Monday September 7th, 2015, is the day of the NATIONAL ADJUNCT LABOR ACTION.
This event is meant to build on the success of #nawd and move forward. Progress is being made, but adjuncts are still being targeted and exploited at the hands of a broken educational system. (above: Plight of the adjunct: image source)
The blog is here: http://adjunctlaboraction.blogspot.com/
The Twitter stream is here: https://twitter.com/adjunctlabor
The national support fund is being started here: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/nala-support-fund
Overview of #adjunct & other actions making the post #NAWD road…what’s yours?
…not just with a #walkout but by walking it…literally and figuratively. This is just a sampling of recent adjunct roads after NAWD...individual paths but all the same road
Adjunct Across America, is bicycling and posting updates to the campaign Facebook page. We’ll be publishing interviews here too. [Image from Know Your Glow blog]
On Labor Day, Kentucky adjunct and active NAWD participant Mick Parsons is reprising a national day of action, #NALA. He replied “cool” to an request to submit a post. I’m taking that as a promise, so watch for it. Until then, follow @adjunctlabor and the National Adjunct Labor Action blog
#WalkingMan Jesse Turner is walking from Connecticut to Washington D.C. for public education. He is a professor not an adjunct but walking the same road and now directs a literacy program to teach teachers. Many of the Public Education Network bloggers are or have been adjuncts. Their road, to preserve and defend K12 public education, feeds into ours.
...and there are more, many more to add, some we don’t even know about yet but will add them as we find out. What counts? Blogs, actions, activities, protests. groups, individual or group projects, art shows/installations, performances, new organizations, webpages, social media, articles, publications, projects... like Walkout Day, this is DIY. Your call.
Please submit yours or ones you know about. Share your “road making” ideas too, http://nationaladjunct.tumblr.com
…a cross-country campaign designed to raise awareness about the adjunctification of the American university.
@AdjunctAcrossAmerica describes his campaign:
While crossing the country by bicycle and adjuncting online, I’ll be visiting over 35 cities to interview adjuncts, non-tenure track faculty, researchers, administrators, politicians, graduate students, and unionists about contingent labor.
The trip is entirely self-supported and will be financed by teaching online at two colleges (that pay $2050 and $1350 per course, respectively). Along the way, I will save costs by stealth-camping (secretly camping in public or private areas) and cooking my own food, which is the only way such a campaign can be afforded on an adjunct wage.
Phase I of this project is designed to conduct targeted interviews throughout the West in Summer 2015. I am currently seeking interviews for Phase II of this project, where I will ride coast-to-coast in May-August 2016.
Contact page: http://www.adjunctacrossamerica.com/contact.html; email: [email protected]. And now some “bike across America” links ... and a video:
What to bring: http://bikeacrossamerica.org/trip-report/articles/what-to-bring.htm
Bikes in Bloom across America, http://veracityvoice.com/?p=15393
Biking Bis: Bicycle touring and more, http://www.bikingbis.com/
Article about “Take a Seat: Sharing a Ride Across America” http://www.bikingbis.com/2011/10/20/take-a-seat-sharing-a-ride-across-america-bicycling-documentary-takes-awards/
Crazy Guy on a Bike, http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/
“After eight months of the Ayotzinapa student teachers’ disappearance, we would like to draw your attention to one of the student activists who was not part of the 43 disappeared – but who nonetheless was very much a part of the ongoing activism – and is very much alive in our search for justice.
On this eighth month, we want you to share the joy of Julio César Mondragón’s life, as well as the awareness and pain of his death. Through En Pie de Lucha’s performance, we want to tell you his story, ’‘Todos Somos Tu Rostro/We Are All Your Face”, a day in the life in this normal school of Ayotzinapa. You can also read more about Mondragón here.
And to end things off, we will again try to light Japanese paper balloons, as we keep demanding that our disappeared brothers are returned to us, alive.
We hope you will join us. We hope the media will come to pay homage to our lost brethren. Together, we can make a difference!
Convocamos a la población de Dallas/Fort Worth a unirse a nuestro evento mensual, Acción Global por Ayotzinapa, el martes 26 de mayo a las 7 pm en el Puente Blanco — o el Continental Bridge en la 1001 Continental Street Via.
Después de ocho meses de la desaparición de estos maestros/estudiantes de Ayotzinapa, nos gustaría llamar su atención a uno de los activistas que no forma parte de los 43 desaparecidos - pero sin embargo forma una parte indispensable del mismo activismo que se encuentra muy vivo en nuestra búsqueda por dicha justicia.
En este octavo mes, queremos compartir la alegría de la vida de Julio César Mondragón, así como la toma de conciencia y el dolor de su muerte.
A través de la actuación de En Pie de Lucha, queremos contarle su historia, “Todos Somos Tu Rostro/We Are All Your Face”, un día en la vida de esta escuela normal en Ayotzinapa. También pueden leer más sobre él aquí.
Y para terminar, trataremos otra vez de soltar al aire globos de papel al estilo japonés, simbolizando con esta acción que seguimos exigiendo la presentación con vida de nuestros hermanos desaparecidos…
Esperamos que todos vengan a mostrar que este es un día especial. Esperamos también que los medios de comunicación vengan a rendir homenaje a nuestros hermanos perdidos.
Concern is growing about exploitative employment practices at Irish third-level colleges, and the impact on learning. Here, three academics share their stories
Some lecturers say that they are being denied job security and have for years been relying on a few hours of teaching here and there. Many, if not most, have PhDs. Ten days ago, third-level teachers protested at Maynooth University. The event was organised by Third Level Workplace Watch, a campaign group of third-level teaching staff.
They’re not the only ones concerned about the direction of our universities. Last month, Trinity College Dublin’s University Times* revealed that Prof Peter Coxon, head of the department of geography and a college board member, had emailed third-year geography students urging them to take action against the faculty of engineering, maths and science for “the incredible erosion of our ability to teach whole sections of a geography degree without the discipline being given any indication of future staffing. Only core staff pay is now available for departmental budgets. This will have serious implications for laboratory, field and teaching exercise.”
Through its Postcards from the Periphery campaign, Third Level Workplace Watch is highlighting serious concerns about Irish universities and what they say is the increasingly precarious nature of academic work.
Working Lives—#adjunct profs as contract workers « @FIU Labor Studies #afterNAWD
On April 9, 2015, 12:30 -2 pm - Center for Labor Research and Studies, Brown Bag Lunch Series - Florida International University - Miami, FL - “Professors as the New “Contract Worker” - Global and Local Perspectives on Adjunct Faculty Unions” - Presenter: Dr. Abdolrahim Javadzadeh
