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Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-11-26

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-06-11-26/

https://youtu.be/X6GRMdn8ZD4
🛑🇺🇸Another American safeguard proved ineffective in F-BOMB, War Crimes And Blasphemy Presidential post: Trump’s unhinged Iran post raising Ineffective 25th Amendment Questions (MS Now VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #Media #News #USA #US #America #Trump #Republicans #maga #CUNY #Headlines #russiaUkraineWar
#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiansAreBabyKillers

https://youtu.be/X6GRMdn8ZD4
🛑🇺🇸Another American safeguard proved ineffective in F-BOMB, War Crimes And Blasphemy Presidential post: Trump’s unhinged Iran post raising Ineffective 25th Amendment Questions (MS Now VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #Media #News #USA #US #America #Trump #Republicans #maga #CUNY #Headlines #russiaUkraineWar
#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiansAreBabyKillers

Miscast: The Playwright Decides, and No One Else Gets a Vote

There is a moment in the life of every playwright when someone walks into a rehearsal room and announces that the character you wrote is not, in fact, the character you wrote. The director has a vision. The institution has a policy. The casting committee has decided that your Irish Catholic mother from the Southside of Chicago would be better served by an actress who has no connection to the world you built because connection, in the current theatrical climate, is less important than representation, and representation is whatever the people who control the stage say it is. You sit there. You watch your play become someone else’s argument. And you have two choices: you can let it happen, or you can pull the production.

I pulled the production.

That story appears in Chapter 11 of Miscast: Who Owns the Story on Stage?, my new book, now available in eBook, paperback, and PDF from David Boles Books. The anecdote is from Columbia University, where I was earning my MFA, and where a director proposed splitting a single character in my play into bipolar twins under the banner of non-traditional casting. I said no. I cancelled the production. I lost the showcase. I kept the play. That was more than thirty years ago, and I have spent the time since thinking about what that moment meant, not just for me but for every playwright who has watched the American theatre transform casting from an artistic decision made by the author into an institutional mandate imposed over the author’s objection.

Miscast is the book that thinking produced.

The argument is simple. The playwright creates the characters. The playwright determines what the characters are. No institution has the right to override that determination. When Lin-Manuel Miranda casts actors of color as the Founding Fathers in Hamilton, that is authorial choice, and it is art. When an institution imposes non-traditional casting on a playwright’s work without the playwright’s knowledge or against the playwright’s wishes, that is something else entirely. It is expropriation. It is the seizure of creative authority from the person who did the creating. And it is now standard practice in the American theatre, codified in equity agreements, hiring mandates, and the Dramatists Guild’s own 2021 Inclusion Rider, the first contract addendum in theatre history that asks playwrights to redirect their copyright authority toward institutional demographic objectives.

That is a sentence worth reading twice.

The book traces the full arc. It begins with the all-male stages of fifth-century Athens, where Medea and Clytemnestra were performed by masked men in a civic festival that excluded women not because they lacked talent but because the stage was a function of democratic citizenship and women were not citizens. It moves through the Restoration revolution of 1660, when Charles II returned from French exile and issued a royal warrant requiring female roles to be performed by women, ending two thousand years of all-male convention in England overnight. It examines the blackface minstrelsy of the nineteenth century, which I argue is not the opposite of non-traditional casting but its structural cousin: both treat the actor’s body as raw material on which someone else’s vision is painted, the one through burnt cork, the other through institutional policy, with the same underlying assumption that the controlling authority, not the playwright, decides what the body on stage means.

That claim will make people uncomfortable. It is meant to. The surface justifications of blackface and non-traditional casting are opposite, one rooted in white supremacy, the other in racial justice, but the structural relationship between the performer’s body and the institution that governs the stage is identical. The body is canvas. The institution holds the brush. The playwright, in both systems, is irrelevant.

The book then turns to case studies that give the argument flesh. Samuel Beckett’s refusal to allow the American Repertory Theatre to cast women in Endgame in 1984, which established that a playwright’s stage directions are not suggestions but legally enforceable elements of the work. August Wilson’s 1996 address at the Theatre Communications Group conference, “The Ground on Which I Stand,” which declared that Black plays require Black directors and Black actors, and which remains the most important speech about race and the American stage delivered in the last half century. The casting of Hamilton and the 2022 revival of 1776, where color-conscious casting was deployed to reimagine the founding mythology of white America through non-white bodies, with radically different results. The removal of a white ASL interpreter from a performance of The Lion King because the actors on stage were Black, which raises a question the theatre has not answered: is an interpreter a performer or a conduit? Ali Stroker’s Tony-winning performance in Oklahoma!, which asks whether a wheelchair in a scene that depends on physical running is an artistic disruption or an artistic contribution, and who gets to decide. Eugene O’Neill’s Irish families, in which the ethnicity is not decoration but architecture, load-bearing walls that collapse if you remove them.

Each of these cases is examined at length, with sources documented and arguments presented with as much candor as I can bring to the page. I have tried to be fair. I have also tried to be honest. Where those two imperatives conflict, I chose honesty. That choice runs through the entire book, and it is the choice I have made in every professional decision since I founded The United Stage on the principle that the playwright has the right to direct the first public performance of the playwright’s own play.

I have been a dues-paying member of the Dramatists Guild of America since July 2, 1984, member number 45010, enrolled on the advice of a freshman playwriting teacher at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who read the first one-act play I ever wrote and told me to join immediately. I did not understand at eighteen what that membership meant. I understand it now. The Guild was built to protect the playwright. Its Bill of Rights, maintained since the first Minimum Basic Agreement of 1926, affirms the playwright’s right to approve casting, the creative team, and production elements, to be present at rehearsals, to own the copyright, and to protect the integrity of the text. This book criticizes the Guild’s Inclusion Rider, and I want to be clear that the criticism is offered from within the Guild, by a member who has been paying dues without interruption for more than forty years, who believes in the Guild’s foundational mission, and who writes this book in its defense.

The book also benefits from the expertise of Janna Sweenie, my collaborator on American Sign Language educational materials, who contributed her knowledge of Deaf culture, interpreter ethics, and the NAD-RID Code of Professional Conduct to the chapter on the Lion King interpreter incident. The precision in that analysis is hers. The errors in the book are mine.

Miscast is not a book about inclusion. It is a book about authorship. The distinction matters more than any other distinction in the American theatre today, because every institution that promotes non-traditional casting claims to be expanding inclusion, and some of them are, but the mechanism by which they do it requires seizing creative authority from the person who created the work. That seizure is the subject of this book. That seizure is what I spent thirty years watching. That seizure is what I said no to in a rehearsal room at Columbia, and what I am saying no to now, in print, at full length, with documentation.

The playwright decides. That is the ground on which this book stands.

Miscast: Who Owns the Story on Stage? is available now from David Boles Books in Kindle eBook ($9.99), paperback ($16.99), and free PDF download. David Boles is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and has been writing for the stage, for television, and for publication for more than four decades.

Miscast: The Playwright Decides, and No One Else Gets a Vote

There is a moment in the life of every playwright when someone walks into a rehearsal room and announces that the character you wrote is not, in fact, the character you wrote. The director has a vision. The institution has a policy. The casting committee has decided that your Irish Catholic mother from the Southside of Chicago would be better served by an actress who has no connection to the world you built because connection, in the current theatrical climate, is less important than representation, and representation is whatever the people who control the stage say it is. You sit there. You watch your play become someone else’s argument. And you have two choices: you can let it happen, or you can pull the production.

I pulled the production.

That story appears in Chapter 11 of Miscast: Who Owns the Story on Stage?, my new book, now available in eBook, paperback, and PDF from David Boles Books. The anecdote is from Columbia University, where I was earning my MFA, and where a director proposed splitting a single character in my play into bipolar twins under the banner of non-traditional casting. I said no. I cancelled the production. I lost the showcase. I kept the play. That was more than thirty years ago, and I have spent the time since thinking about what that moment meant, not just for me but for every playwright who has watched the American theatre transform casting from an artistic decision made by the author into an institutional mandate imposed over the author’s objection.

Miscast is the book that thinking produced.

The argument is simple. The playwright creates the characters. The playwright determines what the characters are. No institution has the right to override that determination. When Lin-Manuel Miranda casts actors of color as the Founding Fathers in Hamilton, that is authorial choice, and it is art. When an institution imposes non-traditional casting on a playwright’s work without the playwright’s knowledge or against the playwright’s wishes, that is something else entirely. It is expropriation. It is the seizure of creative authority from the person who did the creating. And it is now standard practice in the American theatre, codified in equity agreements, hiring mandates, and the Dramatists Guild’s own 2021 Inclusion Rider, the first contract addendum in theatre history that asks playwrights to redirect their copyright authority toward institutional demographic objectives.

That is a sentence worth reading twice.

The book traces the full arc. It begins with the all-male stages of fifth-century Athens, where Medea and Clytemnestra were performed by masked men in a civic festival that excluded women not because they lacked talent but because the stage was a function of democratic citizenship and women were not citizens. It moves through the Restoration revolution of 1660, when Charles II returned from French exile and issued a royal warrant requiring female roles to be performed by women, ending two thousand years of all-male convention in England overnight. It examines the blackface minstrelsy of the nineteenth century, which I argue is not the opposite of non-traditional casting but its structural cousin: both treat the actor’s body as raw material on which someone else’s vision is painted, the one through burnt cork, the other through institutional policy, with the same underlying assumption that the controlling authority, not the playwright, decides what the body on stage means.

That claim will make people uncomfortable. It is meant to. The surface justifications of blackface and non-traditional casting are opposite, one rooted in white supremacy, the other in racial justice, but the structural relationship between the performer’s body and the institution that governs the stage is identical. The body is canvas. The institution holds the brush. The playwright, in both systems, is irrelevant.

The book then turns to case studies that give the argument flesh. Samuel Beckett’s refusal to allow the American Repertory Theatre to cast women in Endgame in 1984, which established that a playwright’s stage directions are not suggestions but legally enforceable elements of the work. August Wilson’s 1996 address at the Theatre Communications Group conference, “The Ground on Which I Stand,” which declared that Black plays require Black directors and Black actors, and which remains the most important speech about race and the American stage delivered in the last half century. The casting of Hamilton and the 2022 revival of 1776, where color-conscious casting was deployed to reimagine the founding mythology of white America through non-white bodies, with radically different results. The removal of a white ASL interpreter from a performance of The Lion King because the actors on stage were Black, which raises a question the theatre has not answered: is an interpreter a performer or a conduit? Ali Stroker’s Tony-winning performance in Oklahoma!, which asks whether a wheelchair in a scene that depends on physical running is an artistic disruption or an artistic contribution, and who gets to decide. Eugene O’Neill’s Irish families, in which the ethnicity is not decoration but architecture, load-bearing walls that collapse if you remove them.

Each of these cases is examined at length, with sources documented and arguments presented with as much candor as I can bring to the page. I have tried to be fair. I have also tried to be honest. Where those two imperatives conflict, I chose honesty. That choice runs through the entire book, and it is the choice I have made in every professional decision since I founded The United Stage on the principle that the playwright has the right to direct the first public performance of the playwright’s own play.

I have been a dues-paying member of the Dramatists Guild of America since July 2, 1984, member number 45010, enrolled on the advice of a freshman playwriting teacher at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who read the first one-act play I ever wrote and told me to join immediately. I did not understand at eighteen what that membership meant. I understand it now. The Guild was built to protect the playwright. Its Bill of Rights, maintained since the first Minimum Basic Agreement of 1926, affirms the playwright’s right to approve casting, the creative team, and production elements, to be present at rehearsals, to own the copyright, and to protect the integrity of the text. This book criticizes the Guild’s Inclusion Rider, and I want to be clear that the criticism is offered from within the Guild, by a member who has been paying dues without interruption for more than forty years, who believes in the Guild’s foundational mission, and who writes this book in its defense.

The book also benefits from the expertise of Janna Sweenie, my collaborator on American Sign Language educational materials, who contributed her knowledge of Deaf culture, interpreter ethics, and the NAD-RID Code of Professional Conduct to the chapter on the Lion King interpreter incident. The precision in that analysis is hers. The errors in the book are mine.

Miscast is not a book about inclusion. It is a book about authorship. The distinction matters more than any other distinction in the American theatre today, because every institution that promotes non-traditional casting claims to be expanding inclusion, and some of them are, but the mechanism by which they do it requires seizing creative authority from the person who created the work. That seizure is the subject of this book. That seizure is what I spent thirty years watching. That seizure is what I said no to in a rehearsal room at Columbia, and what I am saying no to now, in print, at full length, with documentation.

The playwright decides. That is the ground on which this book stands.

Miscast: Who Owns the Story on Stage? is available now from David Boles Books in Kindle eBook ($9.99), paperback ($16.99), and free PDF download. David Boles is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and has been writing for the stage, for television, and for publication for more than four decades.

First day of school…as a full professor! :woohoo: (rare selfie) Psychonaut gear for the provost’s professional development event this afternoon. #academia #cuny

First day of school…as a full professor! :woohoo: (rare selfie) Psychonaut gear for the provost’s professional development event this afternoon. #academia #cuny

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Community Reports

State-of-the-art cross sections for t tbar H: NNLO predictions matched with NNLL resummation and EW corrections

Roger Balsach et al.
SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 10 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep.10

#WWU #ViennaUniversity #GhentUniversity #CUNY #LundUniversity #UZH #PSI #JagiellonianUniversity #INFNBologna #DurhamUniversity #TUM #RWTH #UNIMI #INFNMilano

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Community Reports

State-of-the-art cross sections for t tbar H: NNLO predictions matched with NNLL resummation and EW corrections

Roger Balsach et al.
SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 10 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep.10

#WWU #ViennaUniversity #GhentUniversity #CUNY #LundUniversity #UZH #PSI #JagiellonianUniversity #INFNBologna #DurhamUniversity #TUM #RWTH #UNIMI #INFNMilano

Send a letter from #PSC_CUNY demanding that #BrooklynCollege reinstate four adjuncts dismissed in an apparent ideological purge. No to the New McCarthyism. #BCFired4 #CUNY https://psc-cuny.org/issues/reinstate-the-fired-four-at-brooklyn-college/

Send a letter from #PSC_CUNY demanding that #BrooklynCollege reinstate four adjuncts dismissed in an apparent ideological purge. No to the New McCarthyism. #BCFired4 #CUNY https://psc-cuny.org/issues/reinstate-the-fired-four-at-brooklyn-college/

"In a move that activists are saying is an attempt to quell the passionate student and worker movement for Palestinian liberation within the City University of New York (CUNY), student organizer Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik has been suspended for a year.

"Along with CCNY’s academic sanction case against Malik, CUNY has also fired four faculty members."

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/cuny-suspends-student-activist-leader-fires-four-faculty-members-in-escalation-of-repression-against-palestine-activism/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #CUNY #NYC #NewYork #education #academia

"In a move that activists are saying is an attempt to quell the passionate student and worker movement for Palestinian liberation within the City University of New York (CUNY), student organizer Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik has been suspended for a year.

"Along with CCNY’s academic sanction case against Malik, CUNY has also fired four faculty members."

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/cuny-suspends-student-activist-leader-fires-four-faculty-members-in-escalation-of-repression-against-palestine-activism/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #CUNY #NYC #NewYork #education #academia

Update. See the progress toward a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (#MADC) from the 25 colleges making up the City University of New York (#CUNY).

#Academia #Universities #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

Update. See the progress toward a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (#MADC) from the 25 colleges making up the City University of New York (#CUNY).

#Academia #Universities #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

Inside Higher Ed: ‘Nonsense Detectives’ Give Academic Resources New Life Online. “As of last month, Wikipedia now contains a lengthy article on travel training that [Patrick] McGee helped write, using—and citing—numerous primary sources in CUNY’s archives as part of an initiative led by Richard Knipel, who started in March as the City University of New York’s first Wikimedian in […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/16/inside-higher-ed-nonsense-detectives-give-academic-resources-new-life-online/

La #réflexion #temporele , phénomène dans lequel ce n’est pas la direction qui change, mais le #déroulement du #temps lui-même. 

Autrefois purement #théorique, ce phénomène viét d'être observé pour la première fois , par des #chercheurs du #CUNY Graduate Center à #NewYork

Des #applications révolutionnaires : Les #signaux #électromagnétiques pourraient être transmis de manière plus rapide et plus sécurisée (furtivité et capteurs ultrasensibles)

https://newsly.fr/2025/05/13/le-temps-peut-se-refleter-des-scientifiques-valident-un-phenomene-que-lon-croyait-impossible-dans-le-monde-physique/

La #réflexion #temporele , phénomène dans lequel ce n’est pas la direction qui change, mais le #déroulement du #temps lui-même. 

Autrefois purement #théorique, ce phénomène viét d'être observé pour la première fois , par des #chercheurs du #CUNY Graduate Center à #NewYork

Des #applications révolutionnaires : Les #signaux #électromagnétiques pourraient être transmis de manière plus rapide et plus sécurisée (furtivité et capteurs ultrasensibles)

https://newsly.fr/2025/05/13/le-temps-peut-se-refleter-des-scientifiques-valident-un-phenomene-que-lon-croyait-impossible-dans-le-monde-physique/

Burnin set by the Randy Brecker Quintet on campus tonight, to close out the CUNY Jazz Festival, just 🔥 #ccny #cuny #Jazz

#CUNY ’s Research on #Vaccine Misinformation Halted by #Trump Administration https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/24/cuny-layoffs-vaccine-research-funding-cuts-misinformation-trump/

#CUNY ’s Research on #Vaccine Misinformation Halted by #Trump Administration https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/24/cuny-layoffs-vaccine-research-funding-cuts-misinformation-trump/

#JeanLucMélenchon est intervenu à l'occasion d'une conférence à l'université de la ville de New York (#CUNY) pour la sortie de « #NowThePeople », le 21 avril 2025.

https://youtu.be/5Ivf71fXJSo

#JLM #Mélenchon #gaucheFrançaise #FrenchLeft #politiqueFrançaise #FrenchPolitics #théoriePolitique #théorieSociale #politicalTheory #socialTheory #mouvementsSociaux #socialMovements #LFI #LaFranceInsoumise #FranceUnbowed #livres #books @bookstodon @MusiqueNow

#FreeSpeech #OccupiedPalestine #CUNY

"CUNY Posts Modified Palestinian Studies Jobs After Gov’s Removal Order

New faculty position listing no longer references 'settler colonialism, genocide and apartheid' after Gov. Kathy Hochul directed Hunter College to remove the post 'to ensure that antisemitic theories are not promoted in the classroom."

https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/03/25/palestinian-studies-cuny-hunter-college-jobs-post/

#FreeSpeech #OccupiedPalestine #CUNY

"CUNY Posts Modified Palestinian Studies Jobs After Gov’s Removal Order

New faculty position listing no longer references 'settler colonialism, genocide and apartheid' after Gov. Kathy Hochul directed Hunter College to remove the post 'to ensure that antisemitic theories are not promoted in the classroom."

https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/03/25/palestinian-studies-cuny-hunter-college-jobs-post/

Une nouvelle résidence Wikimédia dans une université ! https://www.cuny.edu/news/cuny-introduces-its-first-wikimedian-in-residence/ #CUNY #CraigNewmark #Wikimedia

Do Greencard Holders have Constitutional Rights?

TL;DR - Yes. Despite #MAGA claims.

But if you need the receipts...

#FreeMahmoudKhalil #SCOTUS #ColumbiaUniversity #CUNY

https://morewretchthansage.substack.com/p/who-the-people-do-greencard-holders

"Actually, the real hate crime is when you talk about the objectively verifiable violent settler colonialism and apartheid system of our genocidal client state in an academic setting..."

https://apnews.com/article/hochul-palestinian-studies-genocide-cuny-hunter-04f5e9bf1b718bf0441f9b6cde260141

New York’s governor orders college to remove Palestinian studies job listing

"The job posting at Hunter College had called for a historian “who takes a critical lens to issues pertaining to Palestine including but not limited to settler-colonialism, genocide, human rights, apartheid, migration, climate and infrastructure devastation, health, race, gender, and sexuality,” according to screenshots published by the New York Post, which first reported the job announcement.

Following the coverage, Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, ordered the City University of New York school to remove the posting “and conduct a thorough review of the position to ensure that antisemitic theories are not promoted in the classroom,” her office said in a statement.

The CUNY Board of Trustees agreed, and university officials have since removed the posting for a “Palestinian Studies Cluster Hire,” which was marked as expired on Friday.

“We find this language divisive, polarizing and inappropriate and strongly agree with Governor Hochul’s direction to remove this posting,” Chairperson William C. Thompson Jr. and Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, adding they would work “to tackle antisemitism on our campuses and combat hate in all of its forms.”

On some (disgusting) level, you have to admire the brass balls on our pro-genocide U.S. establishment to keep pushing the idea that acknowledging Israel's crimes against humanity in Gaza and longstanding violence against Palestinians is "antisemitism" without the faintest hint of irony or anything resembling a reasonable argument. "It's antisemitism because we say so and words mean whatever power says they do" is an awfully familiar argument in fascist societies and under totalitarian states, but that doesn't make it true and pretending that it does to justify punishing and hindering folks who're opposing a genocide has a funny way of exposing that the emperor(s) have no clothes over time.

Please keep in mind that this is in New York, and Kathy Hochul, a Democratic governor, has decided to legitimize this Zionist fantasy argument by exercising her power over CUNY. In so much as this story is being reported, it is being presented as a sort of "mistake" whereby Hochul has been "trolled" via the New York Post into acting out a right wing agenda in the face of a moral panic. Personally, I think that's a load of hogwash and Hochul is simply a collaborator. We're talking about the same woman who spoke out in favor of mask bans to punish peaceful protestors, and sent fucking soldiers to police fare-jumpers in her subway system. Either Hochul is the dumbest person alive and completely incapable of learning from her many "mistakes," or getting in bed with fascists based on spurious nonsensical arguments is clearly something she's willing to do in order to please the reactionary winger rich people she really works for. For a very long time before this past election, I warned people that the *entire* US establishment would find a way to cooperate and collaborate with fascists if these nazis did get back in power because they prefer fascism to sharing and empowering the people; this is just another example of what I meant by that, unfolding in real time.

#Palestine #Fascism #Hochul #Israel #Genocide #SettlerColonialism #Apartheid #CUNY #Education #Propaganda

Snap resharing an applied #causal paper... with a #CUNY setting? By Athey? Just gonna shoehorn the time to read this in somewhere: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105945

Snap resharing an applied #causal paper... with a #CUNY setting? By Athey? Just gonna shoehorn the time to read this in somewhere: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105945

happy to see that the author of this excellent dissertation on the pedagogical politics of Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich and others has successfully turned it into a book! https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/lessons-cunys-famous-poet-professors #cuny

Awesome time at #NYC's Research on the Road! Apparently, the city does keep track of research - and the work at #CUNY informs public policy!

Lots of #transportation researchers and policymakers were there - keep an eye out for next year.
https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2024/vision-zero-research-award.shtml

Awesome time at #NYC's Research on the Road! Apparently, the city does keep track of research - and the work at #CUNY informs public policy!

Lots of #transportation researchers and policymakers were there - keep an eye out for next year.
https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2024/vision-zero-research-award.shtml

If anyone has contact with somebody at The Feminist Press #cuny, please alert them that their domain name is about to expire! https://www.feministpress.org/

EL CENTRO, Center for Puerto Rican Studies at #CUNY Hunter College also has an infographic PDF for Florida:
https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/app/uploads/2023/01/InDesign-Infographics_FL_PR.pdf

am including the image of the PDF linked here

notice how most of the Puerto Rican population in Florida live in the path of #HurricaneHelene and #HurricaneMilton.

most of them moved there after #HurricaneMaria devastated La Isla.

#MastodonPR #2024Elections

EL CENTRO, Center for Puerto Rican Studies at #CUNY Hunter College also has an infographic PDF for Florida:
https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/app/uploads/2023/01/InDesign-Infographics_FL_PR.pdf

am including the image of the PDF linked here

notice how most of the Puerto Rican population in Florida live in the path of #HurricaneHelene and #HurricaneMilton.

most of them moved there after #HurricaneMaria devastated La Isla.

#MastodonPR #2024Elections

BTW: from #CUNY Hunter College's Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, as of 2021 there were more than 460,000 Puerto Ricans living in Pennsylvania.

am including an image of the infographic PDF linked here:
https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/app/uploads/2023/01/Infographics_PA_PRicans.pdf

#MastodonPR #2024Elections

BTW: from #CUNY Hunter College's Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, as of 2021 there were more than 460,000 Puerto Ricans living in Pennsylvania.

am including an image of the infographic PDF linked here:
https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/app/uploads/2023/01/Infographics_PA_PRicans.pdf

#MastodonPR #2024Elections

Would someone like to tell Robert and Michelle King that #CUNY exists and the tuition for two 3-credit non-matriculated courses is less than $2800, $3000 with semester student fees? This last episode of #Elsbeth made it sound like there was nothing cheaper than NYU in the entire city, and there is no cop who wouldn't know about John Jay. https://jjay.cuny.edu/

Next week at the club having lunch: 
Gil (scraggly, flip flops): you can’t afford me
Mel: well, what do you need?
Gil: my guys get $25 each a night
Mel: (does quick math, $300) what about you?
Gil: I get twice that, $50
Mel: what if I guarantee $350 a night, plus you get 80% of the door?
Gil plays the next Monday, 3 sets in those days (10p, 11:30p, 1a), makes $1500 with lines down the block, becomes the Monday night from then on. Love it!
(3/3) #ccny #cuny #jazz

👽 CUNY Hires Sports Contractor to Manage Athletic Conference

https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/08/27/the-university-system-hopes-the-move-will-enhance-student-athletic-experience-at-its-eight-senior-colleges/

#sports #college #cuny #nyc #ny

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the CUNY 27, the detainees in New York who were seized by the New York Police Department as part of their violent assault on the campus encampment in solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian liberation struggle on 30 April 2024, the same night of the violent raid on the Columbia University encampment.

The NYPD’s record of extreme brutality and repression targeting the Palestine liberation movement and Arab, Palestinian and Muslim communities in New York has been extensively documented. The attacks on protesters and the broader solidarity movement have come hand in hand with the NYPD’s ongoing violent repression and occupation of Black communities and have strikingly illustrated the alliance between imperialism and Zionism and the role of militarized policing in protecting genocide. It has also exposed the role of universities in research and development, study abroad programs, and joint initiatives with Zionist institutions, as well as their function in service of US imperialism.

At the same time, the growing student movement — the Student Intifada — has sparked panic in the governing halls and corridors of empire. From members of Congress to Genocide Joe Biden to New York Mayor Eric Adams to a seemingly endless parade of politicians, the student movement has been met with threats, violent police raids, beatings, and thousands of arrests across the United States, Canada and Europe. Students and community members at public universities, often working-class students and students of colour, have been hit particularly hard; for example, the CUNY 22 were hit with felony charges. Columbia students refused to take favourable agreements because the CUNY 22 were being hit with far more severe charges. Now, the CUNY 22 have learned of five more defendants arrested outside and facing even heavier allegations at the hands of the NYPD — meaning that they are now the CUNY 27.

We join the mass movement demanding the immediate withdrawal of all charges against the CUNY 27 and all arrestees, detainees and prisoners facing charges or jailed due to their involvement in the movement for the liberation of Palestine. As over 9700 Palestinian prisoners are held captive in Zionist jails, hostages for freedom, thousands detained with no charge or trial, organizing amid severe torture, abuse and forced starvation, building and leading a resistance movement from behind bars, we must take inspiration in their leadership and advance our struggle for their complete liberation and to bring down the systems of repression targeting the global intifada.

Escalating to end a genocide is not a crime — indeed, it is a duty, particularly in the heart of the imperial core, at a moment when the resistance forces of the region, from Palestine to Yemen to Lebanon to Iraq and beyond, are on the front lines sacrificing and fighting for the protection and liberation of humanity. We must all make clear that the raids and arrests will not intimidate our movement nor cause us to de-escalate our tactics and methods of struggle, but will only lead us to greater unity, resistance and confrontation, to end the genocide and for a free Palestine from the river to the sea.

As the CUNY 22 say:

We are not just fighting for a Free Palestine but for the liberation of all. The fight for liberation requires sacrifice. We fight for ourselves and our communities. Palestine is everywhere, we cannot free Palestine until we free ourselves, and we cannot free ourselves until we free Palestine. The city of New York and their pigs are going to keep brutalizing and escalating, and so will we. Remember, “we are all outside agitators”.  Whether we are fighting in Atlanta, New York City, Sudan, or Palestine, the enemy remains the same. The zionist entity escalates, so does the Palestinian Resistance. The pigs and institutions escalate, so do the agitators of the world!

source: Samidoun

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/27/solidarity-with-the-cuny-27-drop-the-charges-now-build-the-global-intifada/

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As of the release of this statement, tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been martyred over the last nine months ––a continuation of 76 years of the genocidal ambitions of the zionist state, a continuation of the Nakba. These numbers do not include the hundreds of thousands missing and under the rubble in Gaza. An entire population is being starved, while over 20,000 are held hostage in the West Bank. Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq continue to respond to the Palestinian call by confronting the zionist entity, smashing all illusions of the occupation’s invincibility while they deal with entity’s outbursts. “The Axis of Resistance bears its responsibility not only in supporting Gaza but in doing more to serve the primary goal, which is stopping the aggression in all its forms.” The fight is not just in solidarity, but in resisting assimilation to the colonial project.  The CUNY 22 attempted to answer the call made by the steadfast Palestinian resistance to escalate from within the belly of the beast. We resist with Gaza.

We are an autonomous group of students, faculty, community members and outside agitators who chose to disrupt the encampment’s status quo in order to dismantle CUNY’s active role in this genocide and ongoing apartheid. CUNY refuses to sever ties with these criminal entities. Instead, it welcomes IOF soldiers onto campuses, promoting these war criminals as “heroes.” CUNY employs former IOF “counter-terrorism” officials, such as maria haberfeld, a professor of police science. CUNY’s partners, like Hillel, organize student trips to IOF bases, providing food and material aid to zionist forces. CUNY funds weapons manufacturers like Boeing, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon, whose bombs and jets are used by the IOF to indiscriminately massacre Palestinians. Furthermore, CUNY facilitates US military recruitment through Reserve Officer Training Corp (ROTC) and campus recruitment. Since October 7, 2023, numerous CUNY administrations have issued disingenuous statements about anti-Semitism on campus, yet they remain silent on the ongoing genocide. Instead, CUNY actively represses and condemns any support of the Palestinian right to self determination and liberation, contributing to the widespread racist dehumanization of Palestinians.

The occupation of buildings by students and outside agitators symbolizes reclaiming space and disrupting normal operations to draw attention to injustices and force institutions to address the demands of protestors.  Assata Shakur, prominent member of the Black Panther Party and later the Black Liberation Army, was first arrested in 1967 during a student-led occupation of a CUNY building. The occupation of the CUNY building was part of a broader wave of student activism during the 1960s and 1970s, which sought to address issues such as educational inequity, racial discrimination and social justice. The reinstatement of the Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur community center, which existed because of a campus occupation, is one of the demands of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

As the zionist entity continues its destruction of the Gaza Strip—and the United States maintains its genocidal hegemony from Palestine to Harlem—the working class people of the world escalate. The encampments were an escalatory response, but they often failed to envision an end goal beyond a meeting, a committee or an email. An encampment should not normalize the institution, it should disrupt it, dismantle it and abolish it. A principled encampment should not collaborate with the pigs. This includes campus “public safety.” Anyone that chooses to play the role of a pig is the enemy. CUNY public safety proved to be an enemy to the working class when they attempted to grab a protester on the first day of the encampment. This protester was later arrested and charged with a felony, tracked down by the surveillance equipment plaguing campus. A few days later “public safety” sicced the pigs on a Harlem community member riding through campus, leading to an unwarranted violent arrest, and assaulting a protester in the process.

On April 30th, the night of the CUNY raid, “public safety” brutalized protesters at the encampment and inside the building: pepper-spraying, smashing batons in faces, breaking glass, bones and teeth, harassing and choking us. CUNY “public safety” are the pigs! The pigs are the IOF! The investment and collaboration with the zionist entity by CUNY actively gentrifies and destroys Harlem, a Black neighborhood with a rich history of anti imperialism and Black radical thought. The fight for a liberated Palestine is also a fight for a liberated Harlem, and the destruction of U.S Empire. On the same night of the 30th, a few hours later, Columbia rebels who took Hinds Hall were brutalized by the pigs and arrested en masse for their continued agitation. CUNY agitators spent a longer time in custody, are facing higher charges and continued backlash. The narrative of “good” vs. “bad” protester is a narrative pushed by the state to divide our efforts along class and racial contentions, but in reality–the fight against the same enemy unites us .

Since the violent escalation by CUNY and the pigs, New York revised its penal code of felony burglary after all 22 agitators were charged with 3rd degree felony burglary in a clear representation of state repression against those of us who choose to act against genocide. At the same time, the CUNY Board of Trustees introduced a resolution to spend 4 million dollars on a private security firm that advertises its services to pigs and zionist trained “experts” to spy on pro-Palestine protesters. CUNY’s systemic embrace of violent displacement was exposed on social media when a “public safety” officer working the College of Staten Island’s graduation ceremony was filmed saying “Yes I do, I support genocide, I support killing all you guys, how about that?” to pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

In June, the CUNY 22 had our court dates. Nine of us with CUNY affiliations received full dismissals, nine were offered adjournment in contemplation of dismissal, three were offered plea deals, and one remains with no offer on the table at all. An additional five protesters are being tried separately, facing down heavy charges after being arrested outside of the building. The division of our group has nothing to do with our actions but is a deliberate attempt to isolate us and intimidate us to not continue our fight. We will not be intimidated into silence by the state. The material impact we will have on each other across schools, boroughs, cities and countries may not be immediately clear, but with every step we take we set a precedent for how the state expects us to move.

The City of New York and their pigs continue to escalate their repression of the city. Since the mass arrests and felony charges at the encampments, the pigs have been sending protesters partaking in various demonstrations to central bookings on a weekly basis, pushing higher criminal charges, and heavily brutalizing communities. This was especially glaring on the weekend of Nakba day at a Within Our Lifetime (WOL) action and on May 11th, when the pigs arrested two ‘We The People’ (an ongoing food distribution site) members in Harlem and arrested nine community members doing jail support, sending them all to central bookings. Since resident pig eric adams took office, he has cut the city budget massively to further fund the pigs, sent the National Guard onto public transit, is destroying Chinatown with a massive prison, and is expanding Queens Cop City to militarize city government workers.

We are not just fighting for a Free Palestine but for the liberation of all. The fight for liberation requires sacrifice. We fight for ourselves and our communities. Palestine is everywhere, we cannot free Palestine until we free ourselves, and we cannot free ourselves until we free Palestine. The city of New York and their pigs are going to keep brutalizing and escalating, and so will we. Remember, “we are all outside agitators”.  Whether we are fighting in Atlanta, New York City, Sudan, or Palestine, the enemy remains the same. The zionist entity escalates, so does the Palestinian Resistance. The pigs and institutions escalate, so do the agitators of the world!

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/26/palestine-solidarity-statement-from-cuny-22/

#cuny #northAmerica #ny #palestine #repression #resistance #Solidarity #us

📣 CUNY Workers Against Austerity

https://jacobin.com/2024/05/cuny-academic-workers-austerity-psc/

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@jchyip

“The City University of New York bypassed its spending approval process to okay a contract worth up to $4 million with an ex-#NYPD sergeant's private security company that boasts of receiving training in Israel, tagged its announcement of the university deal with "#StopTheSteal" and described the student-led protests as engaged in guerrilla warfare.”

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#CCNY / #CUNY voluntarily cut its education budget by an extra 10% to fund ex-cops.

https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/cuts-to-cuny/