CUNY Rallies in Solidarity With Striking Dock Workers: May Day strikes shut down west coast ports for eight hours
by Advocate Staff
Students and faculty at campuses across CUNY gathered on Thursday May 1 in solidarity with the west coast longshore workers union ILWU, whose unprecedented eight hour international strike against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan shut down west coast ports from San Diego to Seattle and Vancouver.
At Hunter College, the Hunter chapter of The PSC-CUNY organized […]
Life After Amnesty: Former detainee gives solace to asylum seekers
by DMacht
It is an open question whether the old Volvo will make the trip. The car sputters each time Jean Pierre Kamwa presses down its gas pedal. The same thing happens when he slows down. The car toils over the George Washington Bridge to the immigrant detention center 30 minutes away in Elizabeth, NJ. It is 4 p.m.
Kamwa, 37, […]
“God Damn America”The Case for Reverend Wright
by Advocate Staff
“Who wants to be well-adjusted to injustice? What kind of human being do you want to be?” — Cornel West
I feel a sense of disbelief when I read the lies of Media Street. — Angelic Upstarts
Although I realize I run the risk of sounding naively optimistic, I like to think that most intelligent media observers have by now figured out — or indeed figured out […]
Managing Editor
by Advocate Staff
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Laptop Loan Program in the Works
by Advocate Staff
The Information Technology department is working on putting a student laptop loan program in place for Fall 2008 to meet increased student demands. Ten MacBooks were ordered for this pilot program, which will be able to run both Windows XP and Leopard.
According to Elaine Montilla, Director of User Services for Information Technology, this will “allow students […]
CUNY News
by Advocate Staff
PSC still without a contract
The Professional Staff Congress union, which represents faculty and staff at CUNY, has now been without a contract for almost eight moths and has still not received any kind of monetary offer from the CUNY administration. This situation has sparked marches and campus actions across CUNY including a series of rallies at every […]
Hugo Chávez and the Oil Elite
by MBusch
The following excerpt is Part Two of a two part series on Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela.
As I argued in these pages a month ago, the truly revolutionary dimension to Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian politics is his aggressive sponsorship of social welfare “missions” to Venezuela’s poorest communities. Missions represent a victory for hardline revolutionary factions within the government. According to their […]
A Week Without Adjuncts
by Carl Lindskoog
What would happen if all graduate students, adjuncts, and other “contingent workers” at CUNY decided to withhold their labor for a week? How would CUNY continue operating if these so-called “part-timers” took a week-long work holiday? With graduate students and adjuncts teaching more than half of the classes at CUNY, business as usual would be impossible. Although […]
‘Bind Me, Tie Me, Chain Me To The Wall’
by EMock
Who’s Been Sleeping in Your Head: The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies by Brett Kahr (Basic Books, 2008, 512pp)
Woody Allen famously joked, “Don’t knock masturbation — it’s sex with someone I love.” British psychoanalyst Brett Kahr would likely dispute the validity of Allen’s claim: to him, self-love’s place in the autoerotic sphere seems peripheral at best. The acting out […]
We’re All Just Left Joking Around
by Andrew Bast
In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Žižek (Verso Books, 2008, 208 pgs.)
Jennifer Anniston is a terrorist. This is how low leftist intellectuals have sunk. Set aside for a moment what a downright silly moniker a leftist intellectual has become and instead consider this: theory-hungry thinkers are now spending $34.95 on a hulking hardcover book — In Defense of Lost Causes — by the rambling, […]
