Students re-occupied New School
Friday, April 10, 2009 (20:04:02)

Posted by alvinjohnson

Sometime in the early morning of Friday April 10th a group of approximately 18 students took over and occupied the Graduate Faculty building at 65 5th Avenue in New York. Students were able to hold and occupy the building for several hours before a mass of police, estimates coming in at around 100 NYPD on the scene, raided the building, pepper spraying and arresting all of the students inside.

There is a statement recently released also by the Adjunct-Faculty Union (ACT-UAW Local 7902) condemning the use of excessive force by President Kerrey and calling for an investigation into the matters behind these protests! Read it here, and the Student Senate has a post titled "Riot Police Storm 65 5th"

More details can be read at the following sites, more updates as we get new information.

http://reoccupied.wordpress.com

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Below are some of the videos so far about the occupation. We're still waiting for footage from police raids, and will post this once we have it.

NY 1 news report on occupation, including video of students on roof