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CFA Members File Unfair Practice Charge Over Cal Poly Humboldt’s Campus Closure
May 9, 2024 - This week, CFA members filed an Unfair Practice Charge with California’s Public Employer Employee Relations Board (PERB) over Cal Poly Humboldt administration’s decision to close the campus for the remainder of the spring semester. Management took the extraordinary step of closing down the campus last month in response to students protesting the war in Gaza when other campuses around the country have remained open despite fairly large actions and police responses. At Cal Poly Hu...
Posted: Wed, May 15, 2024 6:14am PDT
CUCFA Statement On Campus Protests
May 7, 2024 - The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) denounces the growing number of attempts to intimidate, repress, and criminalize campus protests of Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza that is supported economically and politically by the United States....
Posted: Tue, May 14, 2024 11:41pm PDT
When Students Are a Shock to the System
War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young. Appearing in TomDispatch...
Posted: Thu, May 9, 2024 12:05pm PDT
SDS Humboldt Statement on the End of the Occupation of Siemens Hall
It may be the end of the occupation, but we’re only just getting started...
Posted: Sun, May 5, 2024 9:46am PDT
Bay Area Autonomists Reflections on UCB, SFSU, and USF Camps
a reflection and context for why the bay area's movement in solidarity with Palestine has been stifled...
Posted: Fri, May 3, 2024 12:30pm PDT
Escalation and Orientation
Let's strive to deepen the political horizons of this moment as much as the tactics....
Posted: Tue, Apr 30, 2024 4:29pm PDT
20 Parking Pay Stations Sabotaged for Rosebud and People’s Park
Anarchist sabotage in the dead of night....
Posted: Wed, Apr 24, 2024 1:23pm PDT
Demolition of People's Park Has Been an Expensive Boondoggle, Costs Rising
According to their own accounting, the University of California has spent roughly 11-million dollars to turn People's Park into a dirt lot. In addition, the expected cost of their development proposal has increased by a third, now expected to cost 400-million....
Posted: Thu, Feb 29, 2024 12:04pm PST
Youth & Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability: The Personal & the Political
Youth and Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability: Connecting the Personal and the Political. There is a war raging in neoliberal societies, especially in the United States, especially against working-class youth, Black and Brown youth, and impoverished youth....
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2024 5:30pm PST
SFSU Red Week Jan.29-Feb. 2 Rally on Thursday Feb 1 at 12:00 Noon-2PM
We're declaring RED WEEK for the first week back to campus at SFSU! Let's build on our strike energy and start our semester grounded in the collective joys and struggles of fighting for the people's university....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2024 10:18pm PST
Open Letter To UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ and Berkeley City Council
This is an open letter to the Chancellor of UC Berkeley and the Berkeley City Council. Feel free to copy and email or fax this to them. Or print it out and give it to them in person....
Posted: Wed, Jan 10, 2024 1:26pm PST
The education crisis - just a symptom of general social failure
One aspect of our society, which is oriented towards self-interest rather than the common good, is that the systemic relevance of education is increasingly taking a back seat to being a market to be served and a nice playground for endless political debates and reforms with little substance, the main aim of which is to preserve the market and the hereditary farms......
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2024 6:14am PST
UC Berkeley Violated Injunction as People's Park Case Continues in State Supreme Court
UC Berkeley is under an injunction order, as the status of People's Park continues to be debated in court. That injunction was violated last night by the University....
Posted: Thu, Jan 4, 2024 11:52am PST
Over 1000 Law Enforcement Personnel Converging in Berkeley for People's Park
Various law enforcement agencies have employees currently staged at UC Berkeley. The number of expected personnel are to exceed a thousand. The People's Park raid is happening....
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2024 11:49pm PST
People's Park Berkeley at Risk
The heart of Berkeley's counterculture is at risk again....
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2023 9:18pm PST
Letter To NEA President and Officers On Palestine
NEA members are circulating a letter to the NEA president and officers on Palestine....
Posted: Sun, Dec 10, 2023 11:43am PST
Neoliberalism, Democracy and the University as a Public Sphere
What can educators and others concerned about the future of higher education do to make sure it is not colonized by corporate and other antidemocratic interests? First, educators & others need to figure out how to defend more vigorously higher education as a public good & how central it is in producing the formative culture necessary to educate young people to be critical & engaged....
Posted: Fri, Nov 24, 2023 2:33am PST
Pro-Palestine Student Group in Florida Sues University System to Prevent Deactivation
University of Florida’s Students for Justice in Palestine is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Florida, and Palestine Legal...
Posted: Fri, Nov 17, 2023 11:23am PST
Open Letter to UPTE
Open letter to UPTE union leadership from UPTE member and candidate denouncing UPTE president Dan Russell for suppressing Resolution in Solidarity with Palestine and for not calling for a CEASEFIRE....
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2023 5:40pm PST
DeSantis’ order to deactivate National SJP in Florida
Palestine Legal issued the following statement regarding DeSantis’ order to deactivate National SJP in Florida:...
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2023 2:03pm PDT