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Suzi talks to Isabel Kain at UC Santa Cruz, Marie Salem at UCLA, and Anna Weiss at USC — all UAW academic workers — about the unprecedented labor action on their campuses and the violent response from police called in by their administrations.
We recorded the interview with Isabel at UCSC as the police in riot gear moved into the campus. Santa Cruz was the first to go on strike and unlike the other UC campuses, the administration was passive and did not call in the police. Until 1am on May 31. At the heart of the action is the war in Gaza, which has inflicted unspeakable suffering and carnage, provoking widespread actions in solidarity with Palestine on campuses. New movements organized in encampments have demanded an immediate ceasefire and university divestment from companies tied to Israel’s war and occupation. The response from the administration at UCLA in particular was brutal. They called in police who assaulted the encampment and stood back when a mob of white nationalists and neo-Nazis joined forces with Zionists to attack the camp, whose residents included a large number of Jewish students.
Outraged grad students at UC, organized in UAW Local 4811, have launched a strike, turning the right to protest and freedom of speech into a labor issue. The local represents some 48,000 postdocs, teaching assistants, academic and student researchers across the UC system. At USC, academic workers filed an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) after five grad student members were arrested on campus during the crackdown on the protests. We get the story.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Jacobin Radio, I'm Susan, |
0:09.0 | to Jackabin Radio, I'm Susan Weisman. |
0:11.0 | On today's program, we talked to United Auto Workers or |
0:15.3 | UAW academic workers from UC Santa Cruz, UCLA, and USC about the |
0:21.0 | unprecedented labor action on their campuses and the violent |
0:24.6 | response from police called in by their administrations. As we speak, the |
0:29.0 | police have moved into UC Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz was the first to go on strike and unlike the other |
0:34.8 | UC campuses the administration had been passive and did not call in the police |
0:40.3 | until 1 a.m. on May 31st. We're going to get that story from Isabel Kane at |
0:45.0 | UC and we're also speaking to Marie Salem at UCLA and Annie Wise at USC. At the |
0:52.1 | heart of the action is the war in Gaza, which has inflicted unspeakable suffering |
0:57.1 | and carnage, provoking widespread action in solidarity with Palestine on campuses, with new |
1:03.4 | new movements organized in encampments, demanding an immediate ceasefire and |
1:07.7 | university divestment from companies that are tied to Israel's war and |
1:12.4 | occupation. The response from the administration at |
1:15.8 | UCLA in particular was brutal. Calling in the police who assaulted the |
1:20.3 | encampment while standing back when a mob of white nationalists and neo-Nazis |
1:24.8 | joined forces with Zionists to attack the encampment whose residents included a large |
1:30.0 | number of Jewish students. Outraged unionized grad students at UC, organized in |
1:35.8 | UAW Local 4811, representing some 48,000 postdocs, teaching assistants, academic, and student researchers across the UC system have launched a strike, |
1:47.0 | turning the right to protest, and freedom of speech into a labor issue. |
1:51.0 | We'll get the story when our program returns just a while. Welcome to Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Weisman. Police in Riot gear entered the |
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