Guillermo Morales

First Known NYC Protest of 2007

Details::

Community and Student organizers throughout New York City are being asked to come to an urgent meeting to support the beleaguered City College Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community and Student Center on Wednesday, January 3rd at 6:30 PM at Our Lady Of Lourdes Church at 463 West 142nd Street between Convent and Amsterdam Avenues in Harlem.

The nearest subway stops are 145th Street on the A/B/C/D or the #1 trains

The Morales/Shakur Community Center has moved the meeting off campus because the last two community meetings at the City College were disrupted by the CUNY SAFE team and CCNY security which barred community members from coming to Community Center..

Since the Daily News published a front page article attacking the Community Center, City College has removed the sign naming the Center, has threatened the students at the center with disciplinary penalties if they replace the sign and has threatened to review the Community Center's use of the room where the Center has been located for almost 18 years.

Since 1989 the Morales/Shakur Community Center has been a vital link between City College students and the Harlem and North Manhattan communities. The Center's name symbolizes the decision of the Black, Puerto Rican and Dominican students who founded the Center to connect their struggle for educational democracy with the struggles of the 1960's for liberation and self determination epitomized by Guillermo and Assata.

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City College Guillermo Morales/ Assata Shakur Community Center

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