10/10

Pete and T jump on the mics for another week, starting with a short news round-up including International students submssions to a State Governments inquiring stating a total lack of trust in the police to take action on the rcist attacks against them [The Australian]

Next we have a look at a recent trend of student occupations in the UK and US. From campaigns asking for their Universitys’ to divest from military corporations involved in the Israel’s recent war on Gaza and demanding, amongst other things,  scholarships for Palestinian students in the UK and divestment from university shares in arms corporations. We then examine what can be seen as a more liberated and open ended analysis of occupations being less about demands for reforms or concessions from the institution (which is bound to operate in a capitalist market-place anyway) to seeing the occupation, and the autonomous zones that they create, as a means, not an end to specific reform, such as at the University of California, Santa Cruz . Read the manifesto of the UCSC students here. Also, read a statement by the New School in Exile (students from the New School for Social Research, New York) here.

+++ Plus new music from Baaddd http://www.myspace.com/baaddd

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