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Bertolt Brecht once said that ““Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” Alex Etchart and Siobhan Knox have taken that Brecht quote to heart, and are using opera as a hammer to break down stereotypes, and help shape new conversations on sex work with their show, Sex Workers Opera.
On February 25, more than 400 students traveled to the New York State Senate in Albany for Higher Education Action Day to call upon state Legislature to fight for increased investment in higher education.
This recording captures most of what was said at Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez's Tuesday, January 5, 2016 press conference about the situation of Ron McGuire, a longtime legal advocate for student activists and journalists whose situation was described yesterday in the Queens Free Press.
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."
On November 22nd, New Yorkers gathered at Barclays Center to remember Tamir Rice on the anniversary of his death. Rice was playing with a toy gun when he was killed by police in a Cleveland park.
The Eighth Amendment has driven Irish women from their homes, but now groups like The X-ile Project are trying to help these women carve out a space for themselves in a country where the government has made many feel like they don’t belong, and has turned people into statistics.
Chick-fil-A has also for years now been known as a contributor to anti-LGBTQ+ groups (via their affiliate nonprofits the WinShape Foundation and the ChickfilA Foundation ), and their CEO has on multiple occasions spoken against samesex marriage. As a prointersectional animal rights community, founded by two queer women, we at CF saw the opening of the company's NYC location as a perfect opportunity to call out Chick-fil-A's participation in both injustices: the one against animals and the one against LGBTQ+ humans.
Faculty at the City University of New York have been without a contract for six years. On the morning of October 1st, almost 1000 faculty, staff & students gathered outside Chancellor JB Milliken's residence to get him to "wake up" & realize the consequences of his inaction.
According to “Resource Center: Campus Accountability & Safety Act,” a website maintained by New York State Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s office, 118 universities are currently being investigated for the ways they’ve allegedly mishandled allegations of sexual violence and sexual assault on their campuses. Now activists are working to meet the needs of students who feel that their concerns have been neglected by university administrators.
Professor Aránzazu Borrachero talks with Ermis Pantelatos, president of the International Student Club at Queensborough Community College.
Ermis, informed by his experience as a lieutenant in the Greek army, speaks broadly and deeply about the crisis in Greece, the future of Europe, his view of social justice, and his hopes for America, especially American students.