The UC’s repression of Palestine solidarity protest and neglect of workers’ welfare are not disparate injustices: they are products of the callous, corporate ordering of our university. But when students and workers bear the brunt of the UC’s violences, there is power where our struggles converge.
The University of California’s largest union representing over 37,000 service and patient care workers is on strike for two days (November 20-21) over Unfair Labor Practices by the UC, with workers engaging in pickets across all ten UC campuses and five medical centers.
The University of California’s largest union representing over 37,000 service and patient care workers is on strike for the next two days (November 20-21) over Unfair Labor Practices by the UC, with workers engaging in pickets across all ten UC campuses and five medical centers.
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.
There are the next four years, and then there is the lifetime that comes after. When Trump is inaugurated as President in January, millions of Americans will be thrust into new, cruel states of precarity. Now more than ever, we must unite in struggle: community is how we resist.
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 of Booths, a Jewish tradition…
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 grew after gathering in Dickson…
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.
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.
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, April 25th, 2024, the UCLA…