The protest takes place without the statements of the Minister of Culture, who said in “precariousness is always an absolute evil”

The Student Brigade, on Sunday in Lisbon, a protest against precariousness, in the Culture sector, following the declarations of the minister of tutelage in parliament on the subject, was announced this Friday.

“Preca is not the Minister is marked13: convened in front of the Silva Assembly as The protest of the Republic of Culture” with all the precarious ties of culture, that is not if it will end on Friday’ and ‘Friday is not always a absolute evil,’” as Friday reads in a statement released by the Student Brigade.

On May 11, at a parliamentary hearing on the State Budget for 2022, Pedro Adão e Silva stated, regarding the new Statute of Culture Professionals, that the culture sector “has some dimension of precariousness that is insurmountable”.

“We cannot be able to end all ties to Culture. I don’t think it is, from the point of view of many Culture workers. There are professions that, by their nature, have to maintain this possibility of having precarious ties. Precariousness, in many situations, is not an absolute evil. But we must focus on correcting and counteracting the precariousness that is a problem”, he defended, at the time.

João Veloso, from Brigada, regretted this Friday, in statements to Lusa, that the minister that “there is no problem with precariousness is an absolute evil that condemns people to not be able to have job stability, to not even be able to envision a future”. , envision having a house, etc., etc.”

“These statements by the Minister of Culture stated a general lack of knowledge, and that he does not want job stability”, people working in the sector.

In a protest manifesto against the precariousness of Culture, released this Friday, the Student Brigade recalls that Portugal is “a country in which only an elite has the right to live from culture, where not even 1% of the budget is earmarked for its development. ”.

“We hear over and over again that there is no money for everything or that money doesn’t grow on trees and that they do what they can. We listen and think for ourselves, where does it grow from then, what goes to the banks and airlines? As in any profession, precariousness can never be a starting point”, reads the manifesto.

In the manifesto, an invitation is made to all “artists and cultural workers in Portugal” to join the protest “against the statements of the minister of culture Pedro Adão e Silva, in particular, and against the lack of of sensitivity and workers demonstrated by successive pre- and post-pandemic ministries of culture”.

“We demand a financial sector without precariousness and public disclosure, through Portuguese investment”, concludes and promotes the Portuguese culture manifesto