Thursday Morning Takeover Of NYU Campus 19feb09

Students took over Kimmel dining hall at 0dark30 this morning and they're utilizing uStream, NYTimes and Indymedia in a very techsavvy way to get their demands out there. 1. Amnesty for all parties involved.
2. Full compensation for all employees whose jobs were disrupted during the course of the occupation.
3. Public release of NYUs annual budget and endowment.
4. Allow student workers (including T.A.s) to collectively bargain.
5. A fair labor contract for all NYU employees at home and abroad.
6. A Socially Responsible Finance Committee that will immediately investigate war profiteers and the lifting of the Coke ban.
7. Annual scholarships be provided for thirteen Palestinian students.
8. That the university donates all excess supplies and materials in an effort to rebuild the University of Gaza.
9. Tuition stabilization for all students, beginning with the class of 2012. Tuition rates for each successive year will not exceed the rate of inflation. The university shall meet 100% of government-calculated student financial need.
10. That student groups have priority when reserving space in the buildings owned or leased by New York University, including, and especially, the Kimmel Center.
11. That the general public have access to Bobst Library.

For more info:

http://takebacknyu.com

and decent breaking news at:

http://nyc.indymedia.org

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• kimmel
• hall
• nyu
• takeover
• take
• back

[importunings]

Guilt-ridden transference...

They go from Saab to Saab, and Volvo to Volvo, with food on their plates and clothes on their backs, and start taking up "the cause" for Palestinians, whilst raiding a Coke machine or two and rattling off half-assed Lukácsian demands.

About as meaningful as post-'95 hip-hop.

[milwaukeeindymedia]

We're not judgmental now, are we?

[nyujuwssuk]

#11 should read - That the public have access to all the NYU sluts.

[milwaukeeindymedia]

What an ignorant thing to type. Can you say something that doesn't sound like it came out of one of your other holes?

[zoetropez]

I haven't watched this stuff for a year. I forgot how friggin' hilarious this was.

[bdyken]

good job...it's good to see that young people are informed, concerned and willing to act and risk...blah blah blah to all the blockheads!!!

[DonVitoOR]

It's a law school, sluts don't exist at NYU.

[nyujuwssuk]

Please show some real headbanging by the NYPD. I want to see these wanna-be retro hippies get the shit kicked out of them. NO amensty, and as far as 13 scholarships how about they go to kids from Harlem or Bed-Sty. If no then take them from the protestors and send these preppie (out of the asses of yuppies) back home to mom and dad and let them have dinner with their buddy madoff.

[catstevensdoggy]

LOL, 11 different ways, huh? Is cultural awareness code word for looking up shit you dont know on wikipedia? Hell you are right though, I didnt even celebrate black history month this year. My level of multiculturalism is like a negative 7, I need to get my ass back to college and read some books from pretentious windbags who pretend to be subject matter experts. Have a good one!

[911Bovice]

I'd lol if Israel nuked Gaza.