Locking arms to create a human shield in the Palestine solidarity encampment with respected faculty, staff and students to protect peaceful college students from state-sanctioned violence enabled by UCLA was one of the most horrific events I’ve witnessed.
“Who keeps us safe? We keep us safe!”
This chant by pro-Palestine protesters echoed through UCLA’s campus as the institution responsible for protecting students failed them during consecutive nights of terror.
This week, the University of California’s 48,000 academic workers – including teaching assistants, tutors, postdoctoral scholars, academic researchers and more, all represented by United Auto Workers 4811 – are voting on whether or not to authorize the union’s executive board to call a strike if circumstances justify.
For the past six months, Palestinians have faced a brutal ongoing genocide in Gaza.
From the latest United Nations reports, over 34,000 Palestinians have been killed, including over 14,500 children.
The time to elect members of student government for the next academic year has begun. The Undergraduate Students Association Council consists of 15 officers who represent diverse elements to serve the student body.
This post was updated May 12 at 8:59 p.m.
Dear Bruins,
The past week has been one of the most challenging in the over 100 years that UCLA – and the Daily Bruin – have been standing.
We are writing as UCLA community members to express our disappointment in Chancellor Gene Block’s leadership of our campus during the recent violence. On Thursday, Block’s campuswide email demonstrated that he has learned the wrong lessons about how these protests have been managed.
In response to the shocking and terrifying violence of counter-protesters Tuesday night, some close friends, classmates and I joined hundreds of other students outside of the Palestine solidarity encampment Wednesday night.
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