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Video Seminars on Organizing Responses to COVID-19
SLU’s Departments of Urban Studies and Labor Studies invite you to join us for the following video seminars to discuss some of the organizing responses to the pandemic: Tuesday, April 14, 7-9 pm: “Urban Warfare: Housing Justice Under a Global Pandemic” with Raquel Rolnik (University of São Paulo, former UN Rapporteur on Adequate Housing), Daniel Aldana Cohen (University of Pennsylvania), and Cea
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Ed Ott: Bail Out the Pension System
By Ed Ott It is not a secret that the United States has an inadequate and underfunded pension retirement system. And it’s about to get much worse! The private and public sectors’ pension plans are suffering terrible losses as a result of layoffs and investment losses. We are weeks away from a new assault on
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Joshua Freeman: Pandemics Can Mean Strike Waves
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, we’ve heard comparison after comparison to the Spanish flu of 1918. But, observes SLU professor Joshua Freeman in Jacobin, we rarely hear about the strikes waves that began at the same time. He writes: It is rarely noted that the greatest burst of labor militancy in the history of the
