FW: Everyone: TODAY-Mass Rally to Stop CUNY Police / Board of Trustees Attacks-MON, Nov 28th, 4pm @ Outside of Baruch College - Vertical Campus Bldg

[Einat Manoff]

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NYC CALL TO ACTION

Students * Faculty * Community * Labor

Mass Rally to Stop CUNY Police / Board of Trustees Attacks

*A People's Assembly to Defend Education*
Monday, November 28, 4PM
Outside of Baruch College - Vertical Campus Bldg
25th street between Lexington & 3rd ave

Supported by the CUNY-Wide General Assembly, the Graduate Center General Assembly, and the Professional Staff Congress.

At Baruch College on Monday, November 21, CUNY Police attacked students and faculty seeking to peacefully enter a Board of Trustees public hearing.  Video footage shows police brutalizing dozens of people in the Vertical Campus lobby to the shock of hundreds outside and a balcony of students above.  Meanwhile during the public hearing on the 14th floor, CUNY advocates railed against the Board of Trustees' responsibility for a tuition hike totaling $1500 over 5 years, teacher healthcare under threat, and an increasingly corporate-driven model of education.  Altogether, 15 students and faculty were arrested in the lobby, and 5 were ultimately jailed for 24 hours (including a Baruch faculty member), all who had come to testify that CUNY serve the working people of New York, not wealthy administrators.

This Monday, November 28, our university will rally again outside Baruch College at 4pm to protest the Board of Trustees' business mtg that will pass measures to further squeeze the public out of CUNY.  Even though these mtgs are legally obligated to be open to the public, Baruch's president has announced that the Vertical Campus will be closed to almost everyone by 3pm.  In this case, we will reclaim CUNY on the outside, and clearly expose the Board's illegitimate mtg happening inside.  We need our families, other schools, unions, community groups, and the broad Occupy movement to bring out mass support.  Together we can demand a stop to this violence by the CUNY police and administration upon our school community, and that we see being inflicted elsewhere upon pro-democracy movements from UC-Davis to Occupy Wall Street.  Our university and communities are not for sale, and we will not give up our rights to free speech and assembly. FREE CUNY!

RSVP/share Facebook links:
Emergency CUNY-wide General Assembly on Sunday N27 at 3pm.
Monday N28 mass rally at 4pm outside Baruch.
Monday rally/march at 3pm from Madison Square Park to Baruch.

Petition for CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein to resign.

Occupy Colleges Monday N28 Student Strike call in solidarity

Find out more and get involved
Web: www.occupycunynews.org
Email: occup...@gmail.com
Twitter: @occupycuny
Facebook: CUNY Wide General Assembly