Join us in celebrating the launch of Samantha Majic's book, Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision [read more»]

Emerging from the Civil Rights Movement, Food Justice embodies the struggles of local communities in the United States for racial justice in the food system. Outside the US, peasants and indigenous people defend the idea of Food Sovereignty, the right of local communities to define their own food policies - what to plant and what to eat. Despite their different origins, both Food Justice and Food Sovereignty represent the goal of moving towards a more Just Food System. [read more»]

The concept of "The Commons" has become ubiquitous in the political, economic, and even the real estate language of our time; conservatives and anarchists alike use it in their political interventions. How, then, might the term's meaning and significance be clarified to help point beyond the capitalist horizon? On April 10, join George Caffentzis, Silvia Federici, and AK Thompson to discuss this question. [read more»]

Transnational Movement Building 04/09/2014 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Room C202 Emilio Spataro–from the Guardianes del Ibera movement, Corrientes, Argentina–joins us in a discussion on bringing students, environmental and social justice activists in the USA together with rural communities in Argentina to stop Harvard University from destroying one of the world’s largest wetlands and exploiting indigenous communities. April [read more»]

Join Ruth Milkman in celebrating the launch of her new edited volume, New Labor in New York: Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement. [read more»]

BDS and Academic Freedom 04/02/2014 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Skylight Conference Room, 9th Floor Panelists: Professor Bill Mullen (Purdue), Radhika Sainath (Palestine Solidarity Legal Support), Sherry Wolf (International Socialist Review), Professor Ashley Dawson (College of Staten Island/Graduate Center, CUNY) Moderator: Christopher Stone (Hunter/Graduate Center, CUNY) April 2, 2014
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Room C202-205, CUNY GC This [read more»]

Paolo Novak argues that fruitful points of contact and articulation between Marxist and postcolonial border studies can be found by focusing our gaze on ontological as opposed to epistemological questions. [read more»]

Panel discussion with Laurence Cox, Jeff Goodwin, and John Krinsky. [read more»]