Pro-Palestinian CUNY and SUNY Organizers Picket Center For An Urban Future 2nd Annual NYC Economic Mobility Summit
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Update: “CUNY Chancellor Félix Matos Challenged By Demonstrator At U.S. House Of Representatives”
###Press Release Printed In Full From SUNY BDS###
“This Tuesday, on July 15th at 10AM EST, a group of CUNY and SUNY organizers will join together to picket outside of The Center for an Urban Future’s second annual NYC Economic Mobility Summit on 150 West 17th Street.”
“Both the CUNY (Felix Matos) and SUNY (John King) chancellors are scheduled to speak at the summit on “How Can NYC Advance Economic Mobility Amid Harmful Federal Policies?” However, the CUNY chancellor is skipping the summit in order to capitulate to the federal government. He will be in Washington DC on Tuesday, testifying before Congress that CUNY has sufficiently repressed Palestinian solidarity activism.”
“We will gather outside of the NYC Economic Mobility Summit to show our chancellors what fighting back against the federal government really means. To truly resist fascism means to defend your students, staff, and faculty in their first amendment rights and protect them from militarized police forces, ICE, and DHS. It means standing against the US-funded israeli genocide of Palestinians by divesting from israel and weapons manufacturing companies.”
“We will begin our picket at the time CUNY chancellor Felix Matos begins his testimony before Congress, while his counterpart, SUNY chancellor John King, talks about how to resist this same federal government. Our goal is to reiterate our shared demands to those in leadership at our universities and the people of New York State, whose taxes fund our universities. These demands are:"
Disclose foundation investments
Divest from weapons manufacturers and technology committing this genocide
Amnesty for protestors and protection for non-citizen students/staff/faculty
Replace the BOT with democratic, collective student-faculty-worker-community governance”
