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  • Event: Diversity Scholarship Awards & Reception (5/25)

    Event: Diversity Scholarship Awards & Reception (5/25)

    The annual Joseph S. Murphy Diversity in Labor Scholarship, Awards & Reception will take place May 25, 6-8:30pm at the CUNY Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall at 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016. Join us as we introduce our 2017 scholarship recipients, who will commence their studies in the 2017-2018 academic year. We’ll also be honoring

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  • Event: Immigration Politics in the Trump Era (5/11)

    Event: Immigration Politics in the Trump Era (5/11)

    Date: May 11th, 2017 Time: 10am-6pm Location: Murphy Institute, 25 W. 43rd St., 18th Floor RSVP HERE Co-sponsored by the Scholars Strategy Network and Murphy Institute This all-day conference will assess the unfolding immigration crisis, highlighting the perspectives of labor unions, worker centers, community organizations, and local government. The Trump administration’s efforts to restrict immigration, expand

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  • Excelsior: Free Tuition for Whom?

    Excelsior: Free Tuition for Whom?

    By Steve Brier If you’ve at all been confused about or even impressed by Governor Andrew Cuomo’s widely touted Excelsior Scholarship program that was just voted into law by the New York State legislature, a good place to start to deal with your questions and concerns is Lauren Gurley’s article in the May issue of The

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  • Tom Cat Workers Resist

    Tom Cat Workers Resist

    This article was originally featured at the Indypendent. By Astha Rajvanshi Workers at Tom Cat Bakery start kneading the day’s first loaves inside a Queens factory at 6 a.m. Soon after, the industrial-scale bakery begins delivering 400 varieties of baked goods to hotels, supermarkets, food chains and Starbucks locations across New York City. One of

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