#student occupation

[horrorhorizon]

Umeå University is occupied for Palestine now!

Umeå universitet är ockuperat för Palestina nu!

I will make a full and dedetailed post tomorrow about this. For now I DESPERATELY need to rest.

Jag gör en hel upplägg med mera detailer imorgon. För nu är jag i STOR behöv at villa.

I will be there tomorrow afternoon if you want to meet up, look for the wheelchair that's me :)

Jag kommer att vara där imorgon äftermidag om ni vill mötas. Kolla för rullstolen, det är mig :)

[radicalgraff]

Graffiti seen at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, India, where students have occupied the administration block in protest against a massive fee hike that will drive the poor people out of the university.

The students are fighting against the privatisation of education that is becoming rampant in India especially because of the right wing government turning it into a commodity through neo-liberal economic policies.

On November 19, 2019, police attacked a peaceful student demonstration to the parliament in Dehli using teargas and water-cannons. Hundreds of students were beaten and detained by police and had their belongings confiscated.

Despite the repression the struggle for affordable education continues

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

The Sorbonne University under student occupation - Paris, May 1968. Source

[auskultu]

THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1968

In a highly optimistic report 29 days before the enemy’s Lunar New Year offensive in South Vietnam, Gen. William C. Westmoreland predicted that during 196S the Communists would be forced “to place greater reliance on sanctuaries in Cambodia, Laos and the northern DMZ.” He said allied gains this year would increase “manyfold” over those in 1967.

Another top military man, Gen. David M. Shoup, former Marine commandant, estimated that up to 800,000 American troops would be required just to defend South Vietnam’s population centers. He asserted that the United States would have to invade North Vietnam to be victorious, and said he did not think the war was worth the cost.

Students in Cracow defied Polish Communist leader Władysław Gomułka’s call for an immediate return to classes and staged a sit-in. Warsaw students also voted to begin a sit-in this morning.

Senator Robert F. Kennedy attacked President Johnson’s proposed housing legislation and urged adoption of his own plan, based on tax incentives. The Senator also took issue with Mr. Johnson’s appeal for austerity. The war is costing too much, Mr. Kennedy said, and “the major responsibility is to our people here at home.

The Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation and the United States Office of Education announced plans for imaginative television programs to be aimed at preschool youngsters in the fall of 1969.

Howard University in Washington was closed after more than 500 students seized control of the administration building. They want more emphasis in the classroom on Negro history and black culture.

With a harshly worded telegram to New York State’s 62 county Democratic chairmen. the Johnson organization opened its campaign against Senator Kennedy. The telegram accused state chairman John J. Burns, who supports Mr. Kennedy, of turning the state Democratic party into “a propaganda agency against the President of the United States.”

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

Occupation of Ford Hall

On the 8th of January 1969, around 70 student members of the Brandeis University Afro-American Society took over Ford Hall. The takeover started in the switchboard room as 10 to 15 black students telling the two operators to leave the building. After the seizing the phone system, the students move throughout Ford, telling classes to vacate the building and instructing various personnel to leave. After the building is secured, students allow members of the press to go to the office of Lathan Johnson, the black student adviser, where the occupying students hold a news conference. At the news conference, spokesmen Ricardo Millet '68, the Ridgewood residence counselor, and Roy DeBerry '70, president of the Brandeis Afro-American Society, read a prepared statement and present the list of 10 demands, which they say is nonnegotiable. The spokesmen also call for a guarantee of complete amnesty for those involved in the protest. At 5 o'clock that evening, some of the occupying students hold a meeting in Mailman Hall to announce the reasons for the takeover. A representative of the Afro-American Society, presents the group’s demands to let the white students to decide among themselves what type of support they wish to offer.

On the 14th of January some students begin a general strike in support of the demands of the black students, hoping to resolve the deadlock between the students and the administration. Twenty-two white students engage in a hunger strike in support of the black students.

The occupiers renamed the building Malcolm X University and held it for 11 days, inspiring a slew of college occupations across the US. 

[about-photography]

The occupation of the Maagdenhuis, Amsterdam, 1969 (”The Maagdenhuis - the location of the adminstration of the University of Amsterdam - was in 1969 occupied by students, demanding student participation on all levels. As Ed van der Elsken says: “With a bit of giggling, guilty looks and disobedience, kids crawled inside the Maagdenhuis, tittering away like scouts sneaking into a haystack for the night. The rest is history, the heroism of Dutch student movement.) by Ed van der Elsken (NL, 1925-1990)

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[liverpool-photographer]

Student occupation underway at University of Liverpool

Occupation is continuing into its second day. Updates on their blog; http://liverpooluniversityoccupy.wordpress.com/

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Photos by David J Colbran - to use or licence this image please contact me via my Liverpool photography website.