• We fight for a QC and a CUNY system which is democratically run by its students, professors, faculty, and other workers. We believe these people are far more qualified to make the decisions that affect QC and CUNY than a small group of unelected elites such as the Board of Trustees. We oppose any influence or control over our school by corporate, state, or military interests. We believe Queens College should be an autonomous center of higher education.

• We demand free tuition and open access to quality education for all. Higher education is a human right, not a privilege to be dictated by race, class or gender. To this end we fight alongside those struggling for open admissions and the strengthening of SEEK, remedial classes, and other related programs.

• We are against a system of profit over people. Such a system cannot bring genuine democracy or justice to society. This system is directly responsible for the massive levels of poverty, unemployment, war, lack of basic needs and services, and oppression in the United States and the world. We seek instead a society based on cooperation, not competition.

• We fight for democracy, not Empire; and we believe all peoples of the Earth have the right to determine their own destiny. Therefore, we are completely opposed to the vision of an American Empire and U.S. hegemony over the globe. We are also completely opposed to the domestic aspect of these policies, which manifests itself in curtailment of civil liberties and the persecution of people of color, immigrants, and people with dissident viewpoints.

• We are against neoliberal globalization which has only one goal, to enrich transnational corporations and capital to the detriment of the many. We oppose the corporate agenda that imposes the brutality of market discipline on all public institutions, such as health services, programs to aid the poor, and our own school. We are opposed to this type of globalization that demands privatization, deregulation and the destruction of labor unions. We consider ourselves part of a "globalization from below:" A global community of peoples resisting neoliberalism.

• We are against the criminalization of youth that justifies police brutality and policies of mass incarceration which feed the prison industrial complex. We are opposed to a system that favors incarceration over education.

• We stand in solidarity with immigrant and undocumented students and workers and oppose their targeting by state authorities as well as racist and xenophobic attacks. We believe in a world without borders with complete freedom of movement for all.

We are students for a free society because we believe no one can be free and justice cannot be possible until every person can participate directly and democratically in the decisions that affect all areas of their lives- social, political, and economic. We believe genuine democracy and justice cannot exist without an equitable distribution of wealth and power and the time necessary to participate in the processes of governance.

We fight for a society in which these decisions are made by people themselves; rather than having these decisions imposed upon them.

We fight for a society committed to meeting the needs of all people, one which nourishes the full variation of human cultures and sexuality, and protects the planet we share.

We believe another world is not only possible; it is necessary.