Dear all,

We have some news to relay to you. Our attempts at securing a legally binding vote to demand the continuation of Circa106 have come to a dead end.

For transparency we want to provide you with exactly what that means. There are 2 types of voting that students can conduct to make demands to the Rektorat. The first is called an “Urabstimmung” and the second is called a “Vollversammlung”. For both types of voting we need AStA’s full involvement in the process. AStA’s current team have provided us with their support in the General Student Assembly that happened on the 27th of November. After that meeting, we created a telegram chat of Circa team + AStA members who were willing to help. We also had several phone calls with AStA members trying to figure out what the next steps we could take are. We were told that there is disagreement within AStA on how to handle the cause of Circa and were directed to the mailbox of AStA Vorstand which is currently occupied by 2 people only on an interim basis. We wrote an email on 3.12 asking specific questions on how to conduct a legally binding vote of the non-legally binding one that we conducted in the General Assembly on 27.11 (which was unanimously supported by those present in the room). We got a reply the following day on 4.12 from the mailbox of the AStA Vorstand stating that their current response time per request is 2-3 weeks and that they can help us in creating a thread of conversation between us and the Rektorat and that they will respond to us with more information later.

Since we do not have the luxury of time in dealing with this cause, we leaned on the community of Circa and were able to secure a meeting with a previous member of Uni Bremen AStA, who kindly explained to us all the details that we couldn’t receive from HfK’s AStA. The person we met with explained to us that an Urabstimmung, is usually a process that takes around 6 months, and is conducted in cases like securing the Deutschlandsemesterticket for the student body. A Vollversammlung however, is more doable in a short amount of time. But, we cannot do it without AStA being present. As explained before, AStA’s internal disagreement and other commitments, such as organising a language course at this time of the year for integrating international students, prevents them from being readily available to support our needs as a student entity concerned with international students, that is being shut down for reasons, that we believe are unjust.

We wish we can come to you with better updates on the current situation. But this is what we have on our hands.

We are gathering on 12.12 on the 4th floor kitchen in Segment 11 to make some banners, have some food and drinks and DEMAND THE CONTINUATION OF THE RENTAL CONTRACT OF BISMARCKSTRAẞE FROM THE REKTORAT.

We want to tell you also, that in our meeting with the previous AStA member of Uni Bremen, we went through the Bremen Hochschulgesetz and we found out that students who organize a disturbing action in the school can face Exmatrikulation. Please understand that this is not a demo, but a mere gathering on the fourth floor, in which we share our thoughts and ideas with one another, lean on each other for support and show the responsible parties in the school that Circa106 matters to the student body.

Please show up peacefully and in numbers.

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