From the Camp to the Picket: Reflections from the UC Strike for Palestine – Long-Haul Mag

1 An earlier tent protest was erected at Stanford University in October 2023, lasting 120 days until it was broken up in February the following year. 2 For evidence of this, see the injunction filing against this strike, wherein representatives of the UC describe the “irreparable harm” we caused the university over the course of our six-week strike at the end of 2022. Especially fascinating is how often research strikes in particular were mentioned as the sources of this “harm.” This makes for worthwhile reading, even if the testimony is framed explicitly in order to achieve an injunction and must be read cautiously. Comrades in the UK have reached similar conclusions about strike strategy among higher-education workers. 3 Our comrades at the University of Michigan, Dartmouth College, and Boston University have continued to advance this long-haul strike strategy in higher education in their strikes, most recently in Boston University’s seven-month strike that won a 70% raise for the lo

From the Camp to the Picket: Reflections from the UC Strike for Palestine | Long-Haul Mag Skip to content SPRING 2025 ISSUE 02 From the Camp to the Picket: Reflections from the UC Strike for Palestine CURRENT AND FORMER GRAD WORKERS AT UC SANTA CRUZ Image from the main entrance to UC Santa Cruz, May 2024. 1 An earlier tent protest was erected at Stanford University in October 2023 , lasting 120 days until it was broken up in February the following year. 2 For evidence of this, see the injunction filing against this strike, wherein representatives of the UC describe the “ irreparable harm ” we

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