Massive police repression, Victoville/Québec, 4th May protests
http://www.universitv.tv/archives/1547
Buses unloaded students, unions and citizens from across Quebec to come forward and protest against the Liberal government that held its General Council this weekend in Victoriaville.
Our University
by ENDA BROPHY
Is the university worth saving? The question arose insistently at The University is Ours! Conference, organized by the transnational edu-factory collective along with local Canadian allies and held last weekend in Toronto (April 27-29).
Organizing Molecular Knowledges and Networked Militancy
Tomorrow Night – 5.5.12 – Organizing Molecular Knowledges and Networked Militancy – Toward an Autonomous Network of Space, Knowledge, and Subjectivity
On Saturday 6PM at 16 Beaver (4th floor), we convene a “spontaneous seminar” on our urban struggles and the commons.
April 25th is “1T Day”: Occupy Student Debt
by ANN LARSON and MALAV KANUGA
“We work and we borrow in order to work and to borrow. And the jobs we
work toward are the jobs we already have. Meanwhile, what we acquire isn’t education; it’s debt.”
On USM president’s pipeline of ‘human capital’
by JACOB LOWRY
President Selma Botman evoked a metaphor that made my stomach churn. It was on the evening of March 7, at a public forum on unemployment sponsored by various Maine labor unions and USM’s Economics Department.
Czech students protest government reforms
Feb. 29, PRAGUE — Thousands of students rallied Wednesday in the Czech capital and other major cities to protest government reforms they claim would limit academic freedoms.
Syntagma calling : Athens, 21-22 March 2012
Transnational open assembly : “Coming to a city near you!”
Athens, 21-22 March 2012 : Occupied theatre Empros (Riga Pallamidou 2, Psyrri)
Occupy Student Debt Campaign Protested NYU 2031 Yesterday
by REBECCA NATHANSON on February 22nd, 2012
Yesterday afternoon, two towers were erected on Gould Plaza outside of Stern. Precariously built out of cardboard boxes in about two minutes, these towers cost little more than the price of the paint that was used to decorate their exteriors.
Deconstructing Academe: The birth of critical university studies
By JEFFREY J. WILLIAMS
Over the past two decades in the United States, there has been a new wave of criticism of higher education. Much of it has condemned the rise of “academic capitalism” and the corporatization of the university; a substantial wing has focused on the deteriorating conditions of academic labor; and some of it has pointed out the problems of students and their escalating debt.