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New School student harassed by FBI
Posted by alvinjohnson on Friday, September 25, 2009 (04:16:38) (531 reads)

New School student and political organizer Jerry Koch, who has been active at the New School, as well in New York, has recently been harassed and threatened by the FBI, and is currently facing the possibility of having to testify before a federal grand jury investigation of anti-military actions in New York City. Students supporting Jerry held a press conference at the New School this week to talk about Jerry's situtation, and the video from that event is below. Students are organizing bake sales and other efforts to raise awareness about FBI intimidations and to support Jerr's legal struggle.We'll post more details as we receive them.

Press Conference Video

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GFSS Letter on Student Space at the University
Posted by alvinjohnson on Wednesday, May 06, 2009 (17:40:40) (715 reads)

May 3, 2009

Dear Mr. Marshall and Mr. Murtha,

As The New School administration moves to close the building at 65 Fifth Avenue, the university community is faced with an urgent need to lease replacement student space on campus. Spaces dedicated for study and student gathering are a vital community resource, providing a venue for students to build the relationships that are central to producing creative and interdisciplinary academic work. Student space provides a much needed environment for quiet independent study, while also building the school community and enhancing potential for academic accomplishment. Yet, according to the University’s own research, The New School is far behind other New York City campuses in providing dedicated student space, and this situation will be more dire once 65 Fifth Avenue is fully closed. The interim library and study spaces at 55 West 13th Street do not meet the needs that 65 Fifth Avenue currently fulfills, and once 65 Fifth is closed the students who currently use it as a study and group-work space will have nowhere to go. The lack of available space that students will face will further eviscerate our community and sever the cross-department and cross-divisional interactions and communications that make The New School unique. We must immediately add student space in order to restore the community vitality that makes our school and our scholarship so unique.

The students of the New School for Social Research demand that new and fully outfitted student space be made available by September 1, 2009. We demand that during the summer months the University obtain a space that matches or exceeds the square footage of student space available at 65 Fifth Avenue, including both the cafeteria and study room. This space must include all capabilities as the existing space, including a quiet study area, a space for group work and conversation, computer terminals, and wireless internet access. The New School already suffers as students and faculty are placed in disconnected spaces, therefore this new space must be located in close proximity to existing departments. The reasonable limits for placing a new student space are between Sixth Avenue and Irving Place, and from 11th Street to 18th Street. We expect that the GFSS and the University Student Senate will be consulted in every step of this process.

Best regards,
The Graduate Faculty Student Senate
gfss@newschool.edu

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Student actions at the Technological Institute of Puerto Rico
Posted by alvinjohnson on Friday, March 20, 2009 (01:28:46) (452 reads)

{We are looking for someone willing to submit a better English translation as well to post along with this for all those non-Spanish speakers.}

COMUNICADO DE PRENSA
March 6, 2009

Los estudiantes del ITPR de Manatí, representados por el consejo estudiantil y con el apoyo del 100% de nuestros estudiantes declaramos la huelga. Llevamos 10 días de lucha y resistencia con un campamento establecido frente a la institución las 24 horas. Nuestros reclamos, que no son nada nuevos, sino que se vienen arrastrando de semestre en semestre sin que se presente una solución real y definitiva, son varios.

PRESS RELEASE

The students of ITPR in Manati represented by the student council and with the support of 100% of our students are on strike. We continue 10 days of struggle and resistance in a camp set against the institution for 24 hours. Our demands, which are nothing new, but have been dragging on for six months without a real and final solution, are many.

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Solidarity with students at Ryukyus University in Japan
Posted by alvinjohnson on Friday, March 20, 2009 (01:13:06) (625 reads)

We recently received news of more student occupations and actions going on around the world and want to share those with others in the struggle both here at the New School and in the larger student movements. This is the first of two recent student actions we have been notified of. Their statement follows:

We, the Students of the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan, sincerely express our solidarity with the Students in Exile. We also began to occupy and sit-in on our campus from March 9. 2009. The Globe is just one, and we hope that the students could develop a global society of solidarity against the neoliberalism.

Sincerely
From the Students of the University of the Ryukyus

Please read their Statement, Support Letter and their Blog (most of it is written in Japanese). Their Statement and Support Letter are in the read more link below

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