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Three Poems by Sam Turner
So much oxygen for one small planet What if she wears the black shirt and the crimson lipstick & says it’s time to go to Yonkers. Do you go? • the asteroid, spinning in space the potato on the kitchen table as evening comes • Yes, yes I will go with you
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Observations on Cuba
By Marisa Butler In March, I traveled to Cuba with my family. We were able to go legally on a People to People license issued by the US government. Limited, legal travel is one of the ways the Obama administration has been easing restrictions between the two nations. As a requirement of our visa, we…
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Call for Papers from The National center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education.
The National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions at Hunter College, CUNY has issued a Call for Papers and Proposed Workshops for its 2015 annual conference that will take place in New York City on April 19-21, 2015. The theme of next year¹s conference will be Thinking about…
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Labor’s Only Real Choice: Beating Harris v. Quinn and Right-to-Work Attacks From the Inside Out
Jane McAlevey is working on her PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center. This article was written by originally posted in The Nation. Unions are in trouble. Short of a giant meteor crashing on top of the nation’s union headquarters emblazoned with the words, “warning, you will soon be crushed by right-to-work laws,” few things could…
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