Songs For The Fired Four, Singed Six, Disciplined Many
On-key Notes:85%, Political Passion: 100%

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Bare bones background: On May 8, 2025, a small number of Brooklyn College students assembled on a small part of the East Quad and demonstrated peacefully against CUNY's collaboration with Israel in light of the starvation and genocide taking place in Gaza. In response, the Brooklyn College administration called in a massive NYPD force. The cops arrested many students and beat others.

Not satisfied with instigating a police riot, the administration proceded, that June, to fire four faculty ("the fired four"), launch "investigations" against six other faculty ("the singed six"), and carry out star chamber disciplinary processes against a significant but not fully known number of students. In all cases, the charges were vague: "unbecoming conduct" was a common one.

The common denominator for the fired, investigated and disciplined was NOT presence at the May 8 protest (a good number were not) but opposition to zionism and genocide. Thus, this was political.

The administration justified their assault on free expression by pointing to a "zero tolerance" policy in CUNY's security guidelines. Zero-tolerance for anything supportive of Palestine apparently.

Months of struggle ensued, primarily led by the Brooklyn College chapter of the faculty-staff union, PSC-CUNY, and supported by the central leadership of the union. Grievances were filed, hearings scheduled, petitions, letters, and demonstrations. The election of Mamdani as NYC Mayor was seen by some as a significant development.

Meanwhile the administration postured as liberal, loving, and progressive. They promoted a book called the Pedagogy of Kindness, they promise to stand up to as-yet-unrealized threats from ICE, and to continue to support DEI. But the truth is, these rattlesnakes cave to the Hochul's and even Trump's political demands at the first sign of trouble: the Chancellor himself gave craven testimony to the House Committee on Education, assuring them that faculty (e.g. the Fired Four) had been fired for anti-semitism. (A complete and utter rattlesnake lie))

FIGHT-BACK WORKS! The investigations of two of the Singed Six were completely dropped because the administration didn't get their lies in order and THREE of the Fired Four have been informally (without explanation, apology, restitution, or even official notice) re-instated (in the sense they have gotten jobs back at CUNY).

The struggle is not over. We want the STILL-FIRED FOURTH to get off the no-hire list and be re-instated. What is it about the administration that makes it so hard to understand "Reinstate The Fired FOUR"? How come they only reinstated THREE? Don't they know that 3 + 1 = 4 ? We want the administration to apologize, exonerate, and make restitution for all the damage it has caused. And we want an end to CUNY's collaboration with Israel.

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