Home › Monthly archive ›

December 2008

Upcoming Conference - "Reworking the University: Visions, Strategies, Demands"

Submitted by Patrick on Tue, 12/23/2008 - 4:00am

The awesome folks who put on the Rethinking the University conference are at it again! Mark your calendars, to either attend or contribute to what should be a very important gathering.
---
Reworking the University: Visions, Strategies, Demands
April 24-26, 2009, University of Minnesota
Call for Ideas - Please Distribute Widely!

The New School Occupation: Recaps and Analysis

Submitted by Patrick on Sun, 12/21/2008 - 4:00am

—The New York Times has a few decent articles on the New School Occupation and the larger context of everyone hating Bob Kerrey, but probably the most useful writing on the occupation was written by one of the occupiers.

VICTORIES at the New School!

Submitted by Patrick on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 4:00am

Letters of support have been pouring in, most recently one from Todd May of Clemson, and one from student activists at Antioch.

Last night, the occupying students (the Occupation Assembly) listed a set of demands (apart from the larger long-running demands) that they insisted be agreed upon by the administration that night:

Videos from the New School occupation

Submitted by Patrick on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 4:00am

Youtube user givehimdanger is posting videos from the occupied building. This one lays out nicely some of the problems students have with Kerrey and his cronies, but check out all his videos!

UPDATE: Police attempting to break occupation

Submitted by Patrick on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 4:00am

12:05 PM - Apparently Bob Kerrey made an appearance a few hours ago, and after he left the NYPD started coming in and attempting to pull out students at random. Things are a bit hectic, so I'm waiting on a call for more information, along with how the press conference went. The occupants' blog:

BREAKING: New School students occupy cafeteria!

Submitted by Patrick on Wed, 12/17/2008 - 4:00am

UPDATE: The students' site, newschoolinexile.com, is up and working! Also, join their Facebook group!

New School Students Hold Sit-in

Submitted by Patrick on Thu, 12/11/2008 - 4:00am

New School for Social Revolution
Organizers at the New School in New York City recently formed a Radical Student Union there, and all signs point to them really knowing their shit; from what I've read and heard, they're doing all the right things. I got this press release via email:

--------

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEW SCHOOL STUDENTS HOLD SIT IN – DEMAND TO ADDRESS BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Greek youth and students march against police brutality

Submitted by Patrick on Mon, 12/08/2008 - 4:00am

Greek youth and students, already facing budget cuts for youth programs, a repressive conservative government pushing the privatization of the university system, and a slowing economy where their degrees mean less and less, are now apparently fed up. The spark? The police killing of a 15-year-old boy. Reuters:

Mexico City, 1968: One more piece of the puzzle

Submitted by Patrick on Mon, 12/08/2008 - 4:00am

NPR recently aired a program on All Things Considered that looked back, 40 years later, at the massacre of countless students in Mexico City: