election
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Event: Blue Wave or Red Tide? (11/16)
Fri, November 16th, 2018 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM EDT CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies 25 W. 43rd Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10036 RSVP HERE In an electoral season in which the sitting presidential administration has loomed large, what do the elections tell us about the current political landscape, especially with…
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Video: Election Debrief: Reporters’ Roundtable
On November 18th, the Murphy Institute hosted a forum providing an examination of the 2016 electoral season, in which working-class anxiety and rage assumed a central role. A group of prominent journalists including Laura Flanders, Harold Meyerson, Jamilah King and Julio Ricardo Varela assessed what the primaries and the general election say about the current political landscape,…
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New Labor Forum Highlights: Nov. 28th, 2016
The New Labor Forum has launched a bi-weekly 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. Many of us continue to scratch our heads about a Trump electoral victory that only weeks ago seemed pretty improbable.…
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Moving Forward
We post this just days after Donald Trump’s electoral triumph. That stunning victory raises more questions than it answers. To what degree is the election outcome largely a result of an anxious and enraged white working class, sections of which either endorse the Trump campaign’s virulent racism or are willing to overlook it in favor…
