Students, faculty, and community members organizing against the war have encountered significant repression at two different City University of New York campuses.
DEMONSTRATE FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN CUNY!
Monday, October 22
3:30 PM
Board of Trustees meeting at CUNY Central
East 80th Street and York Ave in Manhattan
* At City College, a teach-in on October 2 organized by the Professional Staff Congress and supported by the CCNY Coalition for Peace was viciously attacked the next two days in the NY Post. In response, Chancellor Goldstein denounced the people who spoke at the event, and members of the Board of Trustees are expected to offer a resolution against the event.
* At Brooklyn College, the Third World Within - Peace Action Coalition had organized a public event against the war to be held on the campus on October 12. After the event was called and the space arranged, the Brooklyn College administration imposed additional Draconian demands, including additional fees, requiring IDs for all attendees, charging a fee for people not from Brooklyn College, and issuing a warning about activities held on campus that challenge the US military response to September 11th, and challenge the supposed consensus for war in this country. The organizers were forced at the last minute to move the event to a completely different location.
Why is CUNY being singled out for particular repression? CUNY students are overwhelmingly people of color, poor and working class, and a large proportion are immigrants. Half speak English as a second language. The Board of Trustees is now almost entirely comprised of members appointed by Rudy Giuliani and George Pataki. These two attacks fit into a long-standing pattern of outrageous attempts to silence freedom of speech in CUNY. If we don't stand up to them, the pattern will go on and get worse.
DEMONSTRATE FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN CUNY!
Monday, October 22
3:30 PM
Board of Trustees meeting at CUNY Central
East 80th Street and York Ave in Manhattan
This action is being organized by the CCNY Coalition for Peace and NY Schools against the War.
