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It Spread Like Wildfire! A Celebration
Fri, September 16, 2016 @ 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
A Teach-In and support meeting around capital’s new assault against university labor and how faculty and student actions secured a temporary victory.
Spread like Wildfire: Faculty Lockout, Student Walkout. An evening with Members of the LIUFF discussing their struggle and the most recent and egregious attack on Higher Education and how faculty with students have secured a temporary victory.
Join us in a discussion on the fight for academic freedom , equal pay for equal work, and the ongoing struggle of contingent faculty and the omnipresent student debt crisis.
Michael Pelias, LIU Brooklyn
Vidhya Swaminathan, LIU Brooklyn
Melissa Antinori, LIU Brooklyn
Manny Ness
and more to speak
Join The Institute for the Radical Imagination, The Marxist Education Project, Theater or The Oppressed, and other organizations and groups for a night of solidarity with the teaching faculty workers who were locked out of their jobs at Long Island University. Historically, this is the first time that capital has locked out an entire teaching body at a university.
There will be report backs from union members, students and members of the community.
Speakers and other organizational sponsors to add.
We have been one, we shall be all!