A liberated building...

[Kadir Ateş]

If you are in NYC, 90 5th Avenue (a space above TD bank on the northwestern corner) has been liberated by New School, CUNY and NYU students. It has been declared an education center for the OWS movement. No cops, people may come and go as they please.

[agnixie]

I half expected it at this point, it seems like half the grads I met there are in some way sympathizing with the movement :p

:thumbup1:

[Kadir Ateş]

Not just graduate students, most.

[agnixie]

Awesome.

Crowds starting to take Canal street (https://twitter.com/?photo_id=1#!/AnalectFilms/status/137290008620052481/photo/1).

[Kadir Ateş]

And I'm serious: go down there and occupy the shit out of that building.

90 5th Avenue--do it!

[RadioRaheem84]

What about Columbia students?:confused:

[Kadir Ateş]

You're right--they were are there as well.

[agnixie]

NSFreePress (their twitter) said there was delegations from 5 universities in the takeover and the later negotiations with the president to make him accept the fait accompli and not throw the cops (Columbia, Hunter, Pratt, NYU and New School itself).

[RED DAVE]

90 5th Avenue is 3 blocks from where my wife and I live. :D

RED DAVE

[Ocean Seal]

RED DAVE
Comrade I might be being overzealous, but I recommend deleting the information in this post for security reasons.

[Iron Felix]

Too late, I have already wrote it down and am on my way to murder him and his wife!

[agnixie]

Heh, three blocks from the New School's Study Center is really a hell of a lot of people :p

[Kadir Ateş]

It is my hope that is really becomes an education center, not just a preaching ground for the converted, which are mostly students anyway.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

You're probably going to have to spread the word outside of the usual left-wing outlets (like this site) for that happen. Think about sending delegations out to workplaces, unemployment centers (e.g. Workforce1 (http://www.nyc.gov/html/sbs/wf1/html/home/home.shtml)), pickets (e.g. Sotheby's (http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2011/aug/02/art-handlers-picket-sothebys-following-worker-lockout/)), etc.

[agnixie]

You're probably going to have to spread the word outside of the usual left-wing outlets (like this site) for that happen. Think about sending delegations out to workplaces, unemployment centers (e.g. Workforce1 (http://www.nyc.gov/html/sbs/wf1/html/home/home.shtml)), pickets (e.g. Sotheby's (http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2011/aug/02/art-handlers-picket-sothebys-following-worker-lockout/)), etc.

Labor Outreach was present at Sothebys but yeah, I'm not sure job centers were targetted although I do seem to recall people mentioning reaching out to the NYC association of unemployed workers or however it's called.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Fuck "official avenues." Round up a group and go appeal to the unemployed workers that line up in front of these places every day in desperate hopes of finding a shitty job.

[Kadir Ateş]

NHIA, I am trying to but where I work is a bit of a distance from NY (a political dead zone at the moment). Already some of the janitors have expressed some solidarity with the students and they may even strike when their contracts are up on December 1st.

There is a labor outreach group that is forming which I will try to stay in touch with, but it's hard as I'm only in NY twice a week.

[ellipsis]

Solidarity and good luck!