Hundreds of police officers from departments all over the state, from Eureka to San Franciso to Watsonville, faced off against pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the base of UC Santa Cruz early Friday morning and into the afternoon.
Though a Tuesday deal for University of California academic researchers and postdoctoral scholars marks progress on the bargaining front, undergraduates and professors alike still feel the weight of the largest academic worker action in history as UC Santa Cruz heads into final exam season.
Fighting the Far Right in the Biden Era: Discussion on Sunday, Jan. 24
The event will be on Sunday, January 24th at 2:00 pm ET/ 11 am PT.
More information, including a list of speakers, from the Tempest website:
The events on January 6 made the threat of a growing far right painfully clear. Compared with responses to the historic Black Lives Matter protests last summer, they also exposed the abject racism of U.S. policing and the sympathy of many officers for white supremacy. Some will take comfort in the humiliation of Trump and the ascension to power of the Biden administration. But will he and his establishment “grown-ups” even try to sweep up the mess that bullhorn racism and forty years of carceral neoliberalism have created?