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“I had a feeling at the time that the march would be a historic moment, but I didn’t know how historic it would become,” said John Zippert, who was the student government president at City College in 1965. “It seemed from the TV coverage that it was a turning point,” he said, “and I felt the more people who went, the more support it would show.”
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After Georgia passed a strict state immigration law, I travelled several hours south of Atlanta to Georgia’s agricultural heartland to report on the effects of the law's passage on farmers, farm workers and the immigrant community. Prominent political journalist Jim Galloway, who writes for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, described one of my interviews with a longtime Mexican-American resident as a "gem of an interview."
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“CUNY [management] needs to go to Albany and demand funding for this university,” Andrea Vásquez said, as she waited to be taken by police for booking. “[They need to] show some respect for their university because we are CUNY, it’s not just the ‘stars’ whom we see on the [CUNY recruitment] posters in the subway. It’s not just the students who earn big awards and get grants. We have half a million students at CUNY. Half a million students deserve a good education, and the thousands of faculty and staff who work at CUNY deserve good salaries and good raises, decent raises.”
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“Our students deserve better,” said PSC member Timothy Shortell, a professor in the sociology department at Brooklyn College. “The purpose of this campaign isn’t just to get that fountain fixed. We are calling on the administration to develop a health and safety plan. There is none.”
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What Karen Hunter did was write a petition. Her inner editor told her what she constantly tells her journalism students at Hunter College: “Keep it simple, stupid.” So she wrote a few direct sentences, published the petition via MoveOn.org, posted it on social media and went about her day.
Soon after being posted, that simple petition collected more than half a million signatures.
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“We’re Shiite and they’re like, ‘Why you Shiite?’ ” Yaqub Waldron said, his forehead bearing the imprint of a stone used in a Shiite prayer ritual. The discrimination is not so blunt that Sunnis criticize them outright as “the deviants” or even “the minority,” he said, but it is there.
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In the summer of 1964, several Queens College students travelled south to be a part of Freedom Summer, a crucial Civil Rights campaign that helped pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act. At the beginning of the campaign, three of the civil rights workers — Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney — disappeared and were later found to be lynched by the KKK. Goodman was a student at Queens College; Schwerner’s wife was a QC student at the time and his brother, Steven, worked in QC’s counseling department then; Chaney was an African-American civil rights worker from Mississippi. QC alumni who participated in that campaign reflect on that summer.
