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ALT 3 STUDENTS AND ALUMNI FROM UCLA AND UCI WERE ARRESTED YESTERDAY ON UCLA'S CAMPUS AT AROUND 2 AM. WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN LITTLE TO NO INFORMATION ON THEIR RELEASE. With repression at its highest and our university operating more as a grounds for military dictatorship than a campus, now is not the time to stand down. At the behest of our administration's authoritarian rules, UCPD's main role is to maintain the uc's investments in the occupation and genocide of Palestine and to arrest and terrorize students. The arrest of 3 community members on our campus, the same day the UC regents approved the military sale of drones, "less-lethal" munition, and grenade launchers, demonstrates the extent of tyrannical fear and surveillance with which they make their decisions. On this 384th day of genocide, as the zionist entity's terror expands further into Lebanon and the West Bank, this is a reminder that this colonial, genocidal empire is expanding, at home too- on our campuses. This is not an anomaly.
ALT Request For Category 1 - Unmanned, Remotely Piloted, Powered Aerial or Ground Vehicles • UCB is requesting to purchase a 2nd hazardous devices robot to update its current technology • UCB, UCLA, UCSC, & UCSF, are requesting to purchase drones. UCSC requested & was approved to purchase drones during the 2023-24 year & did not purchase. Request For Category 11 - Noise-Flash Diversionary Devices & Explosive Breaching Tools • UCB is requesting to purchase a Kinetic Breaching Tool to aid in the event of a barricaded subject or unresponsive individual due to a medical issue. Requests For Category 14 - Kinetic Energy Weapons & Munitions • UCLA is requesting to purchase (4) FN Herstal 303 launchers, (4) Pepper Ball VK-SBL, (3,000) FTC Pava Capsaicin Rounds, (100) Rounds of Def-Tec 40mm munitions (Model #6320) & (300) rounds of Def-Tec 40mm munitions (Model #6325). • UCM is requesting to purchase (5) Def-Tec 40mm launchers & (100) Rounds of Model #6324 eXact iMpact 40mm Sponge Round munitions.
ALT WHAT WANTE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA WORKERS DEMAND CONTINUE THE STRIKE BY OTHER MEANS On June 7, the Orange County Superior Court issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against UAW 4811 at the request of the University of California Board of Regents. In effect, the court has ordered workers not to strike and has prohibited labor withholding and picketing activities until June 27. This court decision circumvents the statewide ruling of California's Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), which has twice struck down the UC's attempts to declare our strike unlawful. As UCLA Law HA BY professor and labor law expert Noah Zatz has argued, the California State Legislature passed a law, the Little Norris-LaGuardia Act (California Labor Code 1138.1), to specifically limit orders like the one Orange County Superior Court Judge Randall J. Sherman granted to the UC.
ALT To OUR COLLEAGUES IN UAW 4811 To be clear, the TRO cannot and does not determine whether our strike is legal-only PERB can do that. We must not be cowed in this critical moment. To back down now is to concede to the UC Regents' vicious repression of our protests now and in the future, whether over unfair labor practices or the UC's complicity in genocide. While the ruling from Orange County is neither legally legitimate nor morally acceptable, it enables the UC to increase its retaliation against our most vulnerable members and thus necessitates that we reevaluate our tactics. By continuing the strike through working to rule, we can slow our labor to a near-standstill and prevent the UC from accessing the product of our labor they most want: student grades. We owe it to our colleagues and students in on-campus organizations such as Students for H Justice in Palestine and UC Divest, who have been leading mobilizations in solidarity with Palestine. GO