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Marketplace Features Prof. Milkman On Organizing During a Recession
The conventional wisdom states that recessions are terrible times to organize. During the Great Recession, union membership continued to decline, while public approval of unions reached a low. But, in a recent piece on APM’s Marketplace, Prof. Ruth Milkman explained that there’s an exception to this rule: But in this recession, we’ve lost three times as…
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Event: Police Unionism in the Times of #BlackLivesMatter (8/5)
Join us for a special *live* recording of City Works on the pressing issues of police unionism, policing reform, and the Movement for Black Lives. Following the program, panelists will take audience questions. Host: Laura Flanders – Host & Executive Producer, The Laura Flanders Show Guest Speakers: Evelyn DeJesus – Executive Vice President, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO Terry Melvin –…
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SLU Student Spotlight: Sima Petilli, LEAP to Teacher
Sima Petilli, a special-needs educator and participant in SLU’s LEAP-to-Teacher program who recently earned her master’s degree at Lehman College, was not going to let anything stand in her way of becoming a certified teacher – not even the sudden, mid-semester transition to working, studying, and full-time parenting from home in response to COVID-19, all…
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In Two Seconds: Tamir Rice 2002-2014
by Mark Doty the boy’s face climbed back down the twelve-year tunnel of its becoming, a charcoal sunflower swallowing itself. Who has eyes to see, or ears to hear? If you could see what happens fastest, unmaking the human irreplaceable, a star falling into complete gravitational darkness from all points of itself, all this: the…
