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 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 [...]
The Politics of Race and Class at CUNY – by Chris Day, 1997
Posted in access to education, Black community and SLAM, Blogroll, Open Admissions, Organizing tactics and strategy, pre-SLAM radical CUNY organizing, Radical people of color organizing, SLAM founders, Uncategorized on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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.
“The Struggle at CUNY” by Ron McGuire
Posted in Black community and SLAM, Open Admissions, Organizing tactics and strategy, pre-SLAM radical CUNY organizing, Radical people of color organizing, Uncategorized on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The fundamental issue in the struggle to save open access at CUNY is racism, not fiscal policy. CUNY is a unique institution, which was won as a result of popular struggles in the 1960’s and which currently educates more Black and Latino students than any other institution in the United States. Furthermore, the students of CUNY are drawn from poor urban households on a scale which is not replicated in any other university in America. The seminal importance of CUNY and its unique policy of open access has not been generally appreciated in scholarly circles.
Lenina Nadal, interviewed December 27, 2008
Posted in access to education, anti-war, Decolonization of the mind, hip-hop, interviews/speeches, Open Admissions, Organizing tactics and strategy, police brutality, pre-SLAM radical CUNY organizing, Radical people of color organizing, SLAM founders, Uncategorized, women of color on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lenina Nadal, December 27, 2008 Lenina Nadal was a founding member of the CUNY Coalition Against the Cuts and SLAM. Having graduated in 1997, she returned in 2000 to help create SLAM’s organizer training institute. She is a filmmaker, playwright, and poet, and works for the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition. Visit http://www.performingprofound.com interviewed [...]
