UCLA Radio’s live coverage of these events began Monday, April 29. Any perspectives shared below do not reflect the views of ASUCLA Student Media. Early April 25, students at UCLA set up an encampment in Dickson Plaza to demand that the UC disclose their assets and divest from companies involved…
Last week (4/25), students at UCLA set up an encampment in Dickson Court to demand that the UC disclose their assets and divest from companies involved in Israel’s war on Gaza.
UCLA Radio’s coverage of these events began Monday, April 29. Any perspectives shared below do not reflect the views of ASUCLA Student Media. Following the aftermath of Wednesday night’s brutal police raid on the UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment (PSE) on UCLA’s campus, the encampment released an official statement. On Thursday,…
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…
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…
As Chancellor Block sat before Congress for a hearing on UCLA's handling of antisemitism on campus, he continued to indulge false narratives about the Palestine Solidarity Encampment, while police repression on campus that same morning exposed the full extent of his hypocrisy.
*TW: Death and violence are mentioned. All images taken by UCLA Radio Staff. The violence that has ensued over the past few days is something not many would envision happening during their time at UCLA. But at the same time, it is not entirely unexpected given UCLA’s complicity in a…
While Chancellor Block has persisted at claiming that he prioritized ensuring community members’ safety and right to free expression throughout his handling of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment, in-depth analysis of his encampment-related email announcements reveal strategic attempts to mislead and deceive the UCLA community, and most alarmingly, a calculated exploitation…
Written and Photographed by Palmer Dean It was clear after the counter-protest of April 30th that UCLA’s student protestors would have to prepare for another attack. Their camp, a self-sufficient place created spontaneously, needed to reorganize. So while they kept teaching history lessons, holding religious ceremonies, and playing music, they…
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Sources/more details:
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis (UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita)
Alternative and Activist New Media by Leah A. Lievrouw (UCLA Information Studies Professor Emerita)
Peaceful protest on UCLA’s campus is not a new concept. In the past, UCLA protests have helped to advocate for those in need and progress social change, both locally and globally. Here are just a few examples:
1969, Angela Davis
Students protest the arrest of civil rights activist Angela Davis, 1971 (Source: UCLA Newsroom, UC Regents)
1972, Vietnam War
Police officers confronting anti-war demonstrators on UCLA campus, 1972 (Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive, UCLA Library Special Collections — Digital Library
1985, South Africa
1985 Daily Bruin coverage about UCLA protests against Apartheid in South Africa and students’ demands for UC divestment (Source: UCLA Daily Bruin)
1994, Proposition 187
Two hundred UCLA students march in protest of Proposition 187. Protests were held at about 20 other college and university campuses in California (Source: LA Times)