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Students Petition UC Irvine After Campus Police Arrest a Black Alumna Shikera Chamndany, a Black alumna in biomedical engineering at UC Irvine, went to campus to collect her transcripts on Feb. 20. She ended up spending the night in Orange County Women’s Jail....
Posted: Fri Mar 6, 2020 1:00PM
Media Advisory: Coalition of unions unite against cuts to public education On Thursday, March 5, hundreds of parents, students, educators, support staff, and community allies will hold a rally to demand that the San Francisco Board of Education partner with us to identify alternative budget solutions and prevent any and all cuts and layoffs!...
Posted: Tue Mar 3, 2020 3:36PM
Unions work to defeat UC-Santa Cruz grad student strike February 27, 2020 - For striking graduate students at the University of California (UC), Santa Cruz (UCSC), today marks “Doomsday 2.0,” the administration’s new deadline to submit withheld Fall 2019 grades....
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2020 1:26PM
UC Santa Cruz graduate students defy administration ultimatum, vote to continue strike February 22, 2020 - The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE), the youth movement of the Socialist Equality Party, is holding an emergency online meeting this Sunday, February 23, at 4pm Pacific Time to discuss an international socialist strategy for the UC strike. Visit https://iysse.com/UCstrike/ for further details....
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:24PM
UCSC Struggles over Grades amid Strike Eugenio Negro's report on interviews with students 20 February 2020 during the grad student strike that is shutting down classes and may withhold student grades....
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 8:37PM
UC Santa Cruz graduate students call for expansion of wildcat strike February 19, 2020 - The UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) graduate student wildcat strike escalated yesterday, Tuesday February 18, as students from United Auto Workers (UAW) union local 2865 mounted an all-day picket, culminating in a general assembly to vote on further action. Graduate students are holding fast against police repression and threats of dismissal or even deportation from the highest level university administration. Despite a virtual media blackout, support for the movement is growing acro...
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2020 5:47PM
UCB Student Threatens Genocide to Palestinians; No Response From Campus During a recent meeting of the Associated Students of the University of California, a UC Berkeley student spoke at the podium, pledging the genocide of "Palestinians from the world". The UC campus administration has taken no action against the student, and has taken no action to affirm the safety of Palestinian students and Palestinian visitors on campus....
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:30AM
UC Santa Cruz Undergrad Students Are Organizing Under the IWW UC Santa Cruz Undergrad students are organizing a union under the IWW Industrial Union 620 fighting for better wages and the abolition of tuition....
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2020 11:55PM
Video Game Violence Enhancement Amongst Adolescents This Op-Ed is on the violence enhanced in youth from the use of video games, especially violent ones. Video games can increase negative behaviors such as bullying and having aggressive mindsets to certain situations amongst young children. These games are advertised to teens, yet children of all ages are receiving access to them....
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2019 5:48PM
Should Students Get Mental Health Days Off From School? With both Oregan and Utah recently passing bills to allow their students to take a mental health day has caused a huge debate. First of all, what is a mental health in the first place? We should see it as a way for students to be able to take a day off from school in order to get their mind in the right place to focus on their school work. Whether it be that they are having anxiety attacks, being bullied or even just feel like everything in their life at the moment is just overwhelming them. ...
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2019 4:50PM
UC Davis solidarity with UCSC striking grad students We UC Davis graduate students, undergraduate students, campus workers, and alumni fully support the striking graduate students at UC Santa Cruz and their demands for a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) in one of the most expensive areas to live in the world(1). Graduate students perform essential labor for the university, teaching classes, grading assignments, and helping students in office hours. The University administration knows exactly how much we get paid and how much housing costs, and ...
Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 2:30PM
Redshirting Kindergartners Redshirting kindergartners is becoming an actual issue in our society. Many kids are being disadvantaged by the process of holding back kindergartners for reasons outside of education....
Posted: Tue Dec 3, 2019 6:51PM
Bay Area Youth Evade Unjust BART Fare San Francisco, California. Today, Friday November 29th, Bay Area (born and raised) youth evaded unjust fares and hopped the turnstiles en masse, stating their concern for their communities and a desire to hold BART accountable for attacks towards them. They say that many people from the Bay regularly hop as a basic point of survival and likewise, they have no intention of stopping these evasions....
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2019 4:45PM
Mass school shootings & How the media does not help with the aftermath This Op-Ed goes in-depth about how the media does not help with the aftermath of mass school shootings....
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2019 9:26PM
Aranas is gone, but now what? As reported by Scott Morris at Oakland Reporter, UC Berkeley police officer Sean Aranas is no longer on the force. This is reason to celebrate, however it should be kept in mind that all the people that looked the other way, or out-right defended him, are still on the UCPD force and other places of power....
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2019 3:35PM
Santa Barbara Students to Rally Saturday Against Offshore Oil Drilling “RIP Platform Holly: A Wake to End Offshore Drilling” to Mark Decommissioning, Focus on ExxonMobil’s Proposals to Restart Platforms...
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 7:06PM
California School Board Officials Urge School Districts to Allow Students to Take Part in Global Climate Protest Statement from California School Board Members on Youth Climate Strikes...
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 1:07PM
People's Park: AntiFascism and Park Defense After anti-fascists announced plans for a rally in People's Park, the UCB chancellor sent out a press release that the UC is determined to move forward on their plans to eradicate the park....
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2019 9:36AM
Students for Trump is more dangerous than you think Charlie Kirk, Chairman of Students for Trump has promised to use "aggressive" means to help Donald Trump win the 2020 election. Kirk’s organizations have already used shady tactics to win student body elections and possibly to violate IRS regulations covering charitable organizations and political action committees....
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2019 9:06PM