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United Federation of Teachers Seeks Campaign Communications Professional
The UFT seeks a campaign communications professional with a background in labor or progressive nonprofits to join its member communications team. Candidates should be able to help develop and produce print and online materials for the union’s campaigns and to write for the website and the member newspaper. S/he should have strong writing skills and the…
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Unions and Cooperatives: How Workers Can Survive and Thrive
This article was originally featured at Truthout.org. Reprinted with permission. By Brian Van Slyke, Truthout The year 2008 was when the big banks were bailed out, but it was also the year that catalyzed one group of window makers into democratically running their own factory. On the former industrial hub of Goose Island in Chicago,…
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New York Academy of History Awards Prize to Dr. Michael Fortner
The New York Academy of History has chosen Murphy Professor Michael Fortner’s book, Black Silent Majority, the Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment, to receive the 2016 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History. Dr. Fortner is an Assistant Professor at the Murphy Institute and the Academic Director for…
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Morgan Stanley/ANHD Community Development Fellowship Program
The Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD) is currently recruiting for the 2015-2016 Morgan Stanley/ANHD Community Development Fellowship Program. This program will provide an opportunity for nine Master’s Degree students to take a significant role in a high-impact, community-based project targeting a low- and moderate-income neighborhood. Fellows will receive a $20,000 stipend to serve…
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