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He did not say how long they would be on strike, though it could last through June when the school term ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And for everyone else across the state, stand by and prepare to stand up if your campus is called,” said Jaime, who is also a Ph.D. candidate in UCLA’s English department, at the end of the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/uaw_4811/status/1791512207563583777\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While union leaders have said they plan to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-15/uc-academic-workers-strike-vote\">maximize chaos\u003c/a>” through which campuses are called on to strike when, it’s unclear whether other campuses will soon follow UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union members are alleging their rights have been violated in the crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests on campuses. 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At the heart of them is our right to free speech and peaceful protest,” said Tanzil Chowdhury, a graduate student instructor at UC Berkeley, who is on the union’s executive board. “We’ve seen that the university has used repressive and violent tactics to infringe on our right to free speech and the health and safety of our members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian encampments are still in place at UC Santa Cruz and several other UC campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Berkeley, however, school officials took a notably different tack, refraining from involving law enforcement in dealing with a large pro-Palestinian encampment in front of Sproul Plaza that remained in place for nearly a month. Earlier this week, organizers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986306/uc-berkeley-encampment-is-packing-up-for-merced-heres-what-admin-agreed-to\">began dismantling the encampment\u003c/a> following a meeting and agreement with school officials. UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ said, \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/encampment_letter_051424.pdf\">in a letter (PDF)\u003c/a>, that the university would take steps to review its investments to make sure they align with its “core values” and also pledged to develop a transparent process for assessing whether any of its global exchange and internship programs are out of step with the UC Anti-Discrimination Policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike authorization, sanctioning the union executive board to call on individual campuses to strike between now and June 30, passed with 79% of the vote, according to union representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thousands of our members came out to vote,” Chowdhury said. “It’s a show of just how much energy and support there is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC officials maintain that such a strike, however, would be unlawful because it would violate the existing contract with the union — and have warned that anyone who participates will face repercussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California also filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge against the union on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11984636,news_11986306,news_11984762]“Given UAW’s publicly stated position and the subsequent potential impacts on our students and campuses, we are forced to take decisive action to ensure we can continue to fulfill our fundamental missions of teaching, research and public service,” Melissa Matella, UC’s associate vice president for systemwide labor relations, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Academic Senate has also provided faculty members with \u003ca href=\"https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/js-sc-faculty-strike-guidance.pdf\">guidance to minimize course disruption (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to a spokesperson for the UC Office of the President.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers and union leaders said the UC system could stop these ongoing strikes by addressing their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the ways that the university can achieve that is by choosing to de-escalate and instead negotiate over the urgent moral concerns that many of the protesters have brought,” Chowdhury said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Young said he has forged deep friendships as a result of with students and faculty on campus as a result of being involved with the project. The feeling is mutual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want everyone to understand that this is not a relationship you can just walk away from. As long as he's in that cell, we need to continue to tend to that relationship, just as we tend the garden,\" said Rachel Nelson, who commissioned the Solitary Garden in her role as director of \u003ca href=\"https://ias.ucsc.edu/\">UC Santa Cruz's Institute of the Arts and Sciences\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Journey through the system\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Young said it's been a long journey since the day of his arrest in April 1999. He said law enforcement officers pulled him over while he was leaving an Easter celebration in the San Joaquin Valley town of Lemoore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I look around and there's like assault rifles being pointed at me from every direction, and I'm just trying to figure out what the heck is going on,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrest happened four years after the crime Young eventually found out he was accused of committing — the murder of five people in a bar in the nearby town of Tulare — took place. Stuck in county jail, Young said he assumed the criminal legal system would work in his favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My initial thought was, 'Well, I'm an American. I have rights. Once we get to a preliminary hearing, this case will be dismissed,'\" Young said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 723px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917035 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56597_sdfqvw-qut.jpg\" alt='A Black man with brown eyes, chin-length locs and a graying goatee sits backward on a red plastic chair. He wears a light-blue short-sleeved prison tunic and navy blue sweatpants; on the right leg are yellow, vertical letters spelling \"SONER\" (as if they are part of the word \"PRISONER\"). He rests the fingertips of his hands, including his thumbs, together as he leans forward against the back of the chair, looking straight at the camera with a confident smile. To his right is a white-painted barred door; he appears to be inside a cell.' width=\"723\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56597_sdfqvw-qut.jpg 723w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56597_sdfqvw-qut-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timothy James Young. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Timothy James Young)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The case went to trial despite shaky evidence and unreliable witnesses, including Anthony Wolfe, a man convicted of a felony who served as a paid informant in return for a reduced sentence for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2005, an all-white jury convicted Young, who is Black, of murder. A month later, he was sentenced to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I sat thinking, 'The truth will come out. Just hang in there. This will all be exposed and it’ll all be over with,'\" Young said. \"The truth \u003ci>did\u003c/i> come out. But everybody discarded it. And so 23 years later, I'm still wrongfully imprisoned and the nightmare continues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A growing connection to students\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In recent months, a small group of film and digital media students at UC Santa Cruz has been working to make a case for exonerating Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoDy1jgVVxo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their eight-minute documentary, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoDy1jgVVxo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Am More: The Story of Tim Young\u003c/a>,\" is the centerpiece of a new collaboration with students mostly majoring in government at \u003ca href=\"https://www.georgetown.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Georgetown University\u003c/a>, as part of a class there called \"\u003ca href=\"https://prisonsandjustice.georgetown.edu/news/wrongful-convictions-making-an-exoneree-2022/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Making an Exoneree\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RcN6AAK/marc-howard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc Howard,\u003c/a> professor of government and law at Georgetown, said that since the class launched in 2018, it has contributed to the exonerations of three wrongfully convicted people out of the 25 cases it has tackled so far. He and his students typically take on five cases a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What started out as an experiment has actually turned into an extraordinary machine for justice,\" Howard said. \"We have another prison release in the coming weeks. We may have another one still this year. And we've made great progress in a number of cases where the person initially had very little hope and we've at least helped them to obtain legal counsel.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now with enhanced creative input from UC Santa Cruz on the filmmaking side for the first time this year, the schools joined forces to help get more people dealing with tough cases out of prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917031 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white, middled-aged woman with long, curly salt-and-pepper hair and large, black-framed glasses poses indoors in front of a framed photograph of a torn cardboard box set against a sunlit white wall. She is smiling and wears a black cardigan sweater over a dark gray T-shirt. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Santa Cruz Film and Digital Media professor Sharon Daniel. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Documentary works of art in particular have a lot of power to persuade, to change people's perceptions,\" said UC Santa Cruz film and digital media professor \u003ca href=\"https://film.ucsc.edu/faculty/sharon_daniel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sharon Daniel\u003c/a>, who co-teaches the class. \"It's a way of addressing a general public, an audience that maybe doesn't know anything about what's wrong with the criminal legal system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel said she approached Georgetown about Young's case after she developed her own close friendship with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She first got to know him from the letters he wrote as part of the Solitary Garden project. Young went on to contribute to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.unjustlyexposed.com/\">interactive documentary Daniel made in 2020 about the impact of COVID-19 on the prison system\u003c/a> (Young said he contracted the virus in 2020 and still suffers from long COVID symptoms). The two were starting to collaborate on another long-form documentary, this time about Young's case, when Daniel heard about the Georgetown class on a podcast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Daniel reached out to the professor there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And he [Howard] could clearly see that it was the kind of case that they really like to take on with the class,\" she said. \"Really, really tough cases — cases where there seemed like there was no hope.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cracking a tough case\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC Santa Cruz undergrad Allison Dean, part of the student team working on Young’s case, said she and her colleagues combed through more than 11,000 pages of legal documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The evidence in the case was horribly mismanaged,\" she said. \"There's just so many different small pieces that led to this wrongful conviction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917032\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917032 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young white woman in a black turtleneck sweater with long reddish hair smiles shoulder-to-shoulder with a young white man in a blue patterned button-down shirt, mustache and glasses, also smiling, with his right arm around her shoulders. They both look happy.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Santa Cruz undergrads Allison Dean and Sullivan Gaudreault. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fellow undergrad Sullivan Gaudreault said the team traveled to Tulare, where the crime was committed, and surrounding cities, to conduct interviews with as many people as they could find who were involved in the original investigation and trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We interviewed the judge who oversaw the case,\" Gaudreault said. \"We interviewed one of the lead investigators, people who knew Tim, his defense counsel.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team also created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.timothyjamesyoung.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/free-tim-young?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_32847146_en-US%3A7&recruiter=1259071583&recruited_by_id=dcaf1200-af78-11ec-8660-53abd4361a7d&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&share_bandit_exp=initial-32847146-en-US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">petition\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/freetimyoung/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social media campaign\u003c/a> to gather support for Young. Right now, they have more than 700 followers on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/freetimyoung/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram\u003c/a>. The immediate goal is to get pro bono legal representation for Young as he moves through an appeal process that could overturn his conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11904934,news_11916767,news_11882320 label='Related Stories']A legal firm is currently reviewing the students’ media campaign to decide whether to take on the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I talk to Tim almost every day,\" Dean said. \"And probably the hardest thing is when he calls and he asks for updates. And I have no updates for him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Georgetown-UC Santa Cruz class is part of a long tradition that dates back at least to the 1990s, of college students working to free wrongfully convicted prisoners — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/northwestern/spring99/convictions.htm\">a landmark program at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, and Legal Clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're always going to need heroic students,\" said Robert Dunham, executive director of the independent nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Death Penalty Information Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from the center shows just \u003ca href=\"https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence-database?state=California\">how tough it is to get someone exonerated\u003c/a>, especially in California and especially for someone on death row, where only five of the 692 people on death row have been exonerated since the early 1970s. (The state currently has a stay on executions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There aren't enough lawyers and enough resources and enough courts with open hearts to correct all of the injustices that we see,\" Dunham said. \"So there will always be a need for people on the outside to bring attention to things that are not being corrected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In it for the long haul\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Though the class is over, Dean and Gaudreault both said they plan to keep on fighting for Young’s freedom for as long as it takes. And their professors said they are planning for the bi-coastal collaboration to continue, with a crop of new cases next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaudreault said the class has inspired him to rethink his career path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917033 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two young white women with long, flat hair -- one wearing a yellow scarf holding back her hair -- sit behind a video camera in a neat, clean room with a drop ceiling and fluorescent overhead lights. The walls are pink-beige with nothing but a flatscreen TV on the walls. They are dressed casually and face a man who sits facing the camera. He is white and middle-aged, with thick, neat white-and-gray hair and a white goatee. He wears dark jeans and a blue button-down shirt tucked into his jeans, knees splayed, ankles crossed, fingers interlaced in his lap. A standing light lights him from the left. The woman on the left holds a notebook on her lap and a pen in her right hand. The woman on the right, with the yellow scarf, wears jean shorts and a T-shirt and has her legs crossed and arms folded.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students re-investigated Timothy James Young's case by traveling to Tulare and interviewing as many people as they could find who were involved in the original investigation and trial. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"For the longest time, I've been wanting to go into the marketing and advertising industry,\" he said. \"I now want to pursue a career in nonprofit work and advocacy in terms of film, helping wrongfully convicted people have a voice and tell their story through digital media.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Young said he’s grateful for the students’ friendship and support. He’s optimistic their efforts will not only get him legal help, but also raise greater awareness about the urgent need to overhaul the penal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have committed to the long, hard fight,\" said Young. \"That's not only a testament to the kind of people that they are, but it's a testament to the kind of relationships that we build.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young is dreaming of the day when he can visit the UC Santa Cruz campus and his Solitary Garden in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to just be in nature,\" he said. \"I want to feel the soil running through my fingers.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My journey to freedom didn't necessarily begin until I was introduced to Solitary Garden and the folks at UC Santa Cruz,\" said Young, who's been the curator of the garden since its inception on campus three years ago, thanks to a nationwide public art project protesting solitary confinement created by multidisciplinary artist and prison reform activist \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Sumell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jackie Sumell\u003c/a>. The campus community does the actual gardening on Young's behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917030 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56607_IMG-6838-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A 9-by-6-foot raised bed on a grassy hillside has in its center three-dimensional concrete shapes that resemble a bed, a toilet, and two low pillars. On the front side is a cell door, with what indoors would be floor-to-ceiling bars. Plantings surround the concrete shapes -- low green bushes and a succulent in one corner. Beyond the plot is another low grassy hillside, oak trees and, beyond that, in the distance, the ocean. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56607_IMG-6838-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56607_IMG-6838-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56607_IMG-6838-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56607_IMG-6838-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56607_IMG-6838-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Solitary Garden at UC Santa Cruz. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sumell put Young in touch with UC Santa Cruz after he reached out to her as an admirer of her work and they struck up a correspondence. Young said he has forged deep friendships as a result of with students and faculty on campus as a result of being involved with the project. The feeling is mutual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want everyone to understand that this is not a relationship you can just walk away from. As long as he's in that cell, we need to continue to tend to that relationship, just as we tend the garden,\" said Rachel Nelson, who commissioned the Solitary Garden in her role as director of \u003ca href=\"https://ias.ucsc.edu/\">UC Santa Cruz's Institute of the Arts and Sciences\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Journey through the system\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Young said it's been a long journey since the day of his arrest in April 1999. He said law enforcement officers pulled him over while he was leaving an Easter celebration in the San Joaquin Valley town of Lemoore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I look around and there's like assault rifles being pointed at me from every direction, and I'm just trying to figure out what the heck is going on,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrest happened four years after the crime Young eventually found out he was accused of committing — the murder of five people in a bar in the nearby town of Tulare — took place. Stuck in county jail, Young said he assumed the criminal legal system would work in his favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My initial thought was, 'Well, I'm an American. I have rights. Once we get to a preliminary hearing, this case will be dismissed,'\" Young said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 723px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917035 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56597_sdfqvw-qut.jpg\" alt='A Black man with brown eyes, chin-length locs and a graying goatee sits backward on a red plastic chair. He wears a light-blue short-sleeved prison tunic and navy blue sweatpants; on the right leg are yellow, vertical letters spelling \"SONER\" (as if they are part of the word \"PRISONER\"). He rests the fingertips of his hands, including his thumbs, together as he leans forward against the back of the chair, looking straight at the camera with a confident smile. To his right is a white-painted barred door; he appears to be inside a cell.' width=\"723\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56597_sdfqvw-qut.jpg 723w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56597_sdfqvw-qut-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timothy James Young. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Timothy James Young)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The case went to trial despite shaky evidence and unreliable witnesses, including Anthony Wolfe, a man convicted of a felony who served as a paid informant in return for a reduced sentence for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2005, an all-white jury convicted Young, who is Black, of murder. A month later, he was sentenced to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I sat thinking, 'The truth will come out. Just hang in there. This will all be exposed and it’ll all be over with,'\" Young said. \"The truth \u003ci>did\u003c/i> come out. But everybody discarded it. And so 23 years later, I'm still wrongfully imprisoned and the nightmare continues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A growing connection to students\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In recent months, a small group of film and digital media students at UC Santa Cruz has been working to make a case for exonerating Young.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/qoDy1jgVVxo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/qoDy1jgVVxo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Their eight-minute documentary, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoDy1jgVVxo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Am More: The Story of Tim Young\u003c/a>,\" is the centerpiece of a new collaboration with students mostly majoring in government at \u003ca href=\"https://www.georgetown.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Georgetown University\u003c/a>, as part of a class there called \"\u003ca href=\"https://prisonsandjustice.georgetown.edu/news/wrongful-convictions-making-an-exoneree-2022/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Making an Exoneree\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RcN6AAK/marc-howard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc Howard,\u003c/a> professor of government and law at Georgetown, said that since the class launched in 2018, it has contributed to the exonerations of three wrongfully convicted people out of the 25 cases it has tackled so far. He and his students typically take on five cases a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What started out as an experiment has actually turned into an extraordinary machine for justice,\" Howard said. \"We have another prison release in the coming weeks. We may have another one still this year. And we've made great progress in a number of cases where the person initially had very little hope and we've at least helped them to obtain legal counsel.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now with enhanced creative input from UC Santa Cruz on the filmmaking side for the first time this year, the schools joined forces to help get more people dealing with tough cases out of prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917031 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white, middled-aged woman with long, curly salt-and-pepper hair and large, black-framed glasses poses indoors in front of a framed photograph of a torn cardboard box set against a sunlit white wall. She is smiling and wears a black cardigan sweater over a dark gray T-shirt. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Santa Cruz Film and Digital Media professor Sharon Daniel. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Documentary works of art in particular have a lot of power to persuade, to change people's perceptions,\" said UC Santa Cruz film and digital media professor \u003ca href=\"https://film.ucsc.edu/faculty/sharon_daniel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sharon Daniel\u003c/a>, who co-teaches the class. \"It's a way of addressing a general public, an audience that maybe doesn't know anything about what's wrong with the criminal legal system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel said she approached Georgetown about Young's case after she developed her own close friendship with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She first got to know him from the letters he wrote as part of the Solitary Garden project. Young went on to contribute to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.unjustlyexposed.com/\">interactive documentary Daniel made in 2020 about the impact of COVID-19 on the prison system\u003c/a> (Young said he contracted the virus in 2020 and still suffers from long COVID symptoms). The two were starting to collaborate on another long-form documentary, this time about Young's case, when Daniel heard about the Georgetown class on a podcast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Daniel reached out to the professor there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And he [Howard] could clearly see that it was the kind of case that they really like to take on with the class,\" she said. \"Really, really tough cases — cases where there seemed like there was no hope.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cracking a tough case\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC Santa Cruz undergrad Allison Dean, part of the student team working on Young’s case, said she and her colleagues combed through more than 11,000 pages of legal documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The evidence in the case was horribly mismanaged,\" she said. \"There's just so many different small pieces that led to this wrongful conviction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917032\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917032 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young white woman in a black turtleneck sweater with long reddish hair smiles shoulder-to-shoulder with a young white man in a blue patterned button-down shirt, mustache and glasses, also smiling, with his right arm around her shoulders. They both look happy.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Santa Cruz undergrads Allison Dean and Sullivan Gaudreault. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fellow undergrad Sullivan Gaudreault said the team traveled to Tulare, where the crime was committed, and surrounding cities, to conduct interviews with as many people as they could find who were involved in the original investigation and trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We interviewed the judge who oversaw the case,\" Gaudreault said. \"We interviewed one of the lead investigators, people who knew Tim, his defense counsel.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team also created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.timothyjamesyoung.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/free-tim-young?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_32847146_en-US%3A7&recruiter=1259071583&recruited_by_id=dcaf1200-af78-11ec-8660-53abd4361a7d&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&share_bandit_exp=initial-32847146-en-US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">petition\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/freetimyoung/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social media campaign\u003c/a> to gather support for Young. Right now, they have more than 700 followers on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/freetimyoung/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram\u003c/a>. The immediate goal is to get pro bono legal representation for Young as he moves through an appeal process that could overturn his conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A legal firm is currently reviewing the students’ media campaign to decide whether to take on the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I talk to Tim almost every day,\" Dean said. \"And probably the hardest thing is when he calls and he asks for updates. And I have no updates for him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Georgetown-UC Santa Cruz class is part of a long tradition that dates back at least to the 1990s, of college students working to free wrongfully convicted prisoners — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/northwestern/spring99/convictions.htm\">a landmark program at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, and Legal Clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're always going to need heroic students,\" said Robert Dunham, executive director of the independent nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Death Penalty Information Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from the center shows just \u003ca href=\"https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence-database?state=California\">how tough it is to get someone exonerated\u003c/a>, especially in California and especially for someone on death row, where only five of the 692 people on death row have been exonerated since the early 1970s. (The state currently has a stay on executions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There aren't enough lawyers and enough resources and enough courts with open hearts to correct all of the injustices that we see,\" Dunham said. \"So there will always be a need for people on the outside to bring attention to things that are not being corrected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In it for the long haul\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Though the class is over, Dean and Gaudreault both said they plan to keep on fighting for Young’s freedom for as long as it takes. And their professors said they are planning for the bi-coastal collaboration to continue, with a crop of new cases next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaudreault said the class has inspired him to rethink his career path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917033 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two young white women with long, flat hair -- one wearing a yellow scarf holding back her hair -- sit behind a video camera in a neat, clean room with a drop ceiling and fluorescent overhead lights. The walls are pink-beige with nothing but a flatscreen TV on the walls. They are dressed casually and face a man who sits facing the camera. He is white and middle-aged, with thick, neat white-and-gray hair and a white goatee. He wears dark jeans and a blue button-down shirt tucked into his jeans, knees splayed, ankles crossed, fingers interlaced in his lap. A standing light lights him from the left. The woman on the left holds a notebook on her lap and a pen in her right hand. The woman on the right, with the yellow scarf, wears jean shorts and a T-shirt and has her legs crossed and arms folded.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students re-investigated Timothy James Young's case by traveling to Tulare and interviewing as many people as they could find who were involved in the original investigation and trial. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"For the longest time, I've been wanting to go into the marketing and advertising industry,\" he said. \"I now want to pursue a career in nonprofit work and advocacy in terms of film, helping wrongfully convicted people have a voice and tell their story through digital media.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Young said he’s grateful for the students’ friendship and support. He’s optimistic their efforts will not only get him legal help, but also raise greater awareness about the urgent need to overhaul the penal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have committed to the long, hard fight,\" said Young. \"That's not only a testament to the kind of people that they are, but it's a testament to the kind of relationships that we build.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young is dreaming of the day when he can visit the UC Santa Cruz campus and his Solitary Garden in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Just a month ago, picket lines surrounded the base of the UC Santa Cruz campus, the halls of buildings filled with chants like “My neck, my back, the UC is whack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The graduate student strike calling for a cost of living adjustment (COLA) started in Santa Cruz but quickly sparked solidarity actions at University of California campuses across the state, garnering \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/us/ucsc-strike.html\">national attention\u003c/a>. It was a wildcat strike, meaning not officially endorsed by the students’ union. Teaching assistants argued they weren’t earning enough to afford California’s pricey rents. The university said they should wait until their union contract expired to negotiate — and sent police armed with riot gear to confront them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with the coronavirus emptying campuses and rallies impractical due to social distancing, graduate students are figuring out how to take their movement online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of March, strikers launched \u003ca href=\"https://strikeuniversity.org\">Strike University\u003c/a>, a series of online classes for activists covering subjects like “Graphic Design for Social Justice” and “Rethinking the Benevolent University.” The teach-ins aim to promote “free and accessible” public education, along with “critical thinking and skills not bound to the imperatives of the market,” the Strike University website reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers are also holding epic Zoom calls in which hundreds of strikers across the state discuss strategy and tactics. [aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduate students had tried to gain leverage with the university by refusing to submit students’ grades, but that became harder during a pandemic, said Yulia Gilich, a cinema & digital media Ph.D. student at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because everything is digital now, we cannot physically withhold blue books and everyone has access,” they said. “If the faculty wants to do the extra labor, they can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 80 graduate students at UC San Diego who were withholding winter quarter grades recently voted to submit them, saying they didn’t want to cause undergraduates additional stress during a pandemic — though other campuses remain on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union that represents more than 19,000 UC graduate student workers, United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2865, reached agreement on two points with the university in March: Eighty-two graduate students fired from UC Santa Cruz in February for participating in the strike will have their health coverage reinstated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the fired students were told in their dismissal letter that they would not be considered for a spring appointment, UC Santa Cruz allowed them to apply if they submitted last quarter’s grades and agreed not to strike again unless the union authorizes it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the context of a global pandemic and mass joblessness, we felt it was crucial to do everything we could to preserve these jobs,” Kavitha Iyengar, the union’s president, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strikers, however, said that the agreement didn’t go far enough, as it didn’t ensure compensation for those who could no longer find spring appointments. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other things have changed, too. UC Santa Cruz had been spending heavily to police the picket line, where 17 students were arrested in February. Not anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilich and a dozen other UC Santa Cruz graduate students started their campaign nearly a year ago, after failed efforts to pass a rent control measure in the city of Santa Cruz and set up a safe overnight parking program for students living in their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was just a feeling of defeat with every campaign that we ended up working on that failed,” Gilich said. “Our situations continue to get more and more dire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC graduate students make $22,000 a year before taxes, on average, according to the university; the \u003ca href=\"https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=median%20rent%20santa%20cruz,%20california&hidePreview=false&tid=ACSDT1Y2018.B25064&vintage=2018&layer=county&cid=DP04_0001E&g=0500000US06065&y=2018\">average monthly rent\u003c/a> in Santa Cruz County is $1,685.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since coming to UC Santa Cruz from Russia four years ago, Gilich says they have consistently spent more than half of their paycheck on rent each month, though they live with multiple housemates. Because Gilich is in the United States on an international student visa, they can’t legally pick up additional jobs beyond their teaching appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like research,” Gilich said. “UCSC was my first choice for my Ph.D. I like teaching. I really enjoy the work that I do. But I can’t live here and do it on the salary I’m being paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11812659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11812659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1284\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut-1020x682.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster supporting graduate student workers seeking higher wages is seen from a window near UC Berkeley campus on March 15, 2020. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the COLA campaign began refusing to submit grades in December, \u003ca href=\"https://payusmoreucsc.com/grade-request-flowchart/\">except in certain cases\u003c/a>, then stopped teaching and research in February. The strike was unsanctioned by their union because it came in the middle of a contract with a no-strike clause. But strikers’ demand for a $1,412 per month pay increase to cover the rising cost of living resonated with other UC graduate students. Some teaching assistants at UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine are now also on full strike, withholding all labor. Others at UC Davis and UC Berkeley are withholding grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COLA movement harnessed graduate students’ structural power, said Veena Dubal, an associate professor of law at UC Hastings with expertise in labor law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Graduate students carry much of the teaching load across the campuses, and yet, their work to this end is often seen as peripheral to their role as academic apprentices,” Dubal said in an email. “The labor is central — not just to them but also to the universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UAW 2865 has also taken up the cause, filing two unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board after the graduate student firings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC has declined to bargain with the union over a cost of living adjustment, though UC Santa Cruz now offers graduate students a $2,500 need-based housing grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Striking while a collective bargaining agreement is in place undermines the collective bargaining process and erodes the ability of UC and its unions to enter into good-faith labor agreements,” the university said \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/graduate-student-protests\">in an online statement\u003c/a>. “This strike also hurts our undergraduates by disrupting their educational activities and preventing them from advancing to the next course level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the coronavirus pandemic, graduate student life was stressful. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/_files/survey-documents-graduate/graduate_well_being_survey_report.pdf\">UC Graduate Well-Being Survey\u003c/a> from 2017 found that over one-third of respondents reported symptoms indicating clinical depression. Two-thirds said they worried about money, with those who were confident about their finances more likely to be on track to complete their programs. [aside tag=\"graduate-student-strike\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic has exacerbated that stress, as campuses finish the academic year remotely and living conditions become working conditions. Graduate students say they are taking on additional work to help professors move classes online, while their educational and research experience has been upended by campus closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Merced, teaching assistants have been helping science and math professors convert their courses into “flipped” classes, in which prerecorded lectures are given to students as homework and lecture time is used for students to split up into small groups facilitated by TAs, said Anh Diep, a graduate student and union representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re becoming curriculum developers on top of being teaching assistants,” Diep said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diep added that those who left campus to live with their families now help run households, especially first-generation college students and those from immigrant backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those students are caretakers — they’re helpers with siblings’ homework, elderly parents, relatives’ children, and they now have to do their homework and job while helping out the family,” they said. “I’ve seen [for those students] that the moment you come home, you become the point person to disseminate information to your family. You carry the mental burden of keeping up with the news, especially in this global pandemic, and needing to understand it and explain it to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COLA organizers are trying to build bridges with undergraduates also affected by the pandemic. Some undergraduates have attended past COLA rallies, but others have expressed concerns about the movement affecting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/faoh6o/the_cola_campaigns_response_to_the_cse102_midterm/fizkbp0/\">undergraduate allies\u003c/a> of the UC Santa Cruz COLA organizers \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/faoh6o/the_cola_campaigns_response_to_the_cse102_midterm/fizkbp0/\">disrupted\u003c/a> a computer science midterm in late February, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/faj0nd/disrupting_a_midterm_is_absolutely_crossing_the/\">drew the ire\u003c/a> of several students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just appears to me that you’re having a [expletive] party complete with a live band every day on the lawn at the base of campus whilst I’m beating my brain against the wall through sleepless night after sleepless night to get a [expletive] undergrad degree at age 40, which feels humiliating enough when all my classmates are 20 years younger than me,” one commenter \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/faj0nd/disrupting_a_midterm_is_absolutely_crossing_the/fizm44r/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf\">wrote on Reddit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A subreddit dedicated to \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/ucscstac/\">UC Santa Cruz students against COLA\u003c/a> is filled with stories detailing students’ frustration with the protests’ effect on classes and research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To strengthen ties with undergraduates, some graduate students at UC Irvine decided to hold a “social welfare” strike: Instead of teaching or grading, they’re compiling \u003ca href=\"https://uci4cola.com/?page_id=28\">resource lists\u003c/a> for students who need help with food, housing, child care or immigration cases. And they’re setting up mutual aid networks to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRM2CrWuhqDRrmqPxjkDbjo6ukeKuG_JIwpMLWffYU9eSLFw/viewform\">connect\u003c/a> those who need support to those who can provide it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The COLA campaign is […] a matter of public health, as people living in cramped or inadequate housing conditions due to low wages and high rent costs do not have the privilege of implementing ‘social distancing,’ ” reads a press release from the UC Irvine strikers. “Many students are living paycheck to paycheck and cannot afford rent, medicine or even food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the movement has become less visible in the wake of the pandemic, UAW plans to hold a vote this month on whether to authorize an official statewide strike linked to the unfair labor practice charges. (Two-thirds of members would have to sign off.) Union officials say they’ll ask UC to bargain over a cost of living adjustment that varies by campus depending on rents in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not they succeed, Gilich said the COLA movement has already drawn attention to structural barriers to higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are not independently wealthy or willing to go into debt to go to grad school, you cannot survive here,” Gilich said. “A fight for COLA is a fight for the future of higher education and who will have access to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Janelle Salanga is a fellow with CalMatters’ \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/corona-on-campus/\">College Journalism Network\u003c/a>, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists across California. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other things have changed, too. UC Santa Cruz had been spending heavily to police the picket line, where 17 students were arrested in February. Not anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilich and a dozen other UC Santa Cruz graduate students started their campaign nearly a year ago, after failed efforts to pass a rent control measure in the city of Santa Cruz and set up a safe overnight parking program for students living in their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was just a feeling of defeat with every campaign that we ended up working on that failed,” Gilich said. “Our situations continue to get more and more dire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC graduate students make $22,000 a year before taxes, on average, according to the university; the \u003ca href=\"https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=median%20rent%20santa%20cruz,%20california&hidePreview=false&tid=ACSDT1Y2018.B25064&vintage=2018&layer=county&cid=DP04_0001E&g=0500000US06065&y=2018\">average monthly rent\u003c/a> in Santa Cruz County is $1,685.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since coming to UC Santa Cruz from Russia four years ago, Gilich says they have consistently spent more than half of their paycheck on rent each month, though they live with multiple housemates. Because Gilich is in the United States on an international student visa, they can’t legally pick up additional jobs beyond their teaching appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like research,” Gilich said. “UCSC was my first choice for my Ph.D. I like teaching. I really enjoy the work that I do. But I can’t live here and do it on the salary I’m being paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11812659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11812659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1284\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42792_COLA-STRIKE-photo-2-qut-1020x682.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster supporting graduate student workers seeking higher wages is seen from a window near UC Berkeley campus on March 15, 2020. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the COLA campaign began refusing to submit grades in December, \u003ca href=\"https://payusmoreucsc.com/grade-request-flowchart/\">except in certain cases\u003c/a>, then stopped teaching and research in February. The strike was unsanctioned by their union because it came in the middle of a contract with a no-strike clause. But strikers’ demand for a $1,412 per month pay increase to cover the rising cost of living resonated with other UC graduate students. Some teaching assistants at UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine are now also on full strike, withholding all labor. Others at UC Davis and UC Berkeley are withholding grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COLA movement harnessed graduate students’ structural power, said Veena Dubal, an associate professor of law at UC Hastings with expertise in labor law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Graduate students carry much of the teaching load across the campuses, and yet, their work to this end is often seen as peripheral to their role as academic apprentices,” Dubal said in an email. “The labor is central — not just to them but also to the universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UAW 2865 has also taken up the cause, filing two unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board after the graduate student firings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC has declined to bargain with the union over a cost of living adjustment, though UC Santa Cruz now offers graduate students a $2,500 need-based housing grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Striking while a collective bargaining agreement is in place undermines the collective bargaining process and erodes the ability of UC and its unions to enter into good-faith labor agreements,” the university said \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/graduate-student-protests\">in an online statement\u003c/a>. “This strike also hurts our undergraduates by disrupting their educational activities and preventing them from advancing to the next course level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the coronavirus pandemic, graduate student life was stressful. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/_files/survey-documents-graduate/graduate_well_being_survey_report.pdf\">UC Graduate Well-Being Survey\u003c/a> from 2017 found that over one-third of respondents reported symptoms indicating clinical depression. Two-thirds said they worried about money, with those who were confident about their finances more likely to be on track to complete their programs. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic has exacerbated that stress, as campuses finish the academic year remotely and living conditions become working conditions. Graduate students say they are taking on additional work to help professors move classes online, while their educational and research experience has been upended by campus closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Merced, teaching assistants have been helping science and math professors convert their courses into “flipped” classes, in which prerecorded lectures are given to students as homework and lecture time is used for students to split up into small groups facilitated by TAs, said Anh Diep, a graduate student and union representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re becoming curriculum developers on top of being teaching assistants,” Diep said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diep added that those who left campus to live with their families now help run households, especially first-generation college students and those from immigrant backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those students are caretakers — they’re helpers with siblings’ homework, elderly parents, relatives’ children, and they now have to do their homework and job while helping out the family,” they said. “I’ve seen [for those students] that the moment you come home, you become the point person to disseminate information to your family. You carry the mental burden of keeping up with the news, especially in this global pandemic, and needing to understand it and explain it to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COLA organizers are trying to build bridges with undergraduates also affected by the pandemic. Some undergraduates have attended past COLA rallies, but others have expressed concerns about the movement affecting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/faoh6o/the_cola_campaigns_response_to_the_cse102_midterm/fizkbp0/\">undergraduate allies\u003c/a> of the UC Santa Cruz COLA organizers \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/faoh6o/the_cola_campaigns_response_to_the_cse102_midterm/fizkbp0/\">disrupted\u003c/a> a computer science midterm in late February, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/faj0nd/disrupting_a_midterm_is_absolutely_crossing_the/\">drew the ire\u003c/a> of several students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just appears to me that you’re having a [expletive] party complete with a live band every day on the lawn at the base of campus whilst I’m beating my brain against the wall through sleepless night after sleepless night to get a [expletive] undergrad degree at age 40, which feels humiliating enough when all my classmates are 20 years younger than me,” one commenter \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/faj0nd/disrupting_a_midterm_is_absolutely_crossing_the/fizm44r/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf\">wrote on Reddit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A subreddit dedicated to \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/ucscstac/\">UC Santa Cruz students against COLA\u003c/a> is filled with stories detailing students’ frustration with the protests’ effect on classes and research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To strengthen ties with undergraduates, some graduate students at UC Irvine decided to hold a “social welfare” strike: Instead of teaching or grading, they’re compiling \u003ca href=\"https://uci4cola.com/?page_id=28\">resource lists\u003c/a> for students who need help with food, housing, child care or immigration cases. And they’re setting up mutual aid networks to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRM2CrWuhqDRrmqPxjkDbjo6ukeKuG_JIwpMLWffYU9eSLFw/viewform\">connect\u003c/a> those who need support to those who can provide it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The COLA campaign is […] a matter of public health, as people living in cramped or inadequate housing conditions due to low wages and high rent costs do not have the privilege of implementing ‘social distancing,’ ” reads a press release from the UC Irvine strikers. “Many students are living paycheck to paycheck and cannot afford rent, medicine or even food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the movement has become less visible in the wake of the pandemic, UAW plans to hold a vote this month on whether to authorize an official statewide strike linked to the unfair labor practice charges. (Two-thirds of members would have to sign off.) Union officials say they’ll ask UC to bargain over a cost of living adjustment that varies by campus depending on rents in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not they succeed, Gilich said the COLA movement has already drawn attention to structural barriers to higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are not independently wealthy or willing to go into debt to go to grad school, you cannot survive here,” Gilich said. “A fight for COLA is a fight for the future of higher education and who will have access to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Janelle Salanga is a fellow with CalMatters’ \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/corona-on-campus/\">College Journalism Network\u003c/a>, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists across California. This story and other higher education coverage are supported by the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Students across the University of California system are demanding the reinstatement of UC Santa Cruz graduate students who were fired last week after withholding grades as part of a campaign to demand better wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, hundreds of students gathered at UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza to rally support for staging a strike of their own, while students at the other UC campuses held picket lines and rallies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cops off campus! COLA in my bank account!” students chanted, referring to cost of living adjustments, as they listened to speeches by UC Berkeley student-workers and visiting students from UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduate students at the departments of African American studies, ethnic studies and anthropology have declared themselves strike-ready. Once at least 10 departments across the UC Berkeley campus have signed on as strike-ready, many graduate students say they will meet to determine the next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early February, UC Santa Cruz students launched a wildcat strike, so-called because the union representing graduate student-workers across the many campuses has not yet voted to officially authorize a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 54 of the striking students were terminated on Feb. 28, representatives of their union said it had \u003ca href=\"http://uaw2865.org/uc-student-worker-union-files-unfair-labor-practice-charge-against-the-university/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed an unfair labor practice charge against the University of California\u003c/a>. The union has also asked university officials to reopen negotiations on the contract, something the administration has previously said it would not do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bargaining team of UAW 2865, representing over 19,000 academic workers in the UC system, said in a March 3 statement that the union will hold an “Unfair Labor Practice Strike Authorization Vote” in early April. This could lead to a broader UC-wide strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jonathan Moore, a second-year doctoral student in the department of African American Studies, and many other students, it’s about the broader education system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The students at Santa Cruz have envisioned a long-haul transformation of the UC system that starts with ensuring that all graduate students are provided adequate wages to survive and to thrive in the absolutely appalling housing markets that so many UC’s are located in,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It means a lot to me that graduate students in my department took it upon themselves to push the envelope here at Berkeley and respond to the demands of the students at Santa Cruz,” Moore said. “It is in alignment with our department’s history of demanding that the institution be held accountable, but also imagining beyond the confines of the university.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11805498\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11805498 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41900_Lauren_Zane-qut-e1583450062479.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41900_Lauren_Zane-qut-e1583450062479.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41900_Lauren_Zane-qut-e1583450062479-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41900_Lauren_Zane-qut-e1583450062479-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41900_Lauren_Zane-qut-e1583450062479-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41900_Lauren_Zane-qut-e1583450062479-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41900_Lauren_Zane-qut-e1583450062479-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41900_Lauren_Zane-qut-e1583450062479-687x916.jpg 687w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41900_Lauren_Zane-qut-e1583450062479-414x552.jpg 414w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41900_Lauren_Zane-qut-e1583450062479-354x472.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren Zane, a third-year undergraduate student came out to support graduate student instructors. \u003ccite>(Lakshmi Sarah/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lucy Gill, a Ph.D. candidate in the department of anthropology, addressed the audience, saying, “The UC administration is in fact directly complicit in the exorbitant rent and gentrification within and beyond the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Castillo, an international student and fellow Ph.D. candidate in the department of anthropology, also addressed the crowd. She said she is ready to go on strike, but reminded attendees of the reason for the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are standing here in solidarity with our colleagues at UC Santa Cruz, whose contracts on spring appointments were terminated by the UC,” Castillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"graduate-student-strike\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lauren Zane, a third-year undergraduate student in the department of integrated biology and molecular and cell biology held a sign reading “My GSIs [Graduate Student Instructor] deserve a livable wage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important because many undergraduate classes are large, as Zane said, and without graduate student instructors “we wouldn’t be able to learn as well as we do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zane has had graduate students who go above and beyond for students — planning field trips, offering additional office hours. “It’s not fair that they don’t have a livable wage,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said he could not give an estimate of how many graduate students didn’t come to work on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11805496\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11805496\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Sign1-RS41886_IMG_2121-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='\"We think it works on multiple levels,\" said Virginia Georgallas (center). She and Haden Smiley (left) are both graduate students in the music department.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Sign1-RS41886_IMG_2121-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Sign1-RS41886_IMG_2121-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Sign1-RS41886_IMG_2121-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Sign1-RS41886_IMG_2121-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Sign1-RS41886_IMG_2121-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Sign1-RS41886_IMG_2121-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Sign1-RS41886_IMG_2121-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Sign1-RS41886_IMG_2121-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Sign1-RS41886_IMG_2121-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“We think it works on multiple levels,” said Virginia Georgallas (center). She and Haden Smiley (left) are both graduate students in the music department. \u003ccite>(Lakshmi Sarah/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Haden Smiley and Virginia Georgallas, both graduate students in the music department came and held signs, but their department is still in discussion on whether to declare themselves strike-ready. Many graduate students in the music department are on F-1 (student) visas, which makes it further complicated to take collective action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students from neighboring Mills College joined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though we’re not part of the UC system, we came out for solidarity,” said Lee Jue, a Mills College student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/neoliteralism/status/1235699412120162306?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at several other UC campuses reportedly canceled or walked out of classes for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Parrish, a Ph.D. student in history of consciousness at UC Santa Cruz and organizer with \u003ca href=\"https://payusmoreucsc.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pay Us More UCSC\u003c/a>, said 600 people attended the rally at UCLA, while the crowd was 1,000 strong at UC Berkeley, and 2,000 at UC Santa Barbara. According to Parrish, about 500 people participated in Thursday’s campus shutdown at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/kv_swartz/status/1235665164470386688?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Students across the University of California system are demanding the reinstatement of UC Santa Cruz graduate students who were fired last week after withholding grades as part of a campaign to demand better wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, hundreds of students gathered at UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza to rally support for staging a strike of their own, while students at the other UC campuses held picket lines and rallies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cops off campus! COLA in my bank account!” students chanted, referring to cost of living adjustments, as they listened to speeches by UC Berkeley student-workers and visiting students from UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduate students at the departments of African American studies, ethnic studies and anthropology have declared themselves strike-ready. Once at least 10 departments across the UC Berkeley campus have signed on as strike-ready, many graduate students say they will meet to determine the next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early February, UC Santa Cruz students launched a wildcat strike, so-called because the union representing graduate student-workers across the many campuses has not yet voted to officially authorize a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 54 of the striking students were terminated on Feb. 28, representatives of their union said it had \u003ca href=\"http://uaw2865.org/uc-student-worker-union-files-unfair-labor-practice-charge-against-the-university/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed an unfair labor practice charge against the University of California\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 7:50 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight for better wages for graduate students is gaining momentum across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, students at several University of California campuses rallied to warn administrators from retaliating against striking students at UC Santa Cruz and to demand cost of living increases at their respective campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduate student leaders at UC Berkeley said they’re seriously considering a strike of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a rally of a couple hundred people at Sproul Plaza, students read aloud a letter to administration officials demanding their own cost of living adjustment, or COLA, of $2,103 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802991\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11802991\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/053_KQED_UCBerkeleyProtest_02212020_9194-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Students rally at Sproul Plaza on UC Berkeley campus in support of striking UC Santa Cruz graduate students and to demand their own cost of living adjustment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/053_KQED_UCBerkeleyProtest_02212020_9194-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/053_KQED_UCBerkeleyProtest_02212020_9194-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/053_KQED_UCBerkeleyProtest_02212020_9194-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/053_KQED_UCBerkeleyProtest_02212020_9194.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students rally at Sproul Plaza on UC Berkeley campus in support of striking UC Santa Cruz graduate students and to demand their own cost of living adjustment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chemical engineering Ph.D. student Adrian Davey held a sign that said, “Fuck U Pay Me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think protest needs to be radical,” he said. “I think this [sign] very radically says what we want, very directly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students raised the high cost of housing as a primary reason for demanding a wage adjustment on top of the 3% annual wage increase that’s in the current contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that the housing burden across California is crazy,” Davey said. “As graduate students, as lecturers, we’re literally running this institution. It’s absolutely ridiculous that we’re not being provided and subsidized with the amount of wage that we’re owed to even dwell here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about an hour, students left Sproul Plaza and made their way to a nearby campus dining hall, where a group led primarily by undergraduate students staged a takeover. Calling it a “peaceful occupation,” students took and distributed food for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This action is in solidarity with the students of UC Santa Cruz who were able to effectively shut down a dining commons and feed their students for a day,” said Alecia Harger, an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. “We are saying that today the food is free because we as students pay for this food and graduate students are not paid enough to eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/monicazlam/status/1230989423665238017\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson with Student Affairs Communications, Adam Ratliff, said the action was unanticipated. “Some protesters may have entered the dining premises during their protest without properly paying upon entry and taken food,” he said in an email. “We are still looking into the matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current push for a cost of living adjustment began in December, when UC Santa Cruz graduate students withheld grades for classes they were teaching in a bid for higher wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, students launched the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802241/uc-santa-cruz-graduate-student-labor-strike-stretches-into-second-week\">current “wildcat” strike\u003c/a>, so called because it’s not sanctioned by the statewide union that represents graduate students. Students refused to teach, hold office hours or conduct research, and their supporters began picketing on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 12, police \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801554/striking-uc-santa-cruz-graduate-students-hold-picket-lines-after-police-arrest-17\">arrested 17 demonstrators\u003c/a> for obstructing a roadway. Students and faculty decried the use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days later, UC President Janet Napolitano issued a \u003ca href=\"https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/02/letter-president-unsanctioned-strike.html\">statement\u003c/a> that “participation in the wildcat strike will have consequences, up to and including the termination of existing employment at the University.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders responded in a tweet that UC officials should stop threatening students, especially immigrant students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1230288311006134274\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, UC Santa Cruz administrators doubled down and sent notices that students who don’t turn in grades by midnight Friday would not be able to work next quarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement has only grown, however, said Tara Phillips, a comparative literature Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are excited,” she said. “They’re motivated … my sense is if people get fired at UCSC, that’s just going to fire people up here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11802972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41474_006_KQED_UCBerkeleyProtest_02212020_9097-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"UC Berkeley PhD student Tara Phillips read aloud a demand letter to university administrators during a rally at Sproul Plaza on Feb. 21, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41474_006_KQED_UCBerkeleyProtest_02212020_9097-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41474_006_KQED_UCBerkeleyProtest_02212020_9097-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41474_006_KQED_UCBerkeleyProtest_02212020_9097-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41474_006_KQED_UCBerkeleyProtest_02212020_9097-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley Ph.D. student Tara Phillips read aloud a demand letter to university administrators during a rally at Sproul Plaza on Feb. 21, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Phillips attended an open forum Thursday hosted by student representatives on the UC Board of Regents, the governing body of the UC. Students expressed concern about the police presence in Santa Cruz and the future of international graduate students, whose visa status would be at threatened if they lose their positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions ran high at some points as students asked repeatedly for student Regent Hayley Weddle, and her co-designee, Jamaal Muwwakkil, to make a public statement denouncing police presence and supporting the COLA demands. Weddle and Muwwakkil said they would consider it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More coverage\" tag=\"graduate-student-strike\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Phillips said Berkeley students of all disciplines are feeling the burden of earning so little in a place where costs are high. She said it’s been socially isolating and stressful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to move out of my apartment in the summer and sublet in order to survive,” she said. “I am constantly counting pennies to figure out how to make it to the end of the month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike has received national media attention, and a GoFundMe for the Santa Cruz students raised more than $90,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips said that among the 100 Berkeley students her group surveyed, 83% said they were willing to go on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If university administrators fail to respond formally to their demand letter by March 6, Phillips and other student leaders say they are prepared to launch their own strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>UC Santa Cruz graduate students who work as teaching assistants continued their strike Friday, picketing at the entrance to campus for a fifth day in a demand for higher wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguing they do not make enough to be able to afford the steep cost of living in Santa Cruz, students have refused to teach, hold office hours or conduct research, and have since December, withheld grades for the classes they teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, campus police, aided by other law enforcement agencies, forcibly arrested 17 demonstrators who officers said blocked an intersection near campus and ignored multiple orders to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/bayareabrrn/status/1228108519888441345\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we are having effects,” said James Sirigotis, a graduate student in the sociology department. “The university continued to say that they could not meet with us, [but] they’ve had two meetings with us since we went on strike. Every time they say they can’t do something, we continue to stand strong, and they end up doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The labor action, which started Monday, is a so-called wildcat strike, which means it’s not endorsed by the union that represents the students: \u003ca href=\"http://uaw2865.org/about-our-union/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UAW Local 2865\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801832\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/pjimage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/pjimage.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/pjimage-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/pjimage-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/pjimage-1020x574.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Sirigotis, a teaching assistant and Ph.D. candidate in sociology at UC Santa Cruz, was among 17 demonstrators who were arrested on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of James Sirigotis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Tense Standoff\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sirigotis was among the students who sat, linking arms, in an intersection in front of the main campus entrance on Wednesday, before police removed them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirigotis said he was sitting in a small circle with other students when police surrounded them and began using pain compliance techniques, such as pushing on pressure points on their necks and ears. When students continued to refuse to disperse, police individually dragged them away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At one point an officer grabbed me by the back of the head, grabbed me by my hair and threw me face first onto the street,” he said. “At that point I felt something very very hard on the back of my head … basically rubbing my face into the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recalled screaming, “You’re hurting me, why are you doing this? Please stop,” until his face was pushed into the ground so he couldn’t scream anymore, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More demonstrators poured into the intersection and took the places of those being arrested in the tense standoff, \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2020/02/12/at-least-17-arrests-as-ucsc-students-stand-off-against-police/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/robsorio/status/1227836241124573184\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a big push from protesters to let them go,” said Stephen Yogi, an undergraduate student studying history, who watched the scene unfold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirigoti said he and the other demonstrators were put in an Alameda County law enforcement van and taken to a processing station at an offsite university property near Natural Bridges State Beach. The students were processed and given an immediate two-week suspension from campus property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their charges include unlawful assembly, obstructing a public roadway and disobeying a lawful order, according to UCSC spokesman Scott Hernandez-Jason. All but one was cited and released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Hernandez-Jason defended the police response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officers repeatedly tried to deescalate the situation and made clear that blocking this major roadway had to stop or it would lead to arrest,” he said. “Demonstrators locked arms, sat in the roadway, and refused to move back onto the university field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"James Sirigotis, a teaching assistant and Ph.D. candidate in sociology\"]‘It’s never a problem of not having money, it’s a problem of how that money is being spent.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During major disruptions like this, Hernandez-Jason said, campus police call on other law enforcement agencies to provide additional support, and don’t know the cost until after after the action has concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UCSC’s police officers have a critical role in ensuring safety and security to all on campus. They protect everyone’s ability to exercise the constitutionally protected rights of free expression, speech and assembly,” he said. “These rights do not extend, however, to disrupting regular and essential operations of the university by occupying offices, blocking roads or infringing on the rights of others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his release, Sirigotis tried to get medical care for the swelling and cuts on his face, but the suspension prevented him from going to his primary care doctor at the on-campus health center. Instead, he went to urgent care, where a doctor dressed his wounds and confirmed he suffered blunt-force trauma and might have a slight concussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university is choosing to spend a tremendous amount of money on police intimidation, police violence, police brutality, against peaceful unarmed students,” said Sirigotis, who also has a 2-inch bald patch on the back of his head where police yanked his hair out. “I think it’s a huge indication of the amount of resources at the UC and that it’s never a problem of not having money, it’s a problem of how that money is being spent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One student also sustained a gash to his face and another student sustained a broken finger, according to a press release from the striking students. “The size and brutality of the police response has been stark,” the release said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/cityonahill/status/1227737905717637120\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez-Jason, though, said many claims of injury have been greatly exaggerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are aware of many unsubstantiated rumors being spread on social media,” he said. “Anyone who has a complaint about police conduct can submit a\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/AFTRC829m0ujJJ1MunSRxz?domain=police.ucsc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> report online\u003c/a> and the department will review following standard procedures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Gould, an associate professor of sociology, works with Sirigotis and watched his clash with police on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a very menacing police presence and I think it really escalated the situation unnecessarily, and people got hurt,” said Gould, who joined students on the picket line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The faculty here realize that this university can not function without the labor of our graduate students, and they need to be paid a living wage for the job they do,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘This Is a Crisis Situation’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>UCSC graduate students started their grading strike in December, refusing to submit fall quarter grades until they receive a $1,400 monthly raise. Teaching assistants, who usually work 20 hours a week, makes an average of $2,400 a month. In contrast, an average one-bedroom apartment in Santa Cruz rents for $2,600 per month, according to RENTCafé.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"uc-santa-cruz\" label=\"related coverage\"]“The strike is raising really important and fundamental issues in relationship to graduate student economic justice and housing justice in Santa Cruz, one of the most expensive cities to live in in the country,” said T.J. Demos, an art history professor at the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university does, however, waive tuition for grad students who work as teaching assistants, and provides benefits like health insurance and reimbursement for child care expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be out of rent burden,” said Veronica Hamilton, a teaching assistant who is pursuing her Ph.D. in social psychology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamilton said she received a disciplinary warning letter from the university last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many people who are ready to drop out of graduate school because they can’t afford it,” she said. “This is a crisis situation. 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