Taking the Struggle to the Streets

Students from Harlem University (aka CCNY), flanked by their supporters took to the streets at Dec. 16's massive march demanding justice for Sean Bell. They were armed with a new symbol of the struggle against white supremacist police brutality: the sign of the Guillermo Morales / Assata Shakur Community and Student Center.

The sign, in exile since its removal by the City College of New York, was taken down at the behest of the same so-called "law enforcement" groups that defend Sean Bell's cold-blooded assassins. Solidarity was shared between students and the community at the Dec. 16 march, as students found a community that was more than savvy enough to see through a public-relations stunt by the racist Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and New Jersey State Troopers.

This solidarity should serve clear notice to the CCNY administration and the Bloomberg administration, as court proceedings begin in both the Sean Bell case and the CCNY controversy: New York City's communities of color are fed up with the injustices that kill their community's young men and defame their heroes and heroines. Patience with bureaucrats and politicians, who dare ask the community for "due process" and "sensitivity" toward trigger-happy pigs who never exercise either, is wearing all too thin.

In short: The town and the gown are both ready to throw down.

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