Today marks the third anniversary of the mobilization against the Free Trade Agreement of The Americas in Quebec City (ZLEA en francais, ALCA en espanol.) These have been three tumultuous years. The most recent mobilization against the FTAA - the protests against the Novemeber negotiations in Miami, met with uncredible and unprecedented (in this country) Police repression and violence. Yet the multitude aganst empire formed on February 15, 2003 has not simply vanished and grown quiescent. Today's victory by adjunct faculty at New York University, the ongoing strike by Graduate Student Teachers at Columbia University, and the efforts of the New Haven Student Fair Share coalition suggest three linked trajectories in the struggle to shape the global university and its involvement in the project of the neoliberal restructuring of the work that universities do and of the geograhy of the cities in which they locate themselves. Universities, as epicenters of "service sector" production with diffusely invested endowments and ideological projects which are often linked to the imperial agenda of global capital and its warriors, (who more often than not serve as trustees, administrators, gurus, and even faculty) play a central role in these struggles. But as i get ready to leave this particularly egregious university, i want to turn my attention towards questions of work, culture, and empire outside of the confines of ivy walls.