Dear Free Press, please see the email sent to all CUNY personnel. CUNY Chancellor mentioned in the email responded firmly and unambiguously to atrocious attack of HAMAS - quite differently from leaders of elite colleges. This is the reaction of FIle and Rank Action of CUNY that is (see at the end how they announce themselves) - a militan…
Dear Free Press, please see the email sent to all CUNY personnel. CUNY Chancellor mentioned in the email responded firmly and unambiguously to atrocious attack of HAMAS - quite differently from leaders of elite colleges. This is the reaction of FIle and Rank Action of CUNY that is (see at the end how they announce themselves) - a militant group!!! Maybe you can add this to your collection of things taking place at campuses around the country.
"MARCH ON THE CHANCELLOR!
Felix Matos-Rodriguez and CUNY administration are:
• Creating an atmosphere of McCarthyite repression for those opposed to Israeli settler colonialism, apartheid and the ongoing genocide in Gaza
• Overseeing a system of racist austerity at CUNY
On October 11th, in response to the Hamas attacks in Israel, CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos-Rodriguez released a shocking statement with not a single mention of Palestine nor the 75 years of racist Israeli apartheid that is the context for what happened on October 7th. In the intervening month, the CUNY administration has been criminally silent as more than 11,000 Gazans, including more than 4,000 children, have been murdered by U.S.-supplied Israeli bombs and missiles. He has remained silent as CUNY students and faculty have been attacked by Zionists, doxxed, and even threatened with a firearm by a New York City councilwoman.
These attacks on pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist students, faculty and staff are occurring against a backdrop of the unrelenting impoverishment of thousands of part-time faculty, who teach the majority of classes at CUNY and yet work without any job protection, hired from one semester to the next. The racist austerity that diminishes and degrades CUNY students’ education also continues apace, as budget cuts mean fewer classes with larger enrollment caps, a lack of vital student services, and crumbling infrastructure. For these crimes alone, we must step up and demand change at CUNY! Combine it with the campaign of fear and intimidation leveled at pro-Palestinian students, faculty and staff and we have no choice. Our voices must be heard!
Join us on Sunday, November 19th, at 12:00 at the Pelham Metro North station. We will march to the Chancellor’s home in Pelham, NY and demand a retraction of his October 11th statement and an end to adjunct poverty and racist austerity at CUNY!
Rank and File Action (RAFA) is a volunteer- run group of militant rank & file activists at CUNY challenging the culture of austerity in higher education and demanding a more democratic fighting union."
Dear Free Press, please see the email sent to all CUNY personnel. CUNY Chancellor mentioned in the email responded firmly and unambiguously to atrocious attack of HAMAS - quite differently from leaders of elite colleges. This is the reaction of FIle and Rank Action of CUNY that is (see at the end how they announce themselves) - a militant group!!! Maybe you can add this to your collection of things taking place at campuses around the country.
"MARCH ON THE CHANCELLOR!
Felix Matos-Rodriguez and CUNY administration are:
• Vilifying pro-Palestinian students, faculty and staff & silencing Palestinian voices.
• Creating an atmosphere of McCarthyite repression for those opposed to Israeli settler colonialism, apartheid and the ongoing genocide in Gaza
• Overseeing a system of racist austerity at CUNY
On October 11th, in response to the Hamas attacks in Israel, CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos-Rodriguez released a shocking statement with not a single mention of Palestine nor the 75 years of racist Israeli apartheid that is the context for what happened on October 7th. In the intervening month, the CUNY administration has been criminally silent as more than 11,000 Gazans, including more than 4,000 children, have been murdered by U.S.-supplied Israeli bombs and missiles. He has remained silent as CUNY students and faculty have been attacked by Zionists, doxxed, and even threatened with a firearm by a New York City councilwoman.
These attacks on pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist students, faculty and staff are occurring against a backdrop of the unrelenting impoverishment of thousands of part-time faculty, who teach the majority of classes at CUNY and yet work without any job protection, hired from one semester to the next. The racist austerity that diminishes and degrades CUNY students’ education also continues apace, as budget cuts mean fewer classes with larger enrollment caps, a lack of vital student services, and crumbling infrastructure. For these crimes alone, we must step up and demand change at CUNY! Combine it with the campaign of fear and intimidation leveled at pro-Palestinian students, faculty and staff and we have no choice. Our voices must be heard!
Join us on Sunday, November 19th, at 12:00 at the Pelham Metro North station. We will march to the Chancellor’s home in Pelham, NY and demand a retraction of his October 11th statement and an end to adjunct poverty and racist austerity at CUNY!
Rank and File Action (RAFA) is a volunteer- run group of militant rank & file activists at CUNY challenging the culture of austerity in higher education and demanding a more democratic fighting union."
Tatiana Malyuta