THURSDAY: "The New Mayor of New York City" on Zoom (CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies)

 

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Thu. November 13: Zoom only

The New Mayor of New York City: A Post-Election Debrief A City Works Media Roundtable moderated by Laura Flanders   Thursday, November 13 1:00pm - 2:30pm Virtual-only via Zoom. Free and open to all.   Click here to register. Please register to access virtual event info and reminders.  (slucuny.swoogo.com/13November2025/register)   Guest Speakers: Claudia Irizarry Aponte - Labor and Work Reporter, THE CITY; Faculty, CUNY Newmark School of Journalism Liza Featherstone - Columnist, Jacobin and The New Republic; Contributing Writer, The Nation Amir Khafagy - Senior Labor Reporter, Documented Maya King - Politics Reporter, The New York Times Moderator: Laura Flanders - Host, Laura Flanders & Friends; Host, City Works Maya King Amir Khafagy Claudia Irizarry Aponte Liza Featherstone Laura Flanders

Tune in for a live City Works post-election roundtable that the Murphy Institute at CUNY SLU is organizing to discuss initial analysis and reactions to the election for the next mayor of New York City. The roundtable will be moderated by award-winning journalist Laura Flanders. Panelists will compare actual election results to their pre-election reporting on the mayoral race, pre-election polls and voter analysis, and general media coverage of the candidates. Speakers will provide our audience with insights on the actual voting results, including demographic/geographic trends that emerged in the electorate, and the impact that labor and social movements had on the election. Following the roundtable discussion, we will select questions from the live virtual audience to present to the panel for their comments.

Tue. December 9: in-person & Zoom event

The 2005 NYC Transit Workers Strike:  Reflections on the 20th Anniversary A conversation with Roger Toussaint, former president of TWU Local 100   Tuesday, December 9 6:30pm – 8:30pm (New York / E.T.)   In-person at CUNY SLU (map) & Virtual via Zoom livestream Free and open to all.   Click here to register. Please register to access in-person and virtual event info and reminders.  (slucuny.swoogo.com/9December2025)   Guest Speaker: Roger Toussaint - Former President, Transport Workers Union Local 100   Featuring: Joshua B. Freeman - Author, Working-Class New York: Life and Labor since World War II (2000) and Garden Apartments: The History of a Low-Rent Utopia (2025) Kafui Attoh - Associate Professor, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies; Author, Rights in Transit: Public Transportation and the Right to the City in California’s East Bay (2019)     Roger Toussaint  Joshua Freeman  Kafui Attoh 

The 2005 NYC transit workers strike, led by Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 under Roger Toussaint, remains deeply relevant to American workers in 2025. It highlights enduring lessons about labor militancy and the challenges of taking bold action in the face of legal repression and public sector austerity. The strike was a rare instance of a major U.S. union defying anti-strike laws—specifically New York’s Taylor Law—shutting down a city of millions to protect pension rights and resist a two-tier workforce.   How did TWU Local 100 mobilize an entire city to support workers, despite a hostile, well-funded corporate media campaign to vilify transit workers? What was won—and lost—as a result of the strike? What are the key lessons?   Join us on the 20th anniversary of the historic 2005 transit workers strike to learn from Roger Toussaint, former president of TWU Local 100; Joshua Freeman, labor historian and author of Working-Class New York: Life and Labor since World War II; and Kafui Attoh, Professor of Urban Studies at CUNY SLU.