Okupa Che is ananarchistself-managed social centre on the campus of theNational Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) inMexico City, Mexico.[1] After the1999–2000 UNAM strike, participantssquatted 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 aninfoshop, vegetarian cafe, library, summer school and various workshops.[3][1] It also provides space for apirate radio station and an art gallery.[4] The centre has run campaigns such as opposition to theWorld Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2003 inCancun and support for the victims of the2014 Iguala mass kidnapping.[4] In 2012, it hosted events connected toYo 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 theanarchist occupiers refused to leave.[5]