Urban Studies
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EVENT: Sanctuary Cities: Growing Powerful Communities (3/3)
Last month, San Francisco became the first US city to sue the Trump administration over its executive order cutting off federal funding to sanctuary cities. Indeed, sanctuary cities have become a beacon of hope for progressive communities hoping to build up their resistance to the Trump administration’s regressive and havoc-wreaking immigration policies. But what, exactly,…
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From Taxi Workers to Yemeni Bodega Owners: Labor Resists the Immigration Ban
Since the Trump administration’s immigration ban was issued last Friday night barring entry to the United States for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, protests have erupted at airports and in cities across the United States. Demonstrators are loudly showing their rejection of the xenophobia, racism and bigotry inherent in the ban’s sweeping impact and disregard…
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Community-Driven Social Change in the Age of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
How can we make sense of the organizing coming out of today’s social change and resistance movements? In a new article coming out in the Fordham Urban Law Journal, Professor Michael Haber connects many of today’s most important movements—from post-Occupy community organizing to the rise of the worker co-op movement to parts of the Movement for…
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NYC Passes Landmark “Freelance Isn’t Free Act”
Gig workers in NYC have had reason to rejoice this week. The Freelance Isn’t Free Act, which protects freelancer workers from wage theft by imposing penalties on businesses that delay or deny payment to their contract workers, was passed by the New York City Council in a unanimous vote last Thursday. The first wage protection act for…
