the right-wing New York Daily News tried to create a diversion from the issue of racist police brutality by attacking student activists at the City College of New York (CCNY), accusing them of promoting “cop killers” and “terrorists.” On Dec.12 the Daily News ran a cover story and editorial attacking CCNY’s Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community and Student Center, a student-run activist space on the flagship Harlem campus of the City University of New York (CUNY). The Daily News editorial demanded that Shakur and Morales’s names be removed from the Center.
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The Politics of Race and Class at CUNY – by Chris Day, 1997
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SLAM! was born in 1995 as a result of the successes and failures of the 1995 CUNY Coalition. Rather than the “United Front” of leftists sects imagined by the Trotskyists, SLAM! sought to be a different kind of coalition, composed of open and democratic campus-based coalitions. If the sects wanted to participate they would have to get involved on the campus level. If they wanted a voice in city-wide decisions they would have to earn the trust of the campus-based coalitions and get elected as delegates to the city-wide meetings.
