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…
Labor Goes to the Movies
Event Date: Friday, February 10, 2012 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie NightJohn (Charles Burnett, USA, 1996) A tale about a former runaway slave who returns to a plantation to educate his people in the ante-bellum South. The community changes radically when he begins to secretly teach Sarny, a 12-year-old slave…
Environmental Health & Safety Watchdogs
Event Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 5:30pm to 8:00pm Event Type7: Committee Meeting We will discuss brief campus reports on problems, victories, and Workplace Violence Prevention. Our main focus will be discussing priorities for this coming year, including: - Building construction and renovation - Bargaining demands around environmental health and safety…
CUNY and Race forum: Diversity in a Time of Austerity Policies
Event Date: Friday, December 9, 2011 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Forum Join us for a discussion of the preliminary findings of a study by the Professional Staff Congress on how race, gender and ethnicity affect hiring, promotion, tenure and reclassification at CUNY. Featured Speakers: Carol Wright, PSC Researcher, CUNY and…
Labor Goes to the Movies
Event Date: Friday, December 9, 2011 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie Jonah who will be 25 in the year 2000 (Alain Tanner, Switzerland, 1976) This film looks forward to the possibilities of this, our new millennium, from out of the shadows of May '68. A group of young people in…
