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Friday 12/7 @ 4 PM: planning meeting for spring 2013 student debt crisis and resistance conference!

Hi all! This is happening on Friday 12/7, at 4pm at the GC Room 5414. Come if you can!!!

 

The International Committee of the PSC/CUNY, would like to invite you to join us this Friday, December 7th at 4 PM in Rm 5414 of the Graduate Center.  We look forward to collaborating with interested CUNY graduate students and faculty to plan for a March 2013 one-day conference on the crisis of student debt, resistance to the debt and the impact of student debt on future student employment decision-making and the potential of lurking unemployment and deepening debt challenges.

 

This is a preliminary organizational meeting to plan for the conference’s direction, themes, and participants and we are looking to the critical input from interested CUNY graduate students and faculty.  The tentative conference title would be “Student Resistance to Debt and Unemployment.” 

 

We want it to have both a CUNY and a US focus as well as an invitation to one or another foreign student leader to bring in a comparative international context regarding privatization and austerity in higher education elsewhere.  However, we are also keen on assessing the increasing challenges of rising college tuition and the mounting debt crisis among US undergraduate and graduate students that impacts on their future lives and working goals. 

 

Like mortgages and credit card debt, students are tied to educational debt that always accompanies them in the marketplace.  Students are ineligible for bankruptcy protection and future salaries can be garnished and income tax refunds seized.  Additionally most student loan paybacks are in arrears so they are accumulating compounded interest plus penalty fees. These factors can have a severe impact on students finding employment of choice. 

 

As student debt repayments are financialized and repackaged we see connections between the neo-liberal economic project and the role of financially dependent students in American society.  We see student debt as having a deleterious impact on university curriculum development and the subsequent reverberations on society, social structure, and the kind of educated students we need to confront injustice and inequity through critical thinking. 

 

Walk-out and Community/Labor March to Wall Street! WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 5TH!

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

**next Adjunct Project working mtg this Friday**

Hi, everyone,

This is a lil’ reminder about the Adjunct Project’s next working mtg:
Friday, September 23, 2-4pm
Graduate Center room 5414
Free food and drinks, so bring a friend or five.
The weather’s changing, so get a rad scarf too. $5 each, or $10 solidarity rate.

Here are some proposed topics to discuss:
*report-backs about the PSC trainings last week
*Plan our involvement in the Sept. 26 CUNY BoT protest
*discuss our involvement in the Oct. 7 Defending Public Higher Ed Conference at the GC
*Fall’11/Spring’12 workshop schedule proposal based on your survey responses
*Create AP working groups (health care, contract campaign/GC chapter, workshops, media/publicity, etc.) that can hold “break-out” activity sessions for part of each AP mtg, then report back to the group
*Establish a semi-regular GC/CUNY outreach tabling schedule
*AP website and office need love! Solicit volunteers to help out…
*What else do YOU think we should talk about?

Please forward out to friends/colleagues/other lists, and let’s keep the political momentum going—>

on behalf of the AP co-cos,
-Conor

PSC Local Chapter Meetings

The PSC, our union, has local chapter meetings at each CUNY campus throughout the school year. As an Adjunct, it is important to attend the local meetings, particularly at the campus(es) you teach! The Adjunct Project is compiling a list of all CUNY chapter local PSC meetings. This is meant for Adjuncts and other CUNY staff to find easily and accessible for date, time, and location. In the crucial contract negotiations only a few weeks away, it is important to attend these local meetings.

Below is the list of local chapter meetings we have thus far from CUNY campuses.  The meetings in italics are upcoming and very important because of the November 4 contract negioations.

Baruch

  • Chapter Meeting, Thursday, Oct. 21, 12:30 pm, Library Building H763
  • Chapter Meeting, Thursday, Dec. 9 12:30 pm, Library Building H763
  • Chapter Meeting, Thursday, Feb. 17 12:30 pm, Library Building H763
  • Chapter Meeting, Thursday, March 24, 12:30 pm, Library Building H763
  • Chapter Meeting, Thursday, May 11, 12:30 pm, Library Building H763

BMCC

  • Chapter Meeting, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2 pm, N 404
  • Chapter Meeting, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2 pm, N 404
  • Chapter Meeting, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2 pm, N 404

CCNY

  • Chapter Meeting, Tuesday, Oct.12, 12:15 pm, MR-4 (Marshak)
  • Chapter Meeting, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 12:15 pm, MR-4 (Marshak)
  • Chapter Meeting, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 12:15 pm, MR-4 (Marshak)

Medgar Evers

  • Chapter Meeting, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 11:30 am, Lecture Hall, Room 122-S
  • Chapter Meeting, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 11:30 am, Lecture Hall, Room 122-S
  • Chapter Meeting, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 11:30 am, Presidential Conf. Ctr.

NYCCT

  • Chapter Meeting, Thursday, Oct. 28, 12:45 am, Room N701A
  • Chapter Meeting, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 4 pm, NYCCT Staff Lounge

Retirees

  • Chapter Meeting, Monday, Nov. 1, 1 pm, PSC, 61 Broadway, 16th Floor — Clarissa G. Weiss: Retiree Benefits Under TRS and TIAA. 
 Irwin Yellowitz:  NYSUT Video of his being awarded Retiree of the Year and Commentary.
  • Chapter Meeting, Monday, Dec 6, 1 pm, PSC, 61 Broadway, 16th Floor  — Frances Fox Piven: The Great Socialist Subversion: Challenging Authority.
  • Annual Winter Luncheon, Monday, Topic and January date to be announced.
  • Chapter Meeting, Monday, Feb. 7, PSC, 61 Broadway, 16th Floor — James Parrot (Fiscal Policy Institute): The Future of Public Services.
  • Chapter Meeting, Monday, March 7, 1 pm, PSC, 61 Broadway, 16th Floor — Larry Morgan and Patrick Smith, PSC-CUNY Welfare Fund
  • Chapter Meeting, Monday, April 4, 1 pm, PSC, 61 Broadway, 16th Floor — Prof. Ellen Schrecker: Academic Freedom.
  • Chapter Meeting, Monday, May. 2, 1 pm, PSC, 61 Broadway, 16th Floor — John Bloom, Workers Defense League.

*Annual Spring Luncheon and Year-In-Review Meeting, Monday, Speaker and June date to be announced.

Hunter

  • Chapter meeting, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1:10-3pm, HW8th floor, FDA lounge
  • Chapter meeting, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 1:10pm-3pm, HW8th floor, FDA lounge
  • Chapter meeting, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1:10pm-3pm, HW8th floor, FDA lounge

Kingsborough Community College

  • Tuesday, Oct 19/3 pm/room M239

BCC

  • October 13th

Queensborough Community College

  • Chapter meeting on October 13th with Clarissa Gilbert Weiss and the topic will be “The ERI”

Important Union Meeting: NOVEMBER 4TH!!!

The Professional Staff Congress (PSC)–the union which represents contingent (and all) employees teaching at CUNY–will have meetings on THURSDAY OCTOBER 21ST and NOVEMBER 4TH to discuss the demands they’ll make for the new contract with CUNY. The PSC and the Adjunct Project encourage all individuals teaching at CUNY to attend.

The meeting, called a Delegate Assembly, is open to all PSC Members. If you teach at CUNY, you pay dues, and by filling out a brief card you become a member, and can then vote on the upcoming contract. The Adjunct Project will have union membership cards available at the meeting.

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