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Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM!) Records

Call Number

TAM.351

Dates

1989-2007, inclusive
; 1999-2003, bulk

Creator

Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM!)
McCann, John (Role: Donor)
Subways, Suzy (Role: Donor)

Extent

23.5 Linear Feet in 25 boxes

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Abstract

SLAM! (formed in 1996) was a citywide radical student activist group, based at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY). SLAM!'s main organizing concern was to stop the budget cuts and tuition hikes at CUNY, but they also addressed various social justice issues, particularly those relating to the ethnically and racially diverse and largely working class student body at CUNY. The records include meeting agendas and minutes, promotional material and brochures, material related to reading groups and fundraising; topical campaign files, including material related to Mumia Abu-Jamal Youth, Rising: Taking Back our Stolen Education, CUNY Coalition for Open Admissions campaigns; documents related programs such as the Summer Youth Employment Program and the High School Organizing Program; commercial and recorded VHS tapes related to Crazy Horse, Nelson Mandela, workers rights issues, 9/11 and global economic theory.

Historical/Biographical Note

SLAM! was a citywide radical student activist group, based at Hunter College (City University of New York) and formed in 1996 out of the dissolution of the CUNY Coalition in 1995. SLAM!'s main organizing concern was to stop the budget cuts and tuition hikes at CUNY. They also organized around welfare, Ethnic Studies, cops on campus, incarceration, war, and other social justice movements.

Scope and Content Note

The records include meeting agendas and minutes, promotional material and brochures, material related to reading groups and fundraising; topical campaign files, including material related to Mumia Abu-Jamal Youth, Rising: Taking Back our Stolen Education, CUNY Coalition for Open Admissions campaigns; documents related programs such as the Summer Youth Employment Program and the High School Organizing Program. The collection also includes multiple video recordings collected by SLAM on subjects such as 9/11, Nelson Mandela, Crazy Horse, globalization and labor rights issues like the condition of workers in Guess clothing company factories.

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM!) were transferred to New York University by John McCann on behalf of the organization in 2006 by John McCann. Permission to publish or reproduce materials in this collection must be secured from the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date; Student Liberation Movement (SLAM!) Records; TAM 351; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

John McCann donated a collection of the Student Liberation Action Movement's records in 2006. In 2013 Suzy Subways donated the pamphlet "We Shut Down the City." In 2015 Suzy Subways donated a group of VHS tapes was added to the collection. In 2016, one box of video recordings was added to the collection; there is not documentation concerning who donated these materials. The accession numbers associated with this collection are 2006.026, 2014.095, 2015.054, and 2016.007.

Audiovisual Access Policies and Procedures

Access to audiovisual materials in this collection is available through digitized access copies. Researchers may view an item's original container, but the media themselves are not available for playback because of preservation concerns. Materials that have already been digitized are noted in the collection's finding aid and can be requested in our reading room. Materials not yet digitized will need to have access copies made before they can be used. To request an access copy, or if you are unsure if an item has been digitized, please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. A staff member will respond to you with further information.

Collection processed by

Tamiment staff

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Language: Description is written in: English, Latin script.

Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012