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By Daniel Moure
The Ninth Floor Sitters
Saturday, Feb 21, 2009
We are each of us a raindrop. Together, we can be an ocean.
Greetings and solidarity from the Ninth Floor Sitters at York University in Toronto.
We are a group of undergraduate and graduate students at York who held a sit-in outside our president's office for 599 hours in December and January. This sit-in occurred during a strike by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 3903, which represents contract faculty, teaching assistants, graduate assistants, and research assistants. The strike, against the neoliberalization of our university, lasted 12 weeks. It was the longest university-sector strike in English-Canadian history, and it ended only when the Ontario government legislated the union back to work. The sit-in was in support of CUPE and in opposition to the university's president, who was MIA during the strike.
Five hundred and ninety-nine hours is a long time, so we sat, slept, snored, played, worked, figured, outfigured, videoed, discussed, debated, decided, rained, flooded, romanced, and snuggled.
Congratulations on your occupation. We hope you flood NYU again. And that the rains spread.
Raindrops of the world unite!
Yours in the snuggle,
The Ninth Floor Sitters
NinthFloorSitters@gmail.comhttp://www.3903strike.ca/category/sit-ins
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