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James Cersonsky

James is a senior at Yale and a New Haven community activist.

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Will Exploitative Corporate Practices Go the Way of South African Apartheid?
The year was 1986. Yale University President Bart Giamatti was on his way back to his office from a birthday lunch when he stumbled upon...
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Why the Lack of Protest on American Campuses?
Service is one thing, and activism—particularly in opposition to university policy—is another.
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Solidarity in New Haven
The recent campus mobilization at Yale is only the latest student effort to organize around and impact the safety of local residents.
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If You’re Searching for Voter Enthusiasm, Follow the Music
If Rabble Rousers frontman Bill Collins is right to say that “politics is like a car,” then its most recent drivers—...
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The “Privilege” of Being a Student at a Corporate University
Debates about bonuses, endowments, and financial aid is not one of numbers and budgets—but of values.
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What Democracy Looks Like
On a Saturday in June, workers, students and allies of UNITE HERE Local 217’s downtown Providence hotels marched in solidarity with...
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Sound and Fury Forever
StudentNation writer James Cersonsky reports from the Washington, DC, One Nation Working Together March.
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Two New Havens
Students and locals should do lots of service, study urban planning, but we should stand by the community when it disagrees with the...
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