New School University occupied @ New York City

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à Nettime < nettime-l@kein.org >

date 18 décembre 2008 03:20

objet < nettime > : New School for Social Research is now being OCCUPIED

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>From New York City:

We have just 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 across the spectrum of capitalist existence, in our universities
and our cities, in all of 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/

On December the 10 there was an information in The New York times which tells a bit more about the inside conditions :

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/nyregion/11kerrey.html?_r=1&emc=eta1