Editor’s note: This post was updated on March 14 at 2:04 p.m. to provide retroactive anonymity to a source due to safety concerns. This is a developing story and will be updated with more information. Read more...
Photo: Protesters set up an encampment in solidarity with Palestine on Thursday morning on Kerckhoff patio. (Felicia Keller/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Around 200 protesters led by UCLA students and faculty marched on campus Wednesday afternoon condemning the UC’s unwillingness to divest from Israel and congressional scrutiny of pro-Palestine organizers’ activities. Read more...
Photo: Protesters march up Bruin Walk bearing a banner that reads, “UC invests $32,000,000,000 in genocide.” The Wednesday protest included speeches from student organizers and various union members. (Jeremy Chen/Photo editor)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council unanimously passed a resolution April 23 calling on Chancellor Gene Block to demand Nike pay missing wages to workers in the Hong Seng Knitting factory in Bangkok. Read more...
Photo: Giacomo Revelli, a UCLA men’s tennis player, wears a Nike branded shirt. The Undergraduate Students Association Council unanimously passed a resolution April 23 calling on Chancellor Gene Block to demand Nike pay missing wages to workers in the Hong Seng Knitting factory in Bangkok. (Julia Zhou/Photo editor)
This post was updated May 17 at 3:09 p.m. United Auto Workers Local 4811 announced Wednesday that its membership voted to authorize a strike if its leadership deems it necessary – calling on its UC Santa Cruz membership Friday to “stand up” as the first campus to strike Monday. Read more...
Photo: Postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers represented by United Auto Workers Local 4811 march through the Court of Sciences on May 9 with a banner representing their former union, UAW Local 5810. UAW Local 4811 voted Wednesday to authorize a strike in response to the University’s use of force toward students in Palestine solidarity encampments across the UC system. (Zoraiz Irshad/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated May 14 at 11:29 p.m. For the Daily Bruin’s full coverage of the UC Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA demonstrations, see here. Read more...
Photo: Volunteer medics are pictured organizing supplies at the foot of Janss Steps on the afternoon of May 1. Dozens of medics, ranging from undergraduates to hospital physicians, staffed the now-dismantled Palestine solidarity encampment during the April 30 attack and the May 2 police sweep. (Anna Dai-Liu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated May 9 at 11:28 p.m. This post was updated May 9 at 10:43 p.m. Around 100 members of the United Auto Workers Local 4811 Union gathered in the Court of Sciences on Thursday to discuss an upcoming strike authorization vote in response to UCLA’s recent decisions regarding the now-dispersed Palestine solidarity encampment. The union – which represents UC academic student employees, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars – announced Monday that it will vote May 13 to 15 to authorize a strike. Read more...
Photo: Postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers represented by United Auto Workers Local 4811 march through the Court of Sciences with a banner representing their former union, UAW Local 5810. UAW Local 4811 will vote to authorize a strike in response to UCLA’s decisions surrounding the Palestine solidarity encampment. (Zoraiz Irshad/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated May 9 at 11:34 p.m. Around 60 faculty members held a press conference Thursday to call for amnesty for students arrested while demonstrating in support of Palestine and for UC divestment from companies with ties to the Israeli military. Read more...
Photo: Faculty and staff stand under a banner that reads, “UCLA faculty and staff, we stand with our students.” The banner was used at a press conference by faculty and staff supporting students in the Palestine solidarity encampment. (Zoraiz Irshad/Daily Bruin senior staff)
