Thank you for standing with students and workers at Rutgers University yesterday and calling President McCormick to let him know that his refusal to stand with his own students and workers is unnacceptable. Instead of supporting us, he’s instead ordered the campus police to threaten us with arrest and to starve us out, refusing any food into the building. He’s even cut off internet and refused supporters to bring our textbooks, so that we can’t even study for finals.
While students and workers on our campus are suffering from $714 million in cuts to higher ed, President McCormick is continuing to waste our tuition dollars on sham corporate entities like the “Fair Labor Association” (FLA) to cover up sweatshop abuse. So far, national media outlets including the New York Times have been following our sit-in, while our supporters camped out all night outside of the building and have set up a tent city. Fellow student activists from Wisconsin showed solidarity and even sent pizza, only to be confiscated by the police.
Inside, we’re staying strong and won’t accept our six-figure-salaried President’s behavior of continuing to write off his own students and workers hurting the most from these cuts, while corporations and banks rob our state of millions through tax breaks.
Tell President McCormick it’s finally time he support a tuition freeze, support campus workers, and stop paying the FLA; call him at 848-932-7454.
In Solidarity,
Molly Magier
Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops
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