Message of Solidarity From ACT-UAW

Statement from ACT-UAW regarding the student protest at NYU

Following the recent protest by NYU students who occupied a portion of Kimmel Student Center, The Joint Council of ACT-UAW Local 7902 has voted to issue the following statement.

ACT-UAW Local 7902

• calls on the NYU Administration to refrain from all disciplinary action against student protesters pending proper hearings by NYU's disciplinary board;

• calls on the Administration to address the serious policy issues that the protest has raised, by working with the faculty, students, and staff to establish a university-wide fiscal accountability committee;

• calls on the Administration to appoint an independent university committee that will promptly investigate allegations of the use of excessive force against the protesters.

Local 7902 shares the view stated in an NYU faculty petition: "the Kimmel occupation [is] symptomatic of a deeper malady afflicting NYU: a lack of educational community." The Local notes, in particular, the negative impact on educational community of the disregard for workers' rights that the student protest highlighted. We therefore call on the Administration to recognize and bargain with GSOC, the union for graduate student employees, as a first step toward improving the situation.

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M219 is looking for artists, musicians, writers, and tech-saavy students

Hey all,

Movement February 19 is looking for talented students to help spread the message of reforming tuition for the benefit of the entire NYU student body.

If you have striking photos, illustrative talent, a literary streak, or even just a video camera, we would love you to help join us in letting the other students, our families, our friends, the city of New York, and the administration know how passionately we feel about a fair deal.

If you have any interest, e-mail M219 @ movement219@gmail.com

If you know someone with artistic talents please refer them to our cause.
Remember, we're all in this together.

Our education is not a commodity

We want only two things:

The tuition to our school frozen.

And a say in how that money is spent.

We aren't radicals, we aren't anarchists, or bolsheviks, or wobblies, or weathermen. We are your best friends, your sons, your daughters, your neighbors, and your colleagues.

We are doing this for our parents, because we know that even love doesn't pay the bills.

We are doing this for our friends, because no one else will.

We are doing this for ourselves, because we are human beings and refuse to be seen as dollar signs.

Most of all, we are doing this for you, because in the end we are all in this together.

Tell us what you think.