I hope that CUNY Law reinstates our students’ speaker, that CUNY administration drop the charges on all the students that were arrested at the CCNY encampment who are being charged with felonies for the same things that Columbia students are being charged with misdemeanors. I demand divestment from CUNY in the corporations that send weapons off to Israel and support this genocide. For me, I want the institutions to show up, and I demand that they listen to the students because they’re not — we’re not — going to stop.
Sofia Ongele, Barnard, Class of 2024
Sofia Ongele is the director of digital strategy at Gen-Z for Change.
The only thing that’s kept us together is what this is a testament to, which is community within the encampment, within different spaces that were created on campus as the bombardments were increasing in October. That is what has kept everyone sane and everyone able to continue onward in their lives.
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