CUNY students: ICE Out Of NYC!

Wednesday, October 14, 2026. Occupied Éenda-Lunaapeewáhkiing/Lenapehoking (New York City). – The rally “ICE Out Of NYC” in Manhattan, New York City, will be on Wednesday, October 14, 2026.

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ICE Out Of NYC

Wednesday, October 14, 2026. 12:30-2pm
City College of New York: Sundial Outside NAC Building.
160 Convent Ave. Manhattan, New York City. 10031.

“Come join us for our rally of OUTRAGE against ICE and the brutal shooting of Oscar Belgal! We DEMAND Zohran Mamdani to use his position of power as mayor to dismantle the SRG and fire Jessica Tisch. We also DEMAND CUNY to DIVEST from organizations that work with ICE and to establish TRANSPARENCY and ACCOUNTABILITY when it comes to our immigrant students being protected,” said The City College of NY YDSA on October 12, 2026.

CUNY for Palestine demands accountability and action on Palestine from Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Press Release by CUNY for Palestine on October 11, 2026.

New York, New York—On Wednesday, October 7, 2026, CUNY for Palestine and NYC-wide Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organizers held a rally at City Hall, endorsed by various Palestine solidarity and community organizations, in support of the Palestinian national liberation struggle. Students joined the protest downtown after walking out of class at several of CUNY’s 26 campuses, including the flagship City College of New York (CCNY). Despite Meta’s attempts to censor organizers’ social media, removing posts from across movement accounts in the lead-up to the event, the protest drew hundreds of students, academic workers and community members from across the city to mark three years of ongoing genocide and resistance in Palestine. The protest also attracted international media attention as the principled demands resonated so deeply across the globe. As one student organizer put it: “We’re glad our rally exposed every normalizer, traitor, and hypocrite, when it comes to the Palestinian cause, but the truth is, the resistance and city of Gaza exposed these realities early on.

On October 8th in the Bronx, Mamdani’s NYPD protected ICE when protests erupted after an ICE agent shot a New Yorker in his car seven times while his 5-year-old son was in the backseat. The NYPD has repeatedly collaborated with ICE, covering for federal violence and brutalizing New Yorkers demanding accountability for ICE agents. Mamdani’s calls for “ICE out” of our city mean nothing while his own NYPD Commissioner, Jessica Tisch, directs the NYPD to protect and collaborate with ICE agents to terrorize our communities. Mamdani must defend New Yorkers from fascist ICE violence.

We also demand that Mamdani abolish another institution of organized violence that harms our communities: the Strategic Response Group (SRG). The SRG is trained to violently suppress racial justice and Palestine solidarity protests—its manual brands BLM, Occupy Wall Street, and anti-Trump demonstrators as “violent.” Its budget exploded from $13 million to over $133 million in a year, and its officers carry a median of six Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) complaints each since 2000, double the department-wide median, with 91% of its victims being people of color and 66% Black. In June 2020, as documented by NYCLU, the SRG trapped, beat, zip-tied, and arrested 263 protesters, medics, and legal observers in Mott Haven, injuring 61 in conduct Human Rights Watch called “intentional, planned, and unjustified.” When the SRG raided the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampments in April 2024, SRG officers violently arrested over 200 protesters who suffered burns, broken bones, concussions, and broken teeth; students at Brooklyn College were similarly violently arrested and pepper-sprayed by the SRG when it raided a campus protest in solidarity with Palestine in May 2025.

The NYPD answers to Mamdani. Mamdani has enabled the NYPD’s collaboration with ICE, and the NYPD’s and the SRG’s repression of and violence toward New Yorkers, by retaining Jessica Tisch, the first NYPD Commissioner kept from a prior Mayor’s administration. Tisch, a self-proclaimed Zionist who has vocally supported the US-backed Zionist genocide in Gaza, facilitated NYPD training with the Israeli Occupation Forces and entrenched the NYPD’s ties to Israeli security: the NYPD has an office in a Tel Aviv settlement built on the rubble of the destroyed Palestinian village Kafr Saba, regularly shares intelligence with, and trains alongside, Zionist forces.” Click here to read the full press release.

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