Tidbits, Resources and Announcements - September 15, 2011

* LIU faculty are on strike
* Re: Carl Oglesby - 60s Activist Remembered (David Worley)
* An essay by Carl Oglesby, 1965
* Re: Portsiders Readers Reflections of 9/11 -- concluded 
  (Isabel Thompson
* Re: California's Public Universities  -  Excellence For
  Fewer (Sandi E. Cooper)
* Re: Israel Is Paying for Gaza War With Turkey and Egypt
  Crises (Adam Kline)
* URPE Conference in Brooklyn - THE WAR ON THE WORKING CLASS 
  October 1
* American musicians bring instruments and education to Cuba 
  - CBS News

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* LIU faculty are on strike

At 8 am yesterday, Wednesday 9/7, the LIU faculty (LIUFF)
went on strike. All summer long the negotiations were
acrimonious and contentious. The final contract proposed by
administration was completely unacceptable, both from a
faculty and student standpoint. You can check out the
details at www.liuff.org.

As you can imagine, our administration is really playing
hardball. They have canceled our healthcare as of midnight
tonight.

We need all the help we can get. If you have time, join us
on the picket line in front of the main entrance at Flatbush
and DeKalb in Brooklyn anytime between 8 am and 6 pm each
weekday.

We are holding a strike rally on Monday, 9/12 at 3 pm at the
Lafayette Presbyterian Church 85 South Oxford Street,
between Lafayette and Fulton Streets in Fort Greene,
Brooklyn.

Lastly, feel free to send an email message or call some of
our administrators telling them you're on our side and
watching them closely.

Some of the folks to contact are.....

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516-299-2917

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718-488-1001
 
BTW, Feel free to pass this message along to folks who you
think could join us on the picket line or support us.

[thanks to Benz for forwarding this to Portside]

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* Re: Carl Oglesby - 60s Activist Remembered

I saw Oglesby and Bob Scheer debate the Vietnam War at U. of
Utah vs. late U.S. Senator Bennett (and I can't even
remember who the other establishment debator was). It broke
my heart then that a tedious hack like Bennett was in the
Senate and a brilliant thinker and speaker like Oglesby
could never get there.

David Worley

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* An essay by Carl Oglesby, 1965

Democracy is Nothing if it is Not Dangerous
by Carl Oglesby
SDS President, 1965-66
The Peacemaker
1965

http://www.sds-1960s.org/Oglesby-democracy.htm

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* Re: Portsiders Readers Reflections of 9/11 -- concluded

These reflections are the most encouraging I have heard/read
this past week!! Glad I am not along in my not understanding
what is going on with our news, our collective memories.

Isabel Thompson

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* Re: California's Public Universities  --  Excellence For
Fewer

this is one of two issues -- money and who runs the shop

Sandi E. Cooper, Chair
University Faculty Senate -- CUNY

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* Re: Israel Is Paying for Gaza War With Turkey and Egypt
Crises

Do you have room in Portside for the views of other
leftists, that see Israel's current government as one of two
sources of this crisis, the other being the combination of a
Hamas that will not recognize Israel, and a Fatah that
cannot swing the opinion of its own citizens?  Or is it all
Israel's fault?

Adam Kline

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* URPE Conference in Brooklyn -- THE WAR ON THE WORKING
CLASS -- Sat. October 1

Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) invites you to
a conference in Brooklyn, NY:

"THE WAR ON THE WORKING CLASS"

St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY
Saturday, October 1, 2011

The conference aims to bring together people actively
involved in resisting the multi-pronged attack which is
currently taking place with radical political economists who
can share their theoretical understanding of the issues.

To organize or participate in a panel combining activist and
theoretical perspectives, contact Paddy Quick (see link on
URPE website: www.urpe.org)

* * *

The conference will be followed the next day by an URPE
Membership Meeting

St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, October 2, 2011

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* American musicians bring instruments and education to Cuba - CBS News

American musicians bring instruments and education to Cuba.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7380592n

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