When the UC Regents and administration failed to stand up to the demands of the Trump administration, faculty and workers stepped up to join the fight. In this episode, Zoé Hamstead (Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, UCB, co-chair of Berkeley Faculty Association, CUCFA Chair of Legal Affairs), Annie McClanahan, (Associate Professor of English, UCI, Co-President of the Council of UC Faculty Associations), and Anna Markowitz (Associate Professor of Education, UCLA, President of the executive board of the UCLA Faculty Association) join The Lower Frequencies to discuss the role of faculty and the faculty associations (in partnership with UC unions, the AAUP, and other organizations) in waging a successful series of legal challenges that forced the Regents to disclose the federal demand letter and won a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration.

Links:

CUCFA amicus brief in AAUP v. Rubio

UC Researcher Grant Terminations Class Actions

Faculty Lawsuit Demands Public Access to Trump Administration’s Settlement Demands on University of California

Trump demand letter to UCLA

Order granting preliminary injunction against Trump demands

Episode 4: UC Move Your Money!

In this episode of The Lower Frequencies, we speak with UCLA Associate Professor of Anthropology Hannah Appel (who is also Associate Faculty Director of the Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy and co-founder and organizer with the Debt Collective), about a new systemwide UC campaign that empowers faculty to begin the process of divesting from war and genocide. We walk through the three-step UC Move Your Money campaign and how it offers faculty a chance to take action today while building power for more ambitious efforts down the road.

Links:

UC Move Your Money website and Instagram

Unmasking the UC

A brief primer on the difference between defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) plans.

In this third installment of The Lower Frequencies we host educators, lawyers, and activists who share practical advice and inspiration for teachers to defend the presentation of vital topics in K-12 schools. In response to the intensification of attacks to censor the teaching of genocide and queer and trans lives, for example, Lupe Carrasco Cardona, Mark Kleiman, Tracie Noriego and Liz Jackson discuss how building community, knowing legal, employee, and union safeguards and responsibilities all protect our right to teach truth and defend student’s rights to a full and liberatory education.

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