CUNY Conference: Global Resistance in the Neoliberal University

As the Professional Staff Congress builds resistance at CUNY to the university of the Trump era (world-wide neofascism, more oppressive every day), we organize under the motto of the anti-slavery militant Henry Highland Garnet. This union conference aims to build international teacher solidarity. Speakers from teacher struggles in South Africa, India, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Turkey will join their stories to ours and work with us on common problems and radical possibilities. How can we resist adjunctification, privatization, the explosion of student debt, “austerity blues,” race and gender oppression, police repression, the growing drum beat of war and militarization? What Read More …

CUNY Rising

A CUNY Rising Town Hall at Brooklyn Borough Hall is scheduled for Tue. Nov 22, 6 pm. It’s in support of the CUNY student Bill of Rights, see below. The CUNY Rising Alliance includes dozens of community and labor groups listed on the flier below. What we’re seeking to do is name the crisis of chronic defunding, first of all, and give students, alumni, and faculty a platform to address its impact. From James Davis

The 40th Anniversary of the Kent State Killings

My visit to Kent, Ohio for the 40thanniversary of the Kent State killings, when four students were killed (Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandy Scheuer, William Schroeder) and nine injured (with Dean Kahler left paralyzed and in a wheelchair for the last 40 years) was both nostalgic and informative. Although I was not on campus the day of the killings, I did see the burning of the ROTC building and the shattered bank windows over that weekend in downtown Kent.  I also saw the Ohio National Guard occupy my campus, the FBI invade student dormitories looking for weapons and photograph classrooms Read More …

Joiner Center Writers’ Workshop

An announcement I just got regarding an upcoming Writers’ Workshop to be held in Boston in June 2010 jostled me into sending in this blog entry. I have known about this workshop for many years, but it was only last June (2009) that I was able to take it for the first time, and the experience blew me away. This turned out to be an invaluable experience for me as teacher, writer, and editor as well as personally and politically. Though I knew that another Radical Teacher editor, UMass—Boston teacher, friend, colleague, and a poet, has been attending it enthusiastically Read More …