More than 800 faculty and staff at UCLA call for chancellor’s resignation | Protest | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/article/…

At Charles E. Young Research Library on Thursday morning, around 60 UCLA faculty called for amnesty for students arrested while demonstrating in support of pro-Palestine causes. The group also demanded Chancellor Gene Block resign. dailybruin.com/2024/05/09/fac…

Today, I introduced a Resolution of No Confidence in Chancellor Block to UCLA's academic senate. It was blocked by filibuster, but we're going to try again next week. We're not done fighting. Here's the full text of what I would have said if I hadn't been cut-off

After Israel's evacuation order, "roads leading out of Rafah were choked with long columns of young and old, sick and healthy,... Many walked, carrying their belongings, under a searing summer sun. Some were pushed in wheelchairs or even carried." theguardian.com/world/article/…

what UC faculty should know in the event of an unfair labor practice strike

NEW: University of California investments in entities with ties to weapons makers, Israel, Blackrock, Blackstone and 24 other companies targeted by divestment proponents amount to about $32 billion of UC's $175 billion. Per Chief Investment Officer Jagdeep Singh Bachher. Weapons: $3.3

UAW strike has been authorized! This is a ULP strike, which does not violate the no-strike clause in a contract, and cannot be deemed unlawful by UCOP. More information about UAW 4811 strike and faculty rights coming. See our FAQ buff.ly/4alOW7B for more info!

I hope the day will come when more faculty, students & staff walk around UCLA campus than agents from multiple security agencies. For those of us who study and/or have lived state violence in the U.S. & abroad, this is eerily familiar & doesn't convey security, Julio Frenk

The UCLA Faculty Association filed an unfair labor practice charge against the UC for its treatment of faculty during the Palestine solidarity encampment and its aftermath. dailybruin.com/2024/06/03/ucl…

This decision is outrageous. Labor injunctions from rogue courts have an ignoble history. That’s why CA passed a law specifically limiting orders like this. The judge seemingly defied the legislature, ignored precedent & spurned PERB, the body w/ authority over these questions.

tinyurl.com/2npk6ezv Katherine Marino nos invita a conocer desde otro ángulo la movilización y experiencia del movimiento feminista en su libro Feminismo para América Latina (Grano de Sal, 2021). Encuentra la entrevista que nos concedió en #LaBola22

A new Los Angeles Times op-ed written with one of my fave colleagues, Dr. Nick Shapiro (Nick Shapiro), about California’s new indoor heat rules, the exclusion of prisons, and what we can do about it (hint: it includes closing prisons) UCLA Heat Lab Carceral Ecologies UCLA Life Sciences UCLA Labor Center

🎉 Very excited that my book, “The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice,” has been listed on the Duke University Press website!

Putting the last touches on my paper for my panel on Black Women's Print Culture with Dr. Tiana U. Wilson. I'm excited to talk about this icon, Maude White and the Harlem Liberator! #asalh2024 ASALH Convention

Congrats to Cassia Roth and Robson Costa, whose HAHR article "'Maria Simoa, Who Birthed Twenty-Four Children': Slavery, Motherhood, and Freedom on the Benedictine Estates, Pernambuco, Brazil, 1866–1871" won this year's Kimberly S. Hanger Article Prize! tnstate.edu/lacs/articlepr…

Graduate students, please send proposals for this UCLA CSW|Barbra Streisand Center conference on “Gendered Labors & Transnational Solidarities.” The submission deadline has been extended to Sunday October 27!