President’s Column: Strange Times and We Need Strong Academic Unions
by José Padín, President The unimagined has happened. Because national leadership has aided and abetted growing privilege, widening inequality, and deepening economic insecurity, popular anger with the course of our country united in rejecting business as usual in politics. Yet, the popular anger fragmented in a dangerous way in the elections that just took place. Too many Americans felt alienated, and they stayed at home on election day. Too many others were drawn in by the appeal of mean-spirited hatred of imaginary monsters conjured up by a presidential demagogue. Mexicans, he said, are all criminals…
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