CITY COLLEGE—On Tuesday, October 7th, at 1:30p.m., dozens of students at City College participated in a walk-out in front of the NAC protesting what CUNY4Palestine described as “CUNY’s complicity in the genocide.”
As students walked to 2p.m. classes, those protesting chanted “two years of genocide, leave your class and come outside” and held banners reading “no schools left in Gaza,” “CUNY funds/Gaza bleeds,” and “Glory to our martyrs/Victory to the resistance.” One CCNY student in attendance at the protest, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, told The Campus, “I came out here today because we’ve literally spent the last two years experiencing what can only be described as genocide.”
Protestors also decried CUNY and City College administration’s reaction to student protests. Standing on the raised sundial in the NAC plaza, speakers referred to Public Safety’s use of pepper spray at previous demonstrations and alleged retribution against student activists. The protestor The Campus spoke with said, “I’m wearing a mask to protect myself and others from Public Safety.” In a statement to The Campus, President Vincent Boudreau said, “Our public safety office reported a peaceful protest that adhered to our standards for campus expression.”
