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Introducing Spring 2015 NY Union Semester Students
As we start off the new year, we welcome a new Union Semester class! Before we all meet in person next week, we wanted to share a sneak preview! Introducing the Spring 2015 class…. For information on joining the class of fall 2015, find us at www.unionsemester.org. Rebekah Williams, NY Rebekah Williams is nineteen years old, and a…
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Two Days, One Night Movie Review
If you can find the time – and cash – this January, and are lucky to be somewhere with good movie theaters, I highly recommend checking out the new movie by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Two Days, One Night. (In NYC it’s playing at the IFC for now.) It’s a quiet, multilayered film that I’ve…
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Journalists Gather to Discuss Labor and the Elections at Murphy
Last Friday, Sarah Jaffe, Juan Gonzalez, Errol Louis, Michael Hirsch and Ed Ott participated in a panel discussion in front of a packed house here at Murphy. The panelists analyzed the 2014 midterm elections, looking at what happened this time around and discussing the implications for the future. Miss the Forum? Check out the livestream,…
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Dead Labor on a Dead Planet: The Inconvenient Truth of Workers’ Bladders
This article was originally featured in Monthly Review Zine. By Kafui Attoh “Once labor has been embodied in instruments of production and enters the further process of labor to play its role there, it may be called, following Marx, dead labor [. . .]. The ideal toward which capitalism strives is the domination of dead…
