Category: Academia & Class

Article alleges CalSTRS is the biggest investor in an East Bay Real Estate empire that evicts people

Part-time faculty should be concerned about this newly released investigative piece, published yesterday in the East Bay Express. It alleges that a real estate network called Lone Star has been busy evicting people in Oakland […]

2015-10-07 / Academia & Class
Precariat of the World Unite?

17 October 2014 — Guy Standing The term “Precariat” has been bandied around for some time now as a convenient catchall for a growing sense of employment insecurity in the U.S. and Europe. It has […]

2014-10-17 / Academia & Class, Activism in Education
Out of the Shadows in Texas

2 June 2014 Editors Note: Ana M. Fores Tamayo teaches part time in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area of Texas, a state that dwarfs California in size and has quite different education codes. Given both states’ […]

2014-06-03 / Academia & Class, Academic Solidarity, Activism in Education, Teachers' Rights

Article alleges CalSTRS is the biggest investor in an East Bay Real Estate empire that evicts people