No Budget Cuts – No Givebacks – Join CUNY Students
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NO BUDGET CUTS
NO GIVEBACKS
JOIN CUNY STUDENTS
The attacks on the City University of New York (CUNY) are part of
cuts and attacks city-wide, on city workers, on our public schools,
health care, worker safety, child care, transit, among many others.
Success in our struggle will only come if we fight together against
these cuts.
We don’t believe the lie that there is no money. The funds are there. |
They need to be used for different priorities.
Community - Labor Join Us
Demonstrate, Wed April 24
Express Your Outrage + March and Rally
Begins 12 Noon - World Trade Center
(Church Street Side)
Tax the Rich, Not Us
For more information: CUNY Student Strikers @ CCNY 650-8175 © Hunter 772-4267
Labor Support Work Call Veronica Golos 932-8837 or Key Martin 522 4056
APPEAL TO THE LABOR MOVEMENT
FROM CUNY STUDENTS
Our takeover of a number of CUNY buildings is the only option
open to us following Governor Cuomo’s $92 million proposed cut,
which will destroy many of our educational programs. We are fighting
against the $500 per semester increase in tuition which, for many of
us, will close the door to higher education and decent jobs. Truly, we
are fighting to save all of our CUNY schools,and-we-have the solid
S r-students-and- communiti i e university.
We need your help. Our struggle is no different than labor’s fight for
economic and social justice. Please pass a resolution in your local
supporting our just fight, to be sent to the New York Central Labor
Council, and to Governor Cuomo.
We strongly request that phone calls and faxes be sent to Governor
Cuomo, Mayor Dinkins, Police Commissioner Brown, W. Anne Reyn-
olds, and the college presidents demanding of them n opt to send the
police onto campus for any reason. The above people should be held
responsible for any violence that is committed against students. Fi-
nally we need financial and food assistance. Please help us by joining
us in our fiught, show your solidarity and attend our demonstrations.
Together we can win this struggle.
Rafael Alvarez, President, City College Student Government
Carol Bullard, President, Hunter Evening Student Government
Peter Carlo, Lehman
José Medina, Vice President, Boro Manhattan Community College
Student Government
Cassius Peters, President, Bronx Community College
Student Government Association
For more information contact CUNY Student Strikers: sake
Hunter 772-4267; CCNY 650-8175 Perea ee Menke
NO GIVEBACKS
JOIN CUNY STUDENTS
The attacks on the City University of New York (CUNY) are part of
cuts and attacks city-wide, on city workers, on our public schools,
health care, worker safety, child care, transit, among many others.
Success in our struggle will only come if we fight together against
these cuts.
We don’t believe the lie that there is no money. The funds are there. |
They need to be used for different priorities.
Community - Labor Join Us
Demonstrate, Wed April 24
Express Your Outrage + March and Rally
Begins 12 Noon - World Trade Center
(Church Street Side)
Tax the Rich, Not Us
For more information: CUNY Student Strikers @ CCNY 650-8175 © Hunter 772-4267
Labor Support Work Call Veronica Golos 932-8837 or Key Martin 522 4056
APPEAL TO THE LABOR MOVEMENT
FROM CUNY STUDENTS
Our takeover of a number of CUNY buildings is the only option
open to us following Governor Cuomo’s $92 million proposed cut,
which will destroy many of our educational programs. We are fighting
against the $500 per semester increase in tuition which, for many of
us, will close the door to higher education and decent jobs. Truly, we
are fighting to save all of our CUNY schools,and-we-have the solid
S r-students-and- communiti i e university.
We need your help. Our struggle is no different than labor’s fight for
economic and social justice. Please pass a resolution in your local
supporting our just fight, to be sent to the New York Central Labor
Council, and to Governor Cuomo.
We strongly request that phone calls and faxes be sent to Governor
Cuomo, Mayor Dinkins, Police Commissioner Brown, W. Anne Reyn-
olds, and the college presidents demanding of them n opt to send the
police onto campus for any reason. The above people should be held
responsible for any violence that is committed against students. Fi-
nally we need financial and food assistance. Please help us by joining
us in our fiught, show your solidarity and attend our demonstrations.
Together we can win this struggle.
Rafael Alvarez, President, City College Student Government
Carol Bullard, President, Hunter Evening Student Government
Peter Carlo, Lehman
José Medina, Vice President, Boro Manhattan Community College
Student Government
Cassius Peters, President, Bronx Community College
Student Government Association
For more information contact CUNY Student Strikers: sake
Hunter 772-4267; CCNY 650-8175 Perea ee Menke
Title
No Budget Cuts – No Givebacks – Join CUNY Students
Description
City University of New York’s (CUNY) struggles were “no different from labor’s fight for economic and social justice.” This 1991 flyer appealed to NYC labor movement members to join CUNY student strikers, arguing that the attacks on CUNY were part of city-wide attacks on city workers, public schools, health care, worker safety, child care, public transit, and beyond. The flyer called for resolutions to be passed and sent to the New York Central Labor Council, Governor Cuomo, and for community and labor groups to join them on April 24th for a rally and march at the World Trade Center.
The 1991 CUNY strikes were part of a larger story of austerity imposed on New York City and the community efforts to resist it. At the intersection of political activism and anthropology, on April 16th, students mainly from the Graduate Center Anthropology department occupied the Graduate Center in solidarity with undergraduate mobilization across CUNY against the threat of steep tuition hikes, massive budget cuts, and faculty layoffs. What began as a one-day strike turned into a ten-day take-over in which students and faculty practiced forms of participatory democracy, discussed the root causes of the problems being faced, and debated actions for change. Students often drew on CUNY’s history as the first urban, public institution of higher education in the United States to argue that education was a right and that the proposed measures threatened working-class New Yorker’s ability to receive an education.
Contributor
McCaffrey, Katherine
Creator
CUNY Student Strikers
Date
April 1991
Language
English
Rights
Copyrighted
Source
McCaffrey, Katherine
Original Format
Poster / Flier / Leaflet
CUNY Student Strikers. Letter. 1991. “No Budget Cuts – No Givebacks – Join CUNY Students”, 1991, CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE, accessed March 10, 2026, https://stephenz.tailc22a4b.ts.net/s/cdha/item/1696