2016

We would like to reach out all to all disciplnes and to legal scholars and practitioners across the NYC area and to non-academic groups as well. If you know of any student groups at your campus that have been engaging with the questions of immigrants' rights and sanctuary, please let them know.Please note, too, that the panel has a specifically historical dimension, and Eric Foner will be one of the speakers who will address sanctuary in historical perspective.

2017

On January 21st, New York City will proudly join the international community to march in support of equality and promote civil rights for every human. This historic and peaceful event is open to the public and we warmly welcome ALL to participate.

The moment we've been bracing for is here. Multiple news outlets are reporting that President Trump will sign an executive order today or tomorrow, restricting entry to the US from majority Muslim countries. Another executive order is also expected, attacking our undocumented neighbors with an expanded border wall and an intent to target sanctuary cities like NYC. As a city of immigrants, we cannot stay silent in the face of such hate. We ask you to gather tonight (Wednesday), to show President Trump that all New Yorkers stand with our Muslim and Latino neighbors. Together, we will form a beacon of light against the coming darkness.

In direct coordination with the Port Authority we will be meeting outside of JFK Terminal 4 Arrivals on the outer roadway.

Holocaust Remembrance Day was Friday and today Trump's racist executive actions have already resulted in people being detained at JFK (without access to their legal representation) because of their country of origin. Let's put action behind words and meet at JFK Terminal 4 Arrivals at 6PM to hold a vigil and rally against the detentions. NO BAN, NO WALL, SANCTUARY FOR ALL!

Due to the collective efforts of advocacy groups and organizers in New York, the Federal Court for the Eastern District of New York has now issued a temporary stay halting President Donald Trump’s executive order.

The signing of President Trump's executive order has affected thousands – refugees seeking asylum and protection who have already been approved for visas, mothers and fathers barred from reuniting with their families, legal permanent residents being denied the ability to return to school or work, and refugees fleeing persecution being forced to return to their countries to death and violence.

WE CALL ON OUR COMMUNITIES TO KEEP UP THE MOMENTUM TO FIGHT THE REFUGEE AND MUSLIM BAN!

The PSC is hosting a CUNYwide meeting for students, faculty and staff who have been working on making CUNY campuses into sanctuary campuses:

The idea is to discuss where different campuses are in the creation of sanctuary campuses (including how they are defining that), what road blocks or challenges we have been confronting, and next steps at the campus and CUNY-wide level.

An RSVP is not required to attend, but if you plan to attend, the PSC would appreciate an email sent to Deirdre Brill at [email protected] so that they have an estimate of how many people to expect. Also, note that an ID is required to enter the building. If you want to attend but doesn't have an ID, please get in touch with Deirdre.

We, a group of activists and concerned citizens, will be coming together for another rally at Schumer's home to demand that Schumer stand firm and rally the Democrats to stand firm. We need them to stand strong for all the battles coming down the pike: healthcare, immigrant rights, reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, environmental rights, supreme court, workers' rights, etc. We will march to Schumer's home on Prospect Park West and we will deliver protein bars and weights to Schumer, so he can regain his strength.

On Friday, January 27 Political Science Ph.D. candidate Saira Rafiee was removed from an airplane in Dubai as she was preparing to return to her studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Saira, an Iranian citizen, is one of the many tens of thousands affected by Trump’s reprehensible and immoral ban targeting Muslims and refugees. Protest this discriminatory Executive Order and show your solidarity with our comrade. We'll be meeting outside of the GC.

Women's Marches to the tens of thousands of people taking to airports to oppose Trump's executive orders, it's clear that more people than ever are ready to take to the streets — many of them for the first time. Almost everyday there will be news coming out of Washington that will make us want to hit the streets again, and along with those moments there will be dozens of opportunities to march and rally and make our voices heard.

At the same time, we need to be organizing for the long haul so that these beautiful rapid-fire mobilizations are part of an arc of resistance that keeps people engaged and coming out again and again.

Join me and help build the NYC organizing plan for what promises to be a critically important part of building an arc of resistance to Trump: the People's Climate Movement's mobilization in Washington DC on April 29th. Click here to RSVP for our first city wide organizing meeting on Thursday.

On April 29th, the People’s Climate Movement and the organizations who put 400,000 people in our streets two years ago at the People's Climate March will mobilize in the nation’s capital for Climate, Jobs and Justice.

Join us in a city wide organizing meeting:

When: Thursday, February 2nd, 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Where: Auditorium at 1199SEIU - 310 West 43rd St., just west of 8th Ave.

We’ll hear updates on the plans for this mobilization, and we’ll get to work on building the strongest effort possible here in NYC!

Speakers will include:

Elizabeth Yeampierre, UPROSE
Linda Sarsour, National Co-Chair of the Women’s March on Washington
Roberto Borrero, from the indigenous Taíno Nation
Estela Vazquez, Executive Vice President, 1199SEIU

Click here to RSVP for the city wide organizing meeting.

On Thursday, February 2, Yemeni business owners across five New York boroughs will close 1,000 stores from 12pm to 8pm in response to the Trump administration’s infamous “Muslim Ban” executive order. This shutdown of grocery stores and bodegas will be a public show of the vital role these grocers and their families play in New York’s economic and social fabric and, during this period, grocery store owners will spend time with their families and loved ones to support each other; many of these families have been directly affected by the Ban.

Thursday evening at 5:15pm, at Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon St. in the back of the building facing the plaza, the Yemeni American community will hold a rally, where some merchants will share the impact the Ban has had on them and their loved one. The program will begin with the Muslim call for prayer and a public sundown prayer by Muslim rally participants. The prayer will be followed by several Yemeni merchants and their families sharing personal stories of how their lives and families have been impacted by the ban, as well as stories read on behalf of families who are afraid to come forward.

As NYC students we must rise up against bigotry, hatred, and prejudice. We are a part of this city. We are Muslim. We are immigrants. And we have a voice. As students from different schools and instiutions we plan to walkout of school at 12:00 pm on Tuesday in protest of the tragic executive order that WILL affect us! We will not remain silent. We will not repeat the failures of our past.

#MuslimBan #NoBanNoWall

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised a "Muslim Ban." Well, he just delivered. On January 27, Trump issued a sweeping ban, "temporarily" stopping immigration from 7 Muslim majority countries, as well as the refugee settlement program. Syrian refugees, who are among the MOST in need, have been prohibited from coming to the United States, indefintely. This will not be the only action Trump takes against Muslims, American or otherwise. It is also far from the first time Muslims have been scapegoated in this country. Our panelists, Mehreen Kasana, Moustafa Bayoumi, Arun Kundnani, and Fahd Ahmed, will talk about the roots of the Muslim Ban, what comes next, and what we can do to fight back.

THIS EVENT WILL BE LIVESTREAMED ON MUFTAH AND VERSO BOOKS' FACEBOOK PAGES

A Day Without Immigrants (and immigration supporters).

As the title of the event suggests, we, the Nation's immigrants, sons and daughters of immigrants and immigrant supporters, will be demonstrating how crucial we are to the basic fundamentals of the United States' economy. For one single day on a weekday, we must come together and unite in absolute resistance in order to reject the system dictating the launch from dehumanization and blatant oppression of those that are not straight, White, natural-born citizens.

They don't like immigrants? Let's give them a break for one day.

I urge you to:

1) NOT go to work.
2) NOT open your business.
3) NOT make purchases at any stores, markets or online.
4) NOT go out to eat.
5) NOT purchase gasoline.
6) NOT go to class.
7) NOT send your kids to school.

We all have bills to pay and things to do but if the system does not realize (or want to realize) how essential our daily participation is to this wonderful Country, we must paralize it in order to make our voices heard. We will stand up and we will tell them loud and clear that their precious billions of dollars are worthless without the very people they oppress and abuse to rake those profits in.

The #RESISTANCE is now and I urge you to be a part of it. To #RESIST is to be unconformist. To #RESIST is to want a better life for ourselves, our children and all future generations. #RESISTANCE cannot happen without you.

Do not conform.

"Resisting the Trump Agenda: Teach-In and Workshop". Wednesday, February 22 from 7:30 - 9 pm at 61 Local, 61 Bergen St., Brooklyn. Information and action are our best tools to oppose the incoming administration. Led by Brooklyn College* faculty, this participatory event encourages public dialog and mobilization on the following topics:

    REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH & JUSTICE - Prof. Gunja SenGupta
    FEMINIST/QUEER ACTIVISM - Prof. Alexandra Juhasz
    CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT - Prof. Ken Gould
    EDUCATION - Prof. David C. Bloomfield
    CRIMINAL JUSTICE / POLICE REFORM - Prof. Alex Vitale

*affiliation for identification purposes only

Emergency rally to make it clear that we will fight to keep protections for Trans and gender non-conforming people and students. The Trump-Pence Administation has rescinded important protections for trans students in schools. Let them know we will be heard, we will protect our TGNC community and we will fight for safe education for all. #ProtectTransKids

Brooklyn College Graduate Center for Worker Education, CUNY Citizenship Now,
CUNY Edge and MEDO are pleased to invite you to:

What: An information session about rights of immigrants
When: February 28, 2017
Time: 12:00-2:30
Where: Brooklyn College Library, room 241


Topics to be covered:

How the recent Executive Order affect immigrant’s rights. A lawyer from CUNY Citizenship Now will answer questions about legal rights immigrants have under the law.

Information about CUNY affiliated centers where immigrants may get assistance.
Green card holders encouraged to participate.

Who should attend: Students, faculty staff, green card holders, undocumented, dreamers and all concerned about inclusiveness.

RSVP: [email protected]

On March 8th, International Women’s Day, women and our allies will act together creatively to withdraw from the corporations that harm us and find ways to support the businesses, organizations and communities that sustain us. As we prepare for A Day Without A Woman, we ask:

Do businesses support our communities, or do they drain our communities?

Do they strive for gender equity or do they support the policies and leaders that perpetuate oppression?

Do they align with a sustainable environment or do they profit off destruction and steal the futures of our children?

We unite with the International Women’s Strike on March 8th and we observe Strike4Democracy’s Day of Planning on Friday, February 17th as we gather our friends, families, neighbors and coworkers and make plans to stand up for economic justice, affirmatively building community, and supporting local, women- and minority-owned businesses. In the weeks leading up to March 8th, we will continue to discuss the variety of ways that all people can join the fight for economic justice.

In honor of International Women's Day, Brooklyn College Faculty and Staff Resist will hold a

Protest Against Deportation and In Solidarity with Immigrant Communities

Come join us and spread the word!
We stand for immigrant justice, dignity, and worker rights.

Wednesday, March 8th 12:30 pm on the Brooklyn College Quad

Have questions about the new Executive Order and how it may impact travel and visa applications? Come to the Q & A session with an experienced Immigration Attorney from CUNY Citizenship Now!

Want to fight racism? • Want to fight Islamophobia? • Want to fight for immigrant rights? • Want to fight for women's liberation? •

Come to this discussion and join us!

Wednesday, March 22nd
Brooklyn College, Ingersoll Hall, Room 2127
7PM

Donald Trump's vicious attacks continue to dominate mainstream headlines, but the big news for the left is that socialism is re-emerging as a systemic alternative to capitalism.

Thousands of people are asking whether it's time to join socialist organizations in order to resist Trump--and the social system that gave rise to his villainy in the first place.

Don't sit on the sidelines and hope history turns back from the abyss. Now is the time to join the fight for a socialist future. Get involved with other socialists at Brooklyn College.

Sponsored by Brooklyn College International Socialist Organization (ISO)

“Refugee Policy in the Trump Era: Lessons from Immigration History” 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Maria Cristina Garcia is professor of history at Cornell University, and a current Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her research centers on immigrants, refugees, and exiles. She is the author of three books: The first, Havana USA, studies the political and economic influence of Cuban exiles in the U.S. Her second book, Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada, examines the individuals, groups, and organizations that responded to the Central American refugee crisis of the 1980s and 1990s and how these transnational networks reshaped North American refugee policy. Her current book project, Refuge in Post Cold War America, is a study of U.S. refugee policy in the Post-Cold War and post 9/11 era, which will be out later this year.

“Trump’s Immigration EOs: Is it Constitutional? What Rights Do I have?” 12:30 - 2 p.m.

Shane Kadidal is senior managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. He will assess the constitutionality of the EOs and also present on Know Your Rights. Mr. Kadidal has worked on several significant cases arising in the wake of 9/11, including the Center’s challenges to the indefinite detention of men at Guantánamo and domestic immigration sweeps. He has been counsel in major CCR cases, including Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, United States of America and Vulcan Society, Inc. v. City of New York, and legal challenges to the NSA’s warrantless surveillance program. Along with others at the Center for Constitutional Rights, he currently serves as U.S. counsel to WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange in connection with potential Espionage Act charges, extradition, and the funding embargo.

This will be a black lives matter discussion where we dissect the levels and dept related to the Black Lives Matter Movement. As well as a time for us to speak on the black lives which do not get much public recognition.

Panels of students will share their stories of struggle, what makes them vulnerable or unwelcome on campus, and how to create a more inclusive and nurturing environment at Brooklyn College.

Following the panel discussion, the student moderator will lead a wider discussion with student members of the audience.

Open to the campus community.

Speakers:

Arun Kundnani, author of The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic War on Terror

Yasmine Kamel, activist in the International Socialist Organization and Bay Ridge for Social Justice

Trump ran for president on an openly Islamophobic platform. After he was elected, he packed his cabinet with Islamophobic racists who have a long track record of courting anti-Muslim extremists. Trump’s racist travel ban on immigrants from six Muslim countries has been blocked in the courts for now. But all of this has resulted in a dangerous wave of Islamophobic hate crimes, the largest number recorded in the US since 9/11.

We need to stand up to Islamophobia wherever it emerges. But doing so also means challenging the war on terror. For 16 years Republicans and Democrats alike have stoked anti-Muslim fears and bigotry to try and justify endless war.

Join us for a discussion about how to understand the roots of Islamophopbia, how we can better defend ourselves against racist attacks, and how to build an alternative based on the politics solidarity.

Sponsored by:
Brooklyn College Socialists – ISO

After the initial shock of Trump's election, there has been no shortage of resistance to Trump's reactionary agenda. We took to the streets in massive numbers proving Trump has no mandate at the Women's March. We protested in airports across the country in opposition to Trump's bigoted executive orders targeting Muslims and the undocumented.

As we organize at Brooklyn College for the battles to come, we have to ask the question: what kind of movement would it really take to bring down Donald Trump?

To answer this, it's worth looking back for decades to the last–and only–time a president was forced to resign. What lessons can we learn from the social movements of the 1960's? What role did they play in compelling Nixon to leave office in a disgrace in 1974? And how can this history help us build a stronger fight today? Join us for discussion!

Speaker: Eric Ruder, regular contributor to SocialistWorker.org. Check out his piece "How the movement brought down a president"

Wednesday, April 19
Ingersoll Hall, Room 3412

Sponsored by: Brooklyn College International Socialist Organization (ISO)

The NYC Organizing Table for the April 29th March for Climate, Jobs and Justice in Washington, DC. is grounded in several core principles:

- Seek to strengthen the work of community groups and constituency based organizations as they take up the fight for climate justice.
- Bring together different parts of our movement to help expand all of our work and bring greater coherence to our common efforts.
- Pressure policy makers in our city and state to take bold steps toward reducing and eliminating carbon emissions, especially in this era of Trump.

Before the workday starts, Make the Road New York is hosting a march through Midtown East to call out large corporate entities that stand to profit from Trump's agenda, including backers of private prisons and immigrant detention centers like JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo. Ahead of the action, Make the Road today launched a "name and shame" website, with information about each company's affiliations to the Trump Administration and contact information for CEOs and Board Members.

Since 2005, people’s organizations have been organizing at Union Square for all workers. May Day, or International Workers Day, is a day of great significance to the workers and the oppressed masses across the world.

Our main call this year is SHUT IT DOWN! Strike to Defend Migrants, Refugees, and All Workers! We have seen an attack on our people from President Trump’s Executive Orders to ban Muslims and refugees. There have already been over 1,000 civilian deaths in March 2017 by U.S. military airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, an increase of 5,000 Border Patrol officers and 10,000 ICE agents, and a proposed addition of $54 Billion USD to the national military budget. We cannot allow this to continue.

The organizations that are putting together May Day @ Union Square 2017 are not only resisting Trump but holding the whole corrupt system accountable. We are groups coming together representing Black, Brown, People of Color, Trans, LGBTQGNC, Migrant, Muslim, People with Criminal Convictions, and Indigenous communities who are uniting to defend our people!

We would like to enlist your support for this call to show the people on May 1st, 2017 that New York City has had enough. We are going to show the world that the people are ready for a mass movement that will lead to revolutionary change.

We are a coalition of immigrant rights groups, labor, faith and allied organizations coming together to say in one voice that we stand together and we resist together. We demand that President Trump end his attacks on our immigrant, refugees and Muslim communities. We demand good jobs and the right to organize. We demand Congress pass a federal budget that reflects our priorities, that doesn’t include a single dollar for a border wall or unjust immigration enforcement.

There has been a steady barrage of attacks on women's reproductive rights since the Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973. Now, Trump is vowing to defund Planned Parenthood, which would severely restrict access to birth control, abortion, and women's health services for millions across the country. Enough is enough! We need to rebuild a fighting movement that is unapologetically for abortion rights and reproductive freedom.

Join us for a discussion on how working women and men can fight back and turn the tide on anti-abortion, anti-woman legislation.

Sponsored by:
Brooklyn College Socialists – ISO

There is no compromise with a fascist regime. They will not listen to reason or the rule of law. Trump summarily firing Comey reveals that if the law or institutions stand in the way, these fascists will knock them down. Trump, Pence, Sessions, the whole regime have told you that this is what they intend to do.

If they are not driven from power, they will rewrite law, get rid of their enemies, prohibit dissent, and remake society in ways beyond what people imagine possible.

Waiting things out, banking on a special prosecutor, or that the 2018 midterm elections will deal with the grave danger that is the Trump/Pence could have disastrous consequences for humanity.

What matters now is what masses of people do: acting together with determination and creativity, expressing our outrage and anger, taking to the streets with the spirit of no business as usual, demanding that this regime be driven from power. In dealing with the extraordinary, we must rid ourselves of ordinary thinking. Now is a Moment to Act. Start with those you can gather and go out and grow. Make a Statement. Do not underestimate the power of the people when we struggle with courage and conviction.

Dear friends,

In recent months we have seen a dramatic escalation in attacks and violence perpetrated against immigrants, Muslims, and people of color. Last week’s horrific violence in Portland in which two people were killed and one severely injured while defending two women of color, one of whom was wearing a hijab, is only the most recent attack as a result of a growing right-wing.

On June 10th, alt-right activists are organizing a so called "March Against Sharia" which will only serve to further embolden this kind of violence. This racism and bigotry must be confronted. We must take action to drive out racism and Islamophobia from our city. Mass mobilization and solidarity are the only way to stop the right-wing from growing and to defend those of us who are targeted by right wing violence.

The International Socialist Organization in NYC is working with the Jewish Social Justice Contingent (Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Jewish Voices for Peace-NYC, Network Against Islamophobia, Jews Say No!), Bay Ridge for Social Justice and the Arab-American Association of NY to build the mass rally in City Hall Park called by NYC Loves Muslims and CAIR-NY. We will gather together at 10am at the Broadway side of City Hall to say:

NO to Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism!
NO to white supremacy!
YES to building community and protecting one another!
YES to dignity and justice for all communities!

We also invite you to join the ISO contingent, which will be gathering at 9:30am at the triangular park/median just north of Chambers where Hudson and West Broadway meet. We will be assembling signs and materials and shortly before 10am we will march together to join the demonstration. We need to stand up to the right-wing bigots, but just as urgently we need to build a left that can provide an alternative explanation for the sickness of our system - an alternative based on solidarity and a vision for a better world rather than scapegoating and despair.

For more information and to RSVP, you can find the event on Facebook here.
For more about the ISO and to get in touch with us, please visit us at nycsocialist.org or contact [email protected].
Read Socialist Worker's statement about the recent wave of racist hate crimes here.

Please build and share this information widely so that we can send as strong and visible message of solidarity as possible. We hope to see you out in the streets with us on Saturday.

In solidarity,
NYC International Socialist Organization

★ Hundreds of works on sale for great prices, including a wide selection of both new titles and radical classics. We've collected an exciting array of donations representing the best in progressive publishing and university presses, as well as rare and hard to find titles.

★ Author readings/Q&A with:

Sam Farber, author The Politics of Che Guevara
Dao Tran, co-editor 101 Change-Makers: The Radicals and Rebels who Changed History
Don Lash, author When the Welfare People Come: Race and Class in the US Child Protective Service
Lee Wengraf, author Extracting Profit: Imperialism, Neoliberalism and the New Scramble for Africa

★ Pop-up cafe/bar to mingle and linger over a good new book, whether your are looking for a juice box or a beer.

RSVP http://bit.ly/2t1WZmE

All proceeds from the book fair support the Socialism 2017 Conference Scholarship Fund to allow student and low-income New Yorkers attend the largest socialist gathering in the US. For more information, or to register, go to www.socialismconference.org.

March with Refuse Fascism in the RESISTANCE contingent at NYC Pride! This year, the parade is being led by the Resistance against the Trump/Pence regime.

Meet up with us at 10am on 41st St. between Park & Madison. Get your NO! t-shirt for a $15 donation-- Say NO! to Trump and Pence, and wear rainbow pants and accessories too! We will be marching toward the front of the parade within the broader Resistance contingent. INVITE YOUR FRIENDS!

Trump & Pence have viciously attacked LGBTQ people from the start. They've imposed the transgender "bathroom law" preventing trans children in schools from using the bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity. Pence has expressed support for "conversion therapy"--effectively torture for gay children. The regime is enabling, even encouraging, businesses and schools (see Betsy DeVos) to discriminate against LGBTQ people. And they have unleashed a rabid fascist support base to attack anyone who doesn't conform to their white, male, heterosexual vision for America and the world.

What does it mean to have PRIDE in Trump's America? What about Pence? In the midst of what we're facing, Pride means DEFIANCE. Pride means RESISTANCE. Pride means REFUSING to accept a fascist America.

Drive out the Trump/Pence regime!

Join more than 1,500 leftwing activists and authors for Socialism 2017 in Chicago (July 6-9) to share lessons from history, learn about Marxist theory, discuss current struggles, and debate current issues on the left. The same political system that spawned Trump cannot be relied on to stop his attacks—instead we must look to the millions of people who will continue to resist.

This year, there is a special student registration rate and an early-bird registration discount is available through May 15. Register now and join us in Chicago!

It will be an opportunity to revisit the question of the growth of the far right and what it will take to isolate them. We also want to assess the demonstrations we have attended and what openings exist for more Left unity and more United Front actions against the Right.

We have seen, all too chillingly, the impact the Trump presidency has had on an emboldened and rebranded "alt-right". Charlottesville has exposed the nature of these organized racists who aim to enact violence against people of color, activists, and anyone who stands in their way. While mourning the life of Heather Heyer, we must redouble our commitment to stopping these murderers in their tracks. We need to unite every organization and every individual in the shared goal of marginalizing their message, halting their efforts at organizing, and refusing to accept the normalization of Nazis in the streets.

Tens of thousands have rallied against the right since Charlottesville. We have another upcoming opportunity to stake our ground next weekend. Berkeley, which has been at the center of right wing mobilizations since the election, is calling for a day of solidarity actions as a broad, united front of trade unions and political and faith-based organizations seek to counter a far-right provocation. Now is the time to take up the call. There is a renewed opening in the aftermath of Charlottesville to unite tens of thousands across the country against racism, against fear, and against fascist mobilizations.

Let's take this opportunity to build as large and broad a demonstration as we can here in NYC on August 27th. This is a crucial next step in better organizing our side, and to take on the fights against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, anti-semitism and all the forms of oppression and hatred stoked by the Trump regime. Showing in numbers that these forces are not welcome is the only way to demoralize and isolate them. This is an urgent task.

Sponsored by: International Socialist Organization, Jewish Voice for Peace, Jews for Palestinian Right of Return, Jews say No, Science for the People

Trump is considering ending DACA (the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program). This would constitute an act of all-out war against immigrant youth, who are protected from deportation by DACA, and our communities. It would put nearly one million immigrant youth and their families in grave jeopardy.

On Wednesday, we are standing up to RESIST by marching to save DACA. We need you to stand with us!

The threat to DACA is a reckless and heartless attack rooted in the same white supremacy that we saw on display in Charlottesville, and in Trump’s failure to denounce it. His clear agenda is to terrorize immigrants and our families through mass deportation and to try to make this nation as white as possible.

It is a horrific and racist strategy, and we will continue to resist it—and organize to protect our young people and families—with every ounce of our strength.

The Trump administration has emboldened the far right, leading to a rise in violent attacks by extremists. The "alt-right" and KKK have rallied openly in Berkeley, Portland, and Charlottesville as they cohere their forces around scapegoating the poor, minorities, women, immigrants, and people of color for rising inequality and social despair.

Democratic politicians have failed to pose a real alternative to Trump and the right, instead saying that we need to hold back on demands that would help working people, like taxing the rich, single payer healthcare, and a living wage.

We need to build a mass movement to defeat the far right on the streets and construct a left political alternative that raises people's hopes and builds solidarity against the right's attempt to pit working people against each other. Socialism, a democratic working class movement from below, and socialist organization must be a central to this new left if we want to effectively challenge Trump and the far right and fight for a better future.

Join us for discussion and learn how to get involved in the fight against the right and for a better world!

We Are Here To Stay

President Trump has announced that he will be ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA). The program, since 2012, has protected over 800,000 children of undocumented immigrants in the United States. It is our responsibility as members of Brooklyn College, to discuss current political climates within the country and on this campus. We must ensure that our campus is safe and inclusive to all.

An Emergency Town Hall Meeting will occur Thursday September 14th, from 3:40-4:55 pm in the Woody Tanger Auditorium (WTA), Library

This is a safe space for everyone and anyone to speak their concerns and get the resources they need! #WeAreHereToStay

Sponsor: Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, 718.951.5561
For more information contact: Prof. A. Aja, [email protected]
Prof. R. Ortiz-Minaya: [email protected]

The People's Congress of Resistance will bring together grassroots resisters from every part of the country. Delegates will come from

⋆ the now impoverished and hollowed-out industrial communities of the Midwest;
⋆ immigrant families being ripped apart by ICE raids
⋆ African American communities that are being devastated by unemployment, poverty, gentrification, and police violence
⋆ towns of devastated Appalachia where jobs left but millions of opioid pills were simultaneously pumped in by profit-driven pharmaceutical companies
⋆ The Native community, on the frontline in the fight for Mother Earth, and in defense of Native sovereignty and self-determination
⋆ educators and parents struggling to improve rather than destroy public education
⋆ activists fighting to defend the lives and core rights of women
⋆ environmental and community activists fighting to stop fracking and the corporate destruction of the planet
⋆ LGBTQ organizers fighting back against bigotry
⋆ health care workers and advocates who are demanding a Single-Payer national health program
⋆ the Muslim-American community which is being demonized and targeted by hate crimes and hatred
⋆ organizers who have been fighting the Military-Industrial Complex as a self-perpetuating monster that incentivizes more and more wars and allows the biggest corporations to loot the national treasury under the pretext of national security.

This is the People's Congress of Resistance that will meet on September 16 and 17 at the Blackburn Center at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

** For those in the NYC area who are interested in attending, contact the Party for Socialism and Liberation through @JusticeCenterEnElBarrio

In 2012, thousands of young immigrants won the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program by courageously taking to the streets and sitting in in the corridors of power, putting themselves at risk of arrest and deportation.

Now, five year later, Donald Trump has threatened to end DACA and throw nearly one million young migrants' lives into disarray. The president once again ratchets up cruelty and cynicism, to promote an agenda of scapegoating and fear. But there is widespread support for DREAMERs in this country - a new Politico poll found that 84 percent of Democrats, 74 percent of independents and 69 percent of Republicans want the DREAMers to be allowed to stay in the country.

Beyond the 800,000 DACA recipients that this overtun impacts, there are 11 million more immigrants in this country who are subject to harrassment, wage theft and deportation. Too often one section of the immigrant population is pitted against the other and a dichotomy of a "good" immigrant who deserves to be in the U.S. gets held up against the so called "bad" immigrant who doesn't do things legaly and is a "criminal." We need to reject this logic. It only serves to narrow and limit what is considered realistic legislation.

Our starting point is that there should amnesty for all. People don't migrate and turn their lives upsideown for no reason. Immigration happens because imperialism and economic conditions (usually caused by U.S. policy) force people to seek safer lives that will allow them to feed themselves and their children.

The DREAMers who won DACA under the Obama presidency, and the one day strike of 1 million immigrant workers on the day without an immigrant in 2006, point the way forward. Marches, sit-ins, campaigns around families seeking sanctuary - like the corageous example of Amanda Morales who is currently seeking sanctuary with her three children at the Holyrood Church in Washington Heights - and sit-ins are the way that immigrants and their supporters have succesffully pushed back against deportations.

There is a real urgency today to build on those examples and to hightlight every campaign to ensure that the 800,000 DACA recipients stay - not at the expense of more border walls and more deportations, but as a way to build power to demand even more.

Historic floods, wildfires, and massive storms are devastating communities from California and Texas to South Asia and beyond.

Scientists and activists are pointing to the role of climate change in accelerating the size and pace of these catastrophic events. But there is a climate change denier in the White House who is futher empowering the fossil fuel industry, gutting environmental protections, and starving communities of the resources they need to deal with disasters fueled by climate change. Workers, people of color, and native comminities bear the brunt of these disasters, while corporations exploit them for profit.

To save the planet and ourselves from climate catastrophe, we need to build mass movements that can challenge capitalism, a system that puts profits over people and the planet. Join us for a discussion and find out how to get involved!

The election of Donald J. Trump, an inexperienced and unpredictable billionaire real estate mogul endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan, stunned the world. Within hours of Hillary Clinton conceding the election to Trump, thousands took to the streets in protest against the victory of a candidate who lost the popular vote by the largest margin of an Electoral College winner in the nation’s history – nearly three million votes. Trump is a right-wing populist whose message against trade deals that have hurt American workers strongly resonated in white communities where the declining power of trade unions has left people vulnerable to his bigoted and xenophobic appeals. The complex dynamics of our social movement and populist era, the intricate (and poorly understood) connections between movements and electoral politics, and what the Trump presidency means for American democracy are the themes of our conference.

The conference will be held on Wednesday, October 11, 2017, from 9am to 5pm in the Elebash Recital Hall. Admission is free, but you must register for the conference; please visit: www.pivenconference.eventbrite.com

Puerto Rico isn't just any area reeling from the impact of two powerful hurricanes in succession. It is a colony of the United States--its oldest, in fact. The continued neglect and racism of the Trump administration towards the island have added insult to injury, from delays in releasing aid to the continued imposition of debt by Washington and Wall Street without any recovery for Puerto Ricans.

Those who want to organize solidarity for Puerto Rico in the U.S. should demand the permanant repeal of the Jones Act, a moratorium on Puerto Rico's debt, and the repeal of PROMESA, the law that allows the unelected Fiscal Control Board to determine and control the lives of Puerto Ricans. Only measures like these can help to provide some relief to millions of Puerto Ricans.

Join us to discuss how we can stand in solidarity with Puerto Ricans.

Featuring:
Todd Chretien, editor "Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution"
Megan Behrent, author "Literacy and Revolution" (Education and Capitalism)

Perhaps no event of the 20th Century is more controversial than the Russian Revolution of 1917. Maligned by mainstream historians as a coup, for socialists it stands as the greatest uprising of workers and the oppressed in the history of class society.

For a brief period, the potential of humanity shone above the horror of World War I and capitalism's many miseries. The new socialist state tore apart class, religious and gender oppression; ended the war; granted land to the peasantry; and democratized the economy. Inspiring a wave of rebellions across Europe, the revolution echoed as far as Asia and America, shifting the direction of the left for generations.

Unfortunately, alone in a sea of imperialist enemies, Russia was starved and isolated. Democracy gave way to bureaucratization, freedom to repression. The Stalinist counter-revolution stole the mantle of the workers' revolution to pursue it's own imperial ends.

Join an evening of discussion and celebration as we reclaim the democratic heart of the Russian Revolution

Andrea J. Ritchie
Lawyer, Activist, and Author of the new book Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (foreword by Angela Davis).

Reading and Q&A, followed by a conversation on how resistance strategies shift if we bring police violence against women of color into the center of our movements.

Presented by Prof. Rosamond King and the Brooklyn College Women's Center

It is true that not everyone who has experienced sexual assault or harassment feels like they can say #MeToo. For every woman who can, we will never know how many can't or won't. But if we never break the silence, there will never be room for them to speak. #MeToo is a moment of spontaneous, collective bravery. Something that is usually impossible for us to say aloud has been made possible because of mass solidarity. This is a first, and hopefully, a beginning. -- Mia Sanders

Join the Brooklyn College Socialists and the Sociology Club to talk about what it will take to change the way sexual assault and harassment shape every aspect of our lives, and how we can turn this moment into a movement.

RSVP on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/events/378800532540074

Suggested Readings:

The Silence is Broken
From Breaking the Silence to Building Resistance

Public Books and NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invite you to join us for an all-day symposium investigating the rise of Trump and America’s turn toward authoritarian rule. This symposium is the culminating event to a series of essays to be published on Public Books in the weeks preceding the event, in which leading intellectuals address what’s at stake in Trump’s America for a wide range of topics. Several of these contributors, listed below, will be present in conversation with other prominent scholars.

Professor Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing, will debate the future of law enforcement with Heather McDonald, author of The War on Cops. Vitale, a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College, has spent the last 25 years writing about policing, beginning with his work for the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness in the early 1990s. MacDonald, the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal, has written on higher education, immigration, policing, criminal-justice reform, and race relations.

One year ago, Colin Kaepernick sat and then took a knee during the NFL pre-season, with this statement, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color…. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.” Kaepernick launched a national struggle to make Black lives matter, shaking up a nation and withstanding attack in the Trump era, by highlighting the gap between what we are told the flag represents and the lived and historic experience of people in this country.

Come to a discussion on how we can keep alive this struggle, on and off the playing field, and how we can make it grow.

2018

Come OUT & March with the Haitian community & other immigrant forces across the Brooklyn Bridge to a rally at Wall Street’s Trump Building (40 Broadway) in response to his racist words & policies . #TrumpIsARacist #1804Movement #J19forHaiti

JANUARY 19, 2018
8:00 a.m.: Assemble at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn
9:00 a.m.: Start the March down Flatbush Avenue
12:30 p.m.: Rally Trump Building, 40 Wall Street
https://www.facebook.com/events/146968892670279/

Background:
On January 11, the eve of the 8 anniversary of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, President Donald Trump called Haiti a “shithole” country, along with El Salvador and African nations.

In response, New York’s Haitian community, with the solidarity of progressive U.S. parties and movements, will MARCH BY THE THOUSANDS down Flatbush Avenue, ACROSS THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE to paralyze downtown Manhattan. Organized by the 1804 Movement for All Immigrants*, 1583 Albany Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210
718.421.0162 ! [email protected]

*Through a successful rebellion led by enslaved Africans , on January 1st 1804, Haiti became an independent nation

#TrumpIsARacist #1804Movement #J19forHaiti

The 2016 election and its aftermath has exacerbated a political climate that was already inimical to academic freedom. We have recently seen legislative and gubernatorial attacks on individual faculty members, course offerings, governing boards, the institution of tenure, and, generally, the institutional autonomy of colleges and universities. Websites such as Professor Watchlist are monitoring activities of faculty members and denouncing departures from what they view as acceptable. These activities have led to targeted harassment of faculty members. This presentation provides an overview of the concept of academic freedom, recent attacks on academic freedom, and how you can defend academic freedom.

Hans-Joerg Tiede is a senior program officer in the Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Governance at the American Association of University Professors. He is the editor of Policy Documents and Reports (the AAUP “Redbook”) (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015) and author of University Reform: The Founding of the American Association of University Professors (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015).

Changing the Conversation Together is a group of concerned citizens using the evidence-based strategy of 'Deep Canvassing' to defeat Donald Trump and his Republican supporters. Deep canvassing is an empathic, listening-based method that leads to respectful conversation. It is also arguably the most effective form of voter persuasion. By listening to voters’ stories and sharing their own, deep canvassers humbly invite voters to help pull the country back from the brink. You can read articles about it from the NY Times, New Yorker, or watch a TedTalk on CTC's website.

CTC is focusing on flipping congress in 2018 and on defeating the Trump presidency in 2020. Currently CTC has been field testing its work in the only contested congressional race in New York City, NY 11. This district, currently represented by Republican Dan Donovan, includes Staten Island and south Brooklyn.

We are currently looking for activists and other potential allies in south Brooklyn, and areas nearby. And as a son of a retired BC professor, I couldn't help but think Brooklyn College might be a good place to reach out to.

We've parlor meetings, and informational sessions coming up this week:
Thursday, 2.8, Parlor Meeting (friend raiser fundraiser) Brooklyn Heights. 530-730 PM
Thursday 2.15, Informational Session, Camp Friendship.... please registere at https://www.ctctogether.org/new-events/

Please RSVP or for more info please email [email protected].
Adam Barbanel-Fried

A series of events to commemorate the life and legacies of John Hope Franklin -- teacher, public intellectual, activist, an architect of African American history, and a former chair of the history department at Brooklyn College. The keynote panel, "African American History in the Public Sphere," featuring David Blight & John W. Franklin (JHF's son), and moderated by historian Kimberley Phillips-Boehm, meets at 3:40 pm in the Tanger auditorium; a "freedom concert" -- an antiphonal event interweaving prose, poetry, and music, including a student composition inspired by Franklin's life and legacy -- follows in Roosevelt auditorium at 5:05 pm, and a reception for students mainly.

The reception following the concert will be in the history suites around 1105 Boylan -- the student lounge, history office, and chair and professors' offices.

A series of events to commemorate the life and legacies of John Hope Franklin -- teacher, public intellectual, activist, an architect of African American history, and a former chair of the history department at Brooklyn College. The keynote panel, "African American History in the Public Sphere," featuring David Blight & John W. Franklin (JHF's son), and moderated by historian Kimberley Phillips-Boehm, meets at 3:40 pm in the Tanger auditorium; a "freedom concert" -- an antiphonal event interweaving prose, poetry, and music, including a student composition inspired by Franklin's life and legacy -- follows in Roosevelt auditorium at 5:05 pm, and a reception for students mainly.

The reception following the concert will be in the history suites around 1105 Boylan -- the student lounge, history office, and chair and professors' offices.

Hello Sociology Club!

It has been over a year since Tr*mp was elected president, and things have not gotten any easier. As a response to the political climate, Sociology Club and the Sociology Department will be hosting a student/faculty meeting, where you can come and express your concerns about the policies taking place.

We will be meeting on Thursday, March 8th from 12:30pm-2:00pm in James Hall Room 3604. This event will provide a safe outlet for you to address any issues you have against Tr*mp, as well as a chance to find meaningful resources and brainstorm potential solutions we can create in response to this presidency.

Both student and faculty will be attending this meeting, so if you have any professors or faculty members who you would like to join the discussion please feel free to forward this e-mail and invite them. If you would like, I can personally e-mail them myself and invite them.

Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns. I can be reached at [email protected]!

See you March 8th!
Anna Williams
President of Brooklyn College Sociology Club

It's time to ask the Board of Trustees:
#CUNYFirstOrCuomoFirst ?

Join us on March 12th for a rally to demand that the Board of Trustees serve CUNY first, not Cuomo first.

Cuomo and the CUNY Board of Trustees are scared. They are scared of what will happen when students, workers and communities unite to defend public higher education. On Monday, March 12th we have an opportunity to show them what that looks like.

We Demand fully funded CUNY that includes:

-Adequate funding for maintenance and emergency infrastructure funding to compensate for the Governor's continual veto of the Maintenance of Effort Bill
-A student activity fee under democratic student control
- A pledge to no tuition hikes and a return to truly free tuition (looking at you, Excelsior scholarship)
- 7K per course compensation for adjuncts and adequate pay for all faculty and staff.

We are all united in our struggles

Whether you are a student, staff member or Community member, join us to stand up for student democracy on Monday, March 12th:

Rally: 3:30 pm Bedford Avenue Entrance to Brooklyn College, East Side of Bedford avenue (on sidewalk outside gate, Library side) - Speakers to be announced.

Then March to the Hearing which begins at 4:30 at the Gold Room in the Student Center 2705 Campus Road (at Amersfort Place) Brooklyn, New York 11210

Questions/Media inquiries: [email protected]

Democracy is under attack at CUNY.

On Monday March 12th the Board of trustees will consider changes to the student activity fee that would drastically restrict the way that the fee can be used on all CUNY campuses, eliminating vital services and programs and ultimately silencing the student voice!

At the same meeting the Board will be considering a hike in tuition fees for a number of masters programs, further closing the door to postgraduate study for low-income students and communities of color.

This timing is not a coincidence. In a year when Cuomo is proposing an austerity budget the Board of Trustees will claim they have no choice but to implement cuts to an already starved CUNY system.

The attack on the student activity fee is an attempt to silence opposition, and we won’t stand for it. Join us on March 12th for a rally to demand that the Board of Trustees keep the student activity fee under student control! Click here to RSVP

But this attack also reveals something, Cuomo and his Board of Trustees are scared. They are scared of what will happen when students, workers and communities unite to defend public higher education. On Monday, March 12th we have an opportunity to show them what that looks like.

We Demand fully funded CUNY that includes:

A student activity fee under democratic student control
No tuition hikes and a return to free tuition
7K per course compensation for adjuncts

Whether you are a student, staff member or Community member join us to stand up for student democracy on Monday, March 12th:

Rally: 3:30 pm Bedford Avenue Entrance to Brooklyn College, north side of Bedford avenue (on sidewalk outside gate, Library side)

Then March to the Hearing: 4:30 at the Gold Room in the Student Center 2705 Campus Road (at Amersfort Place) Brooklyn, New York 11210.

"Imagine if an Arab-majority country were imprisoning 1.8 million Jews in a tiny open-air cage, preventing them from leaving, controlling all aspects of their deprived civic lives, then picking them off with snipers in the back when they protested. Might the reaction be different?" -- Glenn Greenwald

"Yesterday we saw 30,000 people; we arrived prepared and with precise reinforcements. Nothing was carried out uncontrolled; everything was accurate and measured, and we know where every bullet landed" -- IDF Spokesman on Twitter, March 31, 2018.

Another massacre committed by Israel, with total impunity.

This March 30, in commemoration of the day that six Palestinians were killed by Israel for protesting the confiscation of their lands in the Galilee in 1976, 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza organized the Great Return March to the border to demand their right to return to their lands and the villages they come from that are under occupation, against over a decade of a siege imposed by the apartheid state that has turned Gaza into a deadly open air prison for its 1.8 million inhabitants. In response, Israel killed 15 young Palestinians, in a blatant premeditated massacre with sniper fire and tear gas, and wounded nearly 1,500. Israel continues to show that it murders Palestinians, colonizes their lands, and imprisons them from cradle to grave, while the media whitewashes its crimes, and it remains the largest recipient of military aid from the US government. We will continue to organize until Palestine is free.

Join the Brooklyn College Socialists on Israeli Apartheid Week as we read about the role Israel plays as a settler colonial state in the Middle East, and why the US government continues to provide it full military, political and diplomatic support, and talk with others on campus about organizing for Palestinian liberation.

SUGGESTED READINGS:

Israel: Colonial-Settler State
Israel: The U.S. Watchdog
Israel's Apartheid State (video)
Left with Tiny Scraps of Land (report from delegation trip to Palestine in November)

BC Student Union is partnering with Women of Color, Brooklyn College, BC SJP, and Muslims Giving Back to feature this super awesome event. We'll be talking female imprisonment in Palestine and the female representations in the media (the false "wonderhood" of Gal Godot, the real Wonder Woman Ahed Tammy), the paradox of conformity as it relates to accepting Malala but not Ahed, extending the discourse to black female representation in the US - how Rosa Parks and Angela Davis are accepted but Assata remains a pariah.

Hey sociology club! We are having this awesome panel on Tuesday April 17th from 12:30-2:00pm. The sociology department’s own Alex Vitale will be speaking on a panel with activist Haley Pessin as we connect policing to race and class. Make sure to come by for this educational talk followed by an open discussion!

"Watched" explores the toll of surveillance on individuals and communities, mapping the experience and impact through the personal lens of two women coming of age in Brooklyn, NY.

Sponsored by the Brooklyn College American Studies Program

A panel of Brooklyn College students will combat myths of policing and surveillance.

Through a pedagogical analysis and active dialogue, participants* across the general student body will engage in a discussion of campus policing, and on a global scale, the issues of the police state and surveillance mechanisms.

Come join the discussion.

*Staff, faculty & administrators are welcome to silently listen and learn.

The CUNY Rising Alliance is an affiliation of community organizations, student groups, labor and faith-based organizations, and others with a stake in the flourishing of CUNY as an institution vital to NY city and state. The PSC (faculty-staff union) is among the lead members of the CUNY Rising Alliance. BC will host a CUNY Rising public hearing the evening of Wednesday, April 25, in Tanger Auditorium, 4:00-6:00 pm, and students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to attend. NY City Council elected officials, student government leaders, and (we hope) journalists will convene to hear from BC students about what they need to be successful at CUNY and what supports would benefit them as they pursue their degrees. RSVP here, and anyone who would like to speak should contact Yael Shafritz of NY Communities for Change: [email protected].

A wave of strikes has swept the country--from West Virginia to Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Arizona, and thousands more protesting in New Jersey and Colorado! Even though this country has a radical history of working class rebellion throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the last few decades have seen defeat and demobilization. But teachers and students today are showing us that there may still be real power hidden in plain sight...

Recommended reading:

West Virginia https://socialistworker.org/2018/04/11/what-i-learned-in-west-virginia
Kentucky: https://socialistworker.org/2018/04/23/what-road-will-lead-kentucky-teachers-forward
Highschool walkouts: https://socialistworker.org/2018/03/19/students-walk-out-of-school-to-say-enough

Trump’s rhetoric on building a wall along the US-Mexico border didn’t just come out of nowhere. Historically, borders and walls have been the means by which countries front the artificial notion of territoriality. Join us for a discussion of the Apartheid wall that runs through West Bank, Palestine the inequalities and discrimination that are reinforced and it’s relation to the discourse on building a wall along the US-Mexico border.

Join us for a student discussion followed by a screening of a documentary.

Cynthia Nixon, who is running for Governor against Cuomo, and Jumaane Williams, who is running for Lieutenant Governor, will be having a candidate forum on the 7th floor of SUBO tomorrow (9/4) during common hours (12:30-2pm)! Come by to meet the candidates, ask them questions and show your support for a funded CUNY system.

moderated by young progressives of america at brooklyn college

We will march from the NY Stock Exchange to the investment banking firm of CUNY Board chairperson William Thompson. We are marching to the finance firm Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., L.L.C., where Thompson is Chief Administrative Officer, so that we can deliver a collective message: It’s time for the CUNY trustees, led by Thompson, to demand public funding for a fair contract for the PSC. Join us!

We will gather in front of the Stock Exchange (corner of Wall Street and Broad) at 4:00 p.m. on the 27th, and arrive at 100 Wall Street around 5:00, just as finance workers are pouring out of their offices.

Demand

A fair and equitable contract, including raises for all faculty and staff

$7,000 per course for CUNY adjuncts – to ensure wage justice and student success

Increased investment in CUNY’s operating budget: more full-time faculty, smaller classes, more counselors, and better student support.

A silent march and spoken word against Christopher Columbus and settler colonialism, in honor of Indigenous People's Day.

featuring Puerto Rican Aliance, MEDO, and MEHSA.

We call on the student body to join us in demanding Professor Langbert’s termination at a protest on the East Quad during common hours, Thursday October 4th. While Professor Langbert has a long history of conservative bias- evident from his blog posts and academic writings, publicly stated support of rape and sexual violence is not a legitimate or acceptable political viewpoint. His statements are genuinely dangerous-they clearly advocate for participating in violent crimes, and generally in discrimination against women-who are already in serious danger, statistically, on college campuses and in broader society.Even more troubling is the implication that all men do, or should commit sexual assault-especially as a prerequisite to hold positions of power. We are proud of President Michelle Anderson’s recent condemnation of Brett Kavanaugh in Washington DC. An institution with a “commitment to diversity” cannot employ anyone who publicly supports and calls for sexually-based violence. Brooklyn College must immediately cut ties with professor Langbert. We call for his full investigation and termination.