100-Hour-Plus Sit-In by Aggrieved SDS Revolutionaries at Evergreen State
Link is to Seattle Indymedia. Evegreen State is of course the looniest of the loony left U.S. colleges.
“A student sit-in at the Evergreen State College (TESC) has now surpassed its 100th hour and is heading into its fifth day. The sit-in is in support of reinstatement of the banned student group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
“The student protesters have peacefully occupied the Seminar One (SEM 1) building and have renamed it People’s University. On Memorial Day while regular classes are out, the People’s University will be in session and holding its first classes. The event will start at 6pm. All classes are free and are open to the entire Evergreen Student Body as well as the Greater Olympia Community with free food and beverages provided and as always children are welcome.
“These opening events include a lecture by Paul Bigman, a major union organizer from Seattle, on the history of labor struggles, radical labor organizing, and the relationship between labor and student struggles labor organizer Paul Bigman; student-run workshops including ‘Radical Queer History’ and ‘Security Culture’; and film screenings, including a film about worker takeovers of factories in Argentina after the failure of neoliberal economic policies, followed by a discussion. These events are intended to both highlight and build our capacity as students to manage our own educational institutions with the interferences of administrative hierarchies, who have been silencing our voices.
“This sit-in is a part of a struggle for Free Speech on campus and an effort to put to a halt to the trend of deteriorating student rights on campus.”