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.
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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 »
1996 SLAM factsheet on Workfare and CUNY students
Posted in access to education, childcare access, welfare rights, women of color on October 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
7,000 CUNY students have already been forced to leave school to “work off” their monthly check of less than $500, which already leaves students and their children way below the poverty line. The Work Experience Program does not give people real jobs. It just prevents people from getting the education that they need to get a decent one in the future.
