In Reflection Upon Fifty Issues

A Presentation at the Platypus Review Issue No. 50 Launch Party

 November 15, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

In October, the Platypus Review published it’s fiftieth issue. In celebration of this landmark occasion, at the issue No. 50 release party held in New York City on November 15, 2012, an international video conference with the members of the current and past editorial staff of the Platypus Review was held, including speakers involved with the Platypus Review from New York City and Chicago, USA, London, UK, Thessaloniki, Greece, Maastricht, the Netherlands, Frankfurt, Germany, and Graz, Austria. [Read More]

Politics of the Contemporary Student Left

Hopes and Failures

 April 18, 2009  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Video Recording Transcript in Platypus Review #15 Panelists Alexander L. Hanna (chair): former organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops Atlee McFellin: Students for a Democratic Society, New School Radical Student Union Pam Nogales: Platypus (New York) C. J. Pereira Di Salvo: former organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops Laurie Rojas: Platypus (Chicago), former member of Students for a Democratic Society Description Young people’s heightened participation in politics in the run-up to the election of Barack Obama was crucial to his election and cannot be ignored. [Read More]
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