As the map below shows, students have staged more than three dozen campus occupations across the United States and Canada during the 2011-12 academic year. Starting with the University of New Orleans at the end of August, more than two weeks before Occupy Wall Street kicked off, the movement has grown to encompass at least thirteen states and one Canadian province.
Campuses hosting occupations have been public and private, urban and rural. They have included university centers and no fewer than four community colleges. Students have occupied indoors and outdoors. They have been rousted by police. They have been beaten. They have been arrested. They have been pepper-sprayed. And in many cases they have come back from such treatment to re-establish occupations larger and more lasting than those that were cut short.
Some occupations have won concrete victories, others have refused to articulate demands. Some have been mounted by students alone, others have been supported by faculty, staff, and community members. Together, these actions represent a new phase in American student organizing.
And it’s only February.
This map presently includes detailed information about all 37 campus occupations of which I’m aware. It will be updated on an ongoing basis for the rest of the academic year — please disseminate it widely and forward any additional data you may have.
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February 23, 2012 at 1:11 pm
J—dV.
Occupy Isla Vista for UCSB
February 25, 2012 at 1:32 am
scott Patrick
Here in the US, it is an election year and we have an opportunity to elect a candidate the values life and is opposed to war! Obama had run in 2008 with such promises as closing down Gitmo and had much of the college age support. With the senseless war in Afghanistan still going we see that Obama does not value life nor peace. He rushed to get the troops out of Iraq by the end of 2011, but that was due to the Iraqi government. They had refused to extend immunity from war crimes to US soldiers as of 2021! From the photos on some front page news papers about a month ago, we saw that war crimes are still allowed in Afghanistan. Dr. Ron Paul has delivered babies into this world and sees war as a terrible mistake. The occupy movements are global. We can speak out for change. We can and must make a difference. Check out http://www.bush-it-usa.com and see art for change.
March 1, 2012 at 8:13 am
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