Workers at UCLA Join Systemwide Strike Over UC Bargaining Practices

Nearly 60,000 workers across UC campuses and health centers went on a one-day Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike Tuesday, April 1, alleging unlawful behavior and bad-faith bargaining by the UC. University Professional & Technical Employees – Communications Workers of America Local 9119 (UPTE-CWA 9119) announced the strike in response to “divide-and-conquer” bargaining tactics and failure…

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Palestinian Youth Movement Marches Against Trump’s Plans to Displace Palestinians

The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) rallied outside of the Wilshire Federal Building at noon on Saturday, Feb. 15 to demand that the governments of Jordan and Egypt reject Trump’s plans for the displacement of 2.3 million Palestinians from Gaza. The protestors marched through Westwood Village before blocking the intersection of Veteran Ave. and Wilshire Blvd. from 1:30 p.m. until dispersal at 2 p.m..

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Live Updates (11/19/24): Palestine Solidarity Demonstrations

SJP at UCLA is mobilizing to demand UC-wide divestment and express solidarity with AFSCME 3299’s upcoming strike, in addition to its campaign for divestment from Blackstone. Student protesters are calling on UCLA to disclose its assets, divest from firms tied to Israel’s war in Gaza, abolish campus policing, and engage in academic boycott of Israel.

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Beyond Our Space: Student Encampments for Gaza as a Global Movement

Images provided by interviewees with permission for use by UCLA Radio. From Amsterdam to Tokyo to our home in Los Angeles, a global movement this Spring saw students occupy university grounds to express their solidarity with the people of Palestine. In the U.S., this movement followed in the footsteps of Columbia University, but encampments and…

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Opinion: To Counter UCLA’s Inhumanity, We Must Honor the Martyrs of Palestine.

UCLA’s Administration has put forth every effort to divide and suppress the voices of its students and workers. In order to rebuild our community, we must ground ourselves in the tens of thousands of martyrs of Palestine, and recenter the liberation movement around honoring their memories. This is how we can reclaim our campus and continue the fight for a free Palestine in our lifetimes.

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