Book Review: Chase Madar, The Passion of Bradley Manning
With the recent news that Private First Class Bradley Manning has pled guilty to releasing U.S. classified documents to Wikileaks…
May Day in America
[The Free University of NYC was born out of calls for a General Strike on May 1, 2012. Right now…
Minutes: March 2, 2013
Meeting minutes from the general meeting of the Free University of NYC at 60 Wall Street, March 2, 2013, 1-3pm:…
Minutes: February 24, 2013
Meeting minutes from the open meeting of the Free University of NYC at 60 Wall Street, February, 24, 2013, 1-3pm:…
“We Will Not Defer to You, Jamshed”: Deferred Applicants Speak out at the Cooper Union
Students at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art…
A Tale of Two Divestment Campaigns
This week, I attended two completely different lectures about divestment. I’m not a finance guy. I don’t really know anything…
Be the MOOC resistance
Yesterday I was blindsided by an email. It was from the Provost of our university…
The “State” of Higher Education
Here in New York, we are in the midst of a heated debate over “academic…
“Like a Free U, But in a Church”: The People’s Recovery Summit
Several of us in the Free University of NYC have also been involved with the People’s Recovery Summit, a three-day…
What Can We Learn From History? The Russian Revolution
At the most recent general meeting of the Free University of NYC (last Sunday), some expressed the need to contextualize…
Sharing and Struggling with Ideas
This is an invitation. An invitation to share words, photo and video. To share knowledge and critiques. To share advice…