Chancellor Moeser: We meant it when we said you’d see us every day

Yesterday, Chancellor Moeser left South Building early to take a trip to DC. Some former UNC USAS people and some other lovely USASers (former and current national staff) discovered that there was a huge conference going on about higher education and global development at the Department of State and figured that’s probably where Chancellor Moeser [...]

Back to the old days of sit-ins before webcams and wireless internet…

Mysteriously, the wireless internet cut out a few days ago as our website has been getting more and more views. We initially attributed it to the flakiness of the UNC-1 network in general, but we’ve been here two weeks and soon realized that some router must have been turned off or been having some [...]

Tent City and Pancake Breakfast for Thursday night

Our friends from outside are inviting you to a picnic, rally and campout on May 1st at 7:00 pm to support the student sit-in currently underway in the South Building. The tent city and rally will mark the SECOND week of the anniversary and will coincide with International May Day events.
What to bring: yourself, a [...]

More Signs that Moeser’s Feeling the Pressure

We’ve pulled out some banners that are unfortunately still relevant after three years to this university : “UNC: Clean up your act” and “UNC: Sweatshops and Slavery since 1789″. As you can see above, we duct-taped those banners across the poles on South Building three years ago when fighting in solidarity with UNC housekeepers on [...]

day 13 of the south building sit-in…

And day 1 of our virtual sit-in in UNC’s virtual South Building in Second Life!

live from Chancellor Moeser’s (virtual) office
Side note: UNC spends $5560 a year on this virtual property, and yet cannot ensure that the human rights of workers are respected in its supply chain?

CHANCELLOR MOESER REVERSED HIS PREVIOUS DECISION TO TAKE THE DSP OFF THE TABLE BECAUSE OF OUR SIT-IN!

After the video broadcast yall saw of the administration forcing us to remove the minifridge that Duke SAS people brought us last Wednesday, we had a brief meeting with Dean Winston Crisp.
The administration is feeling the pressure, and has already caved by reversing Chancellor Moeser’s August 2007 decision to take the DSP off of the [...]

video update from the occupation dance party!

Hey all! Greetings from day 9 of the occupation. Sorry to all the party-goers who got turned away at the door for coming late to the party… the rest of us are having a good time though:
watch the day 9 video update!

DANCE PARTY!!!!

HEY ALL.
So tomorrow (Friday) we are throwing a slammin’ dance party at our new pad… South Building. At 6pm. But you must get there early! Before 5pm.
Our house is PERFECT for it… it’s got a rotunda-esque dance floor and great acoustics.
YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS THIS.
So here’s the deal… there is going to be [...]

Why are we still sitting in? Find out Thursday @ Noon!!!

Come join us on THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2008 at NOON on the steps of South Building to learn more about the DSP and our 3-year campaign to get the administration to adopt it.
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Why are we (still) sitting in? What is the DSP? Why won’t Chancellor Moeser even consider it, even though the university’s [...]

day 6 of the sit-in

April 22 and we’re still here!
About 10 folks have locked-in for the night to continue our demands that Chancellor Moeser adopt the DSP. We’ve had tremendous support throughout the day, from Professor Emeritus Chuck Stone to Duke Students Against Sweatshops, who came through with our first real food in a while. They’d brought us a [...]