CUNY Center for Urban Reform: Tales from Our Trash

On Thursday, November 14th, please join the CUNY Center for Urban Environmental Reform for Tales from Our Trash: Sanitation Workers, Sustainable Cities, and the Value of Knowledge, an event about waste handling in New York City.  Held in honor of Frank Justich, a NYC Sanitation worker killed on the job in Astoria in 2010, the event will feature a discussion with Professor Robin Nagle (author of Picking Up, and the anthropologist-in-residence with the NYC Department of Sanitation), as well as presentations by the NYC Commissioner of Sanitation, John Dougherty, and conceptual artist, Mierle Laderman Ulekes (artist-in-residence with the NYC Department …

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