RHIZOMES
26th September 2011, 21:40
Long and complicated story, and the news media as usual are covering it in a way that doesn't tell the whole story.
A group of around 250 students (including me), comprising of not only the usual activist intelligentsia but also regular students, marched across campus and rushed and occupied the Owen G Glenn Building for 5 hours, which is a sort of a symbol of the neoliberalisation of the university since it signifies:
A) the growing allocation of resources into the business school due to university becoming more explicitly a profit-making enterprise
B) the decreasing amount of state-funds in Uni education since the money to build it was contributed by one of the dodgiest business magnates in the country, Owen G. Glenn
C) the architecture sucks
We were protesting against the Voluntary Student Membership bill, as the media reports. But we were protesting against it in terms of a wider "whole" of what was happening to tertiary education in this country - raising fees for students and proletarianisation of academic work conditions, while the Vic Chancellor's salary when up ten or twenty grand.
http://www.revleft.com/vb/dsfsdf
Some neat videos and photos:
http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/294750_10150398846451844_672811843_10114036_182313 1318_n.jpg
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/297589_269201216445192_100000659480773_924913_4473 28936_n.jpg
Bq1xeShQFpQ
Marching to the business school
r2i-kg_X_38
Occupation in action
LV9MXtdQYEQ
blockading a cop car after the occupation ended due to the single arrest of a Maori activist
More info/pics/videos at:
http://wearetheuniversity.org.nz/
A group of around 250 students (including me), comprising of not only the usual activist intelligentsia but also regular students, marched across campus and rushed and occupied the Owen G Glenn Building for 5 hours, which is a sort of a symbol of the neoliberalisation of the university since it signifies:
A) the growing allocation of resources into the business school due to university becoming more explicitly a profit-making enterprise
B) the decreasing amount of state-funds in Uni education since the money to build it was contributed by one of the dodgiest business magnates in the country, Owen G. Glenn
C) the architecture sucks
We were protesting against the Voluntary Student Membership bill, as the media reports. But we were protesting against it in terms of a wider "whole" of what was happening to tertiary education in this country - raising fees for students and proletarianisation of academic work conditions, while the Vic Chancellor's salary when up ten or twenty grand.
http://www.revleft.com/vb/dsfsdf
Some neat videos and photos:
http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/294750_10150398846451844_672811843_10114036_182313 1318_n.jpg
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/297589_269201216445192_100000659480773_924913_4473 28936_n.jpg
Bq1xeShQFpQ
Marching to the business school
r2i-kg_X_38
Occupation in action
LV9MXtdQYEQ
blockading a cop car after the occupation ended due to the single arrest of a Maori activist
More info/pics/videos at:
http://wearetheuniversity.org.nz/