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La Colmena Seeks Executive Director (Staten Island, NY)
About La Colmena: La Colmena is a community based organization with the mission to empower the immigrant community through education, organizing and economic development. It was founded in 2014 by domestic workers, day laborers and community allies to establish a membership based organization that advocates and improves the lives of Staten Island’s low wage immigrant…
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The Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) Seeks Census Coordinator
Organizational Summary: The Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) is a racial justice and migrant rights organization which engages in education, advocacy, and cross-cultural alliance-building in order to strengthen a national movement to end racism, criminalization, and economic disenfranchisement in African American and Black immigrant communities. BAJI’s headquarters are in Brooklyn, NY and we have additional…
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Spotlight on Staff: Congratulations to Isaac Rodriguez of LEAP to Teacher
By Becky Firesheets Lehman College’s new LEAP to Teacher Coordinator Isaac Rodriguez is certainly not new to SLU. After two years as the Writing and Research Consultant for the Murphy Institute at Queens College, Isaac is thrilled for this opportunity to step up – and not just because his commute is shorter now. “I love…
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New Labor Forum Highlights: October 7th, 2019
The New Labor Forum has 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. Over a half-century ago, in a farewell address to the nation, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned citizens to “guard against the…
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