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Author: Alyson S. (Page 2 of 3)
CUNY’s Black radical traditions will take center stage at this exciting event on Friday, November 11, at the CUNY Graduate Center. In a time where social movements are being revitalized through critical education and direct democracy, these invaluable speakers will discuss the amazing histories, present efforts, and future visions of CUNY. We will apply special attention to past public space occupations at CUNY that catalyzed major institutional and social change—-such as the 1969 CCNY strike achieving Open Admissions–to suggest a bridge between the global “Occupy” movement and how we can transform our own university system. We welcome all CUNY communities to join us.
Speakers:
Louis Reyes Rivera, 1969 CUNY Open Admissions Strike Leader
Prof. Michele Wallace, The Graduate Center
Prof. Barbara Winslow, Brooklyn College
Hank Williams, The Graduate Center
LaMont OyeWale Badru, Lehman College
Co-Sponsors:
Africana Studies Group
The Adjunct Project
IRADAC
Light refreshments will be provided. All are welcome.
The first #occupyCUNY Graduate Center General Assembly was a great success!!! So…
Our second GA will be held on Friday November 11th at 6pm in the 8th floor cafeteria of the CUNY Graduate Center.
As we build locally at our individual schools across CUNY, we are preparing for the CUNY-wide General Assembly (at Medgar Evers at 12pm on November 12th). It seems important to meet with folks on a school-to-school basis to plan for the student week of actions Nov 14th-21st (http://studentweekofaction.wordpress.com/), and to work toward CUNY-wide stuff more broadly, including the city-wide day of actions on the 17th and the student mobilization around tuition hikes on the 21st. Working groups will be convening to continue their work and report back. Come with your ideas!!!
You’re invited to the first-ever Occupy CUNY Graduate Center General Assembly!
Friday November 4th @ 6pm
Grad Center cafeteria on the 8th floor
Meet up with other GC and CUNY folks to plan for the student week of actions Nov 14th-21st, and to work toward CUNY-wide stuff more broadly, including Occupy Wall Street’s city-wide day of action on the 17th and the student mobilization against tuition hikes on the 21st.
Some other dates to mark on your calendar:
Fri 11/11 @ 3-5pm, GC Room 5409: Africana Studies, Adjunct Project, and IRADAC workshop collaboration: “Black Student Radicalism at CUNY: Past, Present, and Future” (speakers: Louis Reyes Rivera, 1969 CUNY Open Admissions Strike Leader; Prof. Michele Wallace, CUNY Graduate Center; Prof. Barbara Winslow, Brooklyn College; Hank Williams, CUNY Graduate Center; LaMont OyeWale Badru, Lehman College…check AP website soon for more info about this rad workshop)
Thurs 11/17: #OWS City-Wide Day of Action (this day also marks the 2-month existence of OWS! more details forthcoming…)
Mon 11/21: CUNY students and teachers will put pressure on the CUNY Board of Trustees to revoke the recent 5-year tuition increases…more details forthcoming…
theadjunctproject@gmail.com
#occupyCUNY Radical Teach-In!
Where: Washington Square Park
When: Friday, October 21st, 6-9pm, or however late people want to stay!
What: Teach and learn about the intersections between Occupy Wall Street and the labor and education conditions of CUNY faculty, staff, and students. Strategize next steps and actions going forward!!!
Hello everyone! If you’re free tomorrow at TODAY, please try to make it to the Defending Public Higher Education Conference at the GC and the AP STRATEGY SESSION/SOCIAL DIRECTLY AFTER AT 3:30PM:
Friday, October 7: Defending Public Higher Education Conference at the Grad Center, 8:30am-3pm
http://defendingpublichighereducation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
Many GC/CUNY affiliates are endorsing this conference featuring several speakers, including the AP’s own Antonia Levy leading a discussion with Frances Fox Piven and a range of activists in the audience (see attached flyer). Their particular panel is from 1-3pm (free food 12-1pm!!!) Antonia needs us there to radicalize the convo with FFP and it might also be a good place to begin to think about stuff to discuss at the strategizing session later that day…
Right after the conference ends, the Adjunct Project will host a “Strategy Session Social” for undergrad/grad students, teachers, and community members to put the day’s discussions into action. This will be in GC room 5409, 3:30-5:30pm. We hope that the strategy session will directly take up what’s been going on with #OccupyWallStreet. About 45 people all came down to the labor/community rally from the GC yesterday, so let’s figure out how AP folks and other CUNY students, teachers, and other contingent workers can most effectively get involved in the near future!!!
Tomorrow we’ll also be accepting donations at our strategy session for food, clothes, blankets, toiletries etc. for OWS. Some folks will be going to the labor outreach meeting down there that starts at 6pm afterward, so we can deliver stuff then.
Plus, there will be free drinks and snacks for everyone!!!
I really hope to see you all tomorrow, and over the weekend at OWS!!!
xo
Alyson
Wednesday, October 5th!!!
National Student Walk-out against tuition hikes & budget cuts, and in solidarity with #OccupyWallStreet
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=284445828240409
+ COMMUNITY/LABOR MARCH TO WALL STREET!!! at 4:30pm at Foley Square, Duane St and Centre St (outside 26 Federal Plaza)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=282473051782707
If you’re at Hunter College that day, a speak-out will occur at 1pm outside the Hunter West bldg at 68th and Lexington
then…
Grad Center folks will meet in the lobby at 3:45pm for a caravan to leave at 4pm sharp (another group will also leave at 4:15pm if ou can’t make the first caravan) for a mass student/labor/community rally at *Foley Square* that will march to Liberty Plaza, the site of Occupy Wall Street.
More info about the rally:
Union workers and community members impacted by the economic crisis have been demanding that Wall Street and the wealthiest New Yorker’s pay their fair share of taxes.
Let’s march down to Wall Street to welcome the protesters and show the faces of New Yorkers hardest hit by corporate greed.
We’ll be meeting up and assembling at 4:30 at Foley Square, march past City Hall, and meet up with our brothers and sisters at Zuccotti Park and unite in solidarity. #occupywallstreet organizers, labor leaders, and members of community organizations will speak to the assembly about Why We Stand United!
Participating Organizations Include:
United NY
Strong Economy for All Coalition
Working Families Party,
VOCAL-NY
Community Voices Heard
Alliance for Quality Education
New York Communities for Change
Coalition for the Homeless
Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project (NEDAP)
TWU Local 100
The Job Party
NYC Coalition for Educational Justice
The Mirabal Sisters Cultural and Community Center
The New Deal for New York Campaign
National People’s Action
ALIGN
Human Services Council
Labor-Religion Coalition of New York State
Citizen Action of NY
MoveOn.org
SEIU 1199
CWA 1109
RWDSU
Communications Workers of America
Democracy for NYC
United Auto Workers
United Federation of Teachers
Professional Staff Congress – CUNY
National Nurses United
Common Cause NY
Writers Guild East
New Bottom Line
350.org
Tenants & Neighbors
CWA Local 1180
Resource Generation
Tenants PAC
Association of Tenants of Lincoln Towers
DC1707
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
Urban Youth Collaborative
Queers for Economic Justice
SWOP/SWANK
CAAV: Organizing Asian Communities
Street Vendor Project
ANSWER
Urban Youth Collaborative
NY Students Rising
Greater NYC for Change
LIUNA
New York Immigration Coalition
Community-Farmworker Alliance NYC
National Alliance of HUD Tenants
American 99ers Union
Teamsters Locals 701 and 560
Hi all! Please join us for the last Adjunct Project general meeting
of Spring 2011. We will have food and drinks, and we will have merriment.
Bring fellow students, fellow teachers, fellow buddies in the struggle for a
free(r) CUNY!
*Details:
AP mtg & social
Tuesday, May 17th, 6pm
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave, room 5414*
We’ve had a truly exciting and active semester, of which we’ll both
dramatically recount the best bits and soberly assess the group’s work
overall. Here are some proposed ideas to discuss moving forward, including
(but not limited to):
1. short-/mid-/long-term AP goals and plans
2. creating a contract campaign that we *contingent workers* demand and
deserve
3. working step by step to bring underrepresented CUNY folks into our
activism, and having our members’ collaboration/conduct reflect that goal
4. continuing/improving the workshop series
5. coordinating tablings & materials for next semester to keep the AP
visible and the GC lobby rowdy
6. putting together a super stellar summer strike study circle
7. other specific projects? (rumblings around the GC are calling for a fall
’11 campaign to oust Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, for example…)
Please holler back before Tuesday to theadjunctproj…@gmail.com, or post on
ap-disc@googlegroups.com, about any other topics you’d like us all to
discuss, or you can just pitch them in at the beginning of the mtg. All
people and ideas are welcome!
AS USUAL, PIZZA, SNACKS, AND LOTS OF BEVERAGES WILL BE SERVED!!!
“What do you mean I can’t strike?!”: Confronting the Taylor Law
Wednesday, May 4th, 6:30pm
CUNY Graduate Center, room 5414
365 Fifth Avenue
B/D/F/M/N/Q/R to 34th St-Herald Square
confirmed speakers:
Marvin Holland, Transit Workers Union executive board, 2005 TWU strike leader
Jeffery B. Perry, independent scholar, 1978 U.S. Postal Workers wildcat strike leader
Cindy Gorn, member of the Adjunct Project
Ajamu Sankofa, member of CUNY Contingents Unite
RSVP/share: ON FACEBOOK !!!
In the wake of inspiring rebellions from Egypt to Wisconsin, a growing number of New Yorkers now demand similar mass action to stop the city & state budget attacks on our communities. But for many of us, our efforts are hobbled by the New York state Taylor Law, which prohibits public sector workers from going on strike. Kindergarten-thru-college educators, transit workers, nurses, bus drivers–all of these workers and more are subject to terrible job contracts, layoffs, and cuts without this ability to withhold our work in order to demand better living conditions. But the Taylor Law is not invincible, and neither are our bosses.
THE ADJUNCT PROJECT welcomes CUNY people, rank-and-file union folks from around NYC, and others who are interested to join us for this crucial and exciting event. Come hear speakers share experiences from the front lines of past strikes, discuss how direct labor actions can improve CUNY working conditions, and learn about how we can together–across NYC’s unions–challenge the Taylor Law. Now’s the time to link up with fellow workers to turn New York’s priorities right-side up ourselves.
For more info about this event, and the Adjunct Project workshop series, contact ConorTomasReed@gmail.com
AND PLEASE PRINT AND DISTRIBUTE THIS AWESOME FLYER FAR AND WIDE!!!
www.CUNYAdjunctProject.org /// TheAdjunctProject@gmail.com
A NYSHIP informational program will be presented on Wednesday, April 27th from 3-5pm in the Proshanky Auditorium. The program will highlight changes to the plan in 2011, address the most pertinent issues raised in the recently conducted DSC student health insurance surveys, and take audience questions. The panel will consist of staff from the University Benefits Office (CUNY management), representatives from the DSC and Adjunct Project, and Scott Voorhees from the Student Affairs Office.
I am on the panel along with Kim Libman from the DSC, and we will have a set of formal questions that we will take into the forum to ask the administrators from 80th Street. Please email the Adjunct Project (theadjunctproject@gmail.com) if you have specific issues you would like to see us address.
If you’ve ever had a question about your NYSHIP health insurance, this is the time to get some answers!!! It’s also a good time to raise concerns (i.e. Why did I get that huge bill for my labwork? Why wasn’t that procedure covered? Why don’t any providers ever know who to bill when they see my insurance card?) in a public setting.
HERE IS A FLYER FOR THE EVENT!
Alyson
