student power

this is from the wooden shoe (phila, pa) listserve. i don't know its current status [UPDATE: SEE THEIR BLOG, LINK BELOW]. below i've posted a link to a nyt article and some photos from santiago, chile last spring.

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 wave of occupations 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.
-The occupied New School


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NEW SCHOOL IN EXILE
nyt article

SANTIAGO, CHILE: june/july 2008

this is a university which is just a few blocks from my host family's house, in the neighborhood of Ñuñoa (south of Providencia). unfortunately, i can't quite remember the name of this school right now, but this picture depicts the student-occupied campus, with chairs stacked up against the gate. the sign on the left reads, "taken," or, occupied. "Nacional context of social mobilization. NO to the education of the market. Paralysis of administrative and academic activities. NO TO THE LGE [the general education law]."
inside the campus, Diferencial is a facultad, like a department. "en toma,"--occupied.
(from the inside, looking out on the street)