Estudiantes de la Universidad de Nueva York fueron arrestados durante una demostración pacifica. Protestaban en contra del incremento del 35% la matrícula que la Universidad se propone cobrarles en los proximos 5 años.
Con el incremento, muchos jovenes y adultos no podrán continuar estudiando. Hay gente que tiene dos trabajos para poder pagar la escuela, comida, casa, transporte y muchas otras cosas.
CUNY (The City University of New York) es una universidad pública, no privadad. Son estudiantes, no clientes.
3rd CUNY wide General Assembly
Sunday, Nov 27th, 3:00pm
More info.
Monday, November 28th. 4pm
NO TUITION HIKES, NO POLICE REPRESSION!
Students are our students. Support them.
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On Monday, November 21, 2011 Students United for a free CUNY organized a “CUNY-Wide March Against the “Rational” Tuition Plan.” from Madison Square Park to Baruch college.
At 3pm: They met at Madison Square Park, where CUNY students UNITED to voice their grievances, shared their stories of struggle with one another.
At 4pm: They marched to Baruch College to attend the Board of Trustees public hearing.
According to their Facebook event page:
“It is time to stand up for ourselves, for our communities, & for our futures! We are the students of CUNY and we will be heard!
It’s time to defend ourselves from the financial interests of New York State (shout out to Governor Status Cuomo) and their Board of Trustees puppets who, by raising tuition 35% in the next 5 years, will attack a public institution that provides an education for the underprivileged working class youth & people of New York (and all over!). CUNY is our only option- our only opportunity. These tuition hikes and budget cuts are nothing but blatantly racist/classist attacks on our future. Cuts to financial aid like TAP, the Black Male Initiative, the Peter Vallone Scholarship (the only financial aid our undocumented friends are able to receive), and other forms of aid exemplifies this. This is OUR Public University, not a Private Entity. We are students, not customers.
We do not want the ever-increasing tuition imposed on us. We do not want private businesses in our public university. We do not want private funding that goes to places unknown and unaccountable.
We want smaller classes, more sections, thus more professors (adjuncts & tenured) who are paid equally well with the right of health insurance*. But most of all,
WE WANT FULL CITY & STATE FUNDING which ensures transparency & accountability… Like it used to be. We want our CUNY back!
The Students United Will Never Be Defeated!
*Check out our whole list of demands:
http://studentsunitedforafreecuny.wordpress.com/
P.S. We would also like to demand an explanation as to why the NYPD has been spying on our Muslim brothers and sisters in OUR schools, and who permitted it.”
Some of the comments on facebook were:
Widad Hassan: “Today was beautiful in a strange way..students were screaming and shouting for the safety of their “brothers and sisters” inside…so much humanity..i just wanted to hug everyone there…!
At one point outside a kingsborough prof had a mic check moment, and said that he and 200 faculty members signed a statement condemning any violence against student protesters..and ended with “we are with you”…whoo hoo”
Micha Balon: “It was beautiful, but it also hurt. A LOT. ;).
Today, CUNY students from all of the campuses marched to the Board of Trustees meeting at Baruch College. Some of us were allowed inside the Baruch lobby, but were not allowed to go in or even near the PUBLIC hearing regarding the five-year tuition hike plan. This plan will increase tuition by $300 every year for the next five years. It will make it impossible for many young people to get a higher education. Education is a right, and is being taken away from us. If you are a student with a conscience you have to understand what happened to us today, and how this is a direct violation of our human rights to freedom of speech, assembly, and education.
After many students, max of 100, got inside, we were not allowed to go to the 14th floor meeting, and were given the option to go into a “holding” room. We didn’t go to the holding room. We remained in the lobby. Things were chaotic, so we sat down to have a General Assembly and figure out the plan. All of a sudden, a man with a megaphone said we had to leave. We had no time to make a decision when the police, lined up with wooden batons, started screaming “PUSH” and brutally/violently shoved us. They shoved us for about 15 minutes, and at times it was impossible to escape, move, or breathe. Is this what democracy looks like? No. This is hypocrisy.”
Testimony from a Baruch college professor, Conor Tomás Reed.
CUNY Faculty Statement of Support.
“We faculty members of The City University of New York (CUNY) would like to express our solidarity with Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and the nascent student movement it has helped galvanize at CUNY.” READ MORE.
(A CUNY student gives her testimony to the Board of Trustees.)
As you can see in the video, there were space for more students. So why they didn’t allow students to go into the room?
The repression was not only in the lobby but in the room, too. 3 men (security, I guess) wanted to stop this student.
Monday, November 28th is the vote on the plan. Protest at Baruch. Be there. CUNY is a Public University, not a Private Entity. We are students, not customers.
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