A student (dis)organization, from my old haunt, called “Take Back NYU”, having skipped “Protest 101″, took back NYU by making a gazillions demands without any kind of uh… organization. Kind of took the puff out of their dragon.
If you are going to show solidarity with Gaza you don’t necessarily throw it in with with a basin full of “occupation demands”, which are seperate from “The Demands”.
You don’t demand amnesty for all parties involved, you say you will willingly face incarceration for your beliefs. You do not demand full compensation for all employees whose jobs were disrupted during the course of your occupation, you tell them you are going to pay them for the disruption. When you demand public release of NYU’s annual budget and endowment, you increase your dose of Adderall. You don’t demand annual scholarships be provided for thirteen Palestinian students when there are students at your school, evidently not you, who will leave that school with debt out the yang even after having worked a couple of jobs from which they came home exhausted every evening only to have to study and take care of family members. I went to school with many of those students, stood with them in the building you occupied. They would eat you alive.You don’t demand that the university donate all excess supplies and materials in an effort to rebuild the University of Gaza. As noted this is a seperate protest and should be defined and organized differently. I love New Yorkers, but it’s scary enough having students from all over the city roaming that abyss, and when you demand that the general public have access to Bobst Library it is obvious you are not that tightly woven, or have never actually been there. Something which wouldn’t surprise me considering the way this played out after what….two years of planning.
Good try, but you have embarrassed a lot of people. I will now have to tell people I graduated from Hofstra, yea I know that is pretty sad. You’ve put me in a really nasty position.
At least take “Prioritize 101″ at your next school. May I suggest The United States Merchant Marine Academy.
This made made me a little nostalgic though, and for some reason my first thought was “those
You may assume I am a “Sternie”. I assure you I am not.
NYU Protest Update: The Final Four
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How a Fringe Group at NYU Went From Being Disliked to Loathed – The Story of the TBNYU! Kimmel Occupation
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A quick addendum: The inaugural poem “I should be famous” post is up at Should Be Famous. The inaugural poet/blogger is Kathleen Burton from After Cancer Now What. I’ll be posting another one soon. The reason for the change over is in Show Your Stuff
