City
College students marched through the streets of Hamilton Heights
(HARLEM) on Monday, Oct. 28 to protest the closure of the
Morales/Shakur Center.
City College Students Demand Return of Community Space
City College Protest Leaders Suspended
Khalil
Vasquez, 22, right, a senior and Tafadar Sourov, 19, a sophomore, say
they were intercepted by campus police and an NYPD officer as they
attempted to attend class Monday morning and told they were no longer
allowed on campus following last week's protests over the closure of the
Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Student and Community Center on the
third floor of the North Academic Center at 138th Street and Convent
Avenue.
Tafadar
Sourov: (THE YOUNG MAN TO THE LEFT IN PIC) "The Morales Shakur
Community Center was a place I visited in high school, and seeing that
there was a revolutionary space connecting students to the community was
what made me decide to come to City College. Today, the administration
is coming down on me hard for being a leader in the struggle for a
liberated CUNY, but I still believe in defending our communities and
universities from militarization. I believe in struggling to build a new
CUNY that is run by the community, the faculty and the students, that
is open to everybody. Let us all struggle for democratic control over
CUNY, to end militarization and win back the Morales Shakur Center!"
The
fight to save the MSCC is much bigger than the space itself. It's not
fearing being in campus because a Public Safety officer "might" detain
you when you're trying to leave. It's being able to voice your opinion
about something your school
is doing and you as a taxpayer want some say in. It's about not being
silenced when you're a dissenter, at least allow dissenting thoughts to
be said. It's
about there being more students than security guards when they're not
needed. #savemscc #ccnyshutdown
WHO DO THEY SERVE. JUST DOING THEIR JOBS. - "ATTENTION
STUDENTS I just witnessed with my own eyes a young man in a white shirt
and denim pants ask some security guards questions about why they were
shutting off entrances. He was put on the ground and handled physically
by FOUR OFFICERS. Each officer was carrying a limb on this man and they
were carrying him
away. Not holding him while he was walking - but CARRIED away. I
haven't been involved with the protests at all but seeing this just
igniting something in me. EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS. THIS IS
HAPPENING NOW, THIS HAPPENED A HALF HOUR AGO IN THE NAC. 10/28/13 - a
confused and angry student."
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