No to DeVos Rally

Roughly 500 people gathered in a park near the Senate on February 6 to ask for "one more vote" against confirming Betsy DeVos to be the next Secretary of Education. At the time of the rally, all 48 Democrats and 2 Republicans had vowed to vote against her confirmation.  The Senate ...
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No to DeVos Rally

Trumpism – How Should the Left Respond?

Dissent Editors and Contributors Debate how the Left can defeat Trump

Dissent editors and contributors debated how the left can defeat Trumpism.  Featuring: Bhaskar Sunkara is editor and publisher of Jacobin magazine. Nancy Fraser is a professor of philosophy and politics at The New School for Social Research and author, most recently, of Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal ...
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Protesting the Inaugural

Reactions from Washington, D.C. on January 20th

Protesting the inauguration of a President has become a tradition. While those who shouted “not my President” and other things as Donald Trump ascended to the highest office in the land clearly did not like him, most of them would have demonstrated had it been Hillary Clinton who took the ...
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Protesting the Inaugural

An Open Letter to Donald Trump

About the January 21st Women’s March

Dear Mr. Trump: I just returned from the Million Women’s March on Washington, one of 673 that took place around the world today. I want to thank you for making this possible. It was your “locker room talk” that gave us the kick in the pants we needed to get off ...
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An Open Letter to Donald Trump

The Politics of Innocence

Miriam Ticktin

GIDEST is a Mellon-funded research institute based at The New School that incubates transdisciplinary research at the intersection of social theory, art, and design. As well as our faculty, artist-in-residence, and doctoral fellows’ programs, we run a series of biweekly public seminars that feature both prominent and emerging scholars and ...
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Protesting the Inaugural

The Day Before

Protests at the 45th inaugural began the day before when CodePink, the women-led anti-war group congregated at the line to the inaugural concert to display their signs.  Holding a banner that said “Kiss Me, I’m Peaceful,” about a dozen pink Ladies of Liberty promoted several issues.  Currently these have more ...
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Protesting the Inaugural

General Seminar

The 2016 US Presidential Election

Julia Ott, History: How Historic Is this Election? Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, History: Beyond Nasty: The Woman Problem and Election 2016 Deva Woodly, Politics: Parallel Politics: Electoral Politics and the Movement for Black Lives David Plotke, Politics: Trump’s New Right/Left Campaign Jeffrey Goldfarb, Sociology: The Promise and Perils ...
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