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“Our freedom as students and faculty relies on the disruption and elimination not only of the prison industrial complex and the police, but the elimination of the university’s dependency on them.”
https://bit.ly/CopsOutCUNY @abusablepast #Abolition #CopFreeCUNY 1/7
https://bit.ly/CopsOutCUNY @abusablepast #Abolition #CopFreeCUNY 1/7
Brilliant new analysis out today by current and former CUNY students calling for CUNY to severe its relationship to the NYPD and campus security.
https://bit.ly/CopsOutCUNY
@abusablepast #Abolition #CopFreeCUNY 2/7
https://bit.ly/CopsOutCUNY
@abusablepast #Abolition #CopFreeCUNY 2/7
In this article Teona Pagan, Danny Vazques, Liz Bazile, Haily Lam, and Diana Kennedy argue that cops and security make CUNY campuses radically unsafe for Black and Brown working class students, staff, and faculty, as well as the neighborhoods in which CUNY campuses are located. 3
“The longstanding efforts to militarize campuses... originated to suppress campus uprisings against imperialism and domestic racism. The fight for a truly liberated and revolutionary education for working class people of color has necessarily been a fight against policing” 4/7
John Jay College has been part of legitimating policing in New York City: “CUNY doesn’t merely employ armed security guards, it provides continued justification for the spurious notion that police and correction officers can be “trained” out of … violence.” #CopFreeCUNY 5/7
“The logic of policing extends to everyday interactions in our college communities, where the policing of language, of dissent, of gender and sexuality, contribute to the ongoing violence that oppressed and marginalized students, staff, and faculty face.” @abusablepast 6/7
“Abolition … is an intersectional and revolutionary approach to re-imagining the way we respond to harm, and envision new models of care for ourselves and for our communities.” https://bit.ly/CopsOutCUNY @abusablepast #Abolition #CopFreeCUNY 7/6
