roberta buiani on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:11:37 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> New School for Social Research is now being OCCUPIED |
On 17-Dec-08, at 9:20 PM, onto wrote: >> From New York City: > > With solidarity and love from New York to Greece, > To Italy, France and Spain, > To the coming insurrection. ...and add Canada to this. I know we are not occupying universities and we are not making the media, but we have been fighting quite a bit in the past year. York University Teaching Assistants, Contract Faculty and Graduate Assistants have been on (quite a battled one) strike since November 6. our first priority is to target the casualization of education and job precarity in academia. you can read some info here ( http://www. 3903strike.ca/) . we have "cloned our university (www.yorku.ca) website (yorkisus.org), we have posted youtube videos to denounce the increasingly corporate situation of our academic institutions and the appalling isolation and humiliation of part-time faculty. a group of undergraduate students have joined us too. the university is fighting back using its big corporate power and its highly paid lawyers with big media releases, statements and, since monday, the banning of media from the university space. York university is not alone here in canada. since March, other universities walked out of their jobs (Wilfrid Laurier university and University of Windsor) while other universities almost walked out for the same reasons (Guelph, McMaster). The University of Toronto will likely walk out as well. > - New School Occupation Committee > > http://www.newschoolinexile.com/ I know we are coming from different contexts, but we can probably join forces to a certain extent. at least in denouncing the state of education in solidarity roberta http://www.3903strike.ca http://yorkisus.org # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org