CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

Written by the Graduate Center Student Strike in April 1991, this action paper reported that the City University of New York's (CUNY) Graduate Center had been taken over by graduate students on the morning of April 16th in solidarity with the CUNY-wide strike against budget cuts and tuition increases, which started at City College and had spread to 11 other CUNY campuses.

The action paper announced an endorsement of "the budget equity proposal." Prepared by a statewide coalition of community organizers, labor unions, students, and elected officials, it called for redirecting taxes towards education, healthcare, housing, and mass transit. Ranging from future employment to access to library resources, Graduate Center Students Strikers acknowledged what was directly at stake for them and reported on the first plebiscite of the takeover.