Labor Goes to the Movies:Chinatown
Event Date: Friday, April 17, 2015 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie This year’s Labor Goes to the Movies film series presents a group of films—documentary and fiction—that take the threat of apocalypse as their premise. The threat of global climate change has given apocalyptic scenarios more mainstream girth, but filmmakers…
Labor Goes to the Movies: An Evergreen Island & Before the Mountain Was Moved
Event Date: Friday, December 12, 2014 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie This year’s Labor Goes to the Movies film series presents a group of films—documentary and fiction—that take the threat of apocalypse as their premise. These two documentaries present stories of ordinary flesh-and-blood people’s resistance to corporate resource extraction that…
Academic Freedom Forum
Event Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 5:30pm to 8:30pm Event Type7: Forum Academic Freedom Forum Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 PURGING CUNY FACULTY: THE LESSONS OF THE FORTIES AND FIFTIES FOR TODAY Book Talk by Marjorie Heins, Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge. Commentary by…
Forum: Saving CUNY's Past, The Story of Open Admissions
Event Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 6:30pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Forum The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is launching a CUNY Digital History Archive with a public program on Wednesday, April 9th entitled SAVING CUNY'S PAST -- The Story of Open Admissions. Speakers and panelists will include…
Labor Goes to the Movies: Glory
Event Date: Friday, February 14, 2014 - 6:00pm Event Type7: Movie Glory (USA, Zwick, 1989) This film relates the story of the legendary 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, the first black Union Army regiment, organized and commissioned in 1863 at the insistence of Frederick Douglass and other Black abolitionists and 'sponsored' by…
Labor Goes to the Movies-Leviathan
Event Date: Friday, November 8, 2013 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie Leviathan (France/UK/USA, Castaing-Taylor and Paravel, 2012)The film records the sounds and images of a commercial fishing boat off the coast of New Bedford, Massachussetts. Without a word of commentary, with virtually no audible dialogue, smothered under the unceasing roar…
Mayoral Forum
Event Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Forum Mayoral Forum on Higher Education sponsored by the PSC Tuesday April 23rd from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College/CUNY 2180 Third Avenue @ 119th Street New York, N.Y. 10035 Moderated by Tom Robbins,…
Racial Justice and CUNY: Access of Students and Faculty of Color to Public Higher Education
Event Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 6:00pm to 8:30pm Event Type7: Conference/Convention Panelists include: David R. Jones, President/CEO, Community Service Society Frank Deale, Professor, CUNY School of Law Paul Washington, Chair, PSC Anti-racism Committee and HEO Associate, Medgar Evers College Ann Cook, Co-founder, Urban Academy Laboratory High School and Executive Director,…
Labor Goes to the Movies, "One-Zero"
Event Date: Friday, February 22, 2013 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie One-Zero One-Zero(Egypt, Abu Zekry, 2009) Set in Cairo on the eve of an important soccer match, One-Zero interweaves stories of Cairo inhabitants from various walks of life, including a Coptic woman seeking a divorce, a valet who lives in…
Labor Goes to the Movies
Event Date: Friday, March 9, 2012 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling, USA, 1982) As most of our students have grown up with the high school genre movies, it seems necessary to include one. At the time, most critics categorized Fast Times as just…
