More Coverage of the New School Occupation

Various Marxist parties have articles and interviews up on the New School occupation. The Stalinist Freedom Road Socialist Organization has an interview with Eric Eingold, and an article up in the Workers World Party's newspaper by SDSer Tyneisha Bowens discusses the role the UniteHERE local played in supporting the occupation.

Probably most interesting - and useful - is MediaChannel's overview of the occupiers' use of media:

But they can also claim a key victory in a less obvious battle—the battle over message. For two and a half days students reported from inside the cafeteria using text messages, email, blog posts, Youtube videos, and Twitter feeds. They responded to New York Times' City Room blog posts with news updates and fact checks. They countered Kerrey's labeling of the occupation as a "security risk" by posting videos of security personnel using excessive force on occupiers. They made their demands and their decisions clear and free for all to read. It was all in real time—and it was all powered by the university's electricity and wireless Internet.

Emailing out press releases and updating twitter feeds are certainly less interesting to read about than blockading doors and confronting cops, but if we are to learn the lessons of the New School occupation that's exactly what we should read.