"Students United for a Free CUNY" protest escalates at Baruch NVC

Anonymous

Tue Nov 29 2011 12:32

What is the relationship between SUFC and the Marcy-ite "Party for Socialism and Liberation"? They had the same yellow PSL signs, the reformist slogans (Bailout the People, fire the Chief of Security) the same racialist demagoguery (tuition hikes are only about racism--not about class struggle) the same contempt for genuine worker radicals (like the two TWU members they silenced with their bogus "mike check" last night) and the same admiration for Democrat Charlie Barron. Beware of Democrats in "Freedom Party" clothing!
Workers and Students, Shut the City Down!

Baruch Student

Sun Nov 27 2011 13:02

I don't support the hike, but I wouldn't support the protest either because I can't support a bunch of people screaming and cursing at passerby while I need to walk around the block in order to get to the library to study. Dialogue of reasoning and understanding is what we need. If you need to protest, go to the main source. Stop disrupting your fellow students.

Anonymous

Thu Nov 24 2011 19:08

I have taken notice that the comment I left on this page was removed. So, I will leave another.... The Cuny Public Safety department WAS NOT wrong for their actions for "pushing" the protestors out of the building. CUNY advised them numerous times to leave the area due to fire hazards and code violations for FDNY. The protestors refused to listen to "Lawful orders" from a Law Enforcement agency. Furthermore, at no time in any of the videos is their an officer hitting someone with their baton. Actually, if you take notice to these officers compared to all other agencies in the country, they used the least amount of force. No pepper spray, no protestor was sent to the hospital, and the bruises on K. Cortes arm was probably from him resisting. It is seen in the videos that he is pushing other protestors into campus police. I am apart of the OWS and Cuny hikes and I was there at Baruch. I find it ridiculous that everyone is there with their cameras, recording all of this and expect themselves not to be seen for their actions. Watch every video in detail and ask yourself this......What if Cuny acted like all the colleges that decided to use more force than what is necessary? They say think before you act, Cuny did just that on this day and you all still want to place blame on everything else, but yourselves!

Anonymous

Tue Nov 22 2011 19:26

To "Faculty"
I'm a CCNY student and I was there at the protest along with many other students from most of CUNY (including Baruch)...Some of those students WERE REGISTERED to attend that meeting and understand that this was led by CUNY students not by OWS. Don't make things up and don't believe everything this article states because footage of this event, along with my own personal witness, clearly show that the students peacefully walked inside the lobby to be met by a line of police with batons in their hands (I saw many batons, even witnessed two officers use those batons in an attempt to harm the hands of students) and after most of the protestors sat down to have their own assembly, since they were not being let in to the meeting, the POLICE initiated the whole fiasco as they forcefully pushed the students back.

Joe

Tue Nov 22 2011 13:01

Coming from someone who has attended and also been employed at Baruch for years, I have to agree with "Faculty" that these are not Baruch students for the most part. I don't support the tuition hikes nor any unnecessary use of force (there were some students beat up pretty bad), but I'm just stating the obvious rather than picking sides. This clearly has OWS elements in it.

Anonymous

Mon Nov 21 2011 22:45

Students United Will never be defeated !!!! Today we took the First Big step towards Defending our Rights and rasing our voices despite MAJOR police brutality, ON NOVEMBER 28 WE ARE GOING TO ONCE AGAIN JOIN IN PROTEST AT THE DOORS OF BARUCH COLLEGE, TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR VOICES ARE HEARD !!! JOIN USS !!!

Professor

Mon Nov 21 2011 21:53

I was there as a supportive professor and witnessed the entire event.

Students did not rush the doors, as security had been letting people come and go. Students did meet a line of police prohibiting them from attending the public Board of Trustees meeting regarding tuition hikes (23% over 5 years).

Some students sat down (inherently non-violent). The police rushed the students, pushing them with batons, with an amount of violent force not necessary for the situation.

Anonymous

Mon Nov 21 2011 21:49

isnt 90% of baruch on full scholarship or financial aid or both? What do they care, tuition is going to rise regardless especially when the school becomes more competitive and also when idiots in SG want to build a "student center" where do they think the money is coming from to build it? go to class people!

Faculty

Mon Nov 21 2011 20:47

These students were *not* beaten up. This is not an example of police brutality against peaceful protesters! The "students" rushed police lines. If they wanted to go to the meeting, they could have registered. I highly doubt the organizing force behind most of this was Baruch students. This is OWS trying to get just a little more press for the most part. The whole thing feels orchestrated to try to force the police into something that might look the slightest bit like brutality.

Alumni

Mon Nov 21 2011 20:14

No one can say anything anymore without being beaten up by the police. Seriously, we're always boasting about our freedoms, yet OWS protesters are beaten up, students in California are pepper sprayed while sitting down and now this. I am so ashamed of my school today. I hope some in the faculty and in the administration (who did the same or worse when they were college students) speak out against this.