Category: Palestine
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Transparency Statement on Leaving UCI Divest, Practicing Transformative Justice, and Upcoming Collective Work
Dear Community – We write this statement to share key updates and reflections we have been undergoing the last several months. This format and brevity are not enough to capture the experiences and lessons we want to communicate. We are at the start of another school year and are picking up collective work so we…
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CALL TO ACTION: Resist the UC Regents Using Your Tuition and Labor to Fund Genocide
Resist the UC Regents Using Your Tuition and Labor to Fund Genocide! Register for Public Comment Here and Attend Our Rally on Wednesday 3/21 at 1:30 PM. ACTION ITEMS BELOW. Hello all, We write to update you on the status of an ongoing genocide, and of the material investment of our institution, the UC, in…
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Don’t Look Away from Palestinian Wounds: Toward A Trauma-Informed Social Science
See full event note here See resource list for decolonizing trauma and healing here Message from PoliSci Grads: Hi, what does unwellness and/or numbness feel like? Months of ongoing genocides that your labor and money directly contribute to, “this is what our ruling class has decided will be normal” (Aaron Bushnell). This is an ongoing psychological warfare and…
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PLW Zine Workshop
Preparation Presentation Making Zines! RSVP Here This is a 2-hour zine workshop- Abolish the Imperial University Join us for a political education session on UCI’s history of counterinsurgency, followed by a collective session of brainstorming, art-making, and knowledge production against the university. This workshop introduces zines as both an art and an organizing format. We…
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Nov 2023 Pro-Palestinian Students Face Allegations of Violating University Conduct at UC Irvine
Sign-on in support using these links As an Organization: https://forms.gle/kJJV5yMFMoo6bVeDA As an Individual: https://chng.it/7GFYP6tkkB We, five individual students and board members of Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Irvine, are facing six allegations from the University for two different cases, one on November 9th and the other November 14th. These allegations exceed mere administrative procedures; it strikes…
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Nov 2023 URGENT: UCI Files Student Conduct Charges Against Students!
1) CLICK HERE to send an already populated email to UCI administration demanding that they drop conduct charges against this student. Your emails are crucial in pressuring UCI! 2) CLICK HERE to sign the petition demanding all conduct charges be dropped. 3) CLICK HERE to register for a collective phone zap today, Tuesday, November 21, at 3:00…
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Nov 2023 Open Letter to UCI Political Science
Dear Professor Chambers, Before you read the letter, ground yourself through the guide to Depth Conversation by the GTDF Collective, this is important. As graduate students in Political Science at UCI, we are extremely concerned and anxious about our right to quality education, our moral faith in the leading faculty members in the department, and…
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Oct 2023 Graduate Student Letter to Chancellor Gillman
Chancellor Gillman, We are writing this letter as graduate students who feel compelled to respond to your recent campus-wide email deceptively titled “Amidst Profound Tragedy: Our Shared Commitment to Humanity and Understanding.” Despite your implication at the front-end of the statement that your role as Chancellor is fundamentally ‘apolitical’, your condemnation of what you call…
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Asaf Ferber OEOD Report (SJP UCI)
OEOD of Asaf Ferber: Day: Wednesday October 25, 2023 Time: Began at exactly 12:32 PM Location: In front of Ring Road by the Flagpoles During the Students for Justice in Palestine at UCI walkout on October 25th, as hundreds of those from the UCI community (professors, faculty, undergraduates, graduates, community members, and staff) chanted in…
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