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  • From: Jonathan Guay A. <joe_lextase@hotmail.com>
  • To: <pil-pc-oceania@lists.permacultureinternational.org>, <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] University occupation.
  • Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:56:56 +0000


Occupation of University movement : New York, Toronto, Europe and growing.I
think this news is really pertinent for collective kitchen is a brillant form
of activism.We were du for some action. Here it comes friends. The boat of
hope facing the storm.Jonathan Guay A.

San Cristobal, Mexico
>From New York City:We have occupied New School University.We liberate this
>space for ourselves, and all those who want to join us, for our general
>autonomous use. We take the university in explicit solidarity with those
>occupying the universities and streets in Greece, Italy, France and
>Spain.This occupation begins as a response to specific conditions at the New
>School, the corporatization of the university, and the impoverishment of
>education in general. However, it is not just this
university but also New York City that is in crisis: in the next several
months, thousands of us will be losing our jobs, while housing remains
unaffordable and unavailable to many and the cost of living skyrockets. So we
stress that the general nature of these intolerable conditions exists accross
the spectrum of capitalist existence, in our universities and our cities, and
in all our social relations. For this reason, what begins tonight at the New
School cannot, and should not, be contained here.Thus: with this occupation,
we inaugurate a sequence of revolt in New York City and the United States, a
coming wave of occupations, blockades, and strikes in this time of crisis. Be
assured, this is only the beginning. With solidarity and love from New York
to Greece,To Italy, France and Spain,To the coming insurrection. - New School
Occupation Committee - http://www.newschoolinexile.com/An Open Letter: Come
Occupy a Building with Us...NowDear Friends,We are writing to you from the
inside of the New School GraduateFaculty Building on 65 5th Ave. We are
occupying it. Right now.Literally.Students of the New School University,
along with our partners from
other universities and groups – like NYU, Hunter College, City Collegeof NY,
CUNY Graduate Center, and Borough of Manhattan CommunityCollege, have
organically risen up to demand the resignation ofPresident Bob Kerrey,
Executive Vice President James Murtha, and Board
Member/torturer Robert B. Millard (he multi-tasks). We have cometogether to
prevent our study spaces from being flattened by corporatebulldozers, to have
a say in who runs this20school, to demand that themoney we spend on this
institution be used to facilitate the creation
of a better society, not to build bigger buildings or invest incompanies that
make war. We have come here not only to make demands,but also to live them.
Our presence makes it clear that this school isours, and yours, if you are
with us.The outside doors have been closed now, so we can't exactly invite
youin...sorry... We know you wanted a piece of the action, but we'll bearound
for quite some time. Join us at 7 AM tomorrow when the doors
open again, or come now to stand outside with a sign in solidarity.You are
cordially invited to join us in any way you can. We are notgoing anywhere. In
the meantime, check out our Web site:

www.newschoolinexile.com. We have all night to make things
interesting, and the website will continue to be updated. Stay tunedfor the
musical pieces, doctoral dissertations, and creativefinger-paintings that
seem to be the natural result of 150 studentslocked into a building together
for a night.We are here, making decisions collectively, doing teach-ins,
listeningto music, studying, singing. We've got an upright bassist,
guitaristsand vocalists (If anyone can volunteer a drum-set we'll be well on
our
way...). We'll be here until this university changes, or until theparty gets
boring (but it doesn't seem likely that will happen). We'renot going
anywhere. We hope to see you soon, and if you really can't
wait a few hours – what the hell – occupy your own universities orwork
spaces.Come use your voice to declare loudly that this school and this
worldare yours. Come use your mind to think up a better world. Come use
your body to create it, one all-nighter in the university cafeteria ata time.
Come stand in solidarity with the students, faculty, and staffof this
university. Come to write letters of support to the people of
the village of Thanh Phong whose parents were murdered by the
currentPresident of the New School during his service in Vietnam. Come
jointhe struggle with the people of Iraq who are being tortured and killedby
a company funded by this university and represented on the New
School Board of Trustees. Come here to join the uprisings andoutpouring of
passionate resistance currently taking place all overthis country, and all
over the worlds – from factory workers inChicago to students in Greece. Come
for yourself. Come for all of us.In solidarity,The New School in Exile***Also
see:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/nyregion/18newschool.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=new%20school&st=cse
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2008/12/102240.html----------------------------------------------------
Forwarded message from CUNY Students ----------We write this statement from
an occupied New School University. (WHAT WHAT)At 8pm, December 18th, over 75
students reclaimed the cafeteria at the
New School University as an autonomous student center. Students fromseveral
Universities commandeered this space. Students of CityCollege, Borough of
Manhattan Community College, Hunter College andthe CUNY Graduate Center are
here participating in this struggle. This
is every student's occupation.If this can happen at the New School, through
the organized activityof 75 dedicated students, it can happen at CUNY. And we
certainlyhave reason to be upset: On the first day of the Fall 2008
semester, the
CUNY budget was slashed $50.6 million. Massive layoffs plague all
ourschools. We are now being told of a looming $600-per-year tuition hikeand
more colossal budget cuts to CUNY students and teachers, in aschool that was
once FREE.We will continue this campus occupation until our demands are
met.While the demands tonight are specific to The New School we will notbe
satisfied until the students and faculty of CUNY, NYU, all theconsortium
schools and beyond, have control over their universities.
Education should be free, student debts should be cancelled, studentsand
workers should work together to achieve our goals, and we starthere.Please,
come out to the New School and support us! Join us! We are at
65 5th avenue (between 13th and 14th St.). The building will be opento all
consortium students at 7:30am, we invite you to come any timetomorrow, but
particularly at 10:30 when there will be a rally andpress conference. The
morning hours will be crucial, and the
student-occupiers need to know that we are not struggling alone!Our next
stop? CUNY.- CUNY students at The New School in ExileContact:Frank at
718.314.2328,
fmanning@gc.cuny.edu
Conor Tomás Reed at 979.204.9253, cocoreed@gmail.com
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