The following is the last part of the RSU press conference held on Wednesday APril 15th at 2pm outside the 66 W. 12th St. building. The entire press release is available on the New School In Exile web site at www.newschoolinexile.com
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New York police attack protesting New School students (+ videos)
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2. California Droughting
3. Coke Crude
4. New School student beat down
5. London PoPo G20 murder
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7. Univ. of Colorado gets pwend
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By Sandy English
http://www.wsws.org
13 April 2009
In a display of brutality, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) arrested 22 students who had occupied the premises of the New School in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village last Friday. Students were struck by police without provocation and thrown to the ground, and others were pepper-sprayed.
Approximately 60 students occupied a New School building on Friday morning. The students were demanding the resignation of New School president John [Bob] Kerrey, the former Nebraska governor and senator, and a Vietnam war criminal, as well as the school’s autocratic executive vice president, James Murtha.
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Donna Lieberman, executive director for the New York Civil Liberties Union, noted after viewing the video:
“What appears on the video is someone yelling at the cops and getting punched in the face for it and thrown to the ground and arrested. The Police Department has no authority to use physical force on somebody in this situation and they have no authority to arrest people for yelling at them; that is a violation of civil rights plain and simple.”
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New School University Occupation Police Brutality
Police arrested 19 protesters who had occupied a New School building as part of a protest aimed at the university’s president, Bob Kerrey. This video shows that as demonstrators attempted to leave through a side door, they were pepper sprayed and not allowed to leave. Following this, several officers assaulted supporters outside.
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Petrino DiLeo, Hannah Fleury, Amanda Ginsberg, Doug Singsen and Zach Zill report from New York City on the student occupation at the New School.
SocialistWorker.org
December 19, 2008
STUDENTS AT New York City’s New School ended a day-and-a-half-old occupation in the early-morning hours of December 19 after winning important concessions in their demands for greater democracy at their school.
New School President Bob Kerrey, a former senator and well-known figure in the Democratic Party, was forced to negotiate personally with the students, who took over a cafeteria in a building slated to be torn down soon to dramatize their call for a greater voice.
In addition to amnesty for everyone involved in the occupation, the New School administration agreed that students could continue using the building where the occupation took place as a library and study space. In addition, students were promised representation on the Board of Trustees and committees to choose future administrators, plus the formation of a committee on socially responsible investing.
The top demand of the students when the occupation began was Kerrey’s resignation, along with the school’s executive vice president–plus the treasurer of the Board of Trustees, Robert Millard, chairman of one of the largest defense contractors in the country.
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