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There was a midnight raid on the UCSC Palestine encampment. A lot of arrests. From what I’ve heard though, there’s still people in the encampment holding on. Unsure of the details at moment.

Three more UC campuses are going on strike next week. The Palestinian activists are inspiring. Some of the encampments elsewhere have settled for promises of meetings in the future, which has been noticed and refuted by people on the ground. There’s already been meetings between reps and admin staff where those kinds of offers have been refused. While the Union has had made a colossal fuck up that I can’t mention here for opsec reasons, there’s so much good stuff happening. I’m proud to do my part, however small.

I believe he’s still taking his military salary. He’s just not double dipping.

UC Strike update. This week grad students at UC Santa Cruz started striking. As this is organized as a standup strike, campuses are getting called in over time. There was some concern about high leadership excessively slow-rolling it, but they announced that UCLA and UC Davis are going to start striking on Tuesday, as Monday is a holiday.

The UC admin filed an injunction to PERB, the Public Employee Relations Board, which is the regulatory body for our union, saying the strike was illegal and should be shut down. This goes with their letter full of lies claiming the same. This injunction however was denied! Despite their repeated claims, the strike is absolutely not legal, and they can't use the regulatory body to stop it.

I'm ready to see what's happening next week. While I won't full dox myself, I will be striking next week, which I am so ready for. There's a lot of people trying to push this to something meaningful.

They're probably trying to make it as cheap as possible, and thus, extra shitty.

It'd be incredibly hard to pull this stuff in Taiwan, simply due to the logistics required. Getting weapons and aid to Ukraine to prop it up is simple compared to the nightmare that getting it to Taiwan in a war would be.

Some great interviews by Brace in the latest True Anon episode. Such a fucked up situation in the Philippines, and such good, truly brave people trying to make things better.

Time to bring freedom to Pennsylvania. Senator Fetterman, your people yearn for liberation!

I mean yeah, obviously, that's the biggest part of this, I agree. I was just thinking about a side aspect.

In a perfect timeline, increased cooperation would lead to Russia backing off the social reactionary trend they’re diving into. God I hope so.

China is rather hesitant about exerting influence in their partners affairs though, for good and for ill, so I’m unsure if it will. That said stronger economic conditions will hopefully help that front on its own.

Very cool, the UC has already created a letter calling the strike illegal and very unsubtly threatening people who participate. This is going to get spicy.

There also is a legal justification for the strike too, even within the bounds of the union contract.