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From my email:

From New York City:
7 pm 12/16/08

We have just occupied New School University.

We liberate this space for ourselves, and all those who want to join us, for
our general autonomous use. We take the university in explicit solidarity with
those occupying the universities and streets in Greece, Italy, France and Spain.

This occupation begins as a response to specific conditions at the New School,
the corporatization of our education and the impoverishment of education in
general. However, it is not just this university but also New York City that is
in crisis: in the next several months, thousands of us will be losing our jobs,
while housing remains unaffordable and unavailable to many and the cost of
living skyrockets.

So we stress that the general nature of these intolerable conditions exists
across the spectrum of capitalist existence, in our universities and our cities,
in all of our social relations. For this reason, what begins tonight at the New
School cannot, and should not, be contained here.

Thus: with this occupation, we inaugurate a wave of occupations in New York
City and the United States, a coming wave of occupations, blockades, and strikes
in this time of crisis.

Be assured, this is only the beginning,

With solidarity and love from New York to Greece,

To Italy, France and Spain,

To the coming insurrection.

-The occupied New School

http://www.newschoolinexile.com/

Updates:

Thursday, December 18, 2008
Join Us!
The Administration has capitulated to our demands. The Police have backed off and Seurity has begin to let people back into the building.

We are rather Jubilant at the moment as our numbers have almost doubled and we are standing strong, holding our ground.

This is OUR School and this is OUR Space.

Yours for always,
The New School in Exile.

http://www.newschoolinexileblog.blogspot.com/