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Live Updates (10/21/24): Palestine Solidarity Demonstrations

Organizers from Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine (Graduate SJP), joined by Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), set up a Gaza Solidarity Sukkah at Dickson Court North on the morning of October 21, 2024. Sukkahs are temporary booths constructed for the seven-day celebration of Sukkot, also known as the Feast…

Students Gather to Mark One Year of War in Gaza

The UCLA Radio News Department’s real-time coverage of the events summarized in this article can be found on X (formerly Twitter). Around 150 pro-Palestinian student protesters marched across UCLA’s North Campus on Monday, October 7 to remember those who have been killed by Israel’s war in Gaza. The crowd steadily…

UC Regents Face Student Backlash Over Military Equipment Requests

This article is published on behalf of UCLA Radio’s News Department. Any perspectives shared below do not reflect the views of ASUCLA Student Media. On Thursday 19 September 2024, the UC Board of Regents held their second day of meetings at the Luskin Conference Center. While multiple items were discussed…

Live Updates: Demonstrations and War in Gaza

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…

UCLA Campus Demonstration Coverage: Photo Gallery

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.

A cartoon graphic of a tent with a waving Palestinian flag in front of Royce Hall.

UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment Releases Official Statement Following Encampment Raid

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,…

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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…

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…

Editorial: Breaking Down Block’s Congressional Hearing

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.

Opinion: The brutality committed on UCLA’s campus is a long-running pattern of the narrative of violence being used to justify atrocities.

*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…

Editorial: Chancellor Block’s Emails – A Story of Strategic Deception & Discrimination

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…

Opinion: Ugly and Beautiful at 4 am

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…

Resources for Students

Civil Disobedience and Protest Safety

Brief Overview —

    • Identity and Safety:
      • Wear a mask and nondescript clothing
      • Hide any tattoos or other distinguishable features
      • Do not take photos of other people without their consent and actively hide any faces in the photos you do take
      • Do not engage with counterprotestors or police
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    • Interacting with police:
      • If you are stopped, ask if you are free to go. If they say yes, calmly walk away.
      • Police officers may not confiscate or demand to view photographs or video without a warrant. They cannot delete your data from your device under any circumstances.
      • If you are arrested, do not say anything. Do not agree to anything or sign anything. It is your right to ask why you are being arrested.
      • If you are detained, only give your name and ID with current address.

LA Jail Support #: 424-388-1230

 

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From UCLA: Literature on Activism and Social Justice

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis (UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita)

  • “Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-Apartheid movement. She highlights connections and analyzes today’s struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine.”

 

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“From the River to the Sea to Every Mountain Top: Solidarity as Worldmaking” by Robin D. G. Kelley (UCLA Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History)
 
  • “This essay questions a key takeaway from the Ferguson/Gaza convergence that catalyzed the current wave of Black-Palestinian transnational solidarity: the idea that “equivalence,” or a politics of analogy based on racial or national identity, or racialized or colonial experience, is the sole or primary grounds for solidarity.”
 

Alternative and Activist New Media by Leah A. Lievrouw (UCLA Information Studies Professor Emerita)

  • Lievrouw “charts the theoretical roots of contemporary internet-driven movements and provides a framework for understanding the changing face of protest in the age of algorithmic media.”
  • An “accessible guide to how people adopt and adapt media in pursuit of social and cultural change.” (Graham Meikle, University of Westminster)

UCLA's History of Activism and Protest

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

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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

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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)

 
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