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New Labor Forum Highlights: June 2020
The New Labor Forum has a monthly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. In his introduction to Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter, the poet Martin Espada writes: “I see the…
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On Escalation, Dying-In and the Fight to Fund CUNY
By David Unger “C-U-N-Y…Don’t Let CUNY Die!” Over the past few years, we have been lying down on the pavements of New York. In Grand Central Station, in front of Barclay’s Center, in the middle of streets in Brooklyn, near Union Square, in Harlem and in the Bronx. We have been asked to lie down —…
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Raise the Age!
By Ken Francis It’s October, and a group of students are lined up against a fence outside their school, bundled up against the unexpected frost. Hoodies are pulled taut, hands are gloved and beanies with bright pom-poms are pulled low. These students, aged 10 through 15, are waiting to shake their principal’s hand before they…
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Livestream: Black Lives Matter/Fight for $15: A New Social Movement (10/19)
With: Jelani Cobb | Kendall Fells | Alicia Garza | Francis Fox Piven This event is currently at capacity. To watch the conversation, check back here on 10/19 from 8:30 AM to 10:15 AM (EDT). Livestream will appear below. [youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxQQM5jKS_o] Black Lives Matter and Fight for $15 are linked, growing social movements. As these two movements converge, how are they…