by Chris Cumo

Forget the top-down hierarchy. Talk to anyone in the thick of things and you get the same answer: Campus Equity Week (CEW) is a grassroots movement, one with a protean nature that defies easy summation. CEW began in October 2001 (CEW 1) in the U.S. and Canada and will spread this October to Mexico. However, even these geographical gains may not be enough. Empire finds its raison d’etre in expansion.

In the early second century, Trajan marched Rome’s legions into Persia. Today, Richard Moser, the National Field Representative at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), is working to develop contacts in Europe and Australia. Armando Vazques-Ramos, a CEW activist in California, sees Mexico as a conduit to South American, an expansion that would make CEW an intercontinental labor movement.

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