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

Student activists have released two more videos to complement last week's footage of an NYPD officer violently arresting a protester during a march in solidarity with student protesters at the University of California. Both videos depict some of the activities leading up to the arrest of two individuals—neither of whom are actually enrolled at the New School, according to university spokeswoman Deborah Kirschner.

The arrested students, Maria Lewis and Drew Phillips, are actually enrolled at NYU, and members of the Take Back NYU group, which occupied a cafeteria in February. According to NY News, they were released two hours after the arrest on charges of disorderly conduct. The video above is a protest montage set to music, and shows the demonstrators blocking traffic; chanting; crashing a "yuppie" party; and scattering trashcans, newspaper boxes and plastic barricades across Fifth Avenue—all to send a warm wave of solidarity to University of California students fighting a tuition hike.

Below, the seven minute video shows the shrillness in full; skip ahead to the 2:43 mark where they walk though the "yuppie" art opening, and then to the 5:25 mark, just after the arrests. Following an invigorating round of chanting "From New York to Greece, fuck the police," one protester demands to know where the arrested individuals are being taken, to which one cop replies, "You want to go with them? Get the fuck out of here!" Another demonstrator scolds the officer: "You shouldn't talk to a woman that way! What happened to courtesy, professionalism, and respect?" SPOILER: A dance party ensues outside the precinct. With glow sticks.

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  • Dustin

    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.

  • wow 14th street

    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.

  • 5borough

    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.

  • orenda

    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.

  • The Edge

    stfu

  • orenda

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

  • Clarice City

    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.

  • matty

    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.

  • matty

    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.

  • NannyState

    Revolution? Is there's an app for that?

  • Casper

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

  • valeriob

    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.

  • 5borough

    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.

  • fourierist

    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.

  • dicksie

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

  • Dead Himmler

    +1

  • fourierist

    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.

  • dicksie

    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.

  • Dead Himmler

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

  • LibHater

    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

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