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SLAM! is a student group founded in 1996 that has mainly organized against budget cuts and for open admissions at CUNY. But SLAM! is not a single-issue group - we have also organized around welfare, police brutality, housing, political prisoners, imperialism, and just about any other injustice you can name. We want to be part of rebuilding a student movement that is independent, democratic, well organized, campus-based, and radical.
10 Points
We fight for the right of all people to free quality higher education.
We fight for a university that serves the people. We want full and direct democratic control of the University by the university community of students workers and faculty.
We call for the immediate transfer of the control of the university from the board of trustees, which represents the interests of a tiny ruling class, to a democratically elected University Council of students, workers and faculty.
We fight for an education that aids us in our struggles for liberation and in the creation of a new society.
We call for an education that respects the humanity of oppressed peoples, and for the democratic reorganization of the curriculum, methods of teaching, and the grading system.
We fight for freedom of political expression on campus, including free access to the campus by all members of the community and an end to all practices of the university administration intended to suppress political activity.
We fight for the conditions of life that enable us to learn. The included free quality food, shelter, healthcare, childcare, transportation, tutoring, and remediation for all members of the university community.
We fight for an autonomous university free from control by and obligations to corporate, financial, governmental, and military institutions that contribute to the maintenance of the existing oppressive social order.
We fight for an end to police terror on campus and in our communities. We call for the police to be permanently banned from the university, for campus security to be placed under the democratic control of the university community, and for the democratic control of the police in general.
We fight for an end to the mass incarceration of people of color in general and youth of color in particular. We call for an end to the "war on drugs" and the frenzy of prison construction and for meaningful work and conditions of life that do not foster anti-social criminality.
We call for the resources now being invested in prisons to be invested in improving public education from preschool to college.
We fight for a truly democratic society in which all decisions are made by those affected by them, a society committed to meeting the needs of all people and to protecting the planet we share.
We are fighting for an end to all oppression and exploitation: to white supremacy and all forms of racism, to the oppression of women, to the repression of the full diversity of human sexuality, and to the capitalist system.
