Oh no. Here we go again?

And here I go for the popcorn.

the first thing out of my mouth: what the hell?! Honestly?

UGHHHHHHH. I need SLEEP this week, not a million hours standing outside Bobst in the freezing cold trying to get quotes from unfriendly vegans

They’re making lots of noise, ya’ll.

Protesting in the library during midterms is always a great way to win public support.

That’s disappointing.

Typical of spring, though; it was just like a brief shower, then back to normal. Very clean and quick. Just wanted their message and website on NYULocal, I guess.

LOL yayyy

A fair, coherent protest with legitimate claims? What is this, Columbia?!

live! blog! live! blog!

Y’all should support them and stop ragging sarcasm. Their teaching and working conditions are your learning conditions. If they don’t win your support this way, they might have to escalate to have their voices heard. NYU Local, lighten up.

@Alex

I think we all respect GSOC because they did something not too absurd and not too attention-grabbing. And I feel that their online petition will indicate this.

Btw – NYU accepts transfer students. You seem to really like our school (which is awesome – I love it, too), and maybe your comments would be more influential if you attended the school:
http://admissions.nyu.edu/applying.for.admissions/transfer/
Seriously – I’m being sincere. Apply and join our student body, then your opinion carries that much weight. Just a thought.

@ Lucas, corrupt institutions are corrupt institutions. NYU is a non-profit corporation just like every other private college, and a corporation with corporate citizenship just like Halliburton and Chrysler. If corporations oppress their people, we oppose them, We get pissed at corporate behavior all the time. Should you have to work for Nike to be angry at their sweatshop conditions? GSOC sent me a text asking for support. Why shouldn’t I stand up to your administration with them like we will when we join the labor movement when we graduate? I will always stand up with struggling folks, just like I do here at Muhlenberg.

Lotorto is banned from NYU buildings, so he has a snownball’s chance in hell of transferring to NYU. i like him better as a text than as a living entity, anyway.

second comment: “and here i go for the popcorn,” made me LOL.

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@ William, thanks! I like you as a text too. May you stay inside your room and make snarky comments on blogs forever. Social change what?

Alex, I’m sure it was exciting for you to pal around during the Kimmel protest with the law student who has admitted to having a criminal record, and with the rest of the misguided girl scouts and freedom fighters.

But now the time has come for you to graduate from Muhlenberg and do whatever it is that proles do when they grow up. Will you become a “Working Class Hero,” like the one that Green Day sings about? Or will you just join your auto worker pals collecting UI? Why don’t you start a Kimmel-like action at your own school? Not exciting enough? No blogs to pick it up?

Alex is just another student struggling against injustices everywhere who recognizes that the same opposition he faces at his university are the same ones faced at NYU. It is absurd to imply he has no right to stand up in solidarity with GSOC, or Take Back NYU for that matter. His actions are even more commendable as this is not his university and he is not the direct recipient of the NYU administration’s actions. Yet even so, he comes to NY in solidarity with the countless students who need the support of people like him.

Additionally, what is wrong with you people? Do you no longer stand in support of unions? Because if you are going to start criticizing a group of students (who are also workers) that are trying to unionize, you need to seriously address your political beliefs. It’s one thing not to support Take Back NYU’s tactics, another thing altogether to criticize a group of people trying to get enough money to provide for their families, while simultaneously going to school, and teaching US.

A fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work.
-Thomas Carlyle

Labor and solidarity brothers in arms. I also commend you on taking reasonable action for your cause.

@ Alex

Here you are, two or three weeks later, still insisting that anyone who doesn’t agree with or pokes fun at you couldn’t possibly support any progressive social agendas.

Shut the fuck up.

@Alex
Congratulations! You are the Bob Saget of the labor movement! Also, you’re a huge hypocrite and an equally large D-bag! I have worked for labor rights for 36 years. I do not make an ass of myself like you, so very few people know my name. Yet I have made actual PROGRESS for the people you claim to want to help so bad. It happens, but you have to pick your battles as they say. You have and will accomplish nothing. You seem to like to protest for the sheer act of protesting itself. This is more repulsive than being a career politician. Do us in labor a solid and go abroad after you graduate. See the real world, and stop your richboy private college “People’s Panty Raid” acts of civil disobedience. You are persona non grata or as the Latin kids would say, a douchebagus maximus. If I worked in a evil corporation that sold sucky, day-old douchebags I would hire you as our pitchman. We would sell out in hours. It’s not too late to change your major. Where there’s an ass, there’s a fart. You stink. You don’t know the first thing about anything. Just another spoiled kid with a MacBook and a camera. Grow the hell up, but please do it on a island somewhere far, far away. You are poison to the labor movement. Go away. I beg you. We don’t want your “help.” I speak for dozens of my fellow union members. Go! Away! Now! Seriously! You are a charlatan and a pseudointellect. You are a laughingstock. I’ve never wanted to see police brutality more than watching your video. You deserve to be tazed and ass-raped by an HIV positive bear in prison. Keep up the great work, Alex! We’re all rooting for you.