Your Voice Counts
Item
NO BUDGET CUTS
NO TUITION HIKES
NO POLICE ON CAMPUS
Our non-violent takeover of the CUNY Graduate School is part of
a coordinated effort of CUNY students in protest of Cuomo’'s
proposed $92 million budget cut, a $500 tuition hike, and
massive cuts in financial aid. We are fighting against the
proposed firing of 800 adjuncts, most of whom are graduate
students, as well as faculty and staff layoffs.
Show your solidarity. Join the struggle.
Your voice counts.
Our immediate demands:
1) No police intervention and/or interference in CUNY student
strikes.
2) An open meeting with Chancellor Ann Reynolds to discuss the
use of police and the budget crisis.
3) Longer library hours, increased services, more books
purchased, unrestricted interlibrary loans.
NO TUITION HIKES
NO POLICE ON CAMPUS
Our non-violent takeover of the CUNY Graduate School is part of
a coordinated effort of CUNY students in protest of Cuomo’'s
proposed $92 million budget cut, a $500 tuition hike, and
massive cuts in financial aid. We are fighting against the
proposed firing of 800 adjuncts, most of whom are graduate
students, as well as faculty and staff layoffs.
Show your solidarity. Join the struggle.
Your voice counts.
Our immediate demands:
1) No police intervention and/or interference in CUNY student
strikes.
2) An open meeting with Chancellor Ann Reynolds to discuss the
use of police and the budget crisis.
3) Longer library hours, increased services, more books
purchased, unrestricted interlibrary loans.
Title
Your Voice Counts
Description
"No Budget Cuts, No Tuition Hikes, No Police on Campus"
This flyer called for Graduate Center students to show solidarity in support of the City University of New York (CUNY) strike by joining the CUNY Graduate Center (GC) takeover. The pamphlet described the takeover as a “coordinated effort of CUNY students in protest of Cuomo’s proposed 92 million dollar budget cut, a $500 tuition hike and massive cuts in financial aid.” In addition, GC student strikers outlined their immediate demands, including denouncing use of the police to interfere with student strikes, a request for a meeting with Chancellor Ann Reynolds, and increased library hours.
This flyer called for Graduate Center students to show solidarity in support of the City University of New York (CUNY) strike by joining the CUNY Graduate Center (GC) takeover. The pamphlet described the takeover as a “coordinated effort of CUNY students in protest of Cuomo’s proposed 92 million dollar budget cut, a $500 tuition hike and massive cuts in financial aid.” In addition, GC student strikers outlined their immediate demands, including denouncing use of the police to interfere with student strikes, a request for a meeting with Chancellor Ann Reynolds, and increased library hours.
The 1991 CUNY strikes were part of the larger story of austerity measures imposed on New York City and the community efforts to resist those measures. On April 16th, students mainly from the Graduate Center Anthropology PhD program occupied the Graduate Center in solidarity with a broader 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 austerity problems being faced, and debated actions for change. Students often drew on CUNY’s history as the premier 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 Yorkers' ability to receive an education.
Contributor
McCaffrey, Katherine
Creator
Graduate Center students
Date
1991
Language
English
Rights
Copyrighted
Source
McCaffrey, Katherine
Original Format
Poster / Flier / Leaflet
Graduate Center students. Letter. 1990. “Your Voice Counts”, 1990, CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE, accessed March 10, 2026, https://stephenz.tailc22a4b.ts.net/s/cdha/item/1706