The Movement Behind Mamdani: Organizers & Supporters Celebrate Stunning Victory & Repudiation of Trump
Democracy Now! spoke with supporters celebrating Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral race Tuesday night. Volunteers with the Democratic Socialists and other campaign organizers at the Brooklyn Paramount victory party described the night as “surreal” and vowed to fight back against President Trump’s agenda. Sumaya Awad, a…
Zohran Mamdani’s Next Big Battle is in Albany
Focus: Zohran Mamdani made history last night, romping to a decisive victory over former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s mayoral election. In January, he will become New York’s first Muslim mayor, first immigrant mayor in 50 years, and youngest mayor in a century.
Opinion: Why Cuomo Would Be a Bad Deal for CUNY
City Limits: In January 2017, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo stood with Bernie Sanders at CUNY’s LaGuardia Community College to announce his plan for free tuition at New York’s public colleges, under banners that read “Excelsior Scholarship.” His budget director wrote that 900,000 families would qualify for the new program. As a CUNY student and campus…
Now Is the Time to Show Our Collective Power
Common Dreams: There is no question that the contemporary system of higher education in the United States was facing several crises (commodification of education, access and affordability, faculty precarity, violations of academic freedom, the “rationality crisis”, administrative bloat, etc.—what we generally refer to as the neoliberalization and corporatization of education)…
Standing beside you: Solidarity with immigrants in the courts
AFT.org: Since May, more than 200 members from every CUNY campus have taken “court support” training and made more than 430 visits to the federal immigration courthouses. They gather every Thursday and Friday morning for this work, which is intentionally nonviolent and nonconfrontational. Their focus is on supporting families facing…
Mamdani Hosts Reverse Town Hall with Union Workers
The NY Carib News: Less than a day after the mayoral debate, where Zohran Mamdani answered New Yorkers' questions, he joined union workers at a "reverse town hall" where he asked the questions. Zohran Mamdani listened to the issues that New York City workers face everyday.
PSC rallies in support of fired faculty amid ‘climate of fear’
The Chief: A cowbell, a saxophone, drums and chants of solidarity rang out in Midtown Friday as dozens of students and staff of the City University of New York rallied outside CUNY’s central office on East 42nd Street in support of four adjunct faculty members who the union claims lost…
CUNY Union Leads Charge Against Federal Attacks on Labor and Public Higher Education
The Knight News: The PSC has stepped into a more political role, defending labor rights, public higher education, immigrant rights, and student access to affordable education, all linked to President Trump’s agenda. In an August 26th digital report, PSC President James Davis addressed the list of federal threats, from slashing…
Cuomo’s controversial CUNY record resurfaces as affordability concerns dominate mayor’s race
Politico: As Andrew Cuomo vies to become the next mayor of New York City, his past attempts to cut state aid to the City University of New York are raising questions about his commitment to public universities in a race centered on affordability. CUNY endured decades of declining state aid,…
The Professional Staff Congress/CUNY Workers ‘Battles Against The Rise Of The New McCarthyism’
WNY Labor Today: The Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the Union that represents 30,000 Faculty and Staff at the City University of New York (CUNY), spent much of the Summer battling against the rise of Right-Wing McCarthyist assaults on American Universities, including specific attacks against Members and academic freedom at CUNY.…
