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Forum on Reducing Barriers to Successful Reentry Please join us for this forum on the urgent need for significant reform in Wisconsin that will make our communities safer and stronger and help formerly-incarcerated people succeed. Members of a Wisconsin Legislative Council Study Committee on reducing recidivism and barriers to employment for formerly-incarcerated people have proposed […]

We refuse to celebrate a holiday that honors a man who tortured and massacred hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Peoples. #IndigenousPeoplesDay NOT #ColumbusDay No More Columbus Days! Social Media Action

http://www.indstate.edu/cas/polisci/cuban-symposium Pursuant to ISU’s academic exchange agreement with the University of Havana,  ISU will convene a symposium on Cuban affairs to be held on October 27-28, 2016.  The centerpiece for the symposium will be leading Cuban scholars in their field who will serve as the primary speakers for the symposium sessions.  The individual symposium sessions […]

By Ted G. Waechter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER This week, HUDS workers are striking for affordable healthcare and a sustainable yearly income. They’re on the defensive, fighting to keep their current coverage as Harvard proposes massive cuts. It’s about economic justice and how Harvard treats the lowest-paid, hardest-working folks on campus. And it’s also so gay. […]

On October 6, more than 100,000 students, educators, parents and others in 2,000 schools in more than 200 communities participated in a national day of action for public education according to the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association. A variety of actions took place most of them being walk-ins where public school […]

http://www.ctunet.com/ CHICAGO—The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) today issued a 10-day notice of intent to strike to the Chicago Board of Education, following the passage of a resolution at the Union’s Sept. 28 House of Delegates meeting.  Rank-and-file CTU leadership voted overwhelmingly last night that the Union will go on strike Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, if […]