As academic workers of the University of California, we are in complete solidarity with Palestinians and fiercely support their liberatory struggles against Israeli occupation. We condemn the UC, our employer, for its longstanding support for Israeli apartheid
#FreePalestine
Police are blocking donations of water to encampment saying Chancellor Howard Gillmam has stated no water or any other material is allowed inside the encampment. SHAME
@UCIRVINE
@UCIRVINEPD
🚨UPDATE🚨 We met with admin and our negotiations are on the table after less than 12 hours of putting up our Gaza Solidarity Encampment. This speaks to the power of our movement as UCINTIFADA and our priceless network of support❤️🔥 UCI Divest NOW!!
We have FIVE police forces present at our UCINTIFADA Liberated Zone: UCI PD, Irvine PD, Costa Mesa PD, Newport Beach PD, and OCSD. Jail busses are pulling up. The threat? A beautiful liberated zone committed to solidarity and community. Our programming continues🤎
GOOD MORNING FROM UC Intifada🇵🇸
we have made it through our first 24 hours thanks to our collective efforts! breakfast is starting up, check out our programming for today :)
Have you heard? 👀 Tomorrow, UCI has been called to "stand up" in striking under the UAW 4811 ULP Strike. Here’s what we have to say:
As employees and researchers at the UC, withholding our labor from the war profiteering entity is the minimum. There's no doubt about that.
Cops continue depriving UC Intifada of essential items from entering our liberated zone. Today they are ticketing and towing a truck distributing food, searching the vehicle for their batons. from Irvine to Palestine: UC PD, IOF, KKK - THEY'RE ALL THE SAME
🚨BREAKING 🚨UCI LAUNCHES ENCAMPMENT
📣JOIN US @ THE PHYSICAL SCIENCE QUAD ALL DAY AND NIGHT📣
Today, April 29th, students, workers, and community members launched a Palestine Solidarity Encampment on UCI campus, joining the global Popular University for Gaza movement (1/2)
Updating folks that we have around 50 people who were arrested. folks have started to be released and our jail support team is assisting as they come out. thanks to everyone for the supper and it’s always fuck the police😤
Our collective power is only growing. This morning as we set up camp we were immediately faced with police threatening arrests and blocking water from entering. we held our ground with your support and remained militant about our goals. keep coming out to UC Intifada!!
BREAKING: UC Irvine (UCI) met with admin and their negotiations are on the table after less than 12 hours of putting up their Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
Cops continue depriving UC Intifada of essential items from entering our liberated zone. Today they are ticketing and towing a truck distributing food, searching the vehicle for their batons. from Irvine to Palestine: UC PD, IOF, KKK - THEY'RE ALL THE SAME
UPDATE: We have the presence of FIVE police forces at our UCINTIFADA Liberated Zone: UCI PD, Irvine PD, Costa Mesa PD, Newport Beach PD, and Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
PIGS TRYING TO PUT UP MORE BARRICADE. EVEN CLOSING OFF BATHROOM ACCESS. KEEP COMING. WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER. THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED🔥🔥🔥 THIS IS UCINTIFADA❤️🔥
WE NEED COMMUNITY SUPPORT NOW!! COPS BARRICADING US AND ALREADY THREATENING ARRESTING STUDENTS!! SHOW OUT FOR PALESTINE❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
📍PHYSICAL SCIENCE QUAD @ SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES, ROWLAND HALL
WE NEED COMMUNITY SUPPORT NOW!! COPS BARRICADING US AND ALREADY THREATENING ARRESTING STUDENTS!! SHOW OUT FOR PALESTINE❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
📍PHYSICAL SCIENCE QUAD @ SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES, ROWLAND HALL
Pigs escorted our POLICE LIAISON off campus for "trespassing" and "not being an affiliate of uci and a representative of the encampment. So much for a PUBLIC university. This is a deliberate attack on our safety and to blur lines of communication. WE SEE THRU YOUR BULLSHIT.
POLICE MOBILIZING TO SWEEP ENCAMPMENT AND ARREST STUDENT/COMMUNITY PROTESTORS. COME TO PHYSICAL SCIENCES AT YOUR OWN RISK IF YOU CHOOSE TO DEFEND OUR COMMUNITY IN THIS WAY.
However, the UAW strike does not wholeheartedly align with the global call for anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-imperial resistance. Our comrades in Palestine have called on us in the imperial core to be in solidarity. We NEED to withhold our labor beyond a UAW strike.
POLICE MOBILIZING TO SWEEP ENCAMPMENT AND ARREST STUDENT/COMMUNITY PROTESTORS. COME TO PHYSICAL SCIENCES AT YOUR OWN RISK IF YOU CHOOSE TO DEFEND OUR COMMUNITY IN THIS WAY.
y’all gotta stop with this “anti-union” thing. rank&file ARE the union lol AND our critiques acknowledge the history of white supremacy in these spaces and are rooted in a political commitment to a future without exploitative labor dynamics unions rely on in order to exist.
rank and file organizers across the UC have written an open letter against an anti-union no-vote campaign. read it, sign on, and let's keep building solidarity to fight the boss.
🚨BREAKING🚨 JUST A FEW HOURS AFTER STUDENTS OPEN UCINTIFADA LIBERATED ZONE, CHANCELLOR GILLMAN HAS LOCKED DOWN ALDRICH HALL AND REFUSES TO NEGOTIATE WITH OUR LAWYERS ABOUT DEMANDS.
it is not lost on us that union elections open tomorrow. for folks that are members and participating, we urge you to vote for the folks who didn’t wait until students were beaten, pepper sprayed, or had fireworks launched at them to act
grads across the UC have strategizing for a wildcat since october. we were never counting on your authority to withhold our labor from our genocidal employers. you are very late to the game
@uaw_4811
folks please be vigilant of their opportunism and cooptation
🚨URGENT ASK NOW🚨
We need many UCI students to join us in strengthening our encampment by spending the night with us!! head over to Physical Sciences ASAP.
We also need as many community members to help keep us protected along the perimeter of our camp throughout the night!!!
one of the consistent comments criticizing our statement on the ULP strike is that we are a handful of people who are not physically at the pickets. we have been present at the picket everyday since the start of the strike, all day. our thoughts on week 1🧵
YUP!!! Our Chancellor has built his whole career on “free speech” yet he has consistently suppressed student dissent and Pro-Palestinian/antizionist voices on campus. He also coauthored a book called “Free Speech on Campus” with Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky….👀😒🤡
🚨🚨🚨 ALL OUT to the UC Intifada Liberated Zone 🚨🚨🚨
join us in honoring 76 years of resistance, demanding amnesty for protestors, and calling on the UC to divest from genocide.
but somehow these war sounds in the middle of the fucking might aren’t bothering the high zionist surrounding neighborhood??
we are witnessing the horrors our institutions will enact on us to defend their violence. our hearts are with these brave ucla students, we love you.
this is for you
@uawuci
opportunist scum, all uaw 4811 members voting in elections later this week, and everyone else bc all should be aware of business unionism co-optation. our uaw leadership sent this email earlier this afternoon about our Gaza Solidarity Encampment🧵
Did you know the University of California is an active partner in funding Israeli apartheid and the genocide of Palestinians?
Time and time again the UC claims cost of living adjustments are too expensive but they clearly have money to spend…SHAME!!
#FreePalestine
#UCDivest
We extend an invitation for everyone to attend the Collective’s in-person study group at UCI as we withhold our labor. (Stay tuned for location). Let’s study and strategize on how to embody our knowledge as we strive towards a long haul strike-
🚨 WAYS YOU CAN SUPPORT 🚨
With increasing police presence we especially need people to come join is and defend our Liberated Zone! Bring your friends! We have great programming for today, next post :)
Here is the letter sent from UCLA admin for this in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment:
“Law enforcement is on hand and prepared to arrest individuals in accordance with applicable law.”
On November 2, 2022 our strike authorization vote showed that 98% of us were ready to strike for a transformative contract. This Tentative Agreement IS NOT the contract we went on strike for!! How does it hold up? Who is still left behind?
#UCstrike
#NoCOLANoContract
#DefundUCPD
Thank you Yiwen for sharing about the importance of FULL NRST remission!!💌 We need a contract that protects international workers and makes graduate school more accessible to international students by eliminating financial barriers😤❤️🔥‼️
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#UCStrike
#FairUCNow
yesterday UC Irvine students showed out to demand UC divest from genocide. We are powerful in our numbers and our vision for a liberated Palestine❤️🔥Our solidarity is only
growing and deepening.
🍉🇵🇸NEVER FORGET, THIS IS UCINTIFADA🇵🇸🍉
grads across the UC have strategizing for a wildcat since october. we were never counting on your authority to withhold our labor from our genocidal employers. you are very late to the game
@uaw_4811
folks please be vigilant of their opportunism and cooptation
So it turns out that LAPD was able to enter the back of the encampment via Tongva steps because our spineless ass
@uaw_4811
leadership let them! They performatively posed as encampment security and chaotically ordered the human barricade to disperse. Everyone involved must resign
❗GRADUATE STUDENT CHARGED BY UCI ADMIN❗
On November 14, a group of graduate students staged a peaceful response to a campus event titled, “The Israel-Hamas War: Five Week Update,” featuring Alon Burstein, a visiting professor in UCI Political Science via the Israel Institute.
almost like the grave and harmful fuck ups of the 2022 strike and before/after have consequences. we continue to withhold our labor beyond the framework of the ULP strike because we withhold our labor for Palestine - something a business union endorsing biden couldn’t understand.
and unyielding culture of anti-racial capitalism and anti-imperialism. We also hope to use this time to re-introduce our collective and be clear in our goals and principles.
In Solidarity 🤎🍉
UCI Rank & File Collective
we are providing food, political education, and also set up a disability justice informed rest area. our union leadership on campus has not concerned themselves with any of these crucial aspects for sustaining the withholding of our labor.
instead they have tried to co-opt our work as their own (not surprising as this whole strike is a cooperation of radical praxis) most recently today by putting a UAW sign next to our rest area😒
The folks defending liberalism never have coherent arguments 🥲 and it’s clear they don’t actually take the time to read our statements. Y’all see critiques of UAW and fall to your knees 🤣
we are so grateful for the support we’ve received from others on our statement - both in and outside of our local🥹 your affirmation reinvigorates our commitments to do more and not shy away for calling out UAW bullshit for what it is❤️🔥
why aren’t people wanting to be part of this strike with union organizers? why can’t these organizers expand their group beyond the same people they always have or without preying on first years with their lies?
We’re back tonight with yet again, another reason why we’re voting NO on this tentative agreement (TA) ‼️ The UC and union do not have a sense of urgency or priority to protect our undocumented students and their families- we will not stand for that 😡
update they are currently “taking the street” w police following behind them with their lights on……makes sense why they’re always so quick to drop cops off campus. these are their FRIENDS - they are their fellow “union siblings” after all💀💀
UAW had planned an action to shut down a street next to campus but because they don’t have the numbers, they canceled it. worth noting when they did this action in 2022 it was in collaboration with UCPD and they times the action for only five minutes…..way to “agitate”
UAW had planned an action to shut down a street next to campus but because they don’t have the numbers, they canceled it. worth noting when they did this action in 2022 it was in collaboration with UCPD and they times the action for only five minutes…..way to “agitate”
Earlier today, UCI students disrupted an event on campus titled “The Israel-Hamas War: Five Week Update.” Alon Burstein, Visiting PoliSci Professor via the Israel Institute, delinked Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians from a longer history vastly preceding Hamas. (1/6)
we share this update from the ground to offer transparency on what this strike really looks like. forget the buzzword filled and hypersensationalized media UAW is pushing, this whole ULP strike is looking as pathetic as the people who are running it.
Our union has been calling for a ceasefire for six months. This war is wrong, and this response against students and academic workers, many of them UAW members, is wrong.
across the world to demanding our universities end their complicity in the genocide in Palestine
❤️🔥WE WONT REST UNTIL THEY DIVEST❤️🔥
🇵🇸UNTIL TOTAL LIBERATION AND RETURN🇵🇸
📍School of Physical Sciences, Rowland Hall, Irvine, CA 92697 (2/2)
as far as numbers go - monday saw the highest number of people on the picket with around 50 people out of our entire labor force….also there is overlap w the folks supporting the peoples university for gaza they are leeching from
there are remote roles - something our collective fought for during the last strike (which again has been co-opted lol). numbers have been dwindling throughout the week with one of our members saying there is only a “discussion section size” group today😬🤣
*clears throat* GOOD MORNING HOTTIES 👀🗳❤️🔥 Today is the last day to vote no or yes on this tentative agreement (TA) 🥺 did you get a chance to watch our recent video where Yiwen, an international student colleague, gives their testimonial on why they advocate for a
#NoVote
? 🥺💗
if non UCI students are in the encampment it can compromise both student and community safety!! community, consider taking shifts throughout the night!!
we want to make sure everyone here stays safe!!!
come out to our liberated zoneeee❤️🔥
“the teams recommend you to vote yes” is a gross generalization that erases the several members of the bargaining teams that have been listening to rank and file demands of the most marginalized workers, urging the rest of y’all to do better, and are telling us to VOTE NO
Last night, the SRU-UAW and UAW 2865 Bargaining Teams voted to tentatively agree to new contracts for ASEs and Student Researchers. The teams, including myself personally, recommend you vote YES to ratify both agreements. The vote begins on Monday, 8AM. My feelings below. 1/n
A No Vote is a yes for a better contract! This is not as much as we can win and we want to explain why! Join us for daily Community Forums where we will answer your questions about this campaign❤️🔥 LINK TO REGISTRATION IN OUR BIO!🔥
#HottiesVoteNo
#UConstrike
#uawstrike
shout out Semassa for expanding our understanding of what it means to strike, the histories behind these movements, and the transformative potential around us🥹🦋🌟This is bigger than just us‼️A
#VoteNo
rejects compromising any aspect of our survival❤️🔥
#FairUCNow
#HottiesVoteNo
The
@UofCalifornia
is not only our employer…but our landlord too!! booooo! 🍅 Fighting for housing stability is a demand that is essential to our wellbeing. How ironic that the UC continues to build new expensive housing when they know they’re paying us low wages?!
Sewanee: The University Of The South establishing a liberation zone was certainly was not on our 2024 bingo card but we are so here for it 🔥
#TakeACathedralChallenge
Yesterday our union leadership celebrated the anniversary of a strike in which they called rank and file members “right wingers” for refusing to accept anything less than a cost of living adjustment. we remember. we will continue to remember. you will not absolve yourselves.
And we will remember this email you sent today as you hovered around our encampment, once again completely disengaged from the actual ACTION yet having the fucking GALL to wear keffiyehs. you are performative. you are useless.
Chemerinsky was also Dean at UCI Law before too….these people ARE NOT our friends, they’re each other’s friends. And their play dates include being zionists, condoning police violence against students, and approving of billion$$ send to Israel. Vile monsters.
Let’s talk about Healthcare! 🏥
We’re still in a pandemic and you’re telling us the tentative agreement won’t even secure healthcare for all our graduate students’ CHILDREN?! not even for their spouses/partners? The UC is putting our youth at risk 😡 we’re voting NO!
Good evening folks!! Tomorrow is the last day to vote no or yes on this tentative agreement (TA). We’re here to tell you ANOTHER reason why we’re voting no🥺🤎
Our student parents, student families, and youth deserve so much more!
‼️UC Union Leadership Exposed‼️our bargaining team reps & union leadership clearly have a lot of thoughts about us so why should they keep it to themselves? they are clearly alienating rank & file members who are not willing to follow their concessionaire proposals. disgusting🤢
BREAKING🚨Last night, at our Monthly Membership Meeting, UAW 2865-UCLA passed a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution. In addition to making clear our position in regards to a ceasefire and solidarity with Palestinian trade unionists, the resolution calls for
we remember how quickly you dropped ALL of those demands when you entered the negotiation table. we remember how you called your rank and file membership "right wingers" for our insistent struggle for a better contract. we remember being harassed by you online and in person.
Coward Gillman repeatedly chooses the side of zionist occupation and genocide. Keep showing out to our encampment to show him HE is the one who is scared, NOT US. Show up for a free Palestine in our lifetime🇵🇸❤️🔥🍉
such an honor!!🥹 thank you again for having us, always great to get to know our comrades in struggle with us better❤️🔥
watch/listen for more about the intricacies of UAW/business unionism that inform our critiques, our organizing praxis, and what we are working toward🍉
🚨BREAKING 🚨UCI LAUNCHES ENCAMPMENT
📣JOIN US @ THE PHYSICAL SCIENCE QUAD ALL DAY AND NIGHT📣
Today, April 29th, students, workers, and community members launched a Palestine Solidarity Encampment on UCI campus, joining the global Popular University for Gaza movement (1/2)
fuck yall
@uawuci
we are the rank and file and we are PROUDLY *NOT* UAW AFFILIATED. FREE PALESTINE FOREVER AND ALWAYS. but yall wouldn't know anything about that.
WE REMEMBER HOW YOU ARE SO DISCONNECTED AND UNLIKED BY US AND OTHER RADICAL ORGANIZING GROUPS ON CAMPUS THAT NOBODY WANTS TO WORK WITH YOU. WE DO NOT TRUST YOU. WE WANT TO ABOLISH YOU.
WE REMEMBER HOW YOU HAVE TOSSED EVERY SINGLE ONE OF OUR REQUESTS TO WITHHOLD LABOR FROM UC AS A DISRUPTIVE ACT OF SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE TO DEMAND DIVESTMENT TO THE FUCKING SIDE