[R-G] [NYCLAW] Palestine: Support NYU Student Occupation

[Sid Shniad]

http://takebacknyu.com/ 

OCCUPATION 
Feb 19th, 2009 by Take Back NYU! 

After a two-year campaign of letter-writing, tabling, flyering, educational events, and even electing a member onto the Student Senate, Take Back NYU! decided to occupy the Marketplace at Kimmel . 

    • Streaming video from the inside ! 

Communiques: 

    • 2/19 12a.m.: Why We Really, Finally Took Back NYU 
    • 2/18 10:30p.m.: Demands, Solidarity Statment and Statement of Non-Violence and Abstention from Property Destruction 

Our demands are as follows: 

    1. Amnesty for all parties involved. 
    2. Full compensation for all employees whose jobs were disrupted during the course of the occupation. 
    3. Public release of NYU's annual budget and endowment. 
    4. Allow student workers (including T.A.'s) to collectively bargain. 
    5. A fair labor contract for all NYU employees at home and abroad. 
    6. A Socially Responsible Finance Committee that will immediately investigate war profiteers and the lifting of the Coke ban. 
    7. Annual scholarships be provided for thirteen Palestinian students. 
    8. That the university donates all excess supplies and materials in an effort to rebuild the University of Gaza. 
    9. Tuition stabilization for all students, beginning with the class of 2012. Tuition rates for each successive year will not exceed the rate of inflation. The university shall meet 100% of government-calculated student financial need. 
    10. That student groups have priority when reserving space in the buildings owned or leased by New York University, including, and especially, the Kimmel Center. 
    11. That the general public have access to Bobst Library. 

What you can do: 

    • Come support the occupation, inside or outside! We'll be inside all night. 
    • Send a letter to the administration in solidarity! 
    • Tell the world! Send an e-mail to your professors, peers, listservs, facebook groups, etc! Talk to your friends! 

Press 

Letters in Solidarity