Video: New School Students, Comrades Toss Trash Pre-Arrest

Post Modernism has reached its peak. Kids protesting nothing. That just goes to show how little substance there is to their lives. And the irony is that these kids are crashing a "yuppie opening" have parents dropping $62K on their education and the slogan of these NYU kids is "Occupy Everything" which is pretty much NYU's slogan too given their village-wide expansion.

silly kids.

These kids that grew up on Elmo on Sesame street are

just having a little fun,that's all.

If they had to die for a cause let's say bringing back

the enforced military draft that I had to be part of they

would piss in their pants ,when that letter came saying

it was your time to serve for two years in the army.

A Sesame street ragtag army these young generation debt

kids are.

Keep the twitter going etc. & etc cause being

alone and disconnected is yo real fear.

Ah!,Whatever.

It is sad that today's kids don't seem to figure out their actions have consequences until they are adults.

And screaming "WHAT THE FUCK?" is the appropriate response to the discovery of consequences.

The ressentiment and reaction on this site is just lovely. Identify with power much?

I welcome the arrival of these students into the dead-end, lifeless jobs that most of you are predicting for them, and in which most of you are stuck, anyway. I can't imagine they'll put up with half the crap that most people in their 30s and 40s have swallowed, and upon whose passivity the state and Capital depends. For most of you, political activism or protest consists of occasionally farting while exiting a subway car, making fun of the boss with an edgy Dr. Evil imitation at the holiday party, or making that big decision two years ago to put an Obama sign on your apartment window.

stfu

Thanks, "The Edge." Hey, Bono called -- says to stop shaking his old man cane at people.

Wow. Throwing trash cans into the street like petulant children? Had someone been hurt or killed in a car accident, that surely would have been a sobering moment for these lazy little showmen. Guess what, assholes? That kind of behavior is called reckless endangerment and it's a crime!

Yes, "protesting" always looks cooler than actually pushing paper work through to Capitol Hill especially when you can wear a bandana and skinny jeans. Occupying your drom room and writing a coherent letter to your congressman would be way too much effort. There's no drama in videotaping that for youtube.

And why don't these kids go to CUNY? Probably because they want the name to go with the degree. But who cares? Your BA is a piece of paper. I left a very expensive school to go to a state school and I'm in half as much debt as I would have been otherwise.

Has it been mentioned that the new school is a 30,000 dollar a year private school? Why go to the new school if you're demanding free shit?

I agree that it's expensive, but don't go there if you want a cheaper school. Last I heard CUNY students weren't rioting.

Revolution? Is there's an app for that?

Hah I love you guys! You're even more nihilistic, masochistic and pessimistic than me! Let's hug it out!

Hey what did I miss? I was throwing trash cans and making t-shirt flags with fists on them all night for a class assignment.

Just what I needed: nineteen year-old, private college-attending rich kids to enlighten me as to how the world works.

Now I get it, I'll go get my black hoodie.

And for the person who claimed this kind of thing didn't happen during the Depression, you might want to open a history book some time.

Ah, yes, the oft-forgot Nightclub Glowstick uprising of 1930. Many, many goldfish were swallowed and the seats of power, phonebooths, were stuffed full.

+1

Wow if anyone needed proof that most Americans are fat, stupid brainwashed conformists who would rather leave snarky comments on the internet than stand up for themselves when bankers, politicians, bosses and warmongers are giving it to them up the ass, the comments here clinch it.

The wretched and oppressed of the world will look to this video as a beacon of hope as they see the true leaders of tomorrow smoking $10 packs of cigarettes as they hope and pray/sit around chatting, smoking, and dancing for the release of their oppressed leaders. Also, the fat ignorant Americans that walk past them on the sidewalk can't help but be impressed by their faith. MLK, take a lesson.

Let me know when this "revolution" is not run by pathetic tools. Until then I would much rather be in my stupid brainwashed world.

right at the end these kids do what kids do, run..so much for standing up for your cause..maybe one day they'll stand up to the police, and then the ass kickings will really happen..i can't wait for the cops to beat these bone smuggers down

To the Gothamist reactionaries:

We do not do this to please you or solicit smpathy for our cause. If we wanted that we would do so, as we know how easily manipulated you are.

I rather think that you did, since we are the public, at least in part - I believe that all of the people on Gothamist are either students or workers (or both), after all. The people in the video tried to rally them to their cause. It looks like it was as popular in the streets of Manhattan as it is over here (e.g. not very).

How about some evidence of this theoretical power of mass organizing working beyond a small fringe audience of people who are already anarchists? I mean, don't try SO hard, since the attempts of anarchists to rally popular support to themselves have worked so well. It's not like anarchists are ignored for being fringe lunatics or anything, at least in America.

Oh well, broccoli, dance party, the occupation doesn't have a POINT, maaan, I hope nobody steals my MACBOOK.

We were celebrating the evidence: 6 occupied universities in CA. This was for them, not for you.

I'd hardly call that mass approval, but hey, I hear black bandannas are on sale at Urban Outfitters.

Trying to be significant. Fail.

Celebrating? Protesting? WTF. Get your objective straight

casper, join the marines and STFU

Attention seeking, narcissistic brats.

I support the student protesters. Most comments on this article call them whining rich white crybabies, but you have to think long and hard about the situation young adults entering the working economy are in right now. Their career prospects suck, and still they have to enter into long term debt just to get initiated. Most recently graduated young workers I know are struggling quite a bit. They're lucky if they can find low-paying part-time retail jobs, and they struggle to pay rent. Sure, there are people who have it much worse than them, but why does that mean they should have to be silent? On the contrary, folks who have it worse should be making that much MORE of a ruckus than these folks are. For some reason (lord knows I wish it were different) college students are the only people who are actually willing to act REVOLUTIONARY! I support them, because we need a revolution!

This bullshit didn't happen amongst the youth during the Great Fucking Depresssion. Why? Because there was a time in this country when people honored virtue and character and passed those ideals to their children. They had it rough but managed to persevere and were all the better citizens for it.

In good times and bad, character doesn't change. Don't blame the economy for this behavior.

the revolution will happen when these brats quit bitching about poor job prospects and low wages and actually create opportunities for themselves. perhaps dressing up like an urban outfitter robin hood and getting arrested for stupid antics maybe they develop an idea, start a business, contribute to society, and support themselves.

the behaviors demonstrated in these videos is the easy way out.

Hey, I'm currently a student at the New School. I just wanted to say that these rioters AKA "radicals" do not as much as they try to pretend represent all of the New School. There are many students at the New School who just like myself who are merely trying to work towards our diplomas and move on to the rest of our lives. It is sad that the New School is truly a great school with great professors and excellent classes yet a fraction of the school has destroyed the image of the school. Please keep in mind that many of us at the New School are more upset with their behavior then many of you are. So please keep in mind that these "radicals" are not representative of everyone at the New school. They may claim they have the complete support or speak for the students of the New School but they do not.

Anarchism is bullshit.

If they really wanted to live in a state where "anarchy rules" try Somalia.

You cannot be a part of "the system" all the while claiming you're railing against it.

Posers.

These protests are nihilistic as fuck, sure. And they incorporate a lot of things that make people feel uncomfortable. There's a line that's meant to be there between politics and fun, in fact, politics needs to take the form of serious political 'work'. When folks take a step beyond writing to their congressman, message board trolls come out in droves. Yet they should really shut the fuck up, because they don't know what they're talking about.

You talk about the 'privilege' of New School and NYU students, about how this automatically makes our protests invalid. Yet in reality, you know absofuckinlutely nothing about us. It simply doesn't occur to you to think that perhaps we might have a real cause, that the indentured servitude of millions of our generation through ridiculous student debt may be a cause for protest. We're taking issue with both the exclusivity of our universities, and the precariousness of the student condition. Try coming to Brooklyn sometime, visiting our overcrowded lofts. We'll make you a cup of coffee for eight bucks an hour, if we might be so lucky. There are simply no jobs for our generation, the unemployment rate for folks our age not in college is approaching fifty percent. Because of the economic crisis, old people are retiring later and working for less. Who can blame them? Their pensions have been swallowed up by AIG and Lehman Brothers, the government has cut social security.

Look at Austria. In Austria, kids have shut down the entire university system. They don't have any tuition, and it's actions like this that make that the case. Your assertion that these are private universities are invalid as fuck; we get 70-85% of our funding from tuition, and the majority of students at both colleges get financial aid. The rest of the money comes from the public, even if they are the parents of the kids going there. The only aspect that isn't public is the leadership, it involves sketchy deals, monolithic bureaucracy and manipulative interventions by the same elites getting bonuses after the crash.

The problem private schools face is fundamentally the same as that of state schools. It's the chronic indifference towards the future and education of students on the one hand, the chronic apathy of today's youth on the other. Parents are more than willing to assert that today's youth shouldn't be exposed to drugs or video games, but they seem okay with subjecting them to a lifetime of capitalist exploitation. The middle class is a proletarian class, in the sense that we work hard, we lose our homes, we lose our jobs and constantly live in a state of tension. Yet it is also the consumptive class, the class that perpetuates the wars in Afghanistan, the foreclosures in poor neighborhoods, the absent future of youth through snarky message board comments and chronic apathy.

What scares you guys isn't that 20 kids put on masks and raised hell around Washington Square. It's that over 200 kids joined them. These kids aren't activists. They aren't politicians in training, primed to complain about anything. Rather, they are the future. These are the kids who were moments before doing drugs on the corner, or staring absently at the storefront of Urban Outfitters. Expect to see not just California, but every university in the nation shut down. You're terrified because you're going to make a choice. You're resentful, because you've paid off your student loan, finally found a job. And you don't think that others should find an easy way out. But then, on the other hand, you feel an emptiness. You know that our emotions of anger are justified, and that even if you don't care when we get brutally beaten, you're going to get angry when one of us gets shot.

We're the kids sitting across from the subway who know that you hate your life. We hated ours, once. But no longer. We are experiencing a trandscendental rage, a rage that threatens not just to have a political impact, but that threatens to destroy 'politics' as we know it, where politics is jerking off about Obama and occasionally yelling at the television when Fox News is on. SPOILER: There's an insurrection coming. And it WILL have glow sticks.

Wow, I am looking forward to using the glow sticks on the cops and dancing our ways around police barricades. So who's bringing the soy based gluten free cookies, and make sure not to pack corporate water! LOL

"The problem private schools face is fundamentally the same as that of state schools."

No, not at all. No one in government is voting on the funding to your school. It is paid for by you(r parents). The reason that you have to get by in those oh-so shabby-chic lofts and positively SLAVE over my latte (you think that this is work?) is that you chose to go to school in NYC and move out of your parent's place to do so. I don't know, maybe they set a condition that you were forced to get a job rather than live on their money completely? How do you afford a Brooklyn loft on $8/hour? And your New School tuition?

"The middle class is a proletarian class, in the sense that we work hard, we lose our homes, we lose our jobs and constantly live in a state of tension."

The middle class is not a proletarian class. The middle class is the bourgeoisie--especially the upper middle class from which you come, that gives you the ability to attend one of the most expensive universities in the country. Get back to those books before formenting revolution, kid.

Which brings me to my next point:

"What scares you guys isn't that 20 kids put on masks and raised hell around Washington Square. It's that over 200 kids joined them. These kids aren't activists. They aren't politicians in training, primed to complain about anything. Rather, they are the future."

So what you are saying is that you will sweep politics aside and seize power in a revolutionary manner. Congratulations, you just described yourself as an ideal-type fascist.

Have a nice day, and please do read more twentieth century history before formulating more revolutionary theory.

-actual poor student of the city university who attends protests that have a pragmatic purpose.

You make some good points mixed in with a lot of LiveJournal-esque self-righteous rambling trash - but basically what it comes down to is: tell me how the bullshit "protest" displayed in the above video is supposed to fix any of the problems you mentioned. Dancing, crashing parties, wearing bandannas over your faces? You're bitching and whining about legitimate problems and doing nothing to solve them except smugly defending your overblown sense of self-worth. You're not owed anything.

God, re-reading your post is like a fucking textual headache. You are so full of yourself to think that your rage over the malaise of young adulthood is so important that you have a right to start what you describe as an insurrection.

I'm the kid sitting across from you on the subway who sees through your reactionary piety and knows that in ten years you'll cringe at the idea that you ever wrote something as overblown and egotistical as your above comment.

PS: You want to talk about politics? Here's a quick reminder: there's nothing in the Constitution that promises you anything better than an $8/hr job. It's not your right. It's fucked up that our generation has been abandoned by the "American dream", but don't sit there and tell me you're owed anything. If we're going to fix the problem of occupational and economic inequality, you better believe that dancing around and waving an anarchy flag won't do anything but discredit you. Grow the fuuuuuck up.

Well done, sir. Well done.

very nice.

Please stop using the words we, and us. You DON'T speak for all the students at the New School or NYU.

You're an idiot. You 'students' haven't the slightest idea. you're 'protesting' a state school's tuition hikes? oh, so everything else goes up in cost, but your education cant? is NY even reputable anymore? I GLADLY rejected them for Columbia when I was applying- and that was in 2000, not too long ago. I say gladly because there was once a time when NYU was actually a good school to attend; now they just let in anyone (hence the need to more academic space and dorms and run DISASTER at Stuy Town) so they can make more profit. It's the oldest trick in the book.

You go around screaming 'anarchy!' and 'down with the government!' without knowing ANYTHING shit about what you're even protesting. Do yourself a favor and move back with your parents to Jersey or Ohio or wherever you're from.

"It simply doesn't occur to you to think that perhaps we might have a real cause, that the indentured servitude of millions of our generation through ridiculous student debt may be a cause for protest. We're taking issue with both the exclusivity of our universities, and the precariousness of the student condition."

Realize that those issues were not made clear in Union square. At all. What most people saw was a bunch of self-indulgent white bandanna-wearing students shouting about how they should occupy everything, not "Keep universities affordable!" Keep in mind that the majority of people you ran into the street either ignored you and or made fun of you. That might be more telling than you might like to admit.

"When folks take a step beyond writing to their congressman, message board trolls come out in droves."

Excessive student debt certainly is a valid issue, and the UC students are protesting that pretty clearly and effectively. I've seen a lot of support for them online. Please try and rewatch that video from a non "Anarchist folks" perspective and try to appreciate how silly it looks. Really? Glowsticks? Did Gandhi wear a party hat during his salt march?

"What scares you guys isn't that 20 kids put on masks and raised hell around Washington Square. It's that over 200 kids joined them."

Wow, you have a pretty low bar for "raising hell." - more anarchist melodrama. I swear, if you read anarchist blogs every time a screechy-voiced teenager shrieks "fuck the police" the Bastille just got stormed.

Anyway: No, what bothers me is that you think awkwardly dancing to the Gorillaz while constantly adjusting the bandanna that was made by a child laborer in China counts as something revolutionary. Or running into an art gallery and stealing some champagne.

If you have such sympathy for workers, why in the HELL are you throwing around garbage cans in the street or trying to damage cabs, etc? There's so much bullshit Anarchist empathy for "folks of color" or "the working class" but what you ended up doing is making their difficult lives all the more difficult - or is it the oppressed college students with all their debt that make up the majority of people who drive cabs, pick up the trash, security guards at those event? After everyone went back to their Brooklyn lofts, guess who had to clean that shit up? It's pretty easy to demonize the PD, but why was there no absolutely no regard to the working people, who quite literally had to pick your garbage up?

You might want to realize the whole aspect of making protest, or action, or whatever fun is that the silly dancing and glowsticking absolutely overshadows what legitimate issue you were in theory trying to address. It makes you look like bored kids who want someone to pay attention to them. It makes absolutely NO ONE take you seriously. That may be unfair, but that's the perception you have to deal with.

don't let all the hot air out at once fella.

"You know absofukinlutely nothing about us."

No, to the contrary: we know very much about you. Your solipsism has prevented you from realizing that you are a cliche.

These over-privileged transplants need to stop acting like that Jay-Z/Alicia Keys song is some sort of anthem for them

Was that video supposed to be serious? I would swear this is satire if I didn't know any better. Hilarious and sad.

#1: "They just arrested Bobby"

#2: "No way...where are they taking him?"

#1: "I dunno, the cop wouldn't tell me."

#3: "Let's go down to the precinct to find him!"

[time passes]

#1: "Why are we here again?"

#2: "Who knows...let's have a dance party!"

I don't think that these tactics are very helpful. They seem childish and pointless but I do find it interesting that these kids from expensive private schools like NYU and the New School feel solidarity with the UC students.

As a actual alumni of the University of California who supports the more constructive protests going on over there, let me say, we don't need these jokers solidarity.

As someone who was actually at the "yuppie party" (it wasn't an art opening) I have to say the protesters seemed more interested in swiping 4 or 5 bottles of wine than anything else. What a protest: they really stuck it to the man by running off with some 2 buck chuck.

I am so sick of these kids. PICK A FUCKING CAUSE and STICK WITH IT. I can't even tell what these protests are about anymore.

Is my generation so void of actual causes that people are willing to waste time protesting a school they chose to go to? And WHY do these "revolutionary actions" always devolve into dance parties and vegan potlucks? The parents of these kids need to grab them by the back of their Che shirts and bring them home to clean the garage or something.

Hilarious! They're just a bunch of bored kids who want to make a scene but thing they're justified to do so because of some nebulous political goals.

I also find it funny that they're crashing and denigrating a "yuppie" party but assume they're any better. I see only one difference between them and yuppies - both are white, both have money, both are young, but yuppies actually have jobs and don't pretend they're revolutionaries.

Whiney priviliged pigs looking for trouble. They aren't making change, they are making a mess and acting like children.

morons.

I have no idea what they want. Do they think they have it bad? Time for all of them to pack up, live overseas in a third world country, a real totalitarian state, and then come back and make themselves useful.

The two people arrested were NYU students, according to www.nyunews.com

Thanks.

if you need more info, look it up.

but as usual, who played a part in propping up totalitarian regimes as partners post WWII as an answer to growing communism influence.

guess who?

I for one support Solichairity - http://solichairity.com/.

in case anyone wonders about the greece reference.

in greece police are forbidden from entering university grounds,

this is a throwback from the overthrow of the miltary police state in the 70's were protesters where shot, tortured and criminalized, the overthrow of the govenerment was blamed on the organized rebellion by students and intellecuals, which is exactly how US interests forment dissent in other countries. which is exactly why college protesters are seen as hippie brats here, the media controls the imagery and knows as long as they can be marginalized the revolution will never happen.

revolutionary dance party 2009! bring your own lolli.

The cops didn't beat them enough...

Lets show our solidarity with students at a school across the country that could care less about the New School by throwing garbage cans into the road, blocking traffic and passive aggressive chants!

these kids want any excuse to "occupy everything," it's pretty pathetic.

and in terms of being "in solidarity" with UC, i don't know what to say... it's a state school and the state government is literally collapsing, hence the tuition hike and service cuts.

if anything, though, i guess this puts the cops' reaction into question... this is a pretty weak-ass demonstration.

LOL.... "You shouldn't talk to a woman that way! What happened to courtesy, professionalism, and respect?"... seriously?

WTF? I guess cops should come delicately and ask you to pretty please -sugar on top- to come over so we can arrest you and put your delicate ass on jail?..... Hilarious....

cop replies, "You want to go with them? Get the fuck out of here!". They have a right to know where the police was taking him so they can call his family and lawyer. When a NYPD officer breaks the law, the police immediately calls his PBA rep. When a citizen is arrested, NYPD isolates the arrestee and won't contact anyone until they force a confession out of him/her.

@felixthecat2:

Obviously you can't see the hilarity of someone asking a cop to be nice when a friend/acquaintance is being arrested for disorderly conduct and under a very stressful situation.

NYPD used excess force on an unarmed skinny kid. Of course Bloomberg and Kelly won't do anything. I wish these kids did this solidarity on election day to rid us of Bloomberg and Kelly.

those kids needed more beatings when they were younger, thats the whole trouble

you forgot to say "dagnabbit"

The whole trouble is the young are more mature than the older generation as you who want to stunt the aging process.

I have no words to describe these kids but retards would be a good start.