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Puerto Rico: Facts and Realities of Living Under PROMESA
Friday, December 2nd, 2016 8:30-10:30am Joseph S. Murphy Institute 25 W. 43rd St., 18th Floor RSVP HERE New York City Chapter of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement & The Murphy Institute for Worker Education & Labor Studies Present Puerto Rico: Facts and Realities of Living Under PROMESA Speakers Jose La Luz is
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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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New Book by Prof. Dan La Botz on Nicaraguan Revolution
Dan La Botz, an Adjunct Professor at the Murphy Institute, on the publication of his new book, The Nicaraguan Revolution: What Went Wrong: A Marxist Analysis, published by Brill. In this volume, La Botz argues that the FSLN—the Sandinistas—failed to maintain a commitment to democracy, thus undermining the promise of the revolution. Dan La Botz has
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New Labor Forum Highlights: Nov. 15th, 2016
The New Labor Forum has launched a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. We send this newsletter just a week after Donald Trump’s electoral victory. That stunning outcome raises more questions than it
