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. @cnewf estimates that UC is looking at a 50% budget shortfall. https://twitter.com/ananyaUCLA/status/1263849008012775425">https://twitter.com/ananyaUCL...
@alexisgoldstein opens by talking about how House Democratic undermined the student debt relief provisions in the Heroes Act https://newrepublic.com/article/157732/house-democrats-blowing-chance-student-debt-relief">https://newrepublic.com/article/1...
@RaulACarrillo is discussing how universities might be able to use their own internal payment capacity to effectively create a small scale payment system
@touchfaith calls for revitalizing a wages for students movement.
"Going to school, being a student is work. This work is called schoolwork although it is not usually considered to really be work since we don& #39;t receive any wages for doing it."
http://zerowork.org/WagesForStudents.html">https://zerowork.org/WagesForS...
"Going to school, being a student is work. This work is called schoolwork although it is not usually considered to really be work since we don& #39;t receive any wages for doing it."
http://zerowork.org/WagesForStudents.html">https://zerowork.org/WagesForS...
@alexisgoldstein is discussing the Canadian response and how it includes demands for protecting pensions and environmental disclosures.
And now @alexisgoldstein is discussing @STOmarova and @rch371’s proposal for a National Investment Authority (modeled on the RFC) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3125533">https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pape...
And now @RaulACarrillo cites @NathanTankus on how the US is uniquely vulnerable because of household debt levels and the commodification of housing/ healthcare and other necessities of social reproduction.
@RaulACarrillo cites the importance of #CamilleWalsh’s great book from @uncpressblog #RacialTaxation—how austerity has been a racial project. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469638942/racial-taxation/">https://uncpress.org/book/9781...
@touchfaith is talking about the need to further theorize the role of policing and oppression—historically and contemporaneously—within the university, citing the Land Grab university report https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.4/indigenous-affairs-education-land-grab-universities">https://www.hcn.org/issues/52...
@touchfaith emphasizes that the reliance on NTT faculty and grad student teaching labor means that shared governance (on the model of TT faculty control) can’t be the horizon of our politics.
@cnewf notes that the returns to universities from operating as landlords are HUGE.
