Lukewarm on Climate Action, Hot on Hypocrisy
Self-proclaimed environmental champion Gov. Jerry Brown supported legislation that challenged nationwide emission standards in 2007 and opposed offshore drilling. Supporters swoon at Brown’s half-hearted protection of the environment. Meanwhile, he continues to support dirty oil production in California, ignoring the disproportionate effects on communities of...
Submission: An Open Letter to the UC Santa Cruz Administration
We neighborhood/residential assistants (N/RAs) for UC Santa Cruz, as leaders in our community, feel the utmost need to speak out about concerns on this campus. There will be a UC-wide workers strike in order to bring attention to low wages, cuts to their benefits and...
California Fails to Watch the Watchmen
California’s bigwigs often trumpet the state’s progressive culture and politics, but the state’s records and policies reflect an entirely different story. While accounting for 12 percent of the nation’s population, California accounts for 16 percent of persons shot and killed by police. Of the 162...
Santa Cruz Tenants Need Your Signatures
No more stories of unjust evictions, no more stories of raising rents on decaying, mold riddled homes, no more skating around the housing crisis. The city of Santa Cruz can no longer permit landlords to take advantage of one of the most susceptible housing demographics...
The UC Celebrates 150 years of Inequality
This year, the University of California celebrates “150 years of pioneering a better future.” While the UC celebrates, its Black female university workers are still receiving 10 to 23 percent lower wages than their white male counterparts, a yearly difference of $3,946 to $15,785. The...
Submission: An Open Letter to the Chief Investment Officer of the UC Regents
Dear Jagdeep Singh Bachher, We write to you representing University of California students and faculty from across the state as part of the climate justice movement. In the March 13 investments subcommittee meeting, you committed to divesting up to $500 million from fossil fuel commodities...
@NationalNews: Where is the Black Coverage?
When students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School began to call for national gun reform, media outlets praised them for revolutionary efforts and hundreds of thousands participated in the March for Our Lives (MfOL) protests across the country. When Black Lives Matter, #SayHerName and other...
First Amendment Defense Act is Anti-LGBTQIA+
There has never been protection for LGBTQIA+ people in the U.S. Yet, last month the GOP launched an attack on transgender and queer civil rights under the guise of religious freedom. Sexual and gender identity are not protected classes under federal law. Unless outlawed at...
Not One More Tuition Increase
The UC is on their way to finalizing another tuition increase for out-of-state students for the 2018-19 school year. In May, the UC is scheduled to vote on an percent increase for in-state tuition. If either pass, it would mark the second consecutive tuition increase...
Immigrant Families Separated and Violated
No reasonable person would consider taking a first-grader away from the comfort of her mother, shipping her 2,000 miles away, and only allowing them to interact a few times via phone for months. Yet, in a callous, calculated and totally heartless effort to deter illegal...