We are going on hunger strike at the City University of New York. Here’s why.

from Mondoweiss

We are the eight students, staff, and faculty from across the City University of New York system who started an indefinite hunger strike on Tuesday, May 27th. As we write this we sit with supporters on the steps of the CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown Manhattan facing the Empire State Building, a testament to US imperialism. For 19 months and counting, we have watched the obscene violence and horror of that imperialism, live streamed through our phones direct from Gaza, and we refuse to continue with business as usual. 

We have one demand: that CUNY Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez and the CUNY Board of Trustees immediately divest from Israel and from all weapons and technology manufacturers equipping the Israeli-U.S. genocide in Palestine...

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