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  • “Prepare Yourself for Great Things”: Introducing Matt Sedillo

    Matt Sedillo is a poet, worker and artist living in Los Angeles. His book of poems “For What I Might Do Tomorrow” was released in 2010 by Caza De Poesia. Here, the two time national slam poet answers some questions posed by Arts and Culture co-editor Samina Shahidi. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/v/hQUAxBr1Kco?start=0&end=63&w=560&h=315] The poem “The Devil” by…

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  • Summer Graduate Class: Queering Labor

    Summer Graduate Class: Queering Labor

    The Labor Studies Program invites you to enroll in our summer graduate class: Queering Labor June 8 to July 24, T&Th, 6:15-8:45pm Facilitated by Colin Patrick Ashley Queering Labor will address the role of economic structures and the question of labor in relationship to sexual identities and sexual desire.  This course will cover the impact…

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  • News Round-Up

    News Round-Up

    President Obama announces that a January drone strike killed 2 hostages, another black man dies in police custody, and the DEA chief announces she’ll be stepping down, inviting optimism amongst those fighting to end the so-called War on Drugs. And in labor and community news… NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration released OneNYC, an update to predecessor…

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  • News Round-Up

    News Round-Up

    Spring is officially upon us. We saw it in the Fight for 15 protests, bringing workers and activists to the streets in cities across the country. We see it in the upcoming days of action for climate justice. Possibility is in the air. How will you help fight for the world we want to see?…

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