Inside Dodd Hall, an unnamed union worker asked Appel about the UC’s argument that the upcoming UAW strike is illegal.

“F--- the UC,” Appel said in response to the question.

loved talking to tarence and tom about liberal brain rot and the criminalization of homelessness

📢 New Report Alert! Discover stories and solutions from organizers across the country fighting for permanently and truly affordable, community-controlled, green housing in 'Building the Future: Grassroots Reflections on Social Housing' climateandcommunity.org/grassroots-ref…

And here's the kicker: among the lucky few who win this lottery and actually make it off the waitlist, roughly *40 percent* end up losing their housing voucher because they can't find a landlord who will accept it.

In 'hot' rental markets the success rate is even lower.

Very excited and grateful to have been awarded a 2024 Digital Justice Research Grant for ongoing community-centered research and capacity build, 'Assessing Surveillance Efficacy and Fostering Visions for Community Safety for Social Justice in Detroit, MI'. Thank you
ACLS !

As of 8am this morning, Academic Workers at UC Santa Cruz are on strike. #StandUpUC

Even the LA Times is Team #UCLANext :

“UCLA next” said one post with an eyeball emoji, while other posts suggested UC Davis, UC Irvine and UC San Diego could be called into the rolling strike.
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Stuart Hall said, “There is no guarantee that the popular is either radical or conservative...There is no ‘the people really thought’ in the popular, the popular is a terrain of struggle—how ordinary people live, how ordinary people think, what they do, what they support, etc.”

Here is the razor-sharp analysis by the one & only Robin DG Kelley of antisemitism & anti-Palestinian violence at UCLA in Boston Review : bostonreview.net/articles/uclas…

“This attitude toward student activists, understood in generational terms, has unfortunately been something of a Dissent calling card.” dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

In the coming strike of academic workers at UC campuses, faculty may be asked to pick up strikers’ work—grading, teaching sections, etc. Analysis of state labor law is clear: faculty (regardless of union representation) are not obligated to do work outside of their normal duties.

'The contrast makes it impossible to escape the conclusion that university leaders today are less respectful of student free speech rights and much quicker to use police to suppress student protests than they were in the Vietnam War era. What happened?' latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Want to learn more about the historic Unfair Labor Practices strike that has been authorized by grad student workers at the University of California? Read this opinion piece by Prof Noah Zatz: dailybruin.com/2024/05/16/op-…

I find it hilarious that Neo-Kautskyite has become a slur for reformist class-collaborationist, which is exactly what Kautsky polemicized against Eduard Bernstein for.

Here is the first report of the UCLA Task Force on Anti-Palestinian, Anti-Muslim, and Anti-Arab Racism co-chaired by Profs Gaye Theresa Johnson & Sherene Razack. Task force members include Profs Robin DG Kelley, Saree Makdisi & Shannon Speed. jadaliyya.com/Details/45989

Academic workers across University of California authorize strike, alleging rights violated during protests.

Their aim: 'maximize chaos.' Less than half vote (19,780 of 48k represented by UAW 4811) but 79% of them authorized strike. via Jaweed Kaleem suhauna hussain bit.ly/3V3t6RO

Ruth Wilson Gilmore discusses how Kwame Ture pointed out that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels didn’t invent communism but noticed it, they saw what people were doing and thought about it a lot.

UAW 4811 members have voted by a super majority to authorize a strike.