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Event: Solidarity Economies & Worker Coops (12/4)
December 4, 8:30 -10:30am The Murphy Institute 25 W. 43 Street, 18 Floor The local movement of worker cooperatives, supported by the City Council, has increasingly caught the imagination of workers and organizers. What is the potential and what are the limitations of worker co-ops in building a movement for economic and social justice? To what…
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Gale Brewer Addresses Graduates at NWPC-NYC Candidate Training at JSMI
On Saturday, November 21, the National Women’s Political Caucus NYC chapter (NWPC-NYC) and the Murphy Institute held a ceremony for the twelve women that completed the inaugural NWPC-NYC Candidate Training course hosted by the Murphy Institute. The 10-week training concluded with final presentations from participants, who applied crucial aspects of what they learned in the training. Manhattan Borough…
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Padraig O’Donoghue: Reflections on Labor
By Padraig O’Donogue I am a passionate member of the PSC and will be part of the (hopefully) packed house at Cooper Union on November 19th when we continue our path to a new contract. I’ve had quite a few really positive experiences with the union that have stuck with me and make me want to fight for the…
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Introducing: The Murphy Institute Writing Center
Students at the Murphy Institute have always done a lot of writing, from the short “zaps” Professor Ed Ott assigns his labor studies M.A. students to the major research papers assigned in classes across Murphy’s programs. As of this fall, they now have a Writing Center to help with the writing process — a place where they can bring any…
