Dear Take Back NYU students!

Here’s a copy of the email we sent to Mr. Sexton, hehehe:

“Dear John,

We are writing to send our most sincere preemptive congratulations upon hearing of the decision you will be taking to cut your wages to $1 a year.

We think it’s wonderful that you are going to show your solidarity in this way. Here in Catalonia, as in your country, we are feeling the pinch of the Capitalist system, and, unfortunately, can only look on with rage and disgust as our university presidents continue to earn astronomically high salaries.

The tension on the street grows as we watch a minority of high-earners living in luxury on the back of deepening poverty for the majority. Our movement is strengthened by the indignance caused by the evident widening gap between rich and poor, a gap that thrives on starvation, misery and death. We are moved to act by the sight of a select few feeding parasitically upon the weak and the defenseless in the name of profit. The silent majority: we see babies dying of preventable disease, children orphaned by wars and women sold into sex-slavery, the suffering of these people forms an intrinsic part of the system which puts $850,000 into your bank account each year. We can only be proud of the decision you will make to face up to these injustices.

Best wishes,
Comisión Internacional of The Barcelona Student Movement”