On May 10, 2024 the newly formed Solidarity Economy Club at CUNY School of Labor & Urban studies hosted its first event. Focusing on the role organized labor can play in the emerging solidarity economy movement, the unambiguously titled, “The Role of the Labor Movement in Solidarity Economy”, brought together leading voices such as Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Shaywaal Amin (1199 SEIU), and Dr. Alexander Kolokotronis for an excellent discussion. Building from existing discourse on the urgent need for systems change away from capitalism, this event highlighted the key lessons from past movements and identified gaps that need to be filled in the present. As the moderator and lead organizer for the event as well as co-founder of the Solidarity Economy Club, I want to take a moment to expand on my motivations for organizing the event and the club as well as locate the potential for CUNY SLU to play a leading role in advancing transformational change.
As we end 2023, we turn to the light of a new year. As hard as the suffering and injustice is this year, and as we know with great sadness that it will not go away next, we remain steadfast in shepherding in the kind of change … Continue Reading ››
Author: Rob Persons, SLU MA student
The economy doesn’t work for the vast majority of people. Wages are low, costs are high, and employers treat workers like replaceable cogs. The system needs to be changed, but mainstream politics doesn’t seem up to the task. Where will the … Continue Reading ››
In SLU’s Urban Studies undergraduate program, students deepen and explore their interests in social, economic, and political issues affecting city residents. Students in URB 340: Contemporary Urban Social Problems with Professor Sofya Aptekar helped select which social problems they would study together as a class, then … Continue Reading ››
Dolphin SchoolsBrooklyn Communities Collaborative and Community Worker Ownership Project FellowshipAs a culminating event for our graduate certificate in Workplace Democracy and Community Ownership five Fellows pitched their ideas to a convening of colleagues, comrades and “Dolphins”, (note this was not your standard … Continue Reading ››
Zara Cadoux has been a rabble-rouser from the start.
“I began thinking about power and justice as a kid,” Zara said. “I was one of three siblings growing up in a suburban household in Westchester, and although we were quite different from each other, we all had … Continue Reading ››
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