Fill out this form if you are NOT teaching or grading this semester, but you are a graduate student/worker and you support your fellow graduate student workers' pledge to withhold grades. 

On Monday, April 22, a group of NYU students engaged in nonviolent protest on Gould Plaza to express support for the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank. In the late evening, the protest was raided and disbanded with brutal violence by the NYPD, at the request of NYU administration. 120+ arrests were made, including students, student workers, and faculty, in a direct violation of a number of provisions in the various contracts and collective bargaining agreements between the University and its workers. On Friday, April 26, within an hour of the second encampment going up, NYU once again brought in the NYPD, armed with riot gear. Our members and their students faced pepper spray, metal chairs and tables thrown at them, and other forms of brutality at the hands of the police as they forcibly swept the encampment. This violent repression of student protest has continued across the city, with hundreds of police brutally shutting down encampments at CCNY and Columbia on April 30. We reject this kind of action on our campus and beyond.

I pledge my support for my fellow graduate student workers who are withholding grades at the end of this semester, in response to the University’s repression and brutal arrests of its members.

We are withholding grades to communicate that the threat to our community is clear.

1. We demand cops off our campus

2. We demand amnesty for all students, faculty, and graduate workers involved in the encampment and for all those previously fired or disciplined for political speech and action

3. We demand that NYU administration substantively negotiate with students over their demands for disclosure, divestment, and a full academic boycott of Israel.

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