Grad students, postdocs, and academic researchers at #UCLA and #UCDavis are the next to be called out to #strike in #UAW4811's stand up strike starting Tuesday May 28. Some rank and file workers have already been wildcatting and sicking out. See you out on the picket lines
#UCLA students and workers have established another Palestinian solidarity encampment at Moore Hall/Kerchoff Patio on the day chancellor block is scheduled to tell Congress how he should have called the cops on the last one faster.
Havent been able to update but strategy has evolved to taking a building, forcing police response, clearing out, taking another. Unpredictable, expensive to respond to, lower risk. Moore/kerchoff -> Murphy -> Dodd now. Riot cops repeatedly staging but there arent enough to kettle. crowd still large
“White nationalists and neo-Nazis joined forces with Zionists (including some saying they were Israelis) to attack #UCLA’s #Palestine Solidarity Encampment, whose residents included a large number of Jewish students. The assailants were not affiliated with the university. One neo-Nazi was heard shouting, ‘we’re here to finish what Hitler started,’ without any apparent protest from the self-identified Zionists.” #studentprotests#freepalestine https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/uclas-unholy-alliance/
A #CNN review of footage, #SocialMedia posts, and interviews found that some of the most dramatic attacks caught on camera that night were committed by people outside #UCLA – not the #university students and faculty who were eventually arrested.
Why far-right groups are disrupting US campus protests: ‘When there’s so much attention, they show up’ — Gaza counter-protesters at UCLA took part in anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-vaccine events across southern California, researchers say
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“Beyond #UCLA, a number of far-right actors, including a violent white supremacist charged in connection with January 6, the founder of the Proud Boys, and a former member of the streetfighting Neo-Fascist Rise Above Movement have stood alongside pro-Israel demonstrators confronting Gaza solidarity encampments at universities across the country…”
from #NewYorkTimes
[Bias alert - NYT usually favors Israel]
A Chaotic Night at #UCLA Raises Questions About Police Response
"Counterprotesters attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment for several hours without police intervention, and none were arrested. Now, the police response is under investigation."
More power to these #students demonstrating for a #FreePalestine. Seinfeld is a Zionist whose wife literally funded the mob of pro-#Israel thugs who physically assaulted the nonviolent #UCLA encampment. #Duke#protest
“In the dark of night, dozens of men wearing black or blue sweatshirts with full-face white plastic masks, some with Israeli flags draped on their shoulders, converged on the #UCLA encampment that #students had assembled in peaceful solidarity with the beleaguered Palestinians of #Gaza.
Armed … [and] chanting anti-Arab, anti-Black, and anti-Palestinian slogans, the mob set about attacking students and #faculty in the camp.”
Went to #UCBerkeley today to see the student encampment for myself. It was graduation day on campus so a lot of students with caps/gowns with their family.
When I was there as an undergrad, we studied the protest movements that occupied Sproul Hall. Black and white, grainy photos of a distant era. Something to theorize and discuss in class.
It was surreal to see for myself the past very much connected to the present.
I was worried the #UCBerkeley encampment would be the next to fall after Alt-Right groups and then the cops attacked the #UCLA encampment.
Now I’m not so sure this will happen at Cal. It’s a community college that happens to be a world class University. The community hosted “Kid’s Day” at the encampment.
Police officers face off with pro-Palestinian students after destroying part of the encampment barricade at the campus of the University of California. The police cleared UCLA’s student encampment in a late-night operation, and arrested at least 200 pro-Palestine demonstrators