A picture of actress Jane Fonda, a visiting speaker to the institution, September 15, 1972. At the time, Fonda was an ardent protestor against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. There are crop marks and in the right margin is noted, "6-B K-WUT FRI 2Col x 3 3/4 inches."
A contact sheet of three images of U.S. Senator Wayne Lyman Morse (State Senator from Oregon), who served in the United States Senate from 1945-1969. He visited the university on April 25 and 26, 1968 as a participant in the Vietnam Teach-In, a form of protest against U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
John M. "Tim" Reilly speaking to reporters regarding a 1987 AFL-CIO boycott supported by the United University Professions (UUP). Tim Reilly was UUP president from 1987 to 1993. This image appeared in the December 1987 edition of The Voice. In the top margin in written "VOICE P.1" "100%" is crossed out. Written in the bottom margin is "K 44 Pi wide" "20-120" and "156%" is crossed out. There is a NYSUT Graphics/Photography logo sticker in the left margin.
John M. "Tim" Reilly speaking to reporters regarding a 1987 AFL-CIO boycott supported by the United University Professions (UUP). This image appeared in the December 1987 edition of The Voice. Tim Reilly was president of UUP from 1987 to 1993.
Black Panther Demonstration taking place at the State University of New York at Albany Uptown Campus. UAlbany students are seated before an unidentified man speaking from a podium. Nine students can be seen raising their hand in a fist.
A picture of students marching in protest against the Vietnam War. Some are holding posters, one of which reads, "End the War in Vietnam" and another poster displays a peace sign.
A picture of graffiti on the interior walls of a building created in protest of the Vietnam War. Wording includes, "Make Love Not War" and "War is Peace; Slavery is Freedom; Evil is Good;" others are illegible. The peace sign is also very prominent. There are what may be crop marks on the upper left and near the lower right corners.
A picture of students marching in protest against the Vietnam War. Some protesters hold posters, one of which reads, "War Solves Everything - Even People" and displays a peace sign.
A March 1970 protest in support of the Black Panthers occurs on the steps of the State Capitol. The photograph was taken by a State University of New York at Albany student from the Class of 1971.
In this image from the 1986 Torch yearbook from the State University of New York at Albany, students demonstrate at the State Capitol against apartheid and racism in South Africa.
Black Panther demonstration takes place at the State University of New York at Albany uptown campus. Students are seated before an unidentified man speaking from a podium. Nine students raise their fists in the air.
CSEA members holding signs at a protest staged at a highway groundbreaking. The signs read, "Show some respect," "Where's George?" "Where's King George?" and "We're still here doing the work making you look good."(8 x 10 in. photograph)
AFSCME President Gerald McEntee holds up a sign stating, "Giambra, you're fired" at a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Erie County rally against big business taking over county services held on September 29, 2005. Gerald McEntee is standing in front of the Erie County Office Building where County Executive Joel Giambra's office is located.
From left to right, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Western Region President Flo Tripi, Metropolitan Region President George Boncoraglio, Statewide President Danny Donohue, AFSCME President Gerald McEntee, Statewide Treasurer Maureen Malone, and Southern Region President Diane Hewitt march with a large CSEA banner in an Erie County protest against big business taking over county services on September 29, 2005.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Bonnie Peters and Rose Conti of Chautauqua County join their fellow members in a rally against big business taking over county services on September 29, 2005. The rally took place in front of County Executive Joel Giambra's office in Erie County.
Erie County Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members march with signs stating, "Keep big business out of county government," in a September 29, 2005 rally against big business taking over county services. The rally took place in front of County Executive Joel Giambra's office building.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Erie County Local President Joan Bender converses with New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi at a rally against big business taking over county services on September 29, 2005. The rally took place in front of County Executive Joel Giambra's office in Erie County.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Erie County Probation Section President Scott Smith takes part in a September 29, 2005 rally against big business taking over county services. The rally took place in front of County Executive Joel Giambra's office building.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, Marie Navaro, a Suffolk Educational Local activist and Maryann Phelps, SUNY Stony Brook Local activist, show their support for CSEA members employed by the East Williston School District. CSEA members from across Long Island demonstrated in front of the East Williston School District's Wheatley School before the district's Board of Education meeting in support of reaching a fair contract with the district.
United States Senator Chuck Schumer greets Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Rosemary Hampton and Frank Cosentino among others at the New York City Labor Parade in September 2001. Chuck Schumer represents New York in the United States Senate.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Jenette Engel of Oswego County and Colleen Wheaton of SUNY Potsdam participating with hundreds of their fellow AFSCME members in 108 degree heat in an informational picket on behalf of hotel and culinary workers in downtown Las Vegas during the AFSCME convention. Contracts were settled within days of the AFSCME agitation.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members standing in solidarity with striking union workers picketing the Finch Pruyn paper mill in Glens Falls, New York. Union activists collected school supplies for children of the strikers and more than $500 was collected from union employees and donated to the strike fund.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Southern Region President Diane Hewitt, second from left, Hudson Valley DDSO Local President Sara Bogart, Westchester County Unit President Jack McPhillips, and Monroe County Unit President Jim Volpone in Washington, D.C., to protest against the Bush administration proposed Social Security reforms. The Social Security event was part of a legislative conference presented by CSEA's international union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members rally together in support of extending NYC rent control laws in front of the State Capitol in Albany,NY in June 1997.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members rally together in support of extending NYC rent control laws in front of the State Capitol in Albany,NY in June 1997.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue gives a thumbs up as he walks with a group of CSEA members at a rally in support of union representation at the LaSalle School in Albany, NY in June 1997.
Civil Service Employee Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue walks with a sign stating, "Working people who want decent treatment shouldn't have to pay with their jobs," at a rally in support of union representation at the LaSalle School in Albany, NY in June 1997.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members hold up a banner at an organizing rally at the LaSalle School in Albany in June 1997. Walking behind the banner is CSEA President Danny Donohue giving the thumbs up.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue speaks to a group of workers and CSEA activists at a rally for union representation at the LaSalle School in Albany, NY in June 1997.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, retirees, and their supporters in the Village of Skaneateles, New York, who lined the street to protest a vote by the Village Board that eliminated health care coverage in retirement for many current and future retirees. The union then packed a village board meeting to condemn the board members for failing to bring the issue to the union prior to their action.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and other union members from around the state who attended the May 3, 2003, Rally for Public Education at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York, which was just one event in which union members were instrumental in the events leading to the state Legislature voting overwhelmingly to override Governor George Pataki's vetoes to restore $1.9 billion that Pataki sought to cut, primarily in education and health care funding. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
A group of unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members hold up signs at a demonstration in Rochester in May 1995 challenging Governor George Pataki's budget priorities.
A large crowd of unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members march with signs and banners at a New York City State Budget Rally in May 1991.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members working at the Baldwin Library demonstrate to let the community know that they are severely underpaid and have been working without a contract for too long.
A group of unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members hold up signs at a Brooklyn Developmental Center Demonstration over staff assaults in April 2001.
NYC Mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Metropolitan Region President George Boncoraglio join a group of CSEA members at a Brooklyn Developmental Center Demonstration over staff assaults in April 2001.
A group of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members hold up signs at a Brooklyn Developmental Center Demonstration over staff assaults in April 2001.
A group of unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members march with signs at a Brooklyn Developmental Center Demonstration over staff assaults in April 2001.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer, center, and CSEA Metropolitan Region President George Boncoraglio, right, and CSEA members protesting a lack of adequate security at the Brooklyn DDSO in Brooklyn, New York. CSEA questioned why the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities never replaced a problematic security system following a violent sexual attack on two female workers at the center. After an investigation by the union and a highly publicized demonstration, the center's management agreed the security problem existed, upgraded the current system, and committed to install immediately a more effective system.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) SUNY Cortland Local 605 President Willis Streeter Jr. is interviewed by a Syracuse Channel 5 reporter at a SUNY Cortland Parking Fee Demonstration in April 1990.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members demonstrate outside the New York Sheraton in Manhattan to protest Governor George Pataki's budget priorities. Pataki was speaking inside the Hotel.
Unidentifed Civil Service Employyes Association (CSEA) members help hold a banner stating, "Emergency, Stop Pataki's Medicaid Cuts" at a demonstration in March 1995 outside the Sheraton New York where Pataki was speaking.
Thousands of unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members rally against Governor Hugh Carey's budget priorities at a 1975 demonstration on the steps of the state capital in Albany, NY.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, center, joining CSEA members in a march on City Hall in New York City. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Buffalo Mayor Anthony Masiello speaks at a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) rally challenging Governor George Pataki's budget priorities, while CSEA member Karen Gambino signs for the hearing impaired and New York State Assemblyman Francis Pordum listens.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Central Region President Jim Moore marches with Sidney Hospital Unit President Karen Eggleston and other members at a Sidney Hospital contract demonstration in Delaware County.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Local 813 President Karen Eggleston, Local Vice President George Lawson, and Unit President Carlton Shelton hold up signs at a Deleware County Picket.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Tioga County Local 854 President Kathleen Cardone leads about 75 CSEA marchers in an informational workers demonstration over stalled contract talks.
Members of the Teamsters Local 294 give the thumbs up to a sign outside Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s statewide headquarters in Albany, NY stating, "No scab deliveries. CSEA supports the Teamsters". The sign was an expression of support for the Teamsters in their national strike against United Parcel Service.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) J.N. Adams Development Center Local 400 members picket against Governor Pataki's budget. One member is putting a flier on the windshield of a pickup truck. Information fliers were passed out at thruway exits and other locations throughout South-West New York.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Roswell Park Local President Brian Madden and CSEA Political Action Coordinator Bill Benfante lead a contract demonstration in Buffalo, NY.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Sidney Hospital Unit President Karen Eggleston marches with Unit Secretary Linda Shelton at a Sidney Hospital contract demonstration in Delaware County.
In one of the largest demonstrations ever held in a city famous for massive protests, 20,000 public employees rallied and marched on the New York State Capitol and the Governor's Mansion in Albany. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members came by the busload for the "Hot Day in February" rally to protest Governor Mario Cuomo's proposed state budget that called for massive cuts in jobs, aid, and services. CSEA members joined members of other public employee unions including PEF, UUP, and AFSCME Council 82. This photo was taken from the roof of CSEA headquarters at 143 Washington Avenue. The protestors are marching down Washington Avnue towards the Capitol from the Washington Avenue Armory at the corner of Lark Street where the event began with a rally inside the armory.
SUNY New Paltz Local Vice Presidents Janice Beaulieu, left, and Mary Griffin taking part in a rally for the right for private food service employees at SUNY New Paltz to unionize. Sodexho-Marriot, an international, multibillion-dollar corporation, took over operations of the campus dining services in 2001. The workers approached the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) for help in forming a union in 2002 after Sodexho managers would subject employees to intimidation, reprimands and humiliation on the job. Nearly 100 workers voted to join CSEA in 2003. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members in Onondaga County demonstrate in support of their contract fight and to urge the county legislature to preserve funding for the Van Duyn Nursing Home.
A Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member holds two sticks with the heads of Susan Molinari and Newt Gingrich on them as CSEA demonstrators await the arrival of Newt Gingrich to a Staten Island homeless shelter.
The Reverend Al Sharpton speaks into a bullhorn with the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) logo on the side. Protestors are wearing CSEA stickers and carrying signs the most prominent of which reads "Remember Kendra Webddle(sic) we do." The Kendra referred to is most likely Kendra Webdale for whom the New York State involuntary outpatient commitment law known as "Kendra's Law" was named.
New York State Governor George E. Pataki as he is distracted by a group of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members protesting their state contract stalemate during a speech at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Karen Gambino of St. Mary's School for the Deaf, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Local 891, speaks out against Governor George Pataki's budget cuts that will hurt deaf children at a CSEA event in Buffalo.
New York City Council Speaker Peter Vallone giving a thumbs up as he stands with Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members holding a CSEA banner at CSEA rally.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Region 6 Political Action Committee Co-chair Tom Warzel holds a sign stating, "We didn't vote for these changes," at a City Hall Anti-budget Rally.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Tompkins County Local 855 President David "Doc" Livingstone marches in the Cortland Worker Memorial Day Rally with Regional Health and Safety Committee Chair and Onondoga County Unit Local 834 President Len Foster, with son Ian on his shoulders.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Broome Developmental Center Local 441 Vice President Kathy Roma and Local 449 President William Krivyanik join CSEA and PEF members at Binghamton Psychiatric Center to protest one year without a contract.
Aaron Fidler, child of a Civil Service Employess Association (CSEA) member sits in the back of a pickup truck and holds cards to be inserted into a pig at a rally against New York Governor George Pataki's proposed budget cuts. The side of the pig reads, "Keep your change stop the budget cuts!" The Rally was held at Government Plaza in Binghamton, NY.
Unidentified members of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Nassau County Medical Center Unit of the CSEA Nassau County Local demonstrate against contracting-out of medical center services at a rally outside the East Meadow facility.
A group of unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members hold signs stating, "CSEA works for you in Genesee County," at a Genesee County demonstration.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Karen Chase-Corcoran speaking to a reporter at a rally at Government Plaza in Binghamton, NY against Governor George Pataki's proposed budget. In the background is a pink piggy bank in the back of a pick-up truck with the slogan "KEEP YOUR CHANGE! STOP THE BUDGET CUTS!" on its side.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members hold up signs at an Anti-Cuomo Demonstration. One sign states, "Cut Cuomo not workers."
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Long Island Region President Gloria Moran addresses a crowd on the grounds of Pilgrim Psychiatric Center at a demonstration over New York's mental health policies. Holding the left side of the banner is then CSEA Executive Vice President Danny Donohue.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Onondaga County Local 834 members march at a nighttime rally outside a set of meetings of the County legislature to protest stalled contract talks.
Members of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Rockland Psychiatric Center Local 421, Michael Hogg, Nancy Conviser, Addie Cerfola, Ron Mortenson, Bruce Carpenter, Pam Alexander, and Brenda Gamble protest the closing of Blaisdale Alcohol Treatment Center.
Tempers flared when two pickets, served with injunctions, were arrested by City police on orders from State Assistant Attorney General Robert Contiguglia. However, police learned shortly after the arrests the two men were not state employees, but field representatives of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA). Both were released. City officials said the entire matter was a misunderstanding and that the two had not really been arrested. On hand for the incident were Mayor Paul W. Lattimore and Assistant corporation counsel Thomas Leone. Above, Capt. Joseph Conboy, third from left, has a brief exchange with an on-looker. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
An unidentified group of Oneida County, NY Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members protest contract offers during the holidays of 1972. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members of the department workers are picketing the office each morning before work and during their lunch hour. Ted Modrzejewski, state field representative for the Civil Service Employee Association, has said that the picketing would coninue everday to "make the public aware of what's happening to this office." Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
Civil Service Employyes Association (CSEA), local President Wayne Jones leads a group of Gowanda CSEA members give a cheer at a Gowanda Psychiatric Center Demonstration in December 1990. CSEA fought vigorously, to prevent the New York State Office of Mental Health from closing the western New York facility. CSEA sought unsuccessfully to have an alternative plan for services before closure.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) City of Poughkeepsie employees who inaugurated picket action in front of City Hall are briefed by Lois Cunningham, front left, field representative of the Civil Service Employees Association, which represents all City employees except police and firemen.
New York State Assemblyman Ronald Canestrari speaking at a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) press conference on the steps of the State Capitol. CSEA members, Senator Paul Tonko, Assembly Jack McEneny, and Senator Neil Breslin stand behind Canestrari. A stuffed turkey is featured in the forefront of the photo to symbolize Governor George Pataki's budget. The legislators were calling for a "slice" of the turkey for public employees, but the governor did not leave a piece for them. The turkey was carved at the end of the press conference. A sign in front of Breslin reads "Show Some Respect!" Canestrari is a Democrat representing the 106th District in the State Assembly.
New York State Senator Neil Breslin speaking at a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) rally on the steps of the State Capitol. CSEA Capital Region President Carmen Bagnoli stands behind Breslin. A stuffed turkey is featured in the forefront of the photo to symbolize Governor George Pataki's budget. The legislators were calling for a "slice" of the turkey for public employees, but the governor did not leave a piece for them. The turkey was carved at the end of the press conference. A sign in front of Breslin reads "Show Some Respect!" Breslin is a Democrat representing Albany County in the State Senate.
New York State Assemblyman Jack McEneny speaking at a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) press conference on the steps of the State Capitol. CSEA members, Senator Paul Tonko, Senator Neil Breslin, and Assemblyman Ronald Canestrari stand behind John McEneny. A stuffed turkey is featured in the forefront of the photo to symbolize Governor George Pataki's budget. The legislators were calling for a "slice" of the turkey for public employees, but the governor did not leave a piece for them. The turkey was carved at the end of the press conference. A sign in front of McEneny reads "Show Some Respect!"
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members employed by the Yonkers Public Schools demonstrated before a school board of Trustees meeting. More than 700 members of the CSEA Yonkers Public Schools Non-Teaching Unit demonstrated outside of Saunders Technical and Trades High School before the meeting then filed into the auditorium where Unit President Bobbie DiBattista addressed the board members.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Long Island Region members picket near the Copiague School District for a fair contract for school custodians, groundskeepers, and maintenance workers. A visit by New York State Education Commissioner Richard Mills to the Copiague School District coincided with the picket.
Three boxes of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA), "Save our School," postcards filled out by Yonkers School District Unit members at a Yonkers School District Demonstration in October 2001.