CUNY Social Forum

Folks over at the CUNY Social Forum (www.cunysocialforum.com) are looking for groups from both the CUNY campuses and the surrounding community who share in a common vision of a more accessible, accountable, and democratic CUNY, as well as a more democratic, equitable, and better New York City.

The Second CUNY Social Forum will be at City College in Harlem on the weekend of October 17-19 2008. This gives us some time before the chaos of the semester to join or contribute to in some way.

According to the social forum website:
"The goal of the CUNY Social Forum is to rebuild the links between the CUNY student movement, CUNY’s colleges and the Black, Puerto Rican, and immigrant communities and the other communities of color and working class communities of New York City. For that reason we have chosen to hold the Second CUNY Social Forum at City College in Harlem during the academic year commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Black and Puerto Rican students’ strike at City College that won Open Admissions and the 20th anniversary of the 1989 CUNY Students’ strike that started at City College and which successfully defended the victories of the 1969 strike.

The CUNY movement has a powerful message of empowerment, struggle and liberation to bring to the global Social Forum movement. Holding a CUNY Social forum at City College in Harlem is a powerful and appropriate way to connect CUNY students and their communities to the international movement for civil society and to expand that movement into the ghettos, barrios and communities of immigrants and working people in New York City. "