Tenants' Rally
2023-05-02 18:00 (America/New_York) | Cooper Union, 30 Cooper Sq, New York, NY, 10003, United States

What to do when Your Union Breaks Your Heart (zoom event)
2023-05-02 19:30 | Zoom
At this Labor Notes workshop, rank-and-file union members and organizers will discuss the challenges we face when union leadership isn’t committed to grassroots movement building and how to change the culture in our unions.
Register here (even though it says “add to cart,” registration is free).

Herstories: Womyn Creators in Comix & Graphic Novels!
2023-05-03 18:30 - 20:00 | The Graduate Center-Dining Commons
Wed, May 3, 2023, 6:30pm—8:00pm
GC Commons
featuring Jennifer Camper, Sara Gómez Woolley, and Sabrina Jones
Jennifer Camper’s comics are often dark stories with sly humor and they give voice to outsiders. Her work examines life from a perspective that is irreverent, female, queer, and mongrel (Lebanese American). She often explores gender, race, class, and politics, as well as sexuality, mermaids, and robots. She’s also a cartoon editor, a teacher, and the creator of three Queers & Comics Conferences. Her books include Rude Girls and Dangerous Women, a collection of her cartoons, and subGURLZ, a graphic novella following the adventures of three women living in abandoned subway tunnels. She also edited two Juicy Mother comics anthologies. Her cartoons and illustrations have appeared in numerous publications, and have been exhibited internationally. The film documentary No Straight Lines, the Rise of Queer Comics, features cartoonists Jenifer Camper, Alison Bechdel, Howard Cruse, Ruppert Kinnard and Mary Wings.
Sara Gómez Woolley’s work has been recognized by the New York Society of Illustrators, the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles, and 3×3 Magazine of Contemporary Illustration. She has worked on a variety of exciting projects for clients including National Geographic, DC Comics, Image Comics, Scholastic, Random House, Parallax Press, For Beginners Books, and the New Castle Science Convention UK. Sara’s ongoing personal project, a fictionalized graphic memoir written collaboratively with her mother and art partner Leila Gómez Woolley, Los Pirineos the mostly true memoirs of Esperancita Gómez, was singled out for award by the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, the largest Latino arts organization in the US. Sara is current faculty of the Communications Design Department at New York City College of Technology, CUNY.
Sabrina Jones is a cartoonist, writer, editor, and scenic artist, who began her career with activist art collective Carnival Knowledge and alternative comics World War 3 illustrated and Girltalk. Her books Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling (with Marc Mauer) and Isadora Duncan: A Graphic Biography were both named “Great Graphic Novels” by the Young Adult Library Services Association. Jones created comics for Wobblies!, The Real Costs of Prisons, FDR and the New Deal for Beginners, Yiddishkeit, Radical Jesus, and Our Lady of Birth Control: A Cartoonist’s Encounter with Margaret Sanger. She received a BFA in painting from Pratt Institute and an MFA in illustration from School of Visual Arts. Her scenic work can be seen every weekend on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Sabrina just completed editing the forthcoming (June) 53rd issue of World War 3 illustrated, “My Body/Our Rights!”

We Protect Us
2023-05-04 18:00 | The Graduate Center – front steps, 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States

Art Build for Board of Trustees Hearing
2023-05-05 16:00 - 19:00 | PSC Office, 25 Broadway, 9th floor, New York, NY, 10004, United States
Join us to make 100 “Missing” Posters for the upcoming BOT Hearing. In addition to showing up and testifying ourselves about the devastating impact that budget cuts will have, we plan on creating a sea of “Missing” persons posters to fill up empty seats & represent all the staff, faculty and students that are already missing and will be missing if these budget cuts go through.
Friday May 5th, 4-7 PM
PSC Office: 25 Broadway, 9th Floor
Sign up Here: https://forms.gle/K2GYk7rJWLotUJPi8
Send your vaccination card to Ava Farkas: afarkas@pscmail.org

CUNY Board of Trustees Hearing
2023-05-08 16:30 | LaGuardia Community College, 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, 11101, United States
CUNY’s Board of Trustees is holding yet another public hearing. We’ve been out of contract for almost two months. Let’s demand that they come to the bargaining table and negotiate. You can sign up to testify here. Or just show up with some protest signs 🙂

Labor Management Meeting
2023-05-09 14:00 | The Graduate Center-Room 8201.06
Join us for our last labor management meeting of the semester. It’s been a tense few months as PSC and Reclaim the Commons organizers have struggled with GC management to address worker and student concerns over food services, pay, childcare, and so much more. We don’t know how many people admin will allow to be in the meeting room, but turn up to show your support! You can read the notes from our last LM meeting here.

For the Public: Linking Struggles in Schools, Libraries, and Prisons
2023-05-09 18:30 | The Graduate Center-Dining Commons
In this conversation, librarians working in city, school, jail, and CUNY libraries will discuss austerity, policing, and attacks on Black, queer, and radical books, as well as organizing happening in these spaces and how we can join forces across public institutions in New York to build a stronger movement.

Study, Rebel, Repair, Liberate: Collective Book Launch with Joshua Myers, Bianca Williams, Ariana González Stokas, and Conor (Coco) Tomás Reed
2023-05-10 18:00 - 21:00 | The Graduate Center-Dining Commons
This special event will celebrate four recent books​ that show how the university is not only a battleground of ideas, but a strategic hearth for people to construct a new liberatory world. The authors will bridge across the realms of Black, Puerto Rican, anticolonial, and feminist studies and movements to offer lessons for our struggles in CUNY and far beyond.
Food: 6-7
Panel discussion and dialogue: 7-9

Budget Rally at City Hall
2023-05-11 12:30 | City Hall, Broadway and Murray St., New York, NY, 10007, United States
PSC members, students and CUNY allies will rally outside City Hall before the stated meeting of the City Council on Thursday, May 11. By that date, the state budget should be resolved, the Mayor’s Executive Budget will be public and negotiations between the council and the mayor will be ongoing. It will be just the right time to demonstrate broad, vigorous support for full city funding of CUNY.
RSVP here.

Scholars Strategy Network
2023-05-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
Thurs, May 11, 7pmET on Zoom: Join Scholars Strategy Network and Brooklyn for Peace for a conversation about US imperialism and recruitment of immigrants into the US military. Featuring: Sofya Aptekar (Green Card Soldier author), Monisha Ríos (anti-imperialist veteran and scholar, Lyle Rubin (We Are Not Your Soldiers organizer), and Conor Tomás Reed (New York Liberation School author). Register here.

Defend the Right to Strike
2023-05-12 18:00 | Bryant Park
right to strike flyer
RSVP link: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/events/nyc-right-to-strike

The People's Party
2023-05-17 17:00 - 21:30 | The Graduate Center-Dining Commons
Passed your exams? Advancing to candidacy? Defending? Or just happy you survived another year at this f**king institution? Join us for an end-of-semester celebration in the Dining Commons!
There will be food, drinks, and cake!

Tenants' Rights Rally
2023-05-20 10:00 | 55 Hester St, 55 Hester St, New York, NY, 10002, United States

Stop Screwing Retirees Rally
2023-05-24 09:30 - 11:00 | City Hall, Broadway and Murray St., New York, NY, 10007, United States

Research Foundation Central Office Picket
2023-05-24 12:00 - 12:30 | Research Foudaion, 230 W. 41st Street, New York, NY, 10036, United States
Please fill out this form to let us know that you’ll be joining the PSC picket on Wednesday, May 24, from 12 to 12:30pm in support of a fair contract for Research Foundation Central Office workers in front of the RF Office at 230 W. 41st Street!

Confronting the Far Right on Campus
2023-06-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Online
Featuring: CUNY for Abortion Rights, CUNY for Palestine, Faculty First Responders
RSVP required: bit.ly/620cuny
We invite CUNY students, workers, families, and friends to learn how to confront and heal from attacks at our university by anti-abortion, fascist, Zionist, and other far right organizations. We will hear on-the-ground community defense updates from CUNY for Abortion Rights and CUNY for Palestine, as well as a presentation by Faculty First Responders on the landscape of far right funding and media influence to resist in our university. This is the first in a series of “CUNY Movement Summer School” events to cohere and strengthen our coalitional power across CUNY justice groups.

Bargaining Session Orientation (zoom)
2023-06-21 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom
If you wish to attend the PSC’s bargaining sessions with CUNY, you must attend this zoom orientation. To sign up, fill out this form.
We encourage all PSC members to sign up!

Queer Liberation March
2023-06-25 14:00 - 17:00 | Foley Square, 111 Worth Street, New York, NY, 10013, United States
Join the 5th annual Queer Liberation March at Foley Square, Sunday, June 25. Rally at 2 pm, march at 3:30 pm.

Bargaining Session #1
2023-06-27 13:00 - 15:30 | NY
Tuesday, June 27 1:00 – 3:30 pm (in person location tba)
To attend, you must fill out this form and attend a bargaining orientation session on Zoom, June 21 from 6:30-7:30 pm.
We encourage all PSC members to sign up!

Bargaining Session #2
2023-06-29 12:00 - 14:30 | NY
Thursday, June 29 12:00 – 2:30 pm (in person location tba)
To attend, you must fill out this form and attend a bargaining orientation session on Zoom, June 21 from 6:30-7:30 pm.
We encourage all PSC members to sign up!

Bargaining Session #3
2023-07-10 00:00 | NY
Monday, July 10 (time and in person location tba)
To attend, you must fill out this form and attend a bargaining orientation session on Zoom, June 21 from 6:30-7:30 pm.
We encourage all PSC members to sign up!

Paid Union Orientations
2023-08-23 13:00 - 16:00 | The Graduate Center
New workers can attend one of 3 paid union orientation sessions. See the flyer below for details:

PSC Start of Semester Party
2023-08-23 16:00 - 19:30 | NY
Join comrades old and new to celebrate the start of the semester and our contract campaign here at the GC. Food and drinks will be provided.

Stewards Meeting
2023-09-15 14:00 - 15:30 | NY

GC Chapter Meeting
2023-09-22 14:00 - 15:30 | NY
Full details to come, save the date!

November Chapter Meeting (hybrid)
2023-11-10 14:00 - 15:30 | The Graduate Center, room 5414, 365 5th Ave, room 5414, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Join us for our November chapter meeting, either in-person (room 5414) or on Zoom (register here).

"How to Build a Strikeline" with Rutgers Graduate Workers
2023-11-10 19:00 - 20:30 | The Graduate Center, room 5414, 365 5th Ave, room 5414, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Join us to hear from Rutgers graduate workers fresh from their strike which led to raises that hit $40k. In-person (room 5414) or on Zoom (register here).

GC Chapter Rally
2023-11-15 13:00 - 14:30 | Outside the GC, 365 5th Avenue
Let us know you’re coming here

November hybrid Delegate Assembly Meeting
2023-11-16 18:30 - 22:00 | PSC Union Hall, 25 Broadway, 15th Floor, New York, New York, 10004
Non-delegates are welcome either in-person at the union hall or on Zoom (contact a delegate to receive the Zoom link).
