CUNY Police Riot, Ban Students from Attending Public Hearing

CUNY Police Riot, Ban S...

A full day of action across CUNY campuses culminated in an ugly incident at Baruch College on Monday November 23.  It began with a series of student walkouts from classrooms throughout the city between lunchtime and the late afternoon, at which point protesters converged on Madison...

CUNY News in Brief, Nov...

St. Mark’s Bookshop Saved! The beginning of November witnessed a major victory for independent, small businesses in New York City.  St. Mark’s Bookshop, a Lower East Side institution for over thirty years, was threatened with eviction by its landlord, Cooper Union, as it struggled to...
Occupy CUNY Blog: Day One

Occupy CUNY Blog: Day O...

Wel­come to the CUNY Cri­sis blog. We’ll be cov­er­ing the recent sit­u­a­tion developing at CUNY around proposed tuition hikes, the protests against them, and the unacceptably forceful response from the police and university brass. We will be report­ing on this...
Living In The Stew: A DIY music scene goes small and goes home in Brooklyn

Living In The Stew: A D...

On approach, Death By Audio, one of Brooklyn’s Do-It-Yourself, all-ages concert venues, is unassuming – and strikingly so. The north side of South 2nd Street’s sidewalk runs unevenly, from solid concrete slabs at the corner of Wythe Avenue to mid-block cracked asphalt and unkempt...

CUNY News in Brief

Adjunct Healthcare under Attack—PSC Members fight back The start of the new academic year could mark the beginning of an adjunct healthcare bloodbath if the rising cost of insurance, CUNY’s “meh” attitude, and the city’s blind eye to the welfare of adjuncts aren’t successfully...
The Politics of Catastrophic Convergence: A Discussion with Christian Parenti

The Politics of Catastr...

In many respects, 2011 has been marked as much by the mayhem of nature as it has by the upheavals of men.  While challenges to political authority have captured the imaginations of millions and produced exciting tremors of revolution across the continents, Mother Nature’s increasingly...