September 17, 2014, 6:00-7:30 pm
Wisconsin Rising: Film Screening & Discussion
September 19, 2014, 9:30-11:15 am
“From Protest to Policy: Policing in Communities of Color.”
- Reverend Al Sharpton, founder and president, National Action Network
- Moderator: John Mollenkopf, Director, Urban Research Center, CUNY Graduate Center
October 31, 2014, 8:30 to 10:30 am
“Temperature Rising: Labor and the Climate Justice Movement”
Cosponsored with Cornell GLI/Worker Institute
- Bill McKibben, Founding President, 350.org
- Jill Furillo, Executive Director, New York State Nurses Association
- Christopher Erikson, Business Manager, Local 3 IBEW
- Estela Vazquez, Executive VP, 1199 SEIU
- Moderator: Sean Sweeney, Cornell GLI/Worker Institute
November 4, 6:00-7:30 pm
“The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class”
- Guy Standing, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
November 14, 2014, 9:30-11:15 am
“2014 Elections: Who Won, Who Lost?”
- Juan Gonzalez, co-host, “Democracy Now”, The Daily News columnist
- Errol Louis, host, Inside City Hall, NY1 TV
- Sarah Jaffe, independent journalist, columnist for New Labor Forum
- Michael Hirsch, national editor, Politico Magazine
- Moderator: Ed Ott, Distinguished Lecturer, The Murphy Institute
December 5, 2014, 8:30 am-3:30 pm
“Civic Engagement & the Latino Community”
Cosponsored with BridgeRoots, Common Cause, Demos, Citizen Action, New American Leadership Project, NALEO, NYC LCLAA, New York Immigration Coalition, City and State Magazine
And in 2015:
January 23-24, 2015, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
“Invisible Lives, Targeted Bodies: Impacts of Economic Injustice on Vulnerable LGBTO Communities”
Co-sponsored with Queer Survival Economies Initiative, Barnard College
- Panel 1: Whose Communities? LGBTO Perspectives on Surviving in Poor and Low Income Communities
- Panel 2: Economic Injustice and Queer Low-Income & Precarious Workers
- Panel 3: Queer Migrations
- Panel 4: Gender, Sexuality and Reproductive Justice
