Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 21st, 2009
Wheeler Hall at UC Berkeley occupied this morning after unsuccessful occupation of Capital Projects yesterday. Police entered building at 6 am, pepper-spraying and beating occupiers. Most of the people remain barricaded on 2nd floor, holding strong. Police are threatening to use tear-gas. Close to 50 police in riot gear inside the building beating on the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 21st, 2009
UCs SHUT DOWN
The Regents of the University of California voted, at UCLA, on 32% fee increases for students from November 17 – 19. (The CSU trustees are also meeting on these dates). Students through out the state of California are in an uproar.
UC Santa Cruz: over 500 students are occupying the Kresge Town Hall as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 18th, 2009
Tuesday, November 18, 7:15PM
NYU students disrupted a university event this evening featuring
Robert Spencer from “Jihad Watch” and Elan Journo from the “Ayn Rand
Institute for Individual Freedom.” Students called out the panelists for
their Islamophobic, warmongering hate-rhetoric, shouting and launching
pies at the speakers. One student was detained, and several were escorted
out of the building.
The event, entitled “The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 16th, 2009
UC Santa Cruz has occupied again!!! After the recent occupation of their student
center, UCSC students have occupied their Deans Office, demanding the end of capital,
the abolition of work and and the negation of the commodity form. THE INSURRECTION
BEGINS WITH YOU!
Communiqué from UCSC occupiers:
The glass walls of passivity, separating us from one another, can only be
shattered with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 16th, 2009
presently we only have a pretty version for looking at; an imposed version for printing is forthcoming.
toward a freer and more joyous world.
kisses,
eds.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 11th, 2009
Rochester Students for a Democratic Society’s “Funk the War 2: Revenge of the Funk” was shutdown by Rochester Police today as people gathered for the protest/dance party against the occupation of Afghanistan.
More information is forthcoming but initial reports on the ground is that police charged protestors with their horses, punched certain people in the face, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 25th, 2009
On September 24th, 2009, students at UC Santa Cruz began the occupation of the Graduate Student Commons as part of a day of actions at all the UC schools across the state of California. The building is located in a central location on campus, and occupiers are calling for another day of walkouts on Friday.
Some [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2009
Folks:
We hope your summers are are off to a marvelous start. Below are a few announcements/reminders:
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I. 5/22 PARTY ON THE ROOF!
II. 5/25 Disorientation Guide Planning
III. Summer Organizing
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 13th, 2009
Our preemptive congratulations to New York University’s John Sexton on his expected announcement that the president will take a symbolic salary in the amount of $1 per year until the current fiscal crisis in academia ends. As the largest private university in the world, this move will send a strong signal to the NYU community, as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1st, 2009
Just after 12:15 pm this afternoon, several black-clad figures were seen standing on the roof of the Silver Center. The iconic purple NYU flag, usually seen fluttering from the flagpole on top of Silver, had vanished. In its place, draped over the side of the building, was a banner that read:
“FUCK TUITION HIKES.”
The banner hung for [...]