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May 22, 2024

Police Raid Univ. of Michigan Encampment; UC Santa Cruz Academic Workers Go on Strike
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Police violently raided a student encampment at the University of
Michigan-Ann Arbor. At least four protesters were arrested and two
others were hospitalized after being pepper-sprayed by police. We will
go to Michigan later in the program.
Meanwhile, academic workers at the University of California at Santa
Cruz began a strike on Monday to protest the crackdown on
pro-Palestinian student protesters. The strike comes days after the UAW
local, which represents 48,000 workers in the UC system, voted to
authorize a systemwide strike.
In other education news, the faculty at Dartmouth has voted to censure
the school's president, Sian Beilock, for calling in the police to shut
down a peaceful student protest in solidarity with Palestine. Meanwhile,
the Faculty Senate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has voted
no confidence in the school's chancellor, Javier Reyes, after police
arrested more than 130 at a student encampment earlier this month.


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