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Bilingual Spanish-Speaking Community Organizer at WE ACT
West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc (a/k/a WE ACT for Environmental Justice) (WE ACT) is a 501 (C)(3) community-based environmental justice organization. Our mission is to build healthy communities by assuring that people of color and/or low-income participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices. We are dedicated…
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Fight for $15 Picks Up Steam
It’s all happening. Last Wednesday, the New York state wage board appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo recommended a state-wide minimum wage of $15 for fast food workers in NYC and throughout the state. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has voted for a $15 minimum wage for those working in its unincorporated areas by…
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Murphy Institute Featured in Labor Press
The Murphy Institute has had a long and storied past, from its roots in 1984 as a collaboration between CUNY and NYC municipal unions to where it stands today: en route to becoming its own freestanding school within CUNY. In an article by Marc Bussinch in Labor Press last week entitled The Murphy Institute Survives…
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Greece Today: Sean Sweeney on the Future of Greece’s Energy System
Murphy Institute Professor Sean Sweeney just returned from Athens, where he delivered a presentation entitled Third Memorandum or Grexit: What are the implications for the Future of Greece’s Energy System? at the Democracy Rising conference. In his talk, Sweeney explained: …[E]nergy will be at the heart of the struggles in Greece in the years ahead,…
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