Forwarded message ———
From: Karen Miller <kamiller@lagcc.cuny.edu>
Date: Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 3:13 PM
Subject: Amazon’s HQ2 and Long Island City: A Teach-In, LaGuardia Community
College, E-111 10:30 am to 2 pm
To: <MALSFACULTY-L@gc.listserv.cuny.edu>
On Nov. 13, 2018, Amazon announced its plans to open one of its two new
HQ2s in Long Island City, Queens. Taking advantage of massive tax cuts and
incentives, the company plans to move into one of the tightest housing
markets in the world. How can we understand this plan and the effects it
may have on current residents? Come join us for a teach in that will
address existing gentrification, analyze the political economy of deals
like this one, offer examples of activist responses to this plan, discuss
whose interests will be served if the deal goes through, examine Amazon’s
labor and environmental practices, and consider what we might want to do
going forward.
There will be a teach-in about this issue at LaGuardia Community College in
E-111 from 10:30 to 2 pm on Wednesday, Nov. 28th.
For directions to LaGuardia, please visit:
https://www.laguardia.edu/About/Maps-Directions/ [l.facebook.com]
(l.facebook.com)
Confirmed speakers include (schedule subject to change and will be updated):
10:30 am
Introduction: Filip Stabrowski, Professor of Anthropology and Geography,
LaGuardia
Steve Lang, Professor of Sociology, LaGuardia
Josh Kellermann, Director of Public Policy at the Retail Wholesale
Department Store Union (RWDSU)
Celia Weaver, Policy and Research Directory, New York Communities for
Change.
Amy Herzog, Professor of Media Studies at Queens College
11:45 am
Introduction: Arianna Martinez, Professor of Sociology and Geography,
LaGuardia, member of Queens Neighborhood United (QNU)
Stephen Petrus, Historian at LaGuardia and Wagner Archives
Bettina Damiani, formerly of Good Jobs New York teaches at CUNY’s School of
Labor and Urban Studies.
Jake, ALIGN (The Alliance for a Greater New York).
1:00 pm
Introduction: Karen Miller, Professor of History, LaGuaria
Doug Henwood, journalist and editor of the Left Business Observer.
Johnathan Bailey, Queens Democratic Socialists of America.
Sabrina Jalal, CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities.
Julia Salazar, State Senator from Queens.
Please forward widely.
Best,
Karen Miller
Professor
Social Science Department, LaGuardia Community College
Deputy Executive Officer, MALS Program, CUNY Graduate Center
*Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit
[nyupress.org]
(nyupress.org)*
