SUNY Purchase Faculty Members Support Occupy Wall Street

Sixty-three faculty members of SUNY Purchase consider the Occupy Wall Street movement worthwhile, and in a recently released statement stand behind that which draws attention to “a system that provides increasingly few opportunities for the majority.”

They explain that the movement expresses widespread anger with the economic and political disenfranchisement of the great majority of the American people.

“As scholars, we celebrate the creative and intellectual work of Occupy Wall Street as an essential partner to our own efforts to facilitate the emergence of a more just social order,” they said.

Unemployment, social safety networks, infrastructures, social and education programs, and workers' wages, rights and benefits in addition to Wall Street should be addressed by the country, they said.

“Along with the demonstrators,” they said, “we are demanding an end to the extreme inequalities that structure our society.”

The signed faculty members represent a cross-spectrum of disciplines including design, psychology, music and political science.