🇮🇱 students: i actively benefit from genocide so posters & rallies calling for the end of genocide make me feel uncomfortable :((

🇵🇸 students: my cousin was killed by an IDF raid of his refugee camp & a truck w/ my name & face on it calling me an antisemite was sent to my house

This recent essay by American Postal Workers Union president Mark Dimondstein is a historic document: a top US labor official in the AFL-CIO not simply criticizing Israel, but publicly making the case against Zionism itself. That's never happened before. thenation.com/article/world/…

ICYMI: Ohio State Football DELAYED on way to play UMich due to anti-genocide protesters blocking traffic!

Different groups block both I-94 highway and a major street near the biggest stadium on the continent on the busiest game of the year.

Free Palestine!

Photos from washco4palestine:

Grateful that we went on strike. But we could have gotten so much more if certain BT reps at the higher ranked schools didn’t let their egos explode with the concept of a tiered contract that pays them more money for the same work 🙃

Thanks to the tiered contract the folks at UCLA and Berkeley make $4,000 a month. The rest of us at so-called “non-prestige” UCs make less. Must be nice for them to sell us all out to put food on their plates….after all, we are just peons from UCSD, UCSC, Davis, UCR, etc 🤡🤡🤡

MIGRATION ALERT: More than 600 MILLION birds predicted for tonight! Given the tragic mass window collisions in Chicago (see our previous post), it's an important time to dim nonessential outdoor lights at night & make your windows safer for birds: birdcast.info/science-to-act…

It's so true -- these birds are the ones who survived record heat, record fires, and we greeted them with a shoreline full of glass instead of trees, artificial light instead of stars, and mowed grass + decorative shrubs everywhere instead of a caterpillar buffet.

Record amount of bird deaths in Chicago this week astonishes birding community usatoday.com/story/news/nat…

Good morning! We hope that after counting 1,000 dead birds to help them fall asleep, the folks at McCormick Place had a good night's rest and woke up realizing that 45 years ago was the right time to make their lakeside buildings bird friendly. news.wttw.com/2023/10/05/bir…

Tragedy unfolding in Chicago: an unprecedented number of window collisions. Photos show nearly 1000 birds salvaged from a SINGLE building along the lakefront this morning, including mostly Tennessee, Palm, Myrtle, and Magnolia Warblers.

At what point does this become a crime?

Paul Novosad When UChicago grad students tried to organize during my time there. I remember talking to one of the facilities guys about it and he said he hoped we would because he had heard two profs saying 'when they're here you own them' about international grad students due to visa threat.

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Graduate students are accusing the University of California of wage theft months after signing a contract that ended mass strikes. Some say they've been underpaid by $4k or more. What's going on? Check out my latest for STAT
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Yep! Literally broke UAW bylaws to force a bad contract through. On a more positive note, I hear rumors one of the BT10 'organizers' is being banned from practicing law in CA for her disingenuous actions, anyone know more?

Very important! Birds can become disoriented and collide with windows or become more vulnerable to other threats from fatigue as they stumble around trying to figure out where they are. #LightsOFF

this may as well be an onion article titled 'man afraid to say the word 'strike' in union meetings tells others how to strike'

For anyone unaware, the first Friday of each month Bandcamp gives artists 100% of the profits from all sales. Great time to support your favorite musicians!

“We hope that PERB’s decision will bring UC management to their senses and that they’ll provide what they agreed to when they signed our contracts: raises, appointment security provisions, and interim protections for survivors of abuse and discrimination.”
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