After the events at Národní třída in Prague, where the demonstration of Prague college students were violently disrupted on 17^th November 1989, by the police (SNB), there was a wave of solidarity in the then socialist Czechoslovakia. Its bearers were, in the first place, students from most of the country's universities, who had become key players in the revolution at the turn of 1989-1990. In Brno, the Faculty of Arts, UJEP (today Masaryk University), the initiating place, the school organised a committee: FF UJEP. Its core was formed on the night of Friday November 17^th 1989, immediately after the Austrian television and radio broadcasts, which were widely watched at that time and taken as a source of undistorted information. During the weekend of the 18^th and 19^th November, a sub-group was formed in which there were several students, as well as teachers of the Faculty of Arts who jointly agreed to announce a strike and a publicly protest on the first upcoming working day, November 20^th, 1989. This performance took place in the morning, in the courtyard of the Faculty of Arts, where a small crowd of students and teachers caused an avalanche of public engagement that spilled into the whole city. As a further reaction to this, students from other faculties and universities, institutions, industrial enterprises and the general public joined. The Faculty of Arts became an authority and an important centre of revolution in the city. The Strike Committee grew, created sections that communicated with other schools, theatres, institutions, media, and groups of students were sent to industrial companies, cities, and the countryside, all to spread the word. There was an extensive "press centre" that expanded typographical texts, painted posters, produced prints for 24 hours a day. A considerable part of the students ensured the distribution, and placing of the posters. The Strike Committee was circulated to much of the public, giving them many donations, such as funding, food, cars, but also evidence from the 1968 revolution in Czechoslovakia which was poorly available, and similarly unrecognisable artefacts from the time of the First Czechoslovak Republic. Students understood this organisation and the Strike as occupational. They settled permanently in the classrooms and in the offices of sympathetic teachers at the Faculty of Arts, working day and night, organising work shifts. The feverish activity during these weeks was under threat of liquidation, as the school was surrounded by police units (SNB). Over time, a steady stream of opposition had been created, and the handing over of power to democratically elected representatives began to take place. Students were withdrawn from the public space and the Committee's work was ended in 1990. The informal leaders of the FF UJEP Strike Committee were Roman Švanda, Jiří Voráč and Professor Dušan Šlosar. The broader leadership included Igor Fic, Jaroslav Hubata-Vacek, Dalibor Maňas and Jan Sládek, and Zdeněka Rusínová, Jana Jelínková, Milan Jelínek and Milan Pospíšil.