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