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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2006 article: Student Activists Under Attack at City College of New York for Honoring Black and Puerto Rican Liberation Heroes
Posted in Black community and SLAM, Blogroll, current radical CUNY organizing, Decolonization of the mind, next generation SLAM, Organizing tactics and strategy, police brutality, pre-SLAM radical CUNY organizing, Radical people of color organizing, Uncategorized, women of color on October 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Interview with Rachèl Laforest, Luz Schreiber, Lenina Nadal, Suzan Hammad, and Tamieka Byer
Posted in access to education, anti-war, Black community and SLAM, current radical CUNY organizing, Decolonization of the mind, hip-hop, interviews/speeches, next generation SLAM, Open Admissions, Organizing tactics and strategy, Palestine, police brutality, Radical people of color organizing, SLAM founders, Uncategorized, women of color on October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This roundtable interview focuses on the chapter at Hunter College in Manhattan and explores SLAM’s legacy of building a left culture in New York City and across the country.
CUNY Social Forum opening plenary: “The Movement for Educational Democracy and Self-Determination at CUNY in the Context of the Global Struggle for Human Rights and Reparations”
Posted in access to education, anti-war, audio, bilingual education, Black community and SLAM, childcare access, current radical CUNY organizing, Decolonization of the mind, interviews/speeches, next generation SLAM, Open Admissions, Organizing tactics and strategy, police brutality, pre-SLAM radical CUNY organizing, Radical people of color organizing, spoken word, Uncategorized, welfare rights, women of color on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To listen to these sound files, recorded Oct. 17, 2008, in Harlem at the CUNY Social Forum, click on the links below: Maria Arettines (moderator), a CUNY Social Forum organizer and Hunter College student: “What are our desires?” (5 minutes, 23 seconds) Hank Williams, veteran of the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM!) and organizer with [...]
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