[Peace-discuss] PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY-NYU OCCUPATION UPDATE!

[martin smith]

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY...

footage from the NYU Occupation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8hYcomA0EA

The occupation has been broken.  Students were driven to their dorms and told to remove their belongings and were removed from campus immediately.  Mass support is necessary to demand that these students be granted amnesty.  Please get as many people to email NYU as possible and show that we will stand together with the students and not be turned back.

Email NYU Administrators. Demand amnesty and no suspensions:

NYU President John Sexton: john.sexton at nyu.edu

John Beckman, NYU Spokesperson: jhb5 at nyu.edu

Office of the Provost: provost at nyu.edu

Office of the Vice President: evp at nyu.edu

Today New York University has shown its true face more than ever. Claiming to be a "private university in the public service," it is clearly not even in the service of those students whose tuitions allow it to exist.

Earlier today, NYU cut power to all outlets in the occupied space and turned off the wireless internet.  Obviously this was an attempt to silence and intimidate the occupiers who have broad-based support.

Then, NYU said it would negotiate and instead detained and suspended the student negotiators when they showed up.  Security has now broken through the barricade and people are being detained and suspended.

Instead of dialog and negotiation, the NYU administration has shown they prefer the authoritarian, dissent-quashing, dictator route. It is a true reflection of how they run their university. Nothing but thugs with suits on, interested in getting rich under the guise of "education."

Be prepared to defend any individual or group that is targeted academically or legally for their role in the occupation. Widespread support for the occupation and its demands will not be extinguished by NYU's hypocritical, tyrannical behavior.

Come out to 60 Washington Square South if you can.

Email NYU Administrators. Demand amnesty and no suspensions:

NYU President John Sexton: john.sexton at nyu.edu

John Beckman, NYU Spokesperson: jhb5 at nyu.edu

Office of the Provost: provost at nyu.edu

Office of the Vice President: evp at nyu.edu
 
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