Bryant Brown
Template:TOCnestleft Bryant Brown is a student at Columbia University and is with Students Against Mass Incarceration which is a Black radical student organization committed to awareness and activism around mass incarceration, the prison industrial complex, and the existence of political prisoners in the United States. The mission of Students Against Mass Incarceration (SAMI) is to spread awareness about the prison industrial complex, recidivism, and the existence of political prisoners in the United States. In order to bring awareness to the manifold issues that stem from mass incarceration, we believe we must analyze systemic injustices on all fronts. We do not believe we can divorce a politically conscious discourse from community based action. The national organization of SAMI sees prison abolition as its ultimate end, because we envision a state where societal ills are addressed through a front-end approach, rather than aggravated in a system of mass incarceration and social control. As a Black radical organization, we emphasize the intersection of our culture and our politics, and challenge our fellow students of African descent to fight for the causes that will benefit our communities most.[1]
"Morales / Shakur Center" student suspensions event
On October 28, 2013, a City College administrator suspended Tafadar Sourov and Khalil Vasquez, two students who led demonstrations against the administration’s illegal raid and seizure of the Guillermo Morales / Assata Shakur Community Center. The Morales / Shakur Center is a space that has existed at City College for more than 20 years and was first won in 1989 through a mass student strike and occupations throughout CUNY.
- In response to the attacks on our student leaders, students and community say: WE ARE NOT AFRAID. Repression will not end the campaign to save the Morales / Shakur Center or the broader struggle to liberate CUNY for the people. Hundreds on campus and in the community will follow their example. Any punitive measures against Taffy and Khalil will only be a lesson to the people that the CCNY administration dismisses the people’s concerns and that the people must escalate their mass actions.
- Taffy and Khalil are fighting for the people, defending the last autonomous campus space that serves the community and defending the legacy of the people’s revolutionary heroes. THE PEOPLE MUST DEFEND TAFFY AND KHALIL. The people cannot stand aside and look as the City College administration attempts to isolate them and promote fake sellout student leaders who want to negotiate away the Center. The Center was won through struggle and will be reclaimed through struggle.
Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee organized a meeting in Edgewater, 160 Convent Avenue,New York, Friday 8 November 2013, to organize resistance. Those indicating their willingness to attend on the Whenever website included Bryant Brown.[2]