If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; Every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains. Every wheel in the creation, every mine and every mill; Fleets and armies of the nation, will at their command stand still. –Joe Hill On November 17, I marched...
“Underlying recent attacks on the university is an attempt not merely to counter dissent but to destroy it and, in doing so, to eliminate all of those remaining public spaces , spheres, and institutions that nourish and sustain a democratic civil society” —Henry Giroux The...
“The owners of this country know the truth: it’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” —George Carlin The nation is in crisis! The economy is stuck in neutral! Unemployment still hovers close to 10 percent! And states across the country are facing...
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” — Rosa Parks “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” — William Butler Yeats I am writing this editorial on...
Anyone who reads the GC Advocate is likely familiar with the plight of CUNY adjuncts. Like other universities and colleges across the country, CUNY adjuncts are paid a small fraction of the wages that their tenured and tenure-track colleagues receive for much of the same work; are...
