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New School Occupied, Police Storm Building, Rally to Free Arrested Students

April 10, 2009 by hv

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I got a slow mental start to the day but when I received an email from one of the New School organizers I woke up immediately…his email read: “New school occupied. Riot cops deployed.”

Here are some useful links to get you up to speed on the story.

  • A timeline of New School occupation-related tweets via NYU Local “Twitter: New School Occupied“
  • NY1: Police Monitor New School Student Protest (w video)
  • NY Times City Room Blog: Students Occupy New School Building, Again –which just changed its titled to read “Police Storm Occupied New School Building“
  • Washington Square News: New School Students Take Over Building…which reported:

Earlier, the members of the group hung banners and red and black anarchy flags and were parading around the roof with bandannas masking their faces. Around 9:30 a.m., police officers were observed on the roof of the adjacent building. Just before 11:00 a.m., police made their way down a ladder to the top of the New School building, where they took down the protesters’ signs and flags.

  • A friend just tweeted that according to Channel 7, 200 cops are there.
  • New School blogger: “Rally NOW at 6th Precinct! Let’s get them free! 233 w10th at Bleecker. NOW” (via StudentActivism)

This is turning into some story.

UPDATE: “Police have retaken occupied New School building. 19 arrests – 15 men, 4 women.” (via StudentActivism, follow their tweets here)

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Filed Under: human rights, New York

Comments

  1. Lawrence Swan says

    April 10, 2009 at 2:07 pm

    “One of the masked figures read a lengthy critique of capitalism and contemporary life, which a student below identified as an essay, “On the Poverty of Student Life,” that originated at the University of Strasbourg,” according to the Times. It originated with the Situationists. I know because I borrowed from the same text for the Semiotic Liberation Front. http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/4

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