time we have been sitting in rows in standard classes.
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One week of occupation, like we are, brought us a broader knowledge
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about politics and citizenry than many others years that we will still have in the classroom.
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Despite all this mockery, demoralization. Despite being offended.
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Despite all the problems we will face.
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We still are able to have the presence of happiness.
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We have happiness because we can see we stopped being mere teenagers.
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We became citizens who are commited with the progression of our nation.
