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ALR Project Staff Visits Beijing, Shanghai & Chongqing
This post was originally featured at alrexchange.org. In October and November, in cooperation with Chinese colleagues, the ALR project staff – including Project Director Ruting Chen, Program Manager Jiajing Xu and Labor Extension Coordinator May Chen – visited several cities in China. This was the Project’s third trip to China in 2015, our busiest year of…
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Brooklyn Youth Create Jobs (and Community Roots) Through Local Compost Program
This article was originally featured at YES! Magazine. By Rebecca Nathanson Snow covered most of the ground at El Garden, a community garden in the north Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick. The exception was the area around its three compost bins, shoveled out and made accessible to the six people who were working there. One of…
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Orientation Week at Union Semester
Photo features Union Semester Spring 2016 students January 25 saw the arrival of a new crop of Union Semester students to the Murphy Institute. Students spent the next four days diving into the labor movement, learning about and from each other, and interviewing with potential organizations. Some highlights include: Social Justice Milestones Students were asked to…
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Calling All Applicants: 2016 Diversity Scholarship
To be eligible for the scholarship, you must apply and be accepted into the MA in Labor Studies program. MA in Labor Studies Deadline: March 15 Please contact Laurie.Kellogg@cuny.edu 212-642-2055 for more information Open House dates: Feb. 25, March 1, March 9 Are You Ready to Make a Difference? The Murphy Institute for Worker Education…
