NYC Students Stand Firm After CUNY Police Bully Them During Occupy City Univeristy of NY (CUNY) Protest Over Tuition Hikes With Occupy CUNY Student Members Hector Agredano & Emma Francis-Snyder Barbara Bowen, President of CUNY Professional Staff Congress
Students, faculty, Occupy CUNY and OWS demonstrated outside Baruch College protesting the Board of Trustees' meeting, where the Board passed measures to further squeeze the public out of CUNY. Even though these meetings are legally obligated to be open to the public, Baruch's president announced that the Vertical Campus would be closed to almost everyone by 3pm. However, protestors reclaimed CUNY on the outside, and exposed the Board's illegitimate actions inside. Police violence has already occurred at Baruch, in response to protests about tuition hikes, and unfair labor practices targeted toward adjunct and other faculty, and the privatization of the public CUNY system. But, like pro-democracy movements from UC-Davis to Occupy Wall Street the protestors stood firm - our schools and communities are not for sale, and we will not give up our rights to free speech and assembly. FREE CUNY!
produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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