Posted on Hunter-L, the College Listserv, by student activist Luz Schreiber
“On a day that should have united students in solidarity throughout the city, our event turned sour, as a group of self-defined anarchists disrupted the protest. While we were expecting hostility from the police, we were not expecting a hostile force among the students themselves. Instead of lending support, these students became saboteurs who disrupted speakers, destroyed public property, vandalized Hunter College buildings, set off fire alarms, assaulted students including a parent, and injured a faculty member and social justice activist in the head. This lead to reprisals by the authorities, and not only created a confusing and demoralizing situation for many Hunter students, but has also inadvertently aided the administration’s and police’s efforts to suppress student voices. These actions will only encouraged more stringent surveillance on student organizers and activists and have not furthered our cause.”
From Activist Attorney Ron McGuire’s “Community List.
Youngbloods, Elders and Friends:
I write to express my support for the Open Letter to the Student Movement [posted on Hunter-L] by a broad cross section of Hunter College activists .. and to express my anger at the students from private colleges who assaulted Hunter activist Luz Schrieber and Professor Tami Gold yesterday, when the “invaders” vandalized Hunter College and terrorized Hunter students and faculty. Hunter activist Leanne Tory-Murphy aptly noted that white students from private colleges invading Hunter screaming “occupy everything” sounds “like something out of a colonist’s handbook circa 1750, especially when you look at who is chanting it.”