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SWS Interview March 2013 (Workers / Erica) - Part 1

As part of our ongoing Student-Worker Solidarity series, we interviewed two Faculty House workers to discuss what’s at stake in their contract negotiations and how they have been working with students to finally advocate for themselves after over 20 years of employment at Columbia. (Part 1)

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SWS Interview March 2013 (Organizers / Erica) - Part 2

This show kicked off our coverage of on-campus group Student-Worker Solidarity’s advocating for Columbia University Faculty House workers. We brought two of the group’s student organizers – Jane and George – to the studios to discuss the group’s previous work in the community, its current role in the Faculty House workers’ contract negotiations, and whether their work marks the return of Columbia’s historic student activism. (Part 2)

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SWS Interview March 2013 (Organizers / Erica) - Part 1

This show kicked off our coverage of on-campus group Student-Worker Solidarity’s advocating for Columbia University Faculty House workers. We brought two of the group’s student organizers – Jane and George – to the studios to discuss the group’s previous work in the community, its current role in the Faculty House workers’ contract negotiations, and whether their work marks the return of Columbia’s historic student activism. (Part 1)

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Christine Webb, Reconciliation Behavior

In this month’s collaboration with The Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4), Professor Coleman (Director of Columbia University’s Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity) was joined in the studios by Christine Webb, a doctoral student in Psychology here at Columbia University. The pair discussed Webb’s work in South Africa studying reconciliation behavior in both humans and chimpanzees.

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Fair Observer

Late City Edition Producer Erica Getto sat down with Atul Singh, founder of up-and-coming news analysis website Fair Observer to discuss his personal and professional journey, his goals in launching Fair Observer, and shifting media models.

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Stop & Frisk

An interview with Joseph "Jazz" Hayden, a community organizer in Harlem who says his weapon charges were bogus and in retaliation for his coverage of NYPD's Stop and Frisk program. The weapon charges have since been reduced.

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Shahar Sadeh, Middle East Nature Parks

In this month's collaboration with The Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4), conversation between Professor Peter Coleman and Shahar Sadeh, a visiting Israeli scholar, in collaboration with the Advanced Consortium on Conflict, Cooperation, and Complexity at the Earth Institute. Sadeh spoke of her work with nature parks in the Middle East as a path towards peace, mostly between Israel and Jordan.

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Marc Levy, Haiti Earthquake

For this month's collaboration with The Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4), Professor Peter Coleman sits down with Professor Marc Levy. The two discuss Professor Levy's work in Haiti, leading up to and following the devastating 2010 earthquake. Professor Levy is Deputy Director of the Center for International Earth Science Information Network.