MASS arrest at UMASS--BAHAHAHA!!!!!!

IAC ^

[ElectricStrawberry]

A good day for the rest of us. If you can't do the time... It looks like the authorities at UMASS are finally getting sick of the BS that these lib-weenies make them deal with all the time. Of course, judging by their absolute inability to give an accurate count of things, they probably only had 10 hauled off. Either way, that's a few missing from their ranks that we will have to deal with for the next few days.

Maybe they'll get probation and have to give up protesting for a while, though I don't think the area would be so lucky. Just think how the parents feel, spending hard earned cash to send their daughters/sons off on a learning experience and having them piss away their education in the slammer because they got recruited by the hate-mongers of the US.

[ElectricStrawberry]

Hope the link works

[ElectricStrawberry]

PING for the law (not the cardinal)

[11th Earl of Mar]

How about posting the actual article instead of simply posting your comments about it?

[flying Elvis]

I'm all for grad students having unions. Teaching assistantships at my school only pay $600 before taxes with no medical benefits whatsoever. We are also prohibited from taking outside jobs to make ends meet.

[Destructor]

HA! You just gave me a good start to my day! LOL!!

[Prov1322]

The link was at the top of the article

By all means go to this website for a great laugh...you'll also learn of all the current socialist causes!

[ElectricStrawberry]

For those that can't click a freakin' link at the top

Click Here

[Piquaboy]

If one of my children would have done this kind of protesting while I was paying the freight, his college days would have been over.

[ElectricStrawberry]

I agree with the reasons for unions. I used to belong to the Harvard Union for Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) and received great benefits that were, no doubt, the direct actions of the union. It's the unwashed minions that protest and get arrested that I have serious problems with.

[hellinahandcart]

How about posting the actual article instead of simply posting your comments about it?

We've been asked not to post communist propaganda here. IAC is infra-red.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Good post. For those of you who didn't make it to the bottom of the actual article, call to support the union was signed "Omar el-Malah".

[Congressman Billybob]

The writer of the referenced article, Omar,sounds like a "good ol' Amurican boy" just trying to make ends meet, now doesn't he? Suuuuuure.

U Mass has been a cesspool of politically correct thought and action for a couple decades. All these arrests prove is that it ispossible to get too far to the left of the professional leftists. The acid test will be whether the Administration suspends or expels any of these students for criminal conduct on campus.

My money's on amnesty. We'll see how it plays out.

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[TomGuy]

The article referenced by ElectricStrawberry is in pdf format--rather difficult to re-post.
Thirty-five union activists were arrested here at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst today. [April 29, 2002]

In March, UMass Resident Assistants made history by becoming the first group of undergraduate student workers to unionize with UAW Local 2322. Although the state certified the election, University administration has violated state labor law and refused to bargain with the RA union.

Today 15 UAW union activists and supporters staged a sit-in in the offices of student life in the Whitmore administration. Many more occupied the hallway in support of the sitdowners. The administration shut down the entire building in response. Police arrested and forcibly removed the sitdowners from the building and loaded them onto a prisoner transport.

More union activists picketed in front of the prisoner transport in solidarity with the detainees. We were also arrested. In all, thirty five of us were arrested. This is the largest mass arrest at UMass in ten years. We are currently all out on bail awaiting arraignment. You heard it here first.

In Solidarity,

Omar el-Malah

[MissAmericanPie]

What makes you think parents are paying for these kids education or that they are even American students? Fifty percent of students are foreigners whose terrorist nations pay for their education, check out the bottom of the article. Omar is only doing what his country sent him here to do, protest and influence.

[hellinahandcart]

Let me get this straight--the RA's have formed a union? Hell, I would have been an RA for free in college; there was very little to do other than opening doors for idiots who forgot their keys, and the RAs always got the prime rooms.

[Destructor]

Imagine no grad student unions

It's not hard if you try

No Anti-War protests

No girls that look like guys

Imagine all the student's

Noses in their books

Yoouuuu- hoooo-oooo-oooo

You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope some day you'll join us

And the Liberals will be done!

[Piquaboy]

Your Right! Sorry about overlooking that.

[Dustbunny]

What in the world is happening to this country!

The NUTS are taking over with the help of the education system.

Next thing we hear will be of the 'homicide bombers' blowing themselves up in restaurants, schools etc. right here in the USA.

I am really, really tied of all this retarded, childish, stupid activist bull$hit.

[ThinkPlease]

These aren't Grads, though, these are undergrad Resident Advisors, (or Community Advisors, or hall monitors, or whatever). While I'm generally ambivalent towards unions, the movement toward unionizing students is getting on my nerves. Especially undergrads. Resident Advisors do NOT need to be unionized. When I was an RA, I was compensated extremely well, in terms of free room and board. I think this is common among most institutions. I think the idea is very foolish.