Okupa Che is an anarchist self-managed social centre on the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City, Mexico. [1] After the 1999–2000 UNAM strike, participants squatted the Justo Sierra auditorium and offices in the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras ( School of Philosophy and Letters) on 4 September 2000. [1] [2]
The centre self-organises an infoshop, vegetarian cafe, library, summer school and various workshops. [3] [1] It also provides space for a pirate radio station and an art gallery. [4] The centre has run campaigns such as opposition to the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2003 in Cancun and support for the victims of the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping. [4] In 2012, it hosted events connected to Yo Soy 132. [1]
In 2014, the Federación de Estudiantes Campesinos Socialistas de México (FECSM, Federation of Socialist Peasant Students of Mexico) made a violent attempt to take over the centre and was repelled. [1] UNAM then stated it wanted to repossess the auditorium and the anarchist occupiers refused to leave. [5]