University of Washington Enacts Austerity By Choice This spring, University of Washington graduate student teaching assistants began receiving news that their positions are to be cut from the upcoming academic year. Roughly 25 graduate students from the College of Arts and Sciences had their positions eliminated because of budget shortfalls at the college level. Students…
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To help us think about building for the future, and once all this frenzied organizing dies down a bit – let’s read!!!! Other folks have done what we’re trying. In Chicago rank and file teachers got pissed, self-organized, formed a caucus, and now lead their union. And there’s a book about it! “How To Jump…
By Meredith Hoffman April 13, 2015 | 2:45 pm Undocumented immigrants are often portrayed as drains on the US economy that pay next to nothing in taxes while receiving free public education for their children, access to infrastructure, and protection from local police and fire departments. Researchers from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank,…
Borrowed from the philosophy of mind, specifically critiques of Cartesian conceptions of mind-body duality, the idea of the “ghost in the machine” has taken on changing meanings since its introduction in the post war period. Originally the phrase was intended as a diss of Descartes philosophy of mind as a kind of occultist ephemera, a…
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BY Leah Fried “If you don’t fight, you’ve already lost,” Maclin often told workers. “But if you do fight, you can win.” (Brendan Martin / The Working World) Melvin “Ricky” Maurice Maclin, Vice President of United Electrical Workers Local 1110, leader of the historic six-day factory occupation of Republic Windows and Doors in December 2008…