CUNY Rallies in Solidarity With Striking Dock Workers

Students and faculty at campuses across CUNY gathered on Thursday May 1 in solidarity with the west coast longshore workers union ILWU, whose unprecedented eight hour international strike against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan shut down west coast ports from San Diego to Seattle and Vancouver.

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PSC still without a contract The Professional Staff Congress union, which represents faculty and staff at CUNY, has now been without a contract for almost eight moths and has still not received any kind of monetary offer from the CUNY administration. This situation has sparked marches and campus actions across CUNY including a series of rallies at every CUNY campus during Contract Week in the second week of April.

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Life After Amnesty

DANIEL MACHT

It is an open question whether the old Volvo will make the trip. The car sputters each time Jean Pierre Kamwa presses down its gas pedal. The same thing happens when he slows down. The car toils over the George Washington Bridge to the immigrant detention center 30 minutes away in Elizabeth, NJ. It is 4 p.m.