On the night of August 30-31, unknown perpetrators desecrated the building of the Pionir free school. The graffiti reads "Here lives a terrorist blockader", marking us as terrorists. We say desecrated because Pioneer is our second home, a home that we created together. In every part of this house, we, the pioneers, incorporated a part of ourselves; we painted, plastered, repaired, cleaned, and acquired together. Hundreds of young people from Kikinda built this school together. Things that have changed Serbia originated from here, including projects such as the largest waste reduction project in Serbia - Ponovo, our AI pollution detection system, and our cooperative garden where young people learn how to produce their own food. Great people have come from here, current engineers, pilots, and perhaps most importantly, current students, the future of the new Serbia.

The style of the attack is clearly fascist-inspired. This is undoubtedly a political attack over our support for students seeking justice for the 16 who have been killed in the canopy collapse, but also because some of these students are pioneers themselves. Our idea of ​​free, autonomous education poses a significant threat to any establishment, especially one that sends armed police and parapolice forces to universities, thereby confirming our thesis that education must be separated from both the state and capital, and be common and self-organized.

We are not scared to show we want direct action to change the world. We empower the next generation and equip them with knowledge. We have given our fellow students a roof over their heads to talk peacefully and be safe from state security persecution. We have created a space for young people to dream and think, to break away from the crime and decadence that surrounds them. Those who have desecrated our school would rather we were in the betting shops and their clubs. They would like schools to create followers, to fake degrees, and to legitimize ignorance. We are interested in knowledge and solidarity, and how to be comrades to one another. By attacking our school, they only reminded us of every moment we spent at school, everything we gained here, and everything we took from here to our faculties and lives.

Terrorists do not live here; the spirit of youth lives here, and our spirit is indestructible. Freedom or nothing!