From New York City to Istanbul, greetings
and solidarity to the students of Boğaziçi University who on December 6 took
back what is theirs. Providing inexpensive, nutritious food is no hard thing.
But when the students requested food, the university gave them Starbucks. Let
us be clear—to hold hungry students hostage to the coercive mandates of global
capital is an act of violence. But this time it was not tolerated. When the
administration struck, the students struck back.
From campus to campus, from city to city,
we struggle. At first, our struggles grow out of our localities, out of the
depredations and insults visited upon us by a capitalist class deaf to the
needs of humanity. We begin to live when we refuse their poisoned, disposable
cups. In that process of refusal, we learn of others who have decided to live
as well, to prepare their food and eat it together, distant from the
humiliating lash of currency. And thus slowly, the veil is lifted and our
common enemy is revealed. We no longer accept the commodification of nutrition,
we refuse the commodification of our lives. We do not accept the biopolitics of
“this food is good enough” or "this life is sufficient" from any
educational, political and economic elite.
Your struggle is our struggle. What we have
learned from this struggle assures us that, in time, we will be there with you,
and we will share a free and bountiful meal. Let this message of solidarity
stand as such.
In solidarity,
Committee on Roaming Occupations (New York
City)
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