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Students and NYPD Clash at Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College Campus Police and the NYPD assaulted peaceful student demonstrators outside of President Gould’s office today on campus. Multiple students were pushed against walls, thrown through doorways, and knocked to the floor, a disabled student was assaulted and had her cane taken from her, and multiple students were arrested and literally carried away by the NYPD.
by Charlie Kerr
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BC Socialist Shorts: Thinking About the State and Where Transformations Occur
April 11, 20125:00 pmto6:00 pm
In the eighth session of our Brooklyn College Socialist Shorts, we will be having a discussion with radical sociologist John Holloway.
Bring a friend, pull up a chair, and join the discussion!
Read Holloway’s interview on the Socialist Webzine here.
Wednesday, Apr. 11th 2012, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Starbucks off of Brooklyn College
33 Hillel Pl, Brooklyn,...
BC Socialist Shorts: How Violent is America?
April 4, 20125:00 pmto6:00 pm
In the seventh session of our Brooklyn College Socialist Shorts, we will be having a discussion with the SP-USA chair, Billy Wharton.
Bring a friend, pull up a chair, and join the discussion!
Read Billy Wharton’s article on the NYPD shock doctrine here.
Wednesday, Apr. 4th 2012, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Starbucks off of Brooklyn College
33 Hillel Pl, Brooklyn,...
BC Socialist Shorts: How new movements grow out of the old (but are always different!)
March 28, 20125:00 pmto6:00 pm
In the sixth session of our Brooklyn College Socialist Shorts, we will be having a discussion with prominent Left historian Paul Buhle.
Bring a friend, pull up a chair, and join the discussion!
Read Paul Buhle’s interview on the Socialist Webzine here.
Wednesday, Mar. 28th 2012, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Starbucks off of Brooklyn College
33 Hillel Pl, Brooklyn,...
The Candidate of the 99%: A Discussion with Stewart Alexander, Socialist Party USA Presidential Candidate
March 15, 20126:00 pmto7:00 pm
“The Occupy movement has claimed that it represents the bottom 99% of Americans while policies are geared to help the top 1% of Americans, the highest echelons of the capitalist class. In essence, the 99% are the rest of us whom have been left behind in America’s economic growth and whom are being told must bear the weight of the problem caused...
Brooklyn College Students Demonstrate Against Proposed Tuition Hike
More than 400 students assembled today at the Quad in Brooklyn College today to call for an end to the proposed $600 tuition hike for City University of New York students. NY State Governor David Paterson proposed the increase as one part of a series of budget cutbacks which will negatively impact the state’s education, transportation and social services systems. Demonstrators today demanded...
