On June 5th in Philadelphia, Slamistas Kazembe Balagun, Lenina Nadal, Jed Brandt, John Kim, and Sasa Ynoa spoke about SLAM’s innovative approach to organizing and why we were fighting for free university education.
Archive for October, 2009
Audio from June 5, 2009 event with SLAM speakers in Philadelphia
Posted in access to education, anti-war, audio, Black community and SLAM, childcare access, Decolonization of the mind, hip-hop, interviews/speeches, Open Admissions, Organizing tactics and strategy, Palestine, police brutality, queer liberation, Radical people of color organizing, SLAM founders, Uncategorized, women of color on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Struggle for CUNY
Posted in access to education, Hostos Community College, Open Admissions, Organizing tactics and strategy, pre-SLAM radical CUNY organizing, Radical people of color organizing, SLAM founders on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Click here to download the paper. The Struggle for CUNY: A History Of The CUNY Student Movement, 1969 – 1999 By Christopher Gunderson Contents 1 Introduction 5 A Brief History Of Cuny 7 Cuny Student Activism Before 1969 9 The Global Context 12 The Open Admissions Strike 22 The Effects Of Open Admissions 24 Struggles [...]
Content from original SLAM website
Posted in access to education, Open Admissions, Organizing tactics and strategy, SLAM founders, Uncategorized on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In this 1998 photo, you can see SLAM’s famous demonic Giuliani head puppet. We frequently got phone calls from groups all over the city to borrow it for protests. You can also see SLAM founding member Sandra Barros at right, in the maroon jacket with yellow armbands. Is Jed the person she’s talking to? Is [...]
Home Page from original SLAM website (late 90s)
Posted in access to education, Open Admissions, Organizing tactics and strategy, SLAM founders, Uncategorized on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Defend Open Admissions and Remedial Education at CUNY! Click here to see the 10 DEMANDS of the CUNY Coalition for Open Admissions. SLAM is one of the groups in the coalition…Join SLAM to get involved. CCNY SLAM!, 138th Street & Convent Ave, Harlem, NY 10031 Now Available: 8-page newspaper broadsheet “The Struggle at CUNY: Open [...]
Spring 1998: Demands for Open Admissions
Posted in access to education, Hostos Community College, Open Admissions, Organizing tactics and strategy, Radical people of color organizing, welfare rights on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A victory of the Civil Rights Movement, Open Admissions meant working people, the poor, people of color, and immigrants whose segregated, inferior public education may have failed to adequately prepare them for college-level work would not be denied the chance for a decent education a second time by being denied access to college.
“What is SLAM!?” page from original website (late 90s)
Posted in access to education, SLAM founders on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What is SLAM!? SLAM is the Student Liberation Action Movement. We are based at the City University of New York (CUNY) and other schools in New York. SLAM! is a student-based group that has mainly organized against budget cuts and for open admissions at CUNY. Our main campaign for Spring 1998 is to defend and [...]
“Current Events” page from original SLAM website (late 90s)
Posted in access to education, Open Admissions, Organizing tactics and strategy, police brutality, queer liberation, Radical people of color organizing, SLAM founders, Uncategorized on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Current Events and Activism at CUNY The following activities are not sponsored by SLAM! unless it explicitly says so. This calendar will include any events we are aware of, sponsored by many different organizations that are active at CUNY. Listing here does not imply endorsement; it is for informational and networking purposes. To get an [...]
From original website: “Active Groups” circa 1998
Posted in access to education, Hostos Community College, Open Admissions on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This list was made in 1998, at a time when many of the original SLAM groups had ceased being active on various campuses. So this is only accurate for the 1998 era of SLAM.
