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Cops Off Campus And Out of Our Unions!

July 6, 2020 By David Klassen, Spectre Journal. , , ,
The union I am a part of, the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) at the City University of New York (CUNY), voted not only to kick the cops off campus but also to drive the cop union out of the AFL-CIO, the national labor federation with which our parent union is affiliated. Before the June 25 delegate assembly where we voted on it, union members working in Rank and File Action drafted the resolution with these clear demands. The union leadership, who has regularly taken more conservative positions on a range of issues, offered a substitute resolution that expanded some language but dropped the demand on expelling the police unions. A rank-and-file delegate amended it back in and the complete resolution overwhelmingly passed. This is an early step in a larger struggle but the victory shows that in moments of mass struggle rank and file members can push forward radical demands. 

MIT Climate Sit-In Ends As University Agrees To Work With Students

March 4, 2016 Zahra Hirji, www.insideclimatenews.org , , , ,
By Zahra Hirji for Inside Climate News - Four months of student protests demanding fossil fuel divestment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ended on Thursday, when school administrators and members of the student group Fossil Free MITannounced a compromise. The agreement gives students a role in crafting and tracking the university's climate policy, but the university did not budge on its refusal to partially divest MIT's $13.5 billion endowment of its holdings in fossil fuel companies, which was a major goal of many of the protesters.

To Confront University Racism, Acknowledge Segregation

January 9, 2016 Cary Fraser, www.truth-out.org , ,
By Cary Fraser for Truthout - The idea that leaders at all levels of the US educational system need to be trained to recognize and combat racism is finally receiving renewed attention within academia, thanks to the intensity of the protests that erupted on streets and campuses across the country in 2015. The protests that spread to university campuses across the country following the student protests against a racist campus climate and an unresponsive leadership at the University of Missouri-Columbia have again forced Americans to confront the recurrent failures of their higher education institutions...

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