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April 30, 2026 - A federal court has agreed to dismiss a lawsuit by a right-wing Israel lobby organization against the University of California, Berkeley, as part of an anti-Palestinian deal that will infringe on the free speech and academic freedom rights of members of the campus community, blocking efforts by students to have a say in the decision....

A piece on the need for us to slow down, and listen. Listen to what holds true....

When Carnegie Corp. of N Y Trustee and former MacArthur Foundation board member Minow began sitting next to former Columbia Journalism School Dean Lemann for awhile on the Russell Sage Foundation board of trustees in January 2016, the “philanthropic” MacArthur Foundation then gave a “charitable” grant of $1,750,000 in 2017 to the Department of Sociology of Columbia University....

Much of the "charitable" grant money that the historically Columbia U.-connected RSF obtains is distributed to mostly upper-middle-class academics at universities in California (or in other U.S. states), such as Stanford University and on the University of California's different campuses....

In 2024, the then-Columbia U. president was board member of Gates Foundation that had invested $9 million, in 2022, in an Israeli biotechnology company, Eleven Therapeutics--whose Co-Founder was a "mission commander in active reserve duty'" in the Israeli Air Force....

The California Faculty Association on October 10 filed a Petition for Writ of Mandate and Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief against the Board of Trustees of California State University in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The case seeks a court order prohibiting CSU administrators from disclosing CFA members’ personal information in response to federal subpoenas without first providing notice to affected employees and an opportunity for them to object....

UC unions rallied and protested at the UC Regents meeting at the Mission Bay campus against the union busting by the UC Regents and management, attacks on democratic rights and massive cutbacks of NIH by Trump along with demands for the "cleansing" of the University...

AB 715 swaps explicit Israel-Palestine bans for an IHRA‑aligned, “Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator” led instruction materials regime that channels “compliance” through advocacy networks, relabels Israel‑critical scholarship as “bias” and discrimination, chilling classroom speech. AB 715 must be rejected in favor of viewpoint‑neutral standards, established K–12 speech/harassment thresholds, transparency, and clear classroom guidance....

Most university economists will say: I am free to think, say, and teach what I want; we have academic freedom. That is true. But only for those who have made it into the system, who have submitted to the basic assumptions in advance....

The University of California management and regents are engaged in a frontal union busting attack on the NUHW and other workers at the Oakland Children's Hospitals. They are telling workers they have no right to their own union representation but must join other unions that they don't want. They have imposed massive pay cuts on these workers by ending their paid healthcare benefits and other conditions flagrantly violating their union contracts. Governor Newsom and the Democrats in the legisl...