David O'Brien @DavdOBrien
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There is no bias in the decision making process, we relied on the expert judgments of outside letter writers. And I personally selected each of the letter writers to assure fairness.
This Day in Labor History: May 1, 1867. Workers in Chicago went on strike for an 8-hour day, the first mass-scale labor action for that demand that directly challenged political power!!!!
I’m as guilty as anyone of thinking of my @Columbia undergraduates as “kids.” But here is what I’ve seen them do in the last two weeks: (1/10)
We are cracking down on protesters in the same manner as our aspirational peer institutions. It’s a KPI in the strategic plan.
Videos showing makeshift barricades in a campus building are not definitive proof of anything, including the ‘presence’ of ‘outside professional agitators.’ Today’s students have been drilled to resist school invasions since elementary/middle school. By police & teachers. 1/
This basically is why I’m on the internet
The Columbia Spectator, New York, Tuesday, April 30, 1968:
The Columbia Spectator, New York, Tuesday, April 30, 1968: https://t.co/2GO9MwUdx7
A handful of elite schools — Brown, Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins — seem to have handled the Palestine protests gracefully. Their successful approach: don't send cops after students, talk seriously with the protestors, and enforce *preexisting* codes about speech and harassment.
columbia university:
We teach our students that history is contingent. That the world can be otherwise. And then our employers send in the police to beat that lesson out of them.
So honored to contribute a chapter, "Strangers in the Homeland: The Aftermath of Deportation from the United States," to this excellent volume!
So honored to contribute a chapter, "Strangers in the Homeland: The Aftermath of Deportation from the United States," to this excellent volume!
Imagine if other university presidents had responded like this to student protests over the last few weeks.
Imagine if other university presidents had responded like this to student protests over the last few weeks.
""In my nearly forty years as a faculty member, I have never seen such brazen cruelty toward students and faculty, such cowardice before what amounts to a right-wing witch hunt, and such blatant dishonesty." --Robin D.G. Kelley, always a bright light.
I think this may just be one of the main takeaways from studying history.
I think this may just be one of the main takeaways from studying history.
A lot of questions in universities are being contested rn. Does the university belong to its faculty & students and can they make/act on decisions, or are faculty & students a transient body whose presence is at the largess of its financiers & techno-administrative class?
My best friend just sent me this. It’s lovely when someone knows exactly how to appeal to your very niche interests…..
Democracy is allowing people to protest when you disagree.
Students aren’t the enemy. Hopefully other universities will learn that lesson too.
Students aren’t the enemy. Hopefully other universities will learn that lesson too.
One of my graduating seniors made me this candle as a gift for the last day of class…
Why can't university presidents lead? This has to be a burning question. Some are functionaries, place-holders, or pure ideological appointees. Others are fundraisers, choppers of staff and programs, or tools of the Board(s) of Trustees. One has to hope for leaders with a vision.
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When your colleague goes on sabbatical
Not surprised by Don Lemon's extremely superficial take here. Black college students took over campus spaces at Columbia and U of Michigan (at least). We tend to downplay how hundreds of uprisings in the 1960s forced some short-term concessions from the public & private sector
“Peaceful non violence” was the predicate of the Civil Rights Movement. Taking over a building and destroying property feels January 6th ish to me. 🤷🏽♂️
There is no bias in the decision making process, we relied on the expert judgments of outside letter writers. And I personally selected each of the letter writers to assure fairness.
In 1968, protests at Columbia were bigger and more disruptive. Yet in 2024, the university responded faster and with more violence. The change is due to the militarization of the police and growth of elite private education into more important site of American capital and power.
This Day in Labor History: May 1, 1867. Workers in Chicago went on strike for an 8-hour day, the first mass-scale labor action for that demand that directly challenged political power!!!!
Back tomorrow for a brand new thread on the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, that brief and perhaps overrated but also important attempt to connect Black Power and the labor movement.
Part of the material for this post came from Cedric de Leon, The Origins of Right to Work: Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago.
The Chicago strike itself fell apart after about a week and the law remained unenforced. The 8-hour day struggle would continue to define the labor movement all the way until the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
They simply had no room in their vision of the nation for class conflict, or even class development. It was always an existential threat to the nation’s core ideals, not a logical response to the oppression of their lives.
Now, understand that these strikes were efforts to enforce a law properly, not break it. But that did not get in the way of the kneejerk decision of those in power throughout this era–very much including abolitionists–to go for violent force when workers struck.
The strike spread outside of Chicago and there was in fact crushed by violence. In Bridgeport, a small town in southern Illinois, the mayor declared martial law and called out the local militia, who crushed the strike in a pitched gun battle.
A lot of unskilled workers who were not represented by any union also came out on strike.
The response to the strike among Chicago’s elite was to call for violent suppression. The Chicago Times asked “Shall Mobs Rule Chicago?” in one article, which urged that “rioters should be swept out of existence by a wave of artillery.”
For a week, the city partially shut down. This was, however, not a general strike. Even among the skilled trades, some participated and some did not. The building and metal trades were the core groups involved.
Chicago workers were angry that the legislature ignored the real conditions of their lives. So they decided to strike on May 1, 1867 to eliminate the loophole in the 8-hour law. Six thousand workers marched on the first day. On the second, it spread across the city.
Employers were angry about even this weak law. By the time the law was to take effect–May 1, 1867–dozens of Chicago employers were already paying hourly wages instead of day wages in order to avoid the law.
This was an attempt at appeasing both employers and workers and thus failed because that is not a coalition that can be built.
The political background here was that Illinois Democrats had gained support from workers during the war. Republicans sought to revive a coalition around free labor through the law, but many Republican and Democrats both were worried about a strong law.
Of course, this completely ignored the power dynamics at play. The employer effectively set the terms of the debate. Starvation was not an expression of power by workers. So the law accomplished nothing.
After all, that would undermine the freedom of workers to labor for longer than 8 hours a day. So they created a loophole that made it effectively meaningless. Yes, there was an 8-hour day. But employers and employees could contract out for a longer workday.
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