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East New York Rezoning: Communities Respond
The first of the de Blasio administration’s neighborhood rezonings was unveiled at the end of September with the East New York plan: an ambitious document that includes mandatory affordable housing, new parks, bike lanes, and a 1,000-seat school. While the Department of City Planning (DCP) claims that 50 percent of housing built over the next 15 years under…
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Debating Criminal Justice Reform
For more on this topic, join us at the Murphy Institute on October 19th for this month’s Labor Forum: Black Lives Matter & the Fight for Fifteen: A New Social Movement? When looking to reform our obviously broken criminal justice and carceral system, at what point must we examine the structural causes of urban crime? Can we…
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Introducing: The Murphy Institute Writing Center
Students at the Murphy Institute have always done a lot of writing, from the short “zaps” Professor Ed Ott assigns his labor studies M.A. students to the major research papers assigned in classes across Murphy’s programs. As of this fall, they now have a Writing Center to help with the writing process — a place where they can bring any…
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Remembering Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015)
Grace Lee Boggs was no ordinary activist. A trailblazer in the civil rights, black power, labor, environmental justice and feminist movements, she formed strong and enduring relationships, reflected deeply, and contributed to the foundation on which so much grassroots innovation, exploration and resistance continues to take place in Detroit. Boggs died yesterday morning at the age of…
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