{"id":1254,"date":"2011-11-23T15:57:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T20:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/cunys-idea-of-a-public-meeting.html"},"modified":"2011-11-23T15:57:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T20:57:03","slug":"cunys-idea-of-a-public-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/cunys-idea-of-a-public-meeting.html","title":{"rendered":"CUNY&#8217;s idea of a public meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"City University of New York&#8217;s trustees were holding a public meeting,\nand some of the public, namely CUNY students, attempted to attend.\nCUNY police and NYPD staged a welcome for them:\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gSeNS77XJd0\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/gSeNS77XJd0\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nCarlos Pazmino, 21, a City College student who helped organize\nthe protest, said that after students began opening doors to the\nauditorium where the CUNY trustees were to hold a public hearing at 5\np.m., CUNY police officers surrounded the entrances and pushed back,\nusing their batons, and that when students formed a line to push past,\nthe officers began hitting the students with the batons.\n<p>\n&ldquo;I saw two people knocked down by cops,&rdquo; Mr. Pazmino said.\n&ldquo;They were arrested and one guy&#8217;s head was bleeding.&rdquo;\n<\/blockquote>\nThat&#8217;s in a NYTimes story by Alice Speri and Anna M. Phillips,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/21\/arrests-in-tuition-protest-at-baruch-college\/\">\nCUNY Students Protesting Tuition Increase Clash With Police<\/a>.\nInteresting title considering that the content says that the public\nwent to a public meeting and were violently attacked by police.\n<p>\nAnd that&#8217;s the cleaned up version:\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote>\nCorrection: November 22, 2011\n<p>\nAn earlier version of this post stated inaccurately that several hundred\nmarchers had pushed through the barricades and entered the lobby of\nthe Baruch building. In fact, there were no barricades up when students\nentered the lobby, no more than 100 students entered the lobby, and the\nbarricades went up outside the building after the students had entered\nthe lobby.\n<\/blockquote>\nSo apparently the story started with the usual &#8220;protest turns violent&#8221;\ncorporate media newspeak. What got the NYTimes to post a correction?\n<p>\nYouTube videos taken by students, such as this one, entitled\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gSeNS77XJd0\">\nCUNY Police Riot 4 of 5<\/a>, which clearly shows police pushing into\nunarmed protesters and shoving them to the floor,\nseveral police to a protester.\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gSeNS77XJd0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/02\/you-are-the-media.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/I_emuOVvlbU\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/02\/you-are-the-media.html\">\nYou are the media.<\/a>\nCUNY might want to pay attention to <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/11\/mic-check-stops-a-police-riot-at-uc-davis.html\">\nwhat&#8217;s happening at UC Davis after the infamous pepper spray incident.<\/a>\nThe president of the entire University of California system has launched\nan investigation and policy discussion about appropriate police\nreaction to nonviolent protests,\nand, according to\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/sacramento\/news\/2011\/11\/23\/uc-davis-investigation-pepper-spray.html?page=all\">\nMelissa Weise in the Sacramento Business Journal today,<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nIn other news, UC Davis announced it will pay the immediate medical and\nemergency bills of student protesters who were pepper-sprayed by campus\npolice on Friday.\n<p>\nKatehi is also asking that criminal charges against people who were\narrested that day because of the protest be dropped.\n<p>\nOn Monday, she appeared in front of a crowd of students, faculty and\nother members of the community and apologized for the use of force.\n<\/blockquote>\nThe Occupy movement has exposed police militarization to public view,\nand the public doesn&#8217;t like it.\nCUNY student protesters have exposed CUNY Trustees&#8217; idea of a public\nmeeting, and the public doesn&#8217;t like that, either,\neven with the New York Times trying to cover for them.\n<p>\nThe police aren&#8217;t the problem.\nThe 1% who militarized the police and the 99% who stood by and let them\nare the problem.\nNow that the problem is visible, it&#8217;s time\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/11\/militarization-of-police-and-private-prison-profiteering-the-connection.html\">\nto do something about it.<\/a>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City University of New York&#8217;s trustees were holding a public meeting, and some of the public, namely CUNY students, attempted to attend. 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