Ron McGuire
Activism

Students Beat CUNY in Court. Now CUNY-educated Judge Punishes their Attorney

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New York City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez is one of 154 City University of New York alumni, faculty and community members calling on the federal appeals court in New York City to convene a rare special session of all thirteen judges to reverse a court order that devastated an elderly lawyer who represented Rodriguez and hundreds of other CUNY students.

Ron McGuire, Esq. is a 67-year-old attorney who represented Rodriguez decades ago, when the progressive City Council member from upper Manhattan was a City College student and community organizer. McGuire, who says he represented low income students for free "as a matter of principle," now is distraught and penniless, due to the unusual actions of a federal judge that some of McGuire's clients call "vindictive" and "chilling."

Abortion

“Send In the Drones”: Sending the Abortion Drone to Ireland

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On September 26th, the fourth annual March for Choice will take to the streets of Dublin, Ireland as part of the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion. As the last March for Choice before the next general election in Ireland, many are also viewing the march as an opportunity to once again stress to politicians the importance of repealing the Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution—an amendment which “acknowledges the right to life of the unborn,” and turns abortion into a criminal act. Will a delivery by the Abortion Drone help to tip the scales of justice in favor of the Irish pro-choice lobby? Or will they need something more?

Activism

Students fight back

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The spirit of resistance found at Cooper Union can be found at schools all over New York City. Everywhere, college students are rising up and fighting back against rising tuition, inept administrators, and the militarization of their campuses.

Dream Act

Starved 4 Dream, Looking Back

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It was more than four years ago now that a group of undocumented students from the New York City area went on a ten day hunger strike in front of Senator Charles Schumer's Third Avenue office.