EFFING EVENTS and Info!
Yes, I know. The blog has been terribly slow this last week. Hope our small troupe of followers haven't disintegrated into other (less cool) Blog scenes. Truth is:
1) Going to change servers soon.
2) Have been doing a lot of organizing at CUNY
That said, here is what's up:
This Thursday, March 5th there will be a rally and march to City Hall which is in protest of the proposed CUNY budget cuts and tuition increases and in favor of the fair share tax reform. Rally begins at 3pm at Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street. March to City Hall begins at 4pm. Have class? Don't go. Have work? Call in sick. For more info on bureaucracy behind CUNY and why this is important, visit the excellent blog, CUNY Disorientation Guide. For more info on the Fair Share Tax reform and why this is important, click here.
If you straight up want me to feed you reasons for why you should go, here are some facts:
1) David Paterson and Michael Bloomberg have agreed to CUNY Chancellor Goldstein's proposed CUNY tuition increases of $600 with the pretext that it will fill the budget which NY State wants to cut in order to save mullah.
2) This is horseshit because they only want to spend 20% on CUNY ($22 million) and use 80% ($88 million) to backfill the NY state deficit caused by wall street. In other words, they want to take more from poor students, mostly minorities and disadvantaged students, many of whom work jobs to stay in school, and relegate little (i.e. no) responsibility to all of the very wealthy individuals who enjoy this city.
3) The fatcat administrators at CUNY have no problem cutting CUNY's budget by $51 million, which includes financial aid as well as NYC-based, merit-based scholarships, while taking (i.e. stealing) $7 million is administrative salary increases in the last few years. their arrogance is appaling.
4) Contrary to what Bloomberg, Patterson, and Goldstein want us to believe, this isn't an individualized instance of tuition increases necessitated by the economic crises. The latter two have actively been privatizing CUNY, slashing their budgets and raising their tuition for many years. We've had enough.
5) Implementing the Fair Share Tax Reform would undo the tax cuts to NY's wealthy, implemented since the mid-1990's, and would very easily backfill the deficit.
Coming? Good. Facebook has en events page.
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