New York Students Occupy New School Building
Infowars
December 18, 2008
From The New York Times:
About 75 students barricaded themselves in a dining hall at the New School on Wednesday night, holding what they called an occupation to protest the leadership of the institution’s embattled president, Bob Kerrey.
The protest, which began about 8 p.m., echoed dissidence among many of the school’s faculty members, who in the past week have cast votes of no confidence in Mr. Kerrey’s ability to lead the school in Greenwich Village, which he has run since 2001.
Large recycling containers and tables blocked doorways, and banners went up, some reading “Books Not Bureaucracy.”
“You are going about this the wrong way,” a school official told the students.
From the New School in Exile blog:
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
Open Letter/Communique
From within the occupied New School in Exile, 65 5th Avenue, New York City:
We have been in occupation of the Graduate Faculty building of the New School University since 8pm Wednesday the 17th of December. More than 100 of us have taken over a student building, including our only library, which the administration has marked for demolition without creating any equivalent new space on campus. We have opened the building as a student-run autonomous space, in protest against the administration of President Bob Kerrey who recently received a vote of no confidence from the majority of faculty in this school. Details of our multiple grievances against Kerrey, his vice-President Jim Murtha, and treasurer of the board of trustees Robert Millard are laid out in our first communiqué. This morning we have an update on our situation. At around noon today New School security moved to block our access to the fire exits, preventing us from allowing in our fellow students of the Inter-University Consortium to whom they had refused access to the building in a violation of the Consortium agreement. When they failed to remove us, the NYPD were sent in to violently evict us from the fire exit and one of our fellow students was arrested. The police entered the building at the same time as President Kerrey arrived and offered to speak with us, we responded by refusing to negotiate with him and repeating our demand that he immediately resign. He left and took his police with him. At the moment our security has returned and our numbers have doubled, but we expect future incursions on our space and encourage all who support us to come to the Graduate Building at 65 5th Avenue and 14th street.
Signed,
The New School in Exile
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
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