Academic Freedom Movement

Academic Freedom Movement
Abbreviation	AFM
Formation	XII.1744 AN
Type	Academic resistance organization
Legal status	Underground organization
Purpose/focus	Resistance to military rule, preservation of academic freedom
Location	Oportia
Membership	Faculty and students from multiple universities
Official languages	Alexandrian
Coordinator	Professor Helena Moreau
Affiliations	Democratic Restoration Committee

The Academic Freedom Movement (Alexandrian: Mouvement de Liberté Académique) is a clandestine resistance organization operating within Oportia's higher education system since the 1744 Oportian coup d'état. Founded by Professor Helena Moreau of the State University of Vanie Political Science Department, the movement emerged as a response to the militarization of universities and the implementation of the National Salvation Council's Patriotic Education Initiative.

The movement formed following the placement of all major universities under direct military supervision on 30.XII.1744 AN. The National Salvation Council's requirement that university administrators report "dissident activities" to security forces prompted faculty and students to organize covert resistance networks within existing academic structures.

The Academic Freedom Movement operates through study groups, research conferences, and scholarly publications as covers for political organization. Key activities include the circulation of banned political literature through library networks, clandestine seminars on constitutional theory, and protection of faculty targeted by the Vermian Recalibration System.

The movement has documented over 200 faculty dismissals and 1,500 student suspensions related to political activities by XIV.1744 AN, while simultaneously reporting increased participation in resistance activities.

Table of support

Support for the Academic Freedom Movement

Donor/Supporter	Type	Amount/Nature of Support	Date	Notes
Académie Alexandrin	Foreign Academic Institution	5,000,000 Oportian Mérite	I.1745 AN	Channeled through encrypted cryptocurrency transfers to fund underground scholarly publications and secure communication networks
Edgard III, Titular Emperor of the Alexandrians	Foreign Royal	2,000,000 Oportian Mérite	II.1745 AN	Personal donation made through intermediary banks in Nouvelle Alexandrie to support displaced academics and their families
State University of Vanie Faculty Senate	Domestic Academic	Underground printing equipment	XII.1744 AN	Secretly provided access to university printing facilities for resistance literature production
Anonymous Oportian Alumni Network	Domestic Alumni	750,000 Oportian Mérite	II.1745 AN	Coordinated fundraising among graduates living abroad, primarily in Nouvelle Alexandrie and Natopia
Anonymous Foreign Donors	Foreign Individual	1,200,000 Oportian Mérite	I-II.1745 AN	Untraceable donations from expatriate Oportian academics and sympathetic foreigners or Raspur Pact allies.
Alexandrian Nazarene Church of Saint-Marc	Domestic Religious Institution	Meeting spaces and sanctuary	Ongoing since XIII.1744 AN	Parish hall used for "community discussions" that address political themes under religious cover
Total Documented Financial Support		≈8,950,000 Oportian Mérite

See also

• 1744 Oportian coup d'état
• Democratic Restoration Committee
• National Salvation Council
• Patriotic Education Initiative