NY Post Action today … and student activism ain’t dead!

Yesterday, the NY Post ran an incendiary political cartoon by Delonas. In response NY City Council Rep Charles Baron and others have called for an in-person action against the Post. The action will take place today at noon, details below:

Thursday, February 19, 2008 at 12 Noon
New York Post Offices
1211 Avenue of the Americas (between 47th & 48th Sts)
New York, NY

Second, I am absolutely impressed and empowered by the amount of student activism I’ve seen bubbling up nationally and in New York in particular over the past few months. While contemporary college students are often discussed as “disconnected” from social struggles or suffering from “apathy”, at a least a cadre of students have been pushing for greater social justice. A few months ago students at the New School took-over a building and received their demands, last night at about 10pm a coalition of students at New York University, occupied the marketplace of the Kimmel Center. Find out more about their demands, principled take-over, and recent details go here.

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Filed under: Activism, Education, empire, foreign policy, Protest, Racism, Youth

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  • http://rantsofawildchild.wordpress.com ladebelle

    as someone who's young, i'm really excited and proud to hear about the ongoings with the student protests. for so long, my generation has had a stigma of being spoiled and expecting too much and now i think that we're doing a great job of taking a stand on issues that we believe in. more of us are involved in philanthropic causes and fighting for beliefs that we have.

    i love it!

  • http://www.jaredrodriguez.com/blPr Jared

    There is a solidarity rally for the TAKE BACK NYU Occupation today @ 12 Noon @ NYU. For more info call Conor who is the outside support contact @ 979.204.9253. http://takebacknyu. com/

  • http://rantsofawildchild.wordpress.com ladebelle

    as someone who’s young, i’m really excited and proud to hear about the ongoings with the student protests. for so long, my generation has had a stigma of being spoiled and expecting too much and now i think that we’re doing a great job of taking a stand on issues that we believe in. more of us are involved in philanthropic causes and fighting for beliefs that we have.

    i love it!

  • http://www.jaredrodriguez.com/blPr Jared

    There is a solidarity rally for the TAKE BACK NYU Occupation today @ 12 Noon @ NYU. For more info call Conor who is the outside support contact @ 979.204.9253. http://takebacknyu. com/

  • http://rantsofawildchild.wordpress.com ladebelle

    as someone who's young, i'm really excited and proud to hear about the ongoings with the student protests. for so long, my generation has had a stigma of being spoiled and expecting too much and now i think that we're doing a great job of taking a stand on issues that we believe in. more of us are involved in philanthropic causes and fighting for beliefs that we have.

    i love it!

  • http://www.jaredrodriguez.com/blPr Jared

    There is a solidarity rally for the TAKE BACK NYU Occupation today @ 12 Noon @ NYU. For more info call Conor who is the outside support contact @ 979.204.9253. http://takebacknyu. com/