The Painful Last minutes of the NYU protest

[Sasaki Kojiro]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q6KAg6qEGY (contains swearing)



Or rather the hilarious last minutes of the NYU protest. I'd put this in the frontroom but it's a bit political. Their sheer idiocy knows no bounds.

btw, their number one demand was "amnesty for all protestors".

My favorite quotes:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

"We're using democratic process here..., I don't know if you guys understand that..."

"Are you unarmed? Do you have tasers...or...or...devices of force?!"

"Water bottles, I don't think they want the water bottles...they probably drink corporate water hehe. Here's another Macbook...a Macbook charger..."


[skateboard protestor] "Dirty *%$^%^ scumbags!"
[cameraman]"No no no, this is civil disobedience guys"

"Guys...guys...this is a democracy...we need a consensus...come on guys..."

[to the nypd security]"well could you put on earmuffs...or pretend you can't hear us"

[Devastatin Dave]

LOL, I love college kids. I sense a lot of Obama votes here...

[Crazed Rabbit]

Hilarious indeed. I loved how he kept talking about consensus and facilitators and all sorts of other liberal arts bull, and it turned out completely worthless in the end. The University peeps just strolled in and said; Here's how you're going to be punished.

CR

[Monk]

Wow. I should have gone to NYU this quarter, apparently their standards for acceptance are pretty reasonable!

Though I officially hate the word consensus now. Was hilarious how the camera man sounded scared out of his mind when security had finally had enough.

[Major Robert Dump]

Epic fail.

No one was even on the same page. I think they wanted brutality so they could justify their cause. 20 unarmed campus cops show up and they are yelling "force, brutality!" and the one cop went outside to tap the girl on the shoulder to see if she wanted to come in for the "consensus" and she shrieked and accused him of trying to push her off the balcony hahaha.

BTW what were they protesting?

haha thhe fat black cop slowly lumbered over the table and casually walked past them and they yelled"force force they're busting in" HAHAHA

[Monk]

BTW what were they protesting?

The Man, man!

[Devastatin Dave]

BTW what were they protesting?

Usual stuff... Israel's "occupation", right to form unions, lack of weed, access to decent poonany, etc...

[Major Robert Dump]

hmmm looks like they were mad about a "find the illegal immigrant" contst someone on campus was hosting. Gosh, with a protest of that caliber I would have at least expected something like a frat boy in a cowboy hat peeing on a teepee or george will addressing the 7-member nyu college republicans

[Xiahou]

Hilarious.

BTW what were they protesting?

Good question. Here's what I was able to find out:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

NYU BUILDING TAKEOVER!!!

At approximately 10pm tonight (Feb. 18), students of Take Back NYU! took
over the Kimmel Marketplace. They have blockaded the doors and declared an
occupation! They presented their demands to the NYU administration. They read as
follows:

DEMANDS

We, the students of NYU, declare an occupation
of this space. This occupation is the culmination of a two-year campaign by the
Take Back NYU! coalition, and of campaigns from years past, in whose footsteps
we follow.

In order to create a more accountable, democratic and
socially responsible university, we demand the following:

1. Full legal
and disciplinary amnesty for all parties involved in the occupation.

2.
Full compensation for all employees whose jobs were disrupted during the course
of the occupation.

3. Public release of NYU's annual operating budget,
including a full list of university expenditures, salaries for all employees
compensated on a semester or annual basis, funds allocated for staff wages,
contracts to non-university organizations for university construction and
services, financial aid data for each college, and money allocated to each
college, department, and administrative unit of the university. Furthermore,
this should include a full disclosure of the amount and sources of the
university's funding.

4. Disclosure of NYU's endowment holdings,
investment strategy, projected endowment growth, and persons, corporations and
firms involved in the investment of the university's endowment funds.
Additionally, we demand an endowment oversight body of students, faculty and
staff who exercise shareholder proxy voting power for the university's
investments.

5. That the NYU Administration agrees to resume
negotiations with GSOC/UAW Local 2110 – the union for NYU graduate assistants,
teaching assistants, and research assistants. That NYU publicly affirm its
commitment to respect all its workers, including student employees, by
recognizing their right to form unions and to bargain collectively. That NYU
publicly affirm that it will recognize workers' unions through majority card
verification.

6. That NYU signs a contract guaranteeing fair labor
practices for all NYU employees at home and abroad. This contract will extend to
subcontracted workers, including bus drivers, food service employees and anyone
involved in the construction, operation and maintenance at any of NYU's non-U.S.
sites.

7. The establishment of a student elected Socially Responsible
Finance Committee. This Committee will have full power to vote on proxies, draft
shareholder resolutions, screen all university investments, establish new
programs that encourage social and environmental responsibility and override all
financial decisions the committee deems socially irresponsible, including
investment decisions. The committee will be composed of two subcommittees: one
to assess the operating budget and one to assess the endowment holdings. Each
committee will be composed of ten students democratically elected from the
graduate and under-graduate student bodies. All committee decisions will be made
a strict majority vote, and will be upheld by the university. All members of the
Socially Responsible Finance Committee will sit on the board of trustees, and
will have equal voting rights. All Socially Responsible Finance Committee and
Trustee meetings shall be open to the public, and their minutes made accessible
electronically through NYU's website. Elections will be held the second Tuesday
of every March beginning March 10th 2009, and meetings will be held biweekly
beginning the week of March 30th 2009.

8. That the first two orders of
business of the Socially Responsible Finance committee will be:
a) An in
depth investigation of all investments in war and genocide profiteers, as well
as companies profiting from the occupation of Palestinian territories.
b) A
reassessment of the recently lifted of the ban on Coca Cola products.

9.
That annual scholarships be provided for thirteen Palestinian students, starting
with the 2009/2010 academic year. These scholarships will include funding for
books, housing, meals and travel expenses.

10. That the university
donate all excess supplies and materials in an effort to rebuild the University
of Gaza.

11. Tuition stabilization for all students, beginning with the
class of 2012. All students will pay their initial tuition rate throughout the
course of their education at New York University. Tuition rates for each
successive year will not exceed the rate of inflation, nor shall they exceed one
percent. The university shall meet 100% of government-calculated student
financial need.

12. That student groups have priority when reserving
space in the buildings owned or leased by New York University, including, and
especially, the Kimmel Center.

13. That the general public have access
to Bobst Library.

Along with this, students have issued a

SOLIDARITY STATEMENT

We, the students of Take Back NYU! declare
our solidarity with the student [sleepovers] in Greece,
Italy, and the
United Kingdom, as well as those of the University of
Rochester, the New
School for Social Research, and with future
[sleepovers] to come in the name
of democracy and student power. We stand
in solidarity with the University
of Gaza, and with the people of
Palestine.

~~

[Devastatin Dave]

Sleep overs? Man, an entire generation of pussies.

[Major Robert Dump]

And I bet the same students who want fair labor treat the workers in the student union cafeteria like 2nd rate human beings, and I would love to see how long the library-open-to-the-public crap would last when students can't find the books they need for a paper due in 7 hours because it's checked out, or a homeless guy is using it as a pillow on the 4th floor.

Hey, isn't one of the orgahs here an NYU student? Hopefully the NYU police nazis didn't brutalize him by scooching slowly over a table 5 feet away from him.

[Reverend Joe]

LOL, I love college kids.

I think you mean college activists. I'll thank you not to automatically associate me with this crowd of idiots.

[Monk]

9.
That annual scholarships be provided for thirteen Palestinian students, starting
with the 2009/2010 academic year. These scholarships will include funding for
books, housing, meals and travel expenses.

As a student struggling to make ends meet I'd find this insulting if only it didn't come the same type of person who's voice quaked as security very calmly removed the desks from the doorway.

Hey, isn't one of the orgahs here an NYU student? Hopefully the NYU police nazis didn't brutalize him by scooching slowly over a table 5 feet away from him.

It's okay, he got it on camera.

edit:

I think you mean college activists. I'll thank you not to automatically associate me with this crowd of idiots.

Preach it, Joe

[Sheogorath]

Pathetic.

Really.

Both (most of) the demands and the people.

I bet this guy wouldn't have been out sticking flowers in National Guard rifle's back in the 60's

"LOOK OUT, LOOK OUT! HE'S SLOWLY COMING THIS WAY!"

Also, that barricade is really sorry. I mean, really, you shouldn't be able to ROLL AWAY portions of a barricade. Nor should it only be one level of items. You need to jumble things up. Stack them. Get them properly entangled. Urgh.

They need to bring over some South Korean students to organize a proper riot.

[lars573]

This is why I never went to university. Dealing with people like that day after day, I'd snap. The coummity colldge I did go to was thankfully uncontaminated by those kind of posers.

[seireikhaan]

I couldn't even make it through 35 seconds of that.

And that's coming from someone who's at university right now.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I couldn't even make it through 35 seconds of that.

And that's coming from someone who's at university right now.

Your missing some great material.

"Freddy...Freddy...come here Freddy...fine, we'll have our consensus without you!"

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

That was on of the best parts.

Also good was when the cameraman/leader was trying to build "consensus" and someone in the back kept yelling "you *stinking* rats!."

/stick it to the man, man

[Rhyfelwyr]

"Are you unarmed? Do you have tasers...or...or...devices of force?!"



Reminds me of the protestors at my Uni recently... apparently the university is obliged to provide the room they blocake with a wireless internet connection, otherwise it's abusing their basic human rights. The protest ended up with six people shouting outside a building, while over 900 people joined an 'Anti-Protest' facebook club.

[Yoyoma1910]

It sounds like:

"Blah blah blah."


Democratic process and consensus are likely what these guys are protesting.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Wow, I can't believe there is no mention of protesting the Governor's grab of this year's college tuition increase to be used in the general fund to put toward balancing the state budget instead of the university system.

[Major Robert Dump]

Wow, I can't believe there is no mention of protesting the Governor's grab of this year's college tuition increase to be used in the general fund to put toward balancing the state budget instead of the university system.

Actually, I think thats a great idea. the amount of money big universities spend on groundskeeping (RE:fancy shrubbery) is absolutely staggering. The University of Oklahoma spends a cool 1.25 million a year on nice grass and pretty flowers, and paid 800k for a statue of a rearing demon horse with glowing eyes and a giant fat tiger/woman with giant boobs crouched like she's ready to pounce on some cupcakes.

I can assure you that peoples decision on whether or not to go to a university hinges less on scenery and more on education. Look at UNLV.

Most college presidents are former politicians, skilled at raising money for things that aren't needed. I'd actually be happier paying more tuition knowing it was going into the state fund and not going into a campus beautification project. If beautification was their real concern the universities would stop annexing parts of communities, including parks and historic districts, so they could build a bigger stadium and make a new athletic dorm.

Am I whining? Sorry, we just lost a park and duck pond that has been around for damn near 100 years and was a staple of families and childrens lives, all so some coked up jocks could have a dorm separate from the normal students (and by normal i mean the ones who go to class) so they could prepare to lose another national championship

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I showed this to a friend. It took me at least ten minutes to convince him it was not a joke.

Good question. Here's what I was able to find out:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

NYU BUILDING TAKEOVER!!!

At approximately 10pm tonight (Feb. 18), students of Take Back NYU! took
over the Kimmel Marketplace. They have blockaded the doors and declared an
occupation! They presented their demands to the NYU administration. They read as
follows:

DEMANDS

We, the students of NYU, declare an occupation
of this space. This occupation is the culmination of a two-year campaign by the
Take Back NYU! coalition, and of campaigns from years past, in whose footsteps
we follow.

In order to create a more accountable, democratic and
socially responsible university, we demand the following:

1. Full legal
and disciplinary amnesty for all parties involved in the occupation.

2.
Full compensation for all employees whose jobs were disrupted during the course
of the occupation.

3. Public release of NYU's annual operating budget,
including a full list of university expenditures, salaries for all employees
compensated on a semester or annual basis, funds allocated for staff wages,
contracts to non-university organizations for university construction and
services, financial aid data for each college, and money allocated to each
college, department, and administrative unit of the university. Furthermore,
this should include a full disclosure of the amount and sources of the
university's funding.

4. Disclosure of NYU's endowment holdings,
investment strategy, projected endowment growth, and persons, corporations and
firms involved in the investment of the university's endowment funds.
Additionally, we demand an endowment oversight body of students, faculty and
staff who exercise shareholder proxy voting power for the university's
investments.

5. That the NYU Administration agrees to resume
negotiations with GSOC/UAW Local 2110 – the union for NYU graduate assistants,
teaching assistants, and research assistants. That NYU publicly affirm its
commitment to respect all its workers, including student employees, by
recognizing their right to form unions and to bargain collectively. That NYU
publicly affirm that it will recognize workers' unions through majority card
verification.

6. That NYU signs a contract guaranteeing fair labor
practices for all NYU employees at home and abroad. This contract will extend to
subcontracted workers, including bus drivers, food service employees and anyone
involved in the construction, operation and maintenance at any of NYU's non-U.S.
sites.

7. The establishment of a student elected Socially Responsible
Finance Committee. This Committee will have full power to vote on proxies, draft
shareholder resolutions, screen all university investments, establish new
programs that encourage social and environmental responsibility and override all
financial decisions the committee deems socially irresponsible, including
investment decisions. The committee will be composed of two subcommittees: one
to assess the operating budget and one to assess the endowment holdings. Each
committee will be composed of ten students democratically elected from the
graduate and under-graduate student bodies. All committee decisions will be made
a strict majority vote, and will be upheld by the university. All members of the
Socially Responsible Finance Committee will sit on the board of trustees, and
will have equal voting rights. All Socially Responsible Finance Committee and
Trustee meetings shall be open to the public, and their minutes made accessible
electronically through NYU's website. Elections will be held the second Tuesday
of every March beginning March 10th 2009, and meetings will be held biweekly
beginning the week of March 30th 2009.

8. That the first two orders of
business of the Socially Responsible Finance committee will be:
a) An in
depth investigation of all investments in war and genocide profiteers, as well
as companies profiting from the occupation of Palestinian territories.
b) A
reassessment of the recently lifted of the ban on Coca Cola products.

9.
That annual scholarships be provided for thirteen Palestinian students, starting
with the 2009/2010 academic year. These scholarships will include funding for
books, housing, meals and travel expenses.

10. That the university
donate all excess supplies and materials in an effort to rebuild the University
of Gaza.

11. Tuition stabilization for all students, beginning with the
class of 2012. All students will pay their initial tuition rate throughout the
course of their education at New York University. Tuition rates for each
successive year will not exceed the rate of inflation, nor shall they exceed one
percent. The university shall meet 100% of government-calculated student
financial need.

12. That student groups have priority when reserving
space in the buildings owned or leased by New York University, including, and
especially, the Kimmel Center.

13. That the general public have access
to Bobst Library.

Along with this, students have issued a

SOLIDARITY STATEMENT

We, the students of Take Back NYU! declare
our solidarity with the student [sleepovers] in Greece,
Italy, and the
United Kingdom, as well as those of the University of
Rochester, the New
School for Social Research, and with future
[sleepovers] to come in the name
of democracy and student power. We stand
in solidarity with the University
of Gaza, and with the people of
Palestine.

~~

Oh, so they really are idiots.

[Furunculus]

LOL, I love college kids. I sense a lot of Obama votes here...

haha, "i sense obamacons in the force my lord."

[Marshal Murat]

I love that by 1:21 the administrators were storming in and the students were just saying "You can't...you can't come in here." Then they walked right past.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I love that by 1:21 the administrators were storming in and the students were just saying "You can't...you can't come in here." Then they walked right past.

"Brutality...hello? Brutality?...you are ON CAMERA you are ON CAMERA...you are ON CAMERA...you are ON CAMERA...you are ON CAMERA...you are ON CAMERA"

[Marshal Murat]

I've heard "consensus" so many times...no wonder Democracy doesn't work.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

MRD: an even bigger expense is the sports teams. NJIT blows a ton of cash on its Division 1 teams that are largely uncompetitive. But another tuition hike? Sure...

<_<

[Major Robert Dump]

MRD: an even bigger expense is the sports teams. NJIT blows a ton of cash on its Division 1 teams that are largely uncompetitive. But another tuition hike? Sure...

<_<

Well, some sports teams makes money for the uni...the others have to exist due to equal opportunity, and probably aren't all that bad as they provide scholarhships for various athletes who otherwise might not have gotten in. the real problem with sports is when it eats up more money than it makes and the athletes are held to a different academic standard.

I'm waiting with great excitement for the recession to hit pro sports like a brick, and for Universities to be notched down and put in their place. Anymore, I view universities more and more like frikkin unions, and I'm fairly certain if I could do it all over again a community college/specialty college or small, private institution would be what I attended, because at those places no one makes the claim to be beacons or progress, hope and the future. I still have nightmares about OU

[Marshal Murat]

See, the problem with sports is, even during a recession they still have a large attendance, as people return to their basics, i.e. favorite sports team.