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I wrote a piece for Truthout on how the worker strike at #Cornell is a symptom of tax-exempt #HigherEd institutions driving the conditions that displace locals.
It gets into how student demands for divestment (from weapons industries tied to the genocide in Gaza) and transparency about endowment restrictions could lead to greater scrutiny of nonprofit university spending.
Truthout · Cornell Has Driven Up Local Cost of Living. Workers Had No Choice But to Strike.The university’s service and maintenance staff struck for two weeks, saying they can no longer afford to live in Ithaca.
And if you're interested, check out how THREE DECADES AGO, workers at Cornell were fighting for the same things: