March for Our Lives

Rally in Washington D.C. on March 24

Millions of people marched at over 800 US cities in response to the mass shootings that have catalyzed support for gun regulation. The main march in DC was changed to a rally as the expected numbers grew. Instead of marching up Pennsylvania Ave., people packed all the spaces from 3rd to ...
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March for Our Lives

A Protest

Not an Assembly

I didn’t expect the cheers that peppered my short speech. I was standing up in front of five hundred of my classmates, but what surprised me even more was the support that they showed. I didn't realize that the students at my Midwestern, suburban school cared about this movement or ...
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A Protest

As West Virginia Goes…

Reflections on the West Virginia Teacher’s Strike

For the second time in eighteen months, West Virginia has become a bellwether for the nation according to many pundits. In the fall of 2016, reporters latched onto “Trump whisperer” J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy, to explain why the once solidly Democratic state now led the country in voting for the ...
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As West Virginia Goes…

What Walkouts Teach Students

A Report from San Diego

Sometimes in San Diego County, when too many people run their air-conditioning all at once, we have blackouts. The first time a blackout happened after I moved here, one neighbor shouted across the street to me: “There’s a blackout! I think it might be terrorism! But don’t worry, I have ...
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What Walkouts Teach Students

The Children’s Rights Movement Takes Off

What the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child offers students

And so it begins. Finally. Students in Florida who survived a school shooting are using their voices and demanding that lawmakers listen to them. They’re joined by other young people around the country who also feel they have rights that aren’t being protected. It was only a matter of time before young people ...
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The Children’s Rights Movement Takes Off

Student Workers on the Line

The New School and its policy regarding student employees

On the day of the International Women’s Strike, we offer an update on the situation of the student workers union at the New School. We are still here. We are still fighting. We stand strong in our commitment to participatory democracy and collective bargaining. SENS-UAW 7902 and the International Women’s Strike follow the vision ...
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Student Workers on the Line

International Women’s Strike

March 8th 2018 will be the second IWS

March 8th, We Strike! New York is an affluent city, rich in many ways, a global hub of business, finance and commerce, and home for the highest number of billionaires. However, it is not the top 1% who keep this city alive, but the millions of workers. Their labor is essential ...
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International Women’s Strike

Alicia: Golden Steps — Cooperativa

International Women’s Strike Interview Project

En este proyecto miembros del comité del paro internacional de mujeres de Nueva York entrevistaron con organizadoras de trabajos y cooperativas, como parte de un processo de co-produccion de sabiduría militante. Estamos interesadas particularmente en esclarecer las condiciones que a la vez permiten y limitan la organización laboral autónoma y la auto-determinacion. También nos interesa ...
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Alicia: Golden Steps — Cooperativa

Alicia: Golden Steps

International Women’s Strike Interview Project

In this project, IWS-NYC members perform interviews with women organizers from worker centers and cooperatives, as part of a process of militant knowledge co-production. We are particularly interested in unpacking the conditions that both enable and limit autonomous labor organizing and self-determination, as well as the way in which feminist ...
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Alicia: Golden Steps

A Global Strike for a Global City

A call to action on March 8th

New York City is often called the “center of the world”, the multicultural and multiethnic city, the city that never sleeps, the big apple loved by tourists and film-makers. But a different reality hides behind the glitter and the glamour. It is the reality of the exploited labor of millions ...
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A Global Strike for a Global City

Black Insurgency, Anti-Racism, and the Student Mobilization Against Guns

The similarities and differences of these social movements

I have seen many comments on social media about the significant difference in how the emergence of the student mobilizations against gun violence has been greeted compared to the Black insurgency of Black Lives Matter. It is an important discussion to have because if these current mobilizations hope to grow into ...
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Black Insurgency, Anti-Racism, and the Student Mobilization Against Guns

Nai: New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) (Español)

International Women’s Strike Interview Project

En este proyecto miembros del comité del paro internacional de mujeres de Nueva York entrevistaron con organizadoras de trabajos y cooperativas, como parte de un processo de co-produccion de sabiduría militante. Estamos interesadas particularmente en esclarecer las condiciones que a la vez permiten y limitan la organización laboral autónoma y la auto-determinacion. También nos interesa ...
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Nai: New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) (Español)