Turning Point USA at University of California Berkeley
On Monday, November 10, University of California (UC) Berkeley hosted the final stop of the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) college campus tour. TPUSA, founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk, is a far-right Christian nationalist organization. It claims to promote free speech on campuses while in reality advancing bigotry against people of color, women, the LGBTQ+ […]
CSU Contract – What Happens Next Will Depend on What the Members are Ready to Do
The California State University (CSU) system found itself in a clash with the California Faculty Association (CFA), representing a diverse body of 28,000 faculty employees, including tenure-track and lecturers, counselors, librarians, and coaches. On January 22, the CFA launched a statewide strike, targeting all 23 CSU campuses. This coincided with the start of the spring […]
The Fight for People’s Park Today
On Thursday, January 4, police invaded People’s Park in Berkeley, California, closing access to the area. Around midnight, residents of the park, students, and other community members were violently pushed out by hundreds of police – university police, Alameda County sheriffs, California state police and others. (University officials have refused to say how many police […]
Victory in the Anthropology Library
The occupation of the U.C. Berkeley Anthropology Library ended last week on Monday, July 17, after 85 days. The struggle was long and hard fought, but it was victorious. While the occupation did not achieve all of its goals, it succeeded in preserving the Anthropology Library and most of the book collection, as well as […]
Graduate Student Workers in University of California System Launch Statewide Strike
On Monday, November 14th, about 48,000 unionized academic workers across the University of California’s 10 campuses went on strike. The student workers, who are employed at the 10 UC campuses across the state and are organized in both the United Auto Workers (UAW) union and Student Researchers Union (SRU), have begun this strike in order […]
People’s Park in Berkeley, CA is Under Attack!
Early in the morning on Wednesday, August 3rd, UC Berkeley started demolishing People’s Park in Berkeley, California to build student housing. Riot police and private security guards stood guard throughout the morning as workers installed perimeter fencing around the park and started cutting down trees. Throughout the night, groups of protesters were unable to prevent […]