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Please join UFF-UNF, Osprey Votes, and the Intercultural Center as we celebrate the midterm elections early voting period with a pizza party and shuttle to the polls! Cast your ballot (and sign up for a public library card!). Join us for FREE food, drinks, and swag!

Actually the Miami Herald endorsement of Charlie Crist is SO important for everyone to read, I am tweeting it in its entirety as a thread here. "Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Florida is a place of meanness. It’s a place where dissent is muzzled, where personal rights triumph over the

Attn FLORIDA faculty: On 10/20, UF Faculty Senate voted to convene an emergency meeting next Thurs., Oct. 27, to consider a No Confidence Vote in the Selection Process of the 13th President of the University of Florida. Meeting is 3-5pm UF Reitz Union Chamber & will be livestreamed🧵1/4

Nazis coming out of the dark into broad daylight because they are emboldened by Trump, DeSantis and the Republican Party extremists normalizing hateful scapegoating & racism. I am ashamed they felt safe to do this near my home. FLORIDA this is why students are protesting.

Free Albert & Alberta! ⁦FLORIDA⁩ put up railing to corral student 🐊s! Never seen this at a trustees meeting before. Looks like “selective enforcement” of 1A rights. ⁦⁦⁦UFF-UF (uffuf.bsky.social)⁩ ⁦UF Graduate Assistants United⁩ ⁦GainesvilleSun⁩ ⁦Tampa Bay Times⁩ ⁦⁦Orlando Sentinel⁩

You don’t have a legally binding contract if you don’t have a union. It’s just paper. That’s the point: worker voice and power vs arbitrary unilateral power of the boss. And if you organized, united workers but not a contract, you have the power to withhold your labor.

Get your vote in!!! We can do this FL. There are so many more of us. We do have power & the franchise is one generations of people struggled and died to win and one we can lose. Use it or lose it! People power is the antidote to corporate power & fascism.

Thanks for all the years of professional journalism. Our community is better for it. Good luck on your next venture!

Last day for early voting is today (Saturday) for most of Florida: vote today, canvass Sunday, Monday & Tuesday! Make sure every vote is counted after the votes are in! Our lives depend on large voter turnout. #UFFvotes #Roevember

Good news!!!

This man fought like hell and is a hero of working people, women, LGBTQ+ and educators.

Judge Mark Walker halts DeSantis' law censoring public university professors from expressing "woke" views in the classroom, condemning Florida's "positively dystopian" effort to "impose its own orthodoxy of viewpoints" in violation of the First Amendment. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2331…

Judge Blocks Florida’s “Stop W.O.K.E.” Censorship Bill From Taking Effect in Higher Education -- aclufl.org/en/press-relea… via ACLU of Florida

Universal access to high quality well funded public education from PreK to graduate school is a public good and human right, and we need to save it from privatization and corruption in Florida.

Gov. DeSantis Announces Additional Pay Increases and Support for Teachers in Florida x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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Three union leaders getting their jobs back at Fl Polytechnic and winning full attorneys fees for union busting!

Protest!

Good climate news this week 1 China to accelerate renewables 2 International Seabed Authority may pause deep sea mining 3 85% of EU citizens back renewables 4 Green cement meets building requirements 5 Australia in 2nd offshore wind zone 6 New EU 11.7% energy efficiency target