Calling all new CUNY organizers! Missed our last training? Join us Nov 10!
Organizing-to-Strike Training: Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST. Register here
In this hands-on training session, Rank & File Action members will share some practical tips, such as the 6-part structured organizing conversation and semantics lessons, that we learned from the Organize-for-Power Strike School (led by leading author and labor organizer Jane McAlevey). Develop better base-building skills, learn more about RAFA’s current vision and projects, and meet some friendly comrades in the process!
Police Terror + CUNY: Past, Present, Future Rank and File Action CUNY VIRTUAL TEACH- IN
Friday, July 3, 2020, 3 - 5 PM
An event sponsored by CUNY Rank & File Action to educate students and the community on the history of police terror at the City University of New York (CUNY). Moderated Boyda Johnstone (Rank and File Action and Associate Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College), and featuring Dr. Alex Vitale (Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and author of The End of Policing), Giacomo Bianchino (Rank and File Action and graduate worker / student at The Graduate Center, CUNY), Robert Cuffy (DSA Afrosocialists), Sarah Gee (Free CUNY), Andy Izenson (Senior Legal Director, Chosen Family Law Center and President of New York City National Lawyer’s Guild)
Almost 100 participants gathered to discuss why CUNY is consistently on the chopping block and how we can fight back through strike action
Video editing by Jamila Hammami
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DEFEND CUNY! virtual Teach-in
Saturday May 23, 2020, 3 - 5 PM
An event sponsored by CUNY Rank & File Action to educate students on the history of austerity cuts at CUNY, as well as the history of CUNY activism generally. Featuring Carol Lang (Bronx Community College), Conor Tomás Reed (Brooklyn College), Sami Disu (John Jay College), Chris Mejia (Free CUNY), and Christina Barrera (Hunter College MFA), and more. Almost 100 participants gathered to discuss why CUNY is consistently on the chopping block and how we can fight back through strike actions. Below is a video of the event: