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Getting Back on Track: The New York Transit Crisis

School of Labor and Urban Studies 25 W. 43rd St., New York City, NY, United States

RSVP HERE This forum will explore the nature and causes of the current mass transit crisis, and will focus on solutions that will enable New York to sustain itself as a world-class city. During the course of two panels, speakers will offer strategies to modernize and maintain the City's transit systems, with responses from local … Continue reading Getting Back on Track: The New York Transit Crisis

The Dream Resource Center Presents: Undocumented Stories

The Hispanic Federation & The Edwin Gould Foundation 55 Exchange Place, 5th Floor, New York City, NY, United States

RSVP HERE The Dream Resource Center (DRC) is proud to announce the launch of Undocumented Stories, an exhibit curated by UCLA students, DRC staff, and SolArt. Undocumented Stories utilizes storytelling to uplift the lived experiences of undocumented youth who have built a movement to change policies impacting higher education, access to healthcare, and deportation proceedings. … Continue reading The Dream Resource Center Presents: Undocumented Stories

The City is The Factory: Discussion and Book Party​​

School of Labor and Urban Studies 25 W. 43rd St., New York City, NY, United States

Join us to discuss and celebrate the publication of The City Is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age​, co-edited by Miriam Greenberg, University of Santa Cruz and Penny Lewis, Murphy Institute, CUNY. Contributors will be joined by local organizers to discuss today's urban-based struggles for change. What are the new … Continue reading The City is The Factory: Discussion and Book Party​​

Brown Bag Series: Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart

School of Labor and Urban Studies 25 W. 43rd St., New York City, NY, United States

During the summer of 2014, on the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, we sent 20 students to sites around the country to interview and organize some of today’s most disenfranchised Americans:  Walmart workers.  Through the framework of this summer project, and drawing on a wide array of methods, Working for Respect (forthcoming from Columbia University … Continue reading Brown Bag Series: Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart

JSMI All-Program Open House

School of Labor and Urban Studies 25 W. 43rd St., New York City, NY, United States

Room 18A-18B

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