http://howtheuniversityworks.com/wordpress Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:40:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With "Why I Feel Bad For the Pepper-Spraying Policeman, Lt. John Pike," Atlantic magazine senior editor Alexis Madrigal provides a useful discussion of the criminalization of protest and related militarization of police response. Madrigal is quite right that we're missing the point if we pretend that Pike is an "independent ... http://howtheuniversityworks.com/wordpress/archives/302 By now, you've seen the video of UC-Davis police lieutenant John Pike pepper-spraying a peaceful sit-in. You've seen his strutting little-man-in-a-big-body sadism, giving his beefy little canister a nonchalant waggle before strolling down the line of nonviolent protesters, aiming the toxic stream into their faces from a few feet ... http://howtheuniversityworks.com/wordpress/archives/301 a guest post by Zach Schwartz-Weinstein November 9, 2011 may prove to have been another turning point in the relationships between the occupation movement and university campuses. Students have played a leading role in the occupations at Wall Street and around the US, not to mention the occupation of Cairo’s Tahrir ... http://howtheuniversityworks.com/wordpress/archives/300 The day's breaking occupation news is the New York City General Assembly's statement, together with mass events developing in 66 cities over the next few days. How cool is it that the statement is bigger news than rumors of Radiohead joining them for an impromptu concert? Heck, it's pushed ... http://howtheuniversityworks.com/wordpress/archives/299 On Saturday afternoon, using the illegal crowd-control tactic called kettling, police riot squads swept the sidewalks near Union Square with orange construction nets. In the same way that ocean trawlers capture indiscriminately, officers penned hundreds of peacefully marching Occupy Wall Street protesters together with bystanders, pedestrians, reporters, and neighborhood residents. ... http://howtheuniversityworks.com/wordpress/archives/298 "Protest season began with a bang at UC Berkeley as hundreds of chanting, fist-pumping students angry about tuition hikes charged into Tolman Hall during a raucous protest and building occupation Thursday, " reports Nanette Asimov for the San Francisco Chronicle. The Wall Street occupiers end their first week with a vow ... http://howtheuniversityworks.com/wordpress/archives/297 Chanting "Who do you protect? Who do you serve?" the protesters occupying Wall Street are digging in for a fifth day and circulating graphic images and video of escalating police violence and harassment. There are several reports of hospitalizations due to brutal arrest tactics, such as this one showing a protestor ... http://howtheuniversityworks.com/wordpress/archives/296 a guest post by Zach Schwartz-Weinstein Zuccotti Park in the Lower Manhattan financial district has been occupied by a politically diverse group for the last three days, with participation of up to several thousand at a time. Protesters have renamed the space “Liberty Park,” to brand it as an American ... http://howtheuniversityworks.com/wordpress/archives/295 On Saturday September 17th, movement organizers hope to funnel 20,000 protestors into Manhattan's financial district, set up kitchens and tents, and occupy Wall Street for the next several months. Proclaiming we are the 99 percent, many of the 7,500 persons who have indicated an intention to participate ... http://howtheuniversityworks.com/wordpress/archives/294 So I'm supposed to be finishing my entry, "Labor," for the second edition of Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler's widely adopted Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Yay, I'm in the volume, but also totally depressing. I mean, it's a class war out there and labor's lost every battle since I started ... http://howtheuniversityworks.com/wordpress/archives/293