Episode Eight: The University & Its Malcontents w/ Anonymous New School Student
This Wreckage
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2018
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Jamie, Sean and Andy take a field trip to the occupied New School to interview "K," an anonymous student, about New School students' latest direct action in solidarity with cafeteria workers (repped by UNITE HERE Local 100) and grad students (SENS-UAW). Later, back at the ranch, the gang contextualizes this occupation with some history of the modern university: its roots, its social function, and how it has developed as a site of struggle. What happened in the '70s and '80s that made college so expensive, yet also so necessary? The through-lines from the student occupations of the 1960s to Occupy Wall Street to the Bernie Sanders campaign. Sean and Andy reminisce about their own college years and reveal how they met.
Sorry for the poor sound quality, it was our first time recording outside the studio!
Info on the current New School Occupation: https://www.facebook.com/occupiedcafeteria/ @NewSchoolReds
More on the '08-'11 occupations: http://reocuppied.wordpress.com
Intro music: original theme by Jamie Ingalls
Interstitial music: World/Inferno Friendship Society - Fiend in Wien
End music: Idles - Mother
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Antifada is more than a podcast. It's a specter haunting the globe. |
| 0:10.4 | It is the synthesis of the two most frightening things for the cheerleaders of this reactionary hell world. |
| 0:16.0 | One ravaged by the unbounded savagery's capital in its states. |
| 0:21.0 | Antifah super soldiers and Intifada. |
| 0:24.0 | Bash The Bash and a global uprising. |
| 0:26.0 | Be prepared to enter the Antifada mindset. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Jamie Peck.'m Sean K B and I'm AP Andy and we are recording not live at the new school |
| 0:38.9 | university just steps from the gentrification Ravitch, lower east side, in a student-occupied cafeteria |
| 0:45.6 | in the dark heart of American Empire, downtown Manhattan, USA. |
| 0:50.5 | That's right, and we are proud to present our guest today a student occupier named K say hello |
| 0:57.8 | We're here sitting right now in a pretty quiet space This is our first time that Antifot has actually got on the |
| 1:06.1 | road together and recorded. We thought that a student occupation combined with |
| 1:10.2 | student struggles is a really great opportunity for us to get out from under |
| 1:14.8 | Sam Ceder's thumb and get out into the world. So to kind of paint the picture of |
| 1:20.1 | what we're seeing here, students and workers have occupied this cafeteria on 5th Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan. |
| 1:28.0 | There are signs everywhere outside, and as you walk up the steps and into the cafeteria area, there are tons of posters and |
| 1:35.4 | pamphlets and stickers and folks in various levels of activity as the students have |
| 1:42.4 | taken a very, very strong stand, not just using their |
| 1:46.2 | leverage as students to push politics forward, but also in defense of both cafeteria workers and also graduate students, |
| 1:55.0 | both of whom are attempting right now |
| 1:57.0 | to get good union contracts. |
| 2:00.0 | So yeah, I figured I'd start with some basic questions. Like, who are you? What year? You don't have to tell us any personally identifying information if you don't want to but how did you get involved with this action here? |
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