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Spring 2017 Union Semester Arrives!
Meet this year’s terrific new Union Semester interns! Priscilla Acuña Mena Priscilla Acuña Mena is a December 2016 graduate eager to begin her post-college life with Union Semester in the hope that it will help her lay a foundation of activist engagement for years to come. She studied Human Biology, which she describes as a…
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Fall 2016 Capstone Presentations: Labor Studies MA
Compliments to our Fall 2016 Capstone students in the Labor Studies MA program! On November 29th and December 6th, with the supervision of Professor Lynne Turner, our MA candidates enlightened the audience and stimulated discussion about their research topics: Milica Bogetic – The Trauma Doesn’t Stop at the Incident: A Case Study of Investigators’ Emotional…
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Puerto Rico: Facts and Realities of Living Under PROMESA
Friday, December 2nd, 2016 8:30-10:30am Joseph S. Murphy Institute 25 W. 43rd St., 18th Floor RSVP HERE New York City Chapter of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement & The Murphy Institute for Worker Education & Labor Studies Present Puerto Rico: Facts and Realities of Living Under PROMESA Speakers Jose La Luz is…
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New Book by Prof. Dan La Botz on Nicaraguan Revolution
Dan La Botz, an Adjunct Professor at the Murphy Institute, on the publication of his new book, The Nicaraguan Revolution: What Went Wrong: A Marxist Analysis, published by Brill. In this volume, La Botz argues that the FSLN—the Sandinistas—failed to maintain a commitment to democracy, thus undermining the promise of the revolution. Dan La Botz has…
