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Film Screening: award-winning Union documentary with Special Guest Amazon Labor Union leader Chris Smalls
 

Shortlisted for the Oscars and named one of the best films of 2024 by the New York Times and Rolling Stone, witness the incredible story of how the Amazon Labor Union stood up to one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world. We will be joined by the co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union Chris Smalls.
October 22, 2025
5:00pm film begins
UMass Amherst ILC N151



 

September 30th 2025, 5:30-7pm in S131 Integrative Learning Center

Free and Open to the Public

carla joy bergman is a mom, transdisciplinary artist, podcaster, and writer. They are the co-author of Joyful Militancy, editor of Radiant Voices and Trust Kids! Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy. These days carla does most of her creative endeavors for CAW, a worker-run art and culture journal. 

Nick Montgomery is a white settler living on Sla-dai-aich (Denman Island) on K’omoks, Qualicum, and Pentlatch territories. He is a community organizer, cooker of big meals, paramedic

The Social Thought and Political Economy (STPEC) Program at UMass Amherst honors the retirement of Dr. Graciela Monteagudo, whose dedication, vision, and activism have left an indelible mark on our program over the course of a nearly a dozen years. 

When Graciela Monteagduo joined the program in 2013, she established as her first project the reversal of declining trends in major numbers through the development of new program literature, active recruitment at open houses and in other venues around campus, and most importantly the creation of STPEC’s first General Education course, “Introduction

April 3rd at 6pm in the Integrative Learning Center, Room N151. Please Register Here.

Robin D. G. Kelley is the Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History and professor of African American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Kelley’s extensive academic career explores the history of social movements in the U.S., the African Diaspora, and Africa; Black intellectuals; music; visual culture; contemporary urban studies; historiography and historical theory; poverty studies and ethnography; colonialism/imperialism; organized labor; constructions of race

The Social Thought and Political Economy program mourns the loss of our founding Director, Robert Paul Wolff, an emeritus UMass Professor. He passed away on January 6th, 2025. He was 91 years old.

Professor Wolff developed the STPEC program in 1972, modeling it off of a similar interdisciplinary undergraduate major at Harvard University for which he had been the first head tutor. As originally conceived, STPEC would task students with taking a combination of courses in the humanities and social sciences, capped by a series of junior and senior seminars. Professor Wolff co-taught the first of

Keywords for Decolonization : A lecture with Dr. Melanie Yazzie

November 12, 2024 5-7pm

Integrative Learning Center, S131

 Melanie Yazzie (Diné) is Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and coauthor of Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation and The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save the Earth, both of which came out in 2021. She co-hosts the podcast Red Power Hour, which is produced by Red Media, a Native-led media organization she co-founded. She also organizes with The Red Nation, a grassroots Native-run