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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly a third of the academic and graduate student workers of the University of California are on strike after the union of 48,000 members escalated its labor standoff by walking off the job at UCLA and UC Davis this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With as many as 2,000 UC Santa Cruz graduate students and academic workers picketing since last Monday, Tuesday’s job action brings 12,000 more out of classrooms and laboratories, potentially crippling the university’s mission of educating the roughly 80,000 undergraduates at the three campuses, just two weeks before students begin to take their end-of-quarter finals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers, including teaching assistants, academic researchers and graders, are striking not over pay and benefits \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-strike-protests/\">but instead over the UC’s response\u003c/a> to pro-Palestinian protesters who were arrested by police or suspended from their campuses. Some union members were arrested or suspended for their role in the protests. Core to the union’s demands is that the UC offer “amnesty for those who experienced arrest or are facing University discipline,” the union’s public writings state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 60 academic workers began picketing at Royce Quad at UCLA by 9 a.m., where just weeks ago, students at a large pro-Palestinian encampment were attacked by counterprotesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC, UC you’re no good, treat your workers like you should,” the picketing academic workers chanted, their ranks gradually growing as more striking workers arrived under a gray sky. “When free speech is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back,” went another chant, the rhythmic pulses of a snare drum accompanying the picketers, who grew to more than 200 by 10:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Origins of strike\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC’s Office of the President \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-statement-uaw-vote-conduct-unlawful-strike\">calls the strike illegal\u003c/a>, saying that its contract with the union — itself the result of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/01/six-takeaways-for-californians-after-the-uc-graduate-student-worker-strike/\">a six-week-long strike in late 2022\u003c/a> — includes a no-strike provision. The union, UAW 4811, vehemently disagrees with that analysis, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=20\">citing legal precedent\u003c/a> that a union can strike over unfair labor practices that fall outside the scope of a union contract. It’s a view shared \u003ca href=\"https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/16/op-ed-uc-offers-deceptive-claims-about-illegality-of-strike-in-letter-to-union-members\">by at least one UCLA law professor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides have leaned heavily on the state’s Public Employment Relations Board to adjudicate their disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11987737,news_11987499,news_11986910\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Two days after police \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/05/ucla-protest-palestine-police/\">swept the encampments at UCLA\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-campus-protests/\">arrested scores of protesters\u003c/a>, the union \u003ca href=\"https://www.uaw4811.org/2024-ulp-charges\">filed an unfair labor practice violation\u003c/a> with the labor relations board. The union then filed similar violations after police cleared encampments at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/education/2024/05/06/chp-raids-ucsd-gaza-solidarity-encampment\">UC San Diego\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-15/police-converge-on-pro-palestinian-protest-at-uc-irvine-students-are-told-to-shelter-in-place\">UC Irvine, which \u003c/a>also led to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/campus-protest-arrests-suspensions/\">arrests of protesters\u003c/a> — and \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ccDronvAQSWJlm1unuqCjACupKmRkkWb/view\">another alleging\u003c/a> that the UC changed its disciplinary rules unilaterally to punish academic workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By summoning the police to forcibly arrest and/or issuing interim suspensions to these employees, the University has violated their employee rights,“ the union wrote in one of its submissions to the labor relations board. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=3\">The union said\u003c/a> its workers were not only rallying against the war in Gaza but also seeking ways to remove academic research funding sources \u003ca href=\"https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2024/05/how-uc-researchers-began-saying-no-military-work\">tied to the U.S. military\u003c/a>. Workers also oppose “the discrimination and hostile work environment directed towards Palestinian, Muslim, and pro-Palestine Jewish employees and students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike a systemwide strike, this “stand up” strike will pursue labor stoppages at certain campuses, a strategy employed by Detroit autoworkers in their \u003ca href=\"https://labornotes.org/2023/10/big-3-buckled-stand-strike-spread\">successful campaign for higher compensation last year\u003c/a>. The approach is meant to apply gradual pressure to management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the strike is technically distinct from the larger protest movement against the war, the two movements are related. Last Thursday, several hundred UCLA members of the UAW 4811 held a rally in support of their impending strike. Moments later, they joined a student-led protest demanding that the UC call for a cease-fire and divest from weapons manufacturers and the Israeli economy. That same day, protesters erected a short-lived encampment and temporarily took \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/campus-protest-arrests-suspensions/#:~:text=Meanwhile%2C%20also%20in,class%C2%A0%20from%20entering.\">over a campus building before being pushed out by police\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a clear sign that, despite hundreds of arrests in May, thousands of students, union members and some faculty remain passionate about their pro-Palestinian advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legality of strike debated\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Almost 20,000 of the union’s 48,000 members voted on whether to strike two weeks ago and nearly 80% of those who did vote approved the strike authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC sought an injunction to legally halt the strike, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SFCO246H_IR_Denial.pdf\">but the labor relations board wrote\u003c/a> last week that UC hadn’t established that an injunction is “just and proper.” The union hailed the ruling. However, the board wrote that it was leaving UC’s request open in the event the university provided better evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a partial victory for the university, \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SFCO246H_CC1.pdf\">the board issued a complaint that the union\u003c/a> “failed to provide adequate advance notice of its work stoppage, and failed and refused to meet and confer in good faith.” The UC press office, in announcing the board’s response, \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor-news/uaw-news-and-updates-2/#:~:text=PERB%20issues%20complaint%20against%20UAW%C2%A0\">wrote that the labor board\u003c/a> “found enough evidence to suggest that a violation may have occurred, and further examination is warranted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union argues in its latest unfair labor practice violation that the UC unilaterally implemented a disciplinary policy that affects UAW 4811 workers. The union \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ccDronvAQSWJlm1unuqCjACupKmRkkWb/view\">seeks an order\u003c/a> telling the UC to “cease and desist from unilaterally changing the terms and conditions of employment related to discipline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the UC Office of the President disputes that characterization, writing that these policies aren’t new and reaffirm existing rules. The spokesperson, Heather Hansen, sought to invalidate the central thrust of the union’s demands, writing to CalMatters last week: “By requesting amnesty, UAW is asking the University not to follow its processes but rather to make an exception for its members so that they are not subject to the same accountability measures applicable to all other members of the UC community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Effect on student learning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not all unionized workers have jobs with labor to withhold. Some are paid with fellowships to advance their own research. But most perform a job duty that’s integral to the academic mission of the university. Systemwide, about 20,000 workers are graduate student teaching assistants, tutors or other instructional assistants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduate students teach classes, especially introductory courses, run discussion sections and grade student work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, about 60% to 70% of UC Santa Cruz workers who could withhold their labor did, estimated Rebecca Gross, the unit chair of the union at the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the social media platform Reddit, individuals identifying themselves as UCLA students wrote that some of their discussion sessions are \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/ucla/comments/1d1g2rq/classes_affected_by_the_strike/\">being canceled\u003c/a> and that some of their courses are moving online. It “is tragic for me bc I learn 80% of the material from discussion and problem-solving sessions,” wrote one poster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who’ll pick up the work that the striking workers won’t do is an open question. The governing body of UCLA faculty \u003ca href=\"https://senate.ucla.edu/news/academic-senate-guidance-uaw-strike\">sent a message to professors that\u003c/a> “faculty members cannot be required to take on additional responsibilities for teaching related to a work stoppage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Graduate worker anger\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most protesters, including UAW 4811 members, who were arrested, were cited for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/210-people-arrested-from-ucla-police-chief-confirms/3403435/#:~:text=LAPD%20Interim%20Chief%20Dominic%20Choi,in%20a%20social%20media%20posting.\">failing to follow police orders to disperse\u003c/a>. At UCLA, administrators sent a notice to students and protesters on April 30, a day before police cleared the encampment, that “the established encampment is unlawful and violates university policy” and asked the participants to leave the area or face sanctions. The notice also said that “law enforcement is prepared to arrest individuals, in accordance with applicable law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notice added that “for students, those sanctions could include disciplinary measures such as interim suspension that, after proper due process through the student conduct process, could lead to dismissal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the encampment replied the same day, writing in part, “We will continue to remain here steadfast in our demands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, counterprotesters attacked those in the encampment with pepper spray, wooden sticks and at least one firework as police \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-campus-protests/#:~:text=Counterprotesters%20had%20set%20off%20fireworks%20around%2010%3A30%20p.m.%20Tuesday%2C%20and%20later%2C%20armed%20with%20pepper%20and%20bear%20spray%2C%20physically%20attacked%20those%20residing%20in%20the%20pro%2DPalestinian%20encampment.\">stood by for hours\u003c/a> and made no arrests. Local and national news outlets brought around-the-clock coverage of the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next afternoon, police ordered members of the encampment to disperse. Hours after those orders, police arrested more than 200 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In contrast to the lack of police response to the violent attack by anti-Palestine counterprotesters on April 30, 2024, the University summoned a massive number of police officers on the evening of May 1, 2024, for the purpose of ejecting and arresting the employees engaged in peaceful protest in the UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment,” union lawyers wrote in one of the unfair labor practice violations \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=5\">submitted to the state labor relations board\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kye Shi, a mathematics doctoral student at UCLA, pushed back on the reason to call the police in the first place. “Just because the police say it’s unlawful doesn’t mean that they’re right,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The unlawful assembly is an excuse by the university to shut us down,” Shi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego issued at least 40 suspensions in the middle of May related to the pro-Palestinian protests, the union wrote in one of its unfair labor practice violations. “Such extreme disciplinary measures in response to peaceful protest activity suppress free expression of ideas and violate the First Amendment,” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=11\">it read\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are standing up for justice in the workplace, in a way that directly affects not just us, but our students,” said Anny Viloria Winnett, the unit chair of the local UCLA union chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the union is taking on a “fight for our ability to be safe on campus, our ability to have free speech and protest on our campus, but it’s also a fight that our students led … and we’re just a continuation of that.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Two days after police \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/05/ucla-protest-palestine-police/\">swept the encampments at UCLA\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-campus-protests/\">arrested scores of protesters\u003c/a>, the union \u003ca href=\"https://www.uaw4811.org/2024-ulp-charges\">filed an unfair labor practice violation\u003c/a> with the labor relations board. The union then filed similar violations after police cleared encampments at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/education/2024/05/06/chp-raids-ucsd-gaza-solidarity-encampment\">UC San Diego\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-15/police-converge-on-pro-palestinian-protest-at-uc-irvine-students-are-told-to-shelter-in-place\">UC Irvine, which \u003c/a>also led to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/campus-protest-arrests-suspensions/\">arrests of protesters\u003c/a> — and \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ccDronvAQSWJlm1unuqCjACupKmRkkWb/view\">another alleging\u003c/a> that the UC changed its disciplinary rules unilaterally to punish academic workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By summoning the police to forcibly arrest and/or issuing interim suspensions to these employees, the University has violated their employee rights,“ the union wrote in one of its submissions to the labor relations board. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=3\">The union said\u003c/a> its workers were not only rallying against the war in Gaza but also seeking ways to remove academic research funding sources \u003ca href=\"https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2024/05/how-uc-researchers-began-saying-no-military-work\">tied to the U.S. military\u003c/a>. Workers also oppose “the discrimination and hostile work environment directed towards Palestinian, Muslim, and pro-Palestine Jewish employees and students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike a systemwide strike, this “stand up” strike will pursue labor stoppages at certain campuses, a strategy employed by Detroit autoworkers in their \u003ca href=\"https://labornotes.org/2023/10/big-3-buckled-stand-strike-spread\">successful campaign for higher compensation last year\u003c/a>. The approach is meant to apply gradual pressure to management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the strike is technically distinct from the larger protest movement against the war, the two movements are related. Last Thursday, several hundred UCLA members of the UAW 4811 held a rally in support of their impending strike. Moments later, they joined a student-led protest demanding that the UC call for a cease-fire and divest from weapons manufacturers and the Israeli economy. That same day, protesters erected a short-lived encampment and temporarily took \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/campus-protest-arrests-suspensions/#:~:text=Meanwhile%2C%20also%20in,class%C2%A0%20from%20entering.\">over a campus building before being pushed out by police\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a clear sign that, despite hundreds of arrests in May, thousands of students, union members and some faculty remain passionate about their pro-Palestinian advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legality of strike debated\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Almost 20,000 of the union’s 48,000 members voted on whether to strike two weeks ago and nearly 80% of those who did vote approved the strike authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC sought an injunction to legally halt the strike, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SFCO246H_IR_Denial.pdf\">but the labor relations board wrote\u003c/a> last week that UC hadn’t established that an injunction is “just and proper.” The union hailed the ruling. However, the board wrote that it was leaving UC’s request open in the event the university provided better evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a partial victory for the university, \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SFCO246H_CC1.pdf\">the board issued a complaint that the union\u003c/a> “failed to provide adequate advance notice of its work stoppage, and failed and refused to meet and confer in good faith.” The UC press office, in announcing the board’s response, \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor-news/uaw-news-and-updates-2/#:~:text=PERB%20issues%20complaint%20against%20UAW%C2%A0\">wrote that the labor board\u003c/a> “found enough evidence to suggest that a violation may have occurred, and further examination is warranted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union argues in its latest unfair labor practice violation that the UC unilaterally implemented a disciplinary policy that affects UAW 4811 workers. The union \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ccDronvAQSWJlm1unuqCjACupKmRkkWb/view\">seeks an order\u003c/a> telling the UC to “cease and desist from unilaterally changing the terms and conditions of employment related to discipline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the UC Office of the President disputes that characterization, writing that these policies aren’t new and reaffirm existing rules. The spokesperson, Heather Hansen, sought to invalidate the central thrust of the union’s demands, writing to CalMatters last week: “By requesting amnesty, UAW is asking the University not to follow its processes but rather to make an exception for its members so that they are not subject to the same accountability measures applicable to all other members of the UC community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Effect on student learning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not all unionized workers have jobs with labor to withhold. Some are paid with fellowships to advance their own research. But most perform a job duty that’s integral to the academic mission of the university. Systemwide, about 20,000 workers are graduate student teaching assistants, tutors or other instructional assistants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduate students teach classes, especially introductory courses, run discussion sections and grade student work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, about 60% to 70% of UC Santa Cruz workers who could withhold their labor did, estimated Rebecca Gross, the unit chair of the union at the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the social media platform Reddit, individuals identifying themselves as UCLA students wrote that some of their discussion sessions are \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/ucla/comments/1d1g2rq/classes_affected_by_the_strike/\">being canceled\u003c/a> and that some of their courses are moving online. It “is tragic for me bc I learn 80% of the material from discussion and problem-solving sessions,” wrote one poster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who’ll pick up the work that the striking workers won’t do is an open question. The governing body of UCLA faculty \u003ca href=\"https://senate.ucla.edu/news/academic-senate-guidance-uaw-strike\">sent a message to professors that\u003c/a> “faculty members cannot be required to take on additional responsibilities for teaching related to a work stoppage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Graduate worker anger\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most protesters, including UAW 4811 members, who were arrested, were cited for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/210-people-arrested-from-ucla-police-chief-confirms/3403435/#:~:text=LAPD%20Interim%20Chief%20Dominic%20Choi,in%20a%20social%20media%20posting.\">failing to follow police orders to disperse\u003c/a>. At UCLA, administrators sent a notice to students and protesters on April 30, a day before police cleared the encampment, that “the established encampment is unlawful and violates university policy” and asked the participants to leave the area or face sanctions. The notice also said that “law enforcement is prepared to arrest individuals, in accordance with applicable law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notice added that “for students, those sanctions could include disciplinary measures such as interim suspension that, after proper due process through the student conduct process, could lead to dismissal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the encampment replied the same day, writing in part, “We will continue to remain here steadfast in our demands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, counterprotesters attacked those in the encampment with pepper spray, wooden sticks and at least one firework as police \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-campus-protests/#:~:text=Counterprotesters%20had%20set%20off%20fireworks%20around%2010%3A30%20p.m.%20Tuesday%2C%20and%20later%2C%20armed%20with%20pepper%20and%20bear%20spray%2C%20physically%20attacked%20those%20residing%20in%20the%20pro%2DPalestinian%20encampment.\">stood by for hours\u003c/a> and made no arrests. Local and national news outlets brought around-the-clock coverage of the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next afternoon, police ordered members of the encampment to disperse. Hours after those orders, police arrested more than 200 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In contrast to the lack of police response to the violent attack by anti-Palestine counterprotesters on April 30, 2024, the University summoned a massive number of police officers on the evening of May 1, 2024, for the purpose of ejecting and arresting the employees engaged in peaceful protest in the UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment,” union lawyers wrote in one of the unfair labor practice violations \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=5\">submitted to the state labor relations board\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kye Shi, a mathematics doctoral student at UCLA, pushed back on the reason to call the police in the first place. “Just because the police say it’s unlawful doesn’t mean that they’re right,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The unlawful assembly is an excuse by the university to shut us down,” Shi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego issued at least 40 suspensions in the middle of May related to the pro-Palestinian protests, the union wrote in one of its unfair labor practice violations. “Such extreme disciplinary measures in response to peaceful protest activity suppress free expression of ideas and violate the First Amendment,” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=11\">it read\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are standing up for justice in the workplace, in a way that directly affects not just us, but our students,” said Anny Viloria Winnett, the unit chair of the local UCLA union chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Students always have the opportunity to have their perspectives heard in the course of the conduct process,” the university administration wrote in a statement shared with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the university, after the encampment then shifted “from a peaceful protest to a campus disruption that monopolized USF’s resources,” officials took action against students who they alleged wrote graffiti on walls, affixed signage to the exterior of two buildings and left some remains of their encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university’s move came after leadership failed to negotiate with protesters over their demands in good faith, said Susu Steyteyieh, an environmental studies undergraduate student and an organizer of the encampment, which began April 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is retaliation. This is intimidation. 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Banners and Palestinian flags were draped from the top of a campus building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police wielding batons can be seen pushing back protesters, some of whom are carrying UAW signs, in videos posted to social media by independent journalist Jeremy Lindenfeld, who also documented pro-Palestinian protesters \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/jeremotographs/status/1793749488496193873\">marching through UCLA’s Dodd Hall\u003c/a> shortly after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, UCLA Administrative Vice Chancellor Michael Beck and Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus Safety Rick Braziel said the demonstrators were told they would face arrest and possible disciplinary action if they didn’t disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is reasonable cause to find that demonstrators’ activities — including erecting barricades, establishing fortifications and blocking access to parts of the campus and buildings — are disrupting campus operations,” the administrators wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, union leaders at UAW 4811, which represents about 48,000 academic workers across the UC system, said \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/uaw_4811/status/1793695269659525481\">the expansion of the strike\u003c/a> to UCLA and UC Davis reflects the administration failing to address their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11987173,news_11986910,news_11986812,news_11986708 label=\"more coverage\"]“Rather than put their energies into resolution, UC is attempting to halt the strike through legal procedures,” UAW 4811 President Rafael Jaime said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University officials have called the strike illegal, filing an unfair labor practice suit against the union in response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UAW’s decision to strike over nonlabor issues violates the no-strike clause of their contracts with UC and sets a dangerous and far-reaching precedent,” Melissa Matella, associate vice president of systemwide labor relations, said in a statement last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1,500 graduate teaching assistants, researchers and other academic workers at UC Santa Cruz walked off the job on Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986910/uc-santa-cruz-academic-workers-strike-in-support-of-pro-palestinian-protesters\">the first campus\u003c/a> to go on strike after an authorization vote by union members last week. With a number of entrances blocked by picketing on Tuesday and Wednesday, UCSC temporarily transitioned to \u003ca href=\"https://news.ucsc.edu/2024/05/slug-safe-instructional-update.html\">all virtual classes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union argues that the university has engaged in unfair labor practices, created unsafe working conditions and violated members’ rights in its response to pro-Palestinian protests on several campuses. That includes at UCLA, where police earlier this month took hours to intervene when counter-demonstrators attacked pro-Palestinian protesters at the campus’ original encampment but then proceeded to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984636/violence-erupts-at-ucla-as-protests-over-israels-war-in-gaza-escalate-across-the-u-s\">violently break up the same encampment\u003c/a> and arrest more than 200 activists the next night. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Rather than put their energies into resolution, UC is attempting to halt the strike through legal procedures,” UAW 4811 President Rafael Jaime said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University officials have called the strike illegal, filing an unfair labor practice suit against the union in response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UAW’s decision to strike over nonlabor issues violates the no-strike clause of their contracts with UC and sets a dangerous and far-reaching precedent,” Melissa Matella, associate vice president of systemwide labor relations, said in a statement last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1,500 graduate teaching assistants, researchers and other academic workers at UC Santa Cruz walked off the job on Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986910/uc-santa-cruz-academic-workers-strike-in-support-of-pro-palestinian-protesters\">the first campus\u003c/a> to go on strike after an authorization vote by union members last week. With a number of entrances blocked by picketing on Tuesday and Wednesday, UCSC temporarily transitioned to \u003ca href=\"https://news.ucsc.edu/2024/05/slug-safe-instructional-update.html\">all virtual classes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union argues that the university has engaged in unfair labor practices, created unsafe working conditions and violated members’ rights in its response to pro-Palestinian protests on several campuses. That includes at UCLA, where police earlier this month took hours to intervene when counter-demonstrators attacked pro-Palestinian protesters at the campus’ original encampment but then proceeded to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984636/violence-erupts-at-ucla-as-protests-over-israels-war-in-gaza-escalate-across-the-u-s\">violently break up the same encampment\u003c/a> and arrest more than 200 activists the next night. There were also crackdowns at UC Irvine, where 47 protesters were arrested last week, and UC San Diego, where 64 people were arrested in early May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Weintraut, the UAW 4811 academic student employee unit chair at UC Davis, said she was disappointed that the university administration didn’t resolve the strike amicably. The group represents 5,700 workers at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d say that we only called the strike because there were such severe health and safety violations, such severe, unfair labor practices,” she said. “And it’s disappointing that the university, rather than when we asked multiple times to talk with us and de-escalate the situations, decided to file the injunction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike authorization passed with 79% of the vote, according to the union — but voter turnout was low — only 19,780 of UAW 4811’s approximately 48,000 members cast ballots. The decision to utilize what are known \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987173/uc-academic-workers-strike-is-limited-to-santa-cruz-so-far-heres-why\">as rolling strikes\u003c/a>, where individual campuses are called on to strike at different times, was made to have a greater impact and “maximize chaos,” union leaders said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not yet known how long the strike will last or if it will extend to other campuses, but it could go until the end of June. Most campuses finish classes in the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>About 1,500 graduate teaching assistants, researchers and others at UC Santa Cruz have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986910/uc-santa-cruz-academic-workers-strike-in-support-of-pro-palestinian-protesters\">walked off the job\u003c/a>, the first and so far only campus to take action after the union representing academic workers across the University of California authorized a strike over the recent handling of pro-Palestinian protests on its campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rolling walkout, in which campuses will be called on to join the picket line at times unbeknownst to the UC, is part of what the UAW 4811 union representing the academic workers is calling a “stand-up strike.” It’s a tactic that the local’s parent United Auto Workers union — which has roughly 100,000 members working for universities — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/11/12/1211602392/uaw-auto-strike-deals-ratified-big-three-shawn-fain\">rolled out against the Big Three automakers\u003c/a> last year.[aside postID=news_11986910,news_11986812,news_11986708,news_11985856 label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear how long it will last or when other campuses will be called on, but in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/uaw_4811/status/1791512207563583777\">a video last week\u003c/a> calling on UC Santa Cruz student workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986767/uc-santa-cruz-academic-workers-to-strike-over-universitys-treatment-of-pro-palestinian-protesters\">to pause all teaching and research work\u003c/a> starting Monday, UAW 4811 President Rafael Jaime told others across the UC system to “stand by and prepare to stand up if your campus is called.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jess Fournier, the recording secretary for UAW 4811 at UC Santa Cruz, called the rolling strike a strategic move on the part of the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is very highly effective in the auto industry, and I think that one of the things that makes a strike in higher education unique is that often walking off the job for a single day does not create the kind of immediate stoppage in work [as in other industries],” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some campus groups, however, have called on the union to enact a much wider strike immediately. Rank and File for a Democratic Union, a group of UAW 4811 members at UCLA, released a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/uclarnf/status/1792648027120803938\">statement on Monday\u003c/a> urging the union to be “serious about causing ‘maximum disruption and chaos’” by calling a strike at their campus, which has the largest student population in the UC system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our actions must not be delayed, tempered, or symbolic. We affirm our strike readiness by taking action NOW,” the group said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California Students for Justice in Palestine also urged the union to “immediately call a strike at all University of California Campuses” in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/NationalSJP/status/1792670620494315630\">social media post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UAW 4811 leadership must support the demands of their rank-and-file workers and the broader grassroots movement for liberation,” the group said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, questions remain about wider support for the strike among the union representing UC academic workers. Although 79% of voting members supported authorizing a strike, voter turnout was low. Only about 19,780 of UAW 4811’s approximately 48,000 members cast ballots, compared with more than 36,000 academic workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.fairucnow.org/2022/11/02/press-release-nov-2-2022/\">participating\u003c/a> in the union’s 2022 strike authorization vote \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11935671/university-of-california-workers-reach-deal-to-end-monthlong-strike\">during its collective bargaining process\u003c/a> with the university system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California has also filed an unfair labor practice suit against the union, calling the strike illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UAW’s decision to strike over nonlabor issues violates the no-strike clause of their contracts with UC and sets a dangerous and far-reaching precedent that social, political and cultural issues — no matter how valid — that are not labor-related can support a labor strike,” Melissa Matella, associate vice president of systemwide labor relations, said in a statement on May 16.[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UAW 4811 alleges that union members’ rights were violated by university leadership’s response to pro-Palestinian protest encampments, pointing to UCLA — where police did not intervene when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984762/ucs-campus-safety-plan-under-fire-as-violence-breaks-out-at-ucla-protest\">counter-protesters attacked overnight\u003c/a>, then violently broke up the encampment the following day, arresting more than 200 people — and to campus crackdowns at UC Irvine, where 47 protesters were arrested last week, and UC San Diego, where 64 people were arrested in early May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are workplace issues in the sense that the University of California is bringing in police, allowing other people in the community to beat and mace workers in their place of work,” Fournier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re making threats about suspending or terminating workers without using the process that’s outlined in our contract, if they’re unilaterally locking workers out of their place of work on some of these campuses, all of these things are violations of our working conditions and the agreements we have with the university.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are very fired up about this,” Fournier told KQED. “We’re prepared to stay out and do this for the long haul, as long as it takes for the UC to resolve these unfair labor practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Hernandez-Jason, UC Santa Cruz’s assistant vice chancellor of communications and marketing, said in a statement on Monday that the campus’ goal throughout the strike will be to “minimize the disruptive impact, especially given the many educational and research challenges that have affected students and researchers in recent years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that multiple campus entrances were obstructed on Monday. The university transitioned to remote instruction \u003ca href=\"https://news.ucsc.edu/2024/05/slug-safe-instructional-update.html\">at least through Wednesday\u003c/a>. Many UC campuses, including Santa Cruz, have about a month left until the current academic term wraps up in mid-June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fournier told KQED that workers at Santa Cruz are prepared to picket at the campus’ two entrances daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and continue a complete work stoppage until their demands are met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re ready to keep going for the long haul,” Fournier said. “We can imagine that if this does keep going, and the UC continues to be intransigent, more and more campuses are going to be out there with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Roughly 30 people protested outside the \u003ca href=\"https://hcsanfrancisco.clubs.harvard.edu/article.html?aid=2000\">Harvard Club of San Francisco’s 150th anniversary event\u003c/a> on Monday evening, where former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was being honored. One protester was arrested after entering and disrupting the ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Doing a celebratory dinner for someone who has been an active supporter of the state of Israel of someone who has personally profiteered from the war, to me, is unconscionable,” said Harvard alumna Kate Sim, one of the two protesters who entered the event and disrupted Pelosi’s speech. 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A few who attempted to enter the building were quietly turned away by police at the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the arrest of the one protester who entered the event with Sim, the group attempted to block the police car the protester was put into — which was eventually able to drive away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/05/20/pro-palestine-activists-protest-nancy-pelosi-at-harvard-club-event-in-sf/_m6a0340-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11987108\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11987108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"police lead away a woman in handcuffs\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One protester was arrested after entering and disrupting the Harvard Club’s 150th anniversary event. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This action comes alongside a steady stream of protests, marches, encampments and strikes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986812/some-bay-area-universities-reach-deal-to-end-encampments-but-students-say-their-fight-continues\">on college campuses\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967536/protesters-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire-block-bay-bridges-westbound-lanes\">across the Bay Area\u003c/a> recently, calling on government leaders to end U.S. involvement and military aid to Israel. The protesters on Monday also responded to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/harvard-university-protest-student-probation/\">Harvard’s recent decision\u003c/a> to suspend five students involved in pro-Palestine activism and place more than 20 on probation, along with stopping 14 students from receiving their degrees at commencement, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/20/harvard-hoop-rally-commencement-disruptions/\">according to the Harvard Crimson\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shame on Harvard and Pelosi for this senseless gala as we embark on the seventh month of the genocide,” organizers told KQED before the protest. “Pelosi has consistently aided and abetted this genocide and conflict in the region, using tax dollars that should care for our communities. 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She added that they’d be happy to have an “honest conversation” with Pelosi but also said they plan to continue to disrupt any Pelosi events. “Not another nickel, not another dime. We do not want our money funding this genocide,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 35,000 people in Gaza have been killed in Israel’s ground and air assaults, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, since the Oct. 7 attacks when Hamas militants killed 1,200 Israelis and took more than 250 hostages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, protests have erupted across the Bay Area, including at several major college campuses, such as the University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco State University, the University of San Francisco and Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Christopher Alam.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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A few who attempted to enter the building were quietly turned away by police at the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the arrest of the one protester who entered the event with Sim, the group attempted to block the police car the protester was put into — which was eventually able to drive away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/05/20/pro-palestine-activists-protest-nancy-pelosi-at-harvard-club-event-in-sf/_m6a0340-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11987108\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11987108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"police lead away a woman in handcuffs\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One protester was arrested after entering and disrupting the Harvard Club’s 150th anniversary event. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This action comes alongside a steady stream of protests, marches, encampments and strikes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986812/some-bay-area-universities-reach-deal-to-end-encampments-but-students-say-their-fight-continues\">on college campuses\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967536/protesters-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire-block-bay-bridges-westbound-lanes\">across the Bay Area\u003c/a> recently, calling on government leaders to end U.S. involvement and military aid to Israel. The protesters on Monday also responded to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/harvard-university-protest-student-probation/\">Harvard’s recent decision\u003c/a> to suspend five students involved in pro-Palestine activism and place more than 20 on probation, along with stopping 14 students from receiving their degrees at commencement, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/20/harvard-hoop-rally-commencement-disruptions/\">according to the Harvard Crimson\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shame on Harvard and Pelosi for this senseless gala as we embark on the seventh month of the genocide,” organizers told KQED before the protest. “Pelosi has consistently aided and abetted this genocide and conflict in the region, using tax dollars that should care for our communities. 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This was the outcome for student organizers in the South Africa Apartheid encampment, Living Wage occupation of Mass Hall, Fossil Fuel divestment blockades and Belinda Hall occupation,” the Harvard Palestine Solidarity group \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C7HBv6ar2k2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&img_index=1\">wrote on Instagram\u003c/a>. “The precedent is clear: drop the charges and do not heavily discipline students for calling for disclosure and divestment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of protesters holds signs outside the Harvard Club of San Francisco’s 150th-anniversary celebration, where Nancy Pelosi was honored on Monday. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sim said that in addition to calling for divestment from Israel and an immediate cease-fire, they also asked for Harvard to nullify the suspensions. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:45 p.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the spring semester comes to an end for most Bay Area universities, dynamics between campus administrators and students protesting in solidarity with Palestinians have undergone a seismic shift in recent days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Monday, several universities have agreed to at least some demands made by student organizers, including UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University and Sonoma State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all of those cases, administrators committed to publicly disclosing their investments and forming working groups to review those investments for possible areas of divestment. Disclosure of investments and divestment from Israeli companies or companies that stand to profit from Israel’s war in Gaza and occupation of the West Bank have been among the most prominent demands from student organizers across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers at those universities responded by packing up and disbanding their encampments. That is not to say that they feel satisfied with their current gains. Students at most of those campuses have said that they see the encampments as merely the first phase in a longer, possibly years-long fight for full divestment from Israel, among other demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just kind of raising the bar on the floor,” said Palestinian Youth Movement member Rami Abdelkarim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Palestinian Youth Movement has been behind several large pro-Palestinian protests in the Bay Area, and Abdelkarim said many of their members are also college students involved in the encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These universities should not be invested in weapons manufacture at all. These agreements rarely acknowledge Palestinians. They rarely acknowledge they’re in direct investment in Israel,” Abdelkarim said. “So when I see these statements and policies that are coming out based off of these encampments … I see them really as a way to put pressure on the entire system as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At other schools, including the University of San Francisco, Stanford and San José State University, students are still camping on campus, calling on their respective administrations to meet their demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC San Francisco camp met the stiffest resistance. University police removed tents at a student-run encampment on Monday evening, just hours after it formed, and cited one person, according to students involved. Police also returned Tuesday after organizers set up the encampment again. They convinced protesters to remove the tents, but the students stayed in the same place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday morning before 6 a.m., a university administrator approached the encampment warning protesters to clear out and police encircled the group 15 minutes later, according to Jess Ghannam, a professor of psychiatry and global health at UCSF who supports the student organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jess Ghannam, professor of psychiatry and global health sciences, UCSF School of Medicine\"]‘[W]e remain committed to all of our demands, and we’re not going to back down.’[/pullquote]“Over the past week, protesters engaged in property damage, theft, and other actions in the encampment, causing significant disruption to our university and health care operations, as well as distress for members of our faculty, staff, students and patients,” UCSF said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghannam rejected the assertion that the encampment interfered with the university, saying protesters made changes to accommodate requests from city fire and police officials on multiple occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no disruption whatsoever to any functioning of the hospital. We were near the library, far away from anything having to do with clinical services, far away from anything having to do with the hospital functioning,” Ghannam said. “And in fact, we had hundreds of patients come up to us, and speak with us and applaud us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF’s decision to deploy police is a departure from the approach of other university administrators in the bay, most of whom have chosen not to involve police or even committed to not doing so as long as protests remained peaceful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghannam said student organizers ultimately decided to disband the encampment rather than risk their safety through continued interactions with police, but he added that student demands remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just to remind the university one of their employees is stuck in Gaza right now and is facing threats to her life while giving amazing care to the Palestinians in Gaza whose health care system has been decimated,” Ghannam said. “So we remain committed to all of our demands, and we’re not going to back down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some protesters may also choose to disrupt graduation ceremonies planned over the next few weeks. Prior to reaching a deal with the university, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985856/uc-berkeley-commencement-ceremony-disrupted-by-student-protests\">UC Berkeley students rallied at their undergraduate commencement\u003c/a> by the hundreds, at times drowning out the ceremony’s speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fears over similar disruptions may put more pressure on universities to negotiate with students and could have factored into the concessions some administrators have already made.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Recent gains\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco State, Sonoma State and UC Berkeley all reached their deals on Tuesday, May 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco State and UC Berkeley both committed to divesting from weapons manufacturers. SF State President Lynn Mahoney also said the promised working group would draft policy for a human-rights-focused investment strategy, similar to the university’s existing policies for investments that align with climate action and racial and social justice goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986821\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986821\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4143-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4143-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4143-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4143-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4143-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4143-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4143-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4143-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student activist members of SFSU Students For Gaza celebrate reaching a deal at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, on May 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ also promised the university’s task force could look into industry-based divestments, including those involved in mass incarceration and surveillance technology. Christ also agreed to a public statement supporting an immediate and permanent cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement between Sonoma State University President Mike Lee and student organizers appeared to go further than others, with Lee promising not to pursue formal collaborations with Israeli state-affiliated academic and research institutions. Like Christ, Lee also called for a permanent cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both SSU Students for Justice in Palestine and I, President Mike Lee, oppose and condemn all acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, racism, antisemitism and other activities that violate fundamental human rights,” Lee wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s letter to the campus announcing the deal attracted international attention and a mix of support and condemnation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told KQED he thought canceling academic exchanges with Israel was wholly inappropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does concern me that in order for the university to be able to conduct its commencement exercises or clear an encampment, that they are agreeing to terms that would essentially result in some kind of a boycott of Israel,” Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s letter clarified that the university had no active exchange programs with Israeli universities prior to the deal, but outrage persisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Emma Stevenson, student, St. Mary's College\"]‘We’re not settled in any type of security that they’ll do what they say until they do it.’[/pullquote]“It is unacceptable that certain campus administrators appear willing to capitulate to the demands of a fringe group of protesters who are violating campus policies,” wrote the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California in a letter to CSU and UC leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a day after Lee sent out his letter, CSU Chancellor Mildred García announced that Lee was placed on administrative leave for insubordination, saying his message was sent without appropriate approvals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Sonoma State’s Faculty Senate passed a resolution supporting Lee’s reinstatement and calling the chancellor’s discipline an overstep, but later that day García announced that Lee had resigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really sad at the precedent that this sets,” said Jordan Byrd, a member of Jewish Voice for Peace Sonoma County. “That the president that meets and negotiates peacefully with students is the one that gets sacked, not the presidents that are unleashing violence on students and suspending them for the very simple demands that they’re making, which is to try to end a genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement posted on Instagram, Sonoma State University Students for Justice in Palestine condemned the disciplining of Lee and demanded that the university’s acting president honor the agreement Lee made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The commitments that were made by Sonoma State University will be reviewed by the current administration in the near future,” said a CSU spokesperson in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Mary’s College announced a deal to end the encampment and hunger strike there with terms similar to those reached at other universities, but student organizers who spoke to KQED said things aren’t as settled as the university made it seem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the students said they are temporarily suspending their hunger strike pending an upcoming meeting of the school’s Board of Trustees where terms are set to be discussed, including disclosure and possible divestment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still are very impassioned about what’s happening. We’re not settled in any type of security that they’ll do what they say until they do it,” said Emma Stevenson, a student at St. Mary’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moving on to bigger goals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many of the students who packed up their tents have moved on to what they considered to be the next arena — the state bodies that govern the UC and CSU systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus administrators in both systems had told students they lacked the authority to grant all of their demands, so the students are now moving to address the people that do have that authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley Divest Coalition announced their plans to attend the meeting of the UC’s Board of Regents at UC Merced in coordination with organizers from other universities. On Wednesday, a group of people wearing keffiyehs erupted in shouts during a regents meeting, until UC officials left the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC, UC, you cant hide, we charge you with genocide,” the group chanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same day, a group of some 60 people \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986546/pro-palestinian-activists-occupy-abandoned-uc-berkeley-building-near-peoples-park\">barricaded themselves inside\u003c/a> of UC Berkeley’s abandoned Anna Head Alumnae Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"US Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) \"]‘It does concern me that in order for the university to be able to conduct its commencement exercises or clear an encampment, that they are agreeing to terms that would essentially result in some kind of a boycott of Israel.’[/pullquote]“This action represents a significant escalation in the current wave of Bay Area demonstrations in solidarity with Palestine,” a group by the name of People’s Park Berkeley wrote on Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, law enforcement from various agencies across the Bay Area cleared the building and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986708/police-arrest-pro-palestinian-protesters-occupying-abandoned-uc-berkeley-building\">arrested 12 people\u003c/a> on various charges including burglary and vandalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly San Francisco State students said they plan to convene at CSU Long Beach next week, where the CSU’s Board of Trustees are set to meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanca Missé, an associate professor at SF State who has been supporting the student organizers, said the meetings could be a means for students across the state to meet, compare notes and build toward something larger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The next step of the students for Gaza is to organize a statewide conference with the rest of the CSU encampments to plan for a CSU-wide strategy. And they’re also in conversation with the UC system,” Missé said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And rather than being placated by their respective agreements, Missé said students will be looking to learn from what other campuses have gained and using that to leverage more gains from their own campus administrators and statewide systems as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a rally at San Francisco State celebrating the president’s concessions, speakers said they plan to continue pushing until CSU leaders call Israel’s attacks on Gaza a “genocide” and meet all of their demands, including a full divestment from Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Israel was accused of committing genocide by South African officials, and the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/26/1227078791/icj-israel-genocide-gaza-palestinians-south-africa#:~:text=ICJ%20says%20it's%20'plausible'%20Israel%20committed%20genocide%20in%20Gaza%20The,call%20for%20a%20cease%2Dfire.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> International Court for Justice\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ruled that some of those claims are plausible, but Israel has not been found guilty and has denied the accusations.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abdelkarim, the Palestinian Youth Movement member, echoed Missé’s sentiments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When CSU Sacramento, CSU Sonoma, are reaching these agreements, the real impact of these agreements are actually putting pressure on the CSU system, who largely holds the endowments and the investments in weapons manufacturers and Israel in general. And the same thing kind of goes for the UC system,” Abdelkarim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers have drawn parallels between their current struggle with that of students in the 1980’s calling for universities to divest from South Africa’s apartheid regime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fight for divestment from South African apartheid in 1985 was a years-long fight,” Abdelkarim continued. “And we know that students actually are using these negotiations, and even the opposite of the negotiations, which are the direct police violence that they’ve faced at now, UC Irvine, UC San Diego and UCLA as fuel to the fire, to come back even stronger in the fall, to fight for full and complete divestment from Israel and from weapons manufacturers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Remaining encampments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stanford was arguably the site of the first student encampment, with a group of students holding a “Sit-In to Stop Genocide” beginning in late October and ending in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the wave of student encampments this spring, Stanford set up an encampment in late April. 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A lot of this … is not as local as UC Berkeley,” Yousuf, a student organizer who gave only his first name for fear of retaliation, told KQED. “These tents are going down, but, you know, people are going to be here — today, tomorrow, the next day after that, and next semester especially.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As regents hold their bimonthly meetings at UC Merced — including committees related to investment and finance — activists are setting up a joint encampment on the campus, according to Raniwala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of these tents have packed up and gone to Merced,” Raniwala told KQED. “The California regents have been meeting there yesterday, today and tomorrow to discuss investments, academic policy, and a lot of other things, and I guess the protests across UC campuses plan to congregate there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11986194,news_11985856,news_11985245\"]Another of the UC Berkeley encampment’s demands was an academic boycott of Israel, which Christ said she did not support. However, the university agreed to review its global exchange and internship programs to ensure they are not violating the UC’s Anti-Discrimination Policy, Christ said in her letter, adding that any programs found in violation will be remedied or terminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Future programs will also be evaluated on a continuing basis, and the campus will develop a transparent process for reviewing complaints about academic programs by December. Christ said the UCB Divest Coalition and the Academic Senate Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Campus Climate will be invited to participate in the development of this process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christ also said she would make a public statement “by the end of the month sharing my personal support for government officials’ efforts to secure an immediate and permanent cease-fire. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This morning, police told us that they were going to sweep us again if we didn’t take them down,” Hadi said Tuesday. Protestors complied, and removed the tents but remained at the site as of Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The response from administration and campus police has been “repressive,” Hadi said, but many protesters intend to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the first graduate health care institution to set up something like this, we need to show up,” Hadi told KQED. “I know we have a lot at stake but we’re hitting a sore spot and we need to keep escalating because the health care infrastructure in Palestine is being — has been — decimated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The camp is the latest to spring up at a UC campus, which have now each had a camp protesting the Israeli offensive in Gaza. UCSF’s camp is meant to be in solidarity with those at the other UC campuses and the scores of others at universities across the U.S., said Jess Ghannam, a professor of psychiatry and global health at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re part of a very large movement right now that is in line with our free speech and academic freedom rights to speak and to demonstrate,” said Ghannam. “What seems really different about what’s happening now is the intensity of the aggressive response, with lack of negotiation, with lack of any attempt to engage in a discussion about what the demands are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protesters had been informed multiple times prior to Monday’s police action that their camp was in violation of fire codes and the university’s “policies governing expressive activities,” according to a UCSF statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An update posted on ucsf4palestine’s Instagram Tuesday said the university has “deep ties and allegiance” to Israel, through partnerships with Israeli-aligned organizations like the Helen Diller Foundation, which has donated at least $1 billion to UCSF, according to its website. The post also listed demands directed at the university’s chancellor including to “divest from all companies, programs, and organizations profiting from and aiding the occupation and genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A UCSF spokesperson declined to comment on the university’s affiliations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The post also said protestors were “alarmed” that an “institution that prides itself as a leader in global health would stay silent at the utter destruction of hospitals in Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at the University of San Francisco, administrators gave students a 3 p.m. deadline to voluntarily leave the encampment on Welch Field without facing internal discipline for violating “time, place, and manner restrictions” on protests, university officials wrote to encampment representatives after a meeting Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Protesters calling for UC Berkeley to divest from companies in Israel — or those they say profit from Israel’s war in Gaza — disrupted the university’s undergraduate commencement ceremony on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes after the ceremony began, a few small groups of students stood up holding Palestinian flags, keffiyehs and signs reading “DIVEST.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC Regents, what do you say? How many kids have you killed today?” Shouted students in one section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985862\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985862\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004976_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004976_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004976_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004976_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004976_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004976_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian protesters march down the stadium steps during UC Berkeley’s undergraduate commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Security officials walked around and confiscated most of the flags, but the students continued undeterred and soon gathered into a larger group at a section of bleachers near the main stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstration mirrored a similar event during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982697/confrontation-at-uc-berkeley-law-school-deans-home-highlights-campus-tensions\">Friday’s law school graduation\u003c/a> at Berkeley, where students turned their back on the speakers, revealed shirts that read “DIVEST,” and chanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A student who asked not to be fully identified out of fear for their safety said that when they heard about a plan to chant and walk out of the ceremony, they immediately decided to join. “Disruption is extremely important, especially in a university institution that gets funding and funds Israel and funds the weapons that they send to bomb children in Gaza,” the student said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985860\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985860\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8455_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8455_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8455_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8455_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8455_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8455_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester holds up a homemade sign that reads ‘Antizionist Jews for a Free Palestine’ during the UC Berkeley commencement ceremony. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The plan seems to have spread through word of mouth, and even those who didn’t hear the rumors said they were unsurprised, given \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2014/nov/15/berkeley-a-history-of-disobedience-in-pictures\">Berkeley’s decades-long history of student activism\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nolan Kim, an undergraduate excited to receive his degree, did not have prior knowledge of a protest happening but told KQED at the start of the event that he would not be surprised if a protest broke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985861\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985861\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004820_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004820_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004820_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004820_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004820_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004820_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley students raise Palestinian flags to begin a protest during the 2024 commencement ceremony. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was saying if there was a way to bet 50 bucks that something was going to happen, I actually would,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim missed his high school graduation due to the pandemic and lamented the prospect of missing a proper college commencement due to demonstrations, but he also said he understood the motivations of those seeking to disrupt the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, what Hamas did was not right,” Kim said. “But I think what Israel is doing in retaliation to hurt the innocent Palestinian people, which is different, is crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985858\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985858\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8405_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young man wearing a graduation gown holds a keffiyeh over his head with a crowd of other students in academic regalia behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8405_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8405_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8405_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8405_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8405_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An anonymous protester chants along with the crowd during UC Berkeley’s commencement ceremony. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the first wave of protesters gathered together, they numbered in the dozens. But a steady stream of students rose from their seats to join the group until they numbered in the hundreds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several students said they felt embarrassed trying to focus on the ceremony, while others stood up for what they considered to be a worthy cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ceremony continued, but the mass of students chanting and stomping their feet served as an effective distraction and even drowned out the speakers for those sitting nearest to the protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985866\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985866\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters grew into the hundreds within 30 minutes, eventually filling an entire column of bleachers during the UC Berkeley commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“UC Berkeley strives to celebrate the achievements of our graduates in a safe and respectful environment,” a university spokesperson said in an email. “While today’s commencement was, at times, unfortunately, disrupted, it did not prevent us from honoring the hard work and accomplishments of our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to the start of the protest, UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ began her address by discussing the recent protests on the campus, including an ongoing encampment that has been up for nearly three weeks and grown continuously, now spanning dozens of tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985879\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985879\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Ying, recipient of UC Berkeley’s 2024 University Medal, gives his commencement ceremony speech while a pro-Palestinian protest goes on in the bleachers behind him at the California Memorial Stadium. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They feel passionately about the brutality of the violence in Gaza. Tens of thousands of Palestinians killed, and the destruction of educational institutions and vital infrastructure. I, too, am deeply troubled by the terrible tragedy unfolding in Gaza,” Christ said to cheers from the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christ went on to condemn anti-Semitism and anti-Palestinian harassment and called on attendees to “find a way to recognize our shared humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the chancellor moved on to other remarks, the chants began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985872\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chancellor Carol Christ welcomes students and faculty to the UC Berkeley commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While some said they appreciated that Christ named Gaza, something they felt she had not done enough, others said she should have gone further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Berkeley Divest Coalition, the banner name for the groups operating the on-campus encampment, posted to social media on Saturday afternoon, calling for an emergency rally while referring to the chancellor as “Carol Anti-Christ.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985873\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students celebrate the start of the UC Berkeley commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the post, the group alleges that they have tried to negotiate for their terms — primarily a disclosure of university investments and a commitment from the university to divest from the aforementioned companies — but that the university has destroyed any attempt to negotiate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They tried to sedate us, but we cannot be quelled. They tried to silence us, but our screams will not be held … Join us in making our demands as loud as the bombs that are raining down on Rafah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985874\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UC Berkeley pro-Palestinian encampment outside of Sproul Hall continues to grow in size in Berkeley on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> An earlier version of this story included the name of a student protester. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Protesters calling for UC Berkeley to divest from companies in Israel — or those they say profit from Israel’s war in Gaza — disrupted the university’s undergraduate commencement ceremony on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes after the ceremony began, a few small groups of students stood up holding Palestinian flags, keffiyehs and signs reading “DIVEST.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC Regents, what do you say? 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Berkeley’s undergraduate commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Security officials walked around and confiscated most of the flags, but the students continued undeterred and soon gathered into a larger group at a section of bleachers near the main stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstration mirrored a similar event during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982697/confrontation-at-uc-berkeley-law-school-deans-home-highlights-campus-tensions\">Friday’s law school graduation\u003c/a> at Berkeley, where students turned their back on the speakers, revealed shirts that read “DIVEST,” and chanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A student who asked not to be fully identified out of fear for their safety said that when they heard about a plan to chant and walk out of the ceremony, they immediately decided to join. “Disruption is extremely important, especially in a 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But a steady stream of students rose from their seats to join the group until they numbered in the hundreds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several students said they felt embarrassed trying to focus on the ceremony, while others stood up for what they considered to be a worthy cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ceremony continued, but the mass of students chanting and stomping their feet served as an effective distraction and even drowned out the speakers for those sitting nearest to the protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985866\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985866\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005132_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters grew into the hundreds within 30 minutes, eventually filling an entire column of bleachers during the UC Berkeley commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“UC Berkeley strives to celebrate the achievements of our graduates in a safe and respectful environment,” a university spokesperson said in an email. “While today’s commencement was, at times, unfortunately, disrupted, it did not prevent us from honoring the hard work and accomplishments of our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to the start of the protest, UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ began her address by discussing the recent protests on the campus, including an ongoing encampment that has been up for nearly three weeks and grown continuously, now spanning dozens of tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985879\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985879\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8473_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Ying, recipient of UC Berkeley’s 2024 University Medal, gives his commencement ceremony speech while a pro-Palestinian protest goes on in the bleachers behind him at the California Memorial Stadium. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They feel passionately about the brutality of the violence in Gaza. Tens of thousands of Palestinians killed, and the destruction of educational institutions and vital infrastructure. I, too, am deeply troubled by the terrible tragedy unfolding in Gaza,” Christ said to cheers from the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christ went on to condemn anti-Semitism and anti-Palestinian harassment and called on attendees to “find a way to recognize our shared humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the chancellor moved on to other remarks, the chants began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985872\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/DSC8362_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chancellor Carol Christ welcomes students and faculty to the UC Berkeley commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While some said they appreciated that Christ named Gaza, something they felt she had not done enough, others said she should have gone further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Berkeley Divest Coalition, the banner name for the groups operating the on-campus encampment, posted to social media on Saturday afternoon, calling for an emergency rally while referring to the chancellor as “Carol Anti-Christ.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985873\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1004753_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students celebrate the start of the UC Berkeley commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the post, the group alleges that they have tried to negotiate for their terms — primarily a disclosure of university investments and a commitment from the university to divest from the aforementioned companies — but that the university has destroyed any attempt to negotiate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They tried to sedate us, but we cannot be quelled. They tried to silence us, but our screams will not be held … Join us in making our demands as loud as the bombs that are raining down on Rafah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985874\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UC Berkeley pro-Palestinian encampment outside of Sproul Hall continues to grow in size in Berkeley on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> An earlier version of this story included the name of a student protester. 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