🌱we are a grassroots worker-led movement🌱 The UNC system needs a #COLA ✊ Reopening campus in a pandemic is deadly 📧 [email protected]
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White faculty have offered so little material support on this front. The tweet below is the equivalent of “thoughts and prayers.”
Students and grads and workers have risked our security and suffered greatly without them… for decades.
Where’s your strike, white faculty?
🖤 Urgent call for solidarity 🖤 Show up for this community member who needs our support. Fundraiser linked blow. gofund.me/77233ea9
Solidarity with @GWCUAW, on strike for a fair contract and a more accessible university! A win for grad workers anywhere is a win for us everywhere.
Donate: columbiagradunion.org/strike…
Pressure: actionnetwork.org/letters/co…
Follow: @GWCUAW #CUonStrike
Let’s keep supporting community and support a Black non-binary person raise enough funds to pay for consistent hormone replacement therapy
gofundme.com/f/23f2fcwmw0
Abolish UNC PD
An Alert Carolina message informed the campus community that an armed individual was near campus on Oct. 30. But the alert set off was the result of an individual’s leg brace being mistaken as a rifle by multiple people, UNC Police Chief David Perry said.
bit.ly/32g6v8P
Abolish UNC Police Department
UPDATE: @UNC Vice Chancellor for Risk Management George Battle says in a statement that there was no evidence of an armed individual, and apologized for the "delay in communications" about the lack of actual threat.
It cannot be stated enuf that while UNC administrators are actively gutting campus worker funding streams—in this case $$ for graduate workers—they, administrators, are NOT negotiating their $200-600k salaries.
Saddened to learn that @UNC_GradSchool "will not be offering five-year Royster Society of Fellows Fellowships or Doctoral Merit Fellowships/Assistantships for AY2021-2022. This is a temporary pause." These funds help us attract the best & brightest scholars to our university.
ACC is the Ambulatory Care Center
BREAKING: @AlertCarolina reports an armed, dangerous person on or near UNC’s campus, says to avoid "ACC" and stay inside. Check this thread for updates.
We fully agree that admin must take salary cuts
In fact, we include it in our demands published 6/12 (bit.ly/30z1OGi) & have advocated since (bit.ly/3d1BtWj)
We also recognize the politics of citation; faculty not citing grad worker labor is a political choice
"Administrators at UNC have told employees to brace themselves for large budget cuts. Given their numbers and high salaries, the cutting should begin, and perhaps end, with the administrators."
- Jay Smith. 😍
dailytarheel.com/article/202…
Call for support from abolition strikers at U-M: sign & share letter of support (linked below).
"All academics outside the University of the Michigan - postdocs and fellowship holders, contingent and non-contingent faculty, teaching and research faculty - are welcome to sign!"
THANK YOU to our academic allies outside of the walls of U-M! If you are an academic, please sign this letter in support of our strike! We are stronger than ever; we need to keep this pressure going. #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #StrikeForSafeCampus
tiny.cc/ScholarsSupportGEOSt…
Admin and high-paid faculty MUST take pay cuts NOW.
They’re gutting low-paid jobs, stealing from workers to protect their luxurious salaries.
Whose livelihood is on the chopping block next?
Demand admin and high-paid faculty cuts!
The decision to terminate student staff stems from projected revenue losses of $20 million for the fall 2020 semester, Executive Director of Carolina Housing Allan Blattner and Senior Director of Residential Education J. Kala Bullett said in the email.
bit.ly/3hkmqaM
UNACCEPTABLE
UNC just fired all RAs
Since 8/10 UNC has dealt students blow after blow, destabilizing their lives
Admin are still collecting $500k+ salaries. Why are their jobs more important? Let’s fire Blouin and redistribute his salary to all RAs!
Solidarity with the @geo3550 worker-led abolition strike! The fight for fair labor practices cannot be separated from racism and public health. The fight for safe campuses necessitates divestment from carceral practices.
Our solidarity statement: antiracistgradcollectiveunc.…
It's unacceptable that Guskiewicz is paid over half a million dollars while workers face furlough threats. Why is his salary more important than worker jobs?
Admin MUST take pay cuts.
The Anti-Racist Graduate Worker Collective is demanding Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz redistribute financial support from high-paid employees to departments that need extra support due to the pandemic.
bit.ly/2Z1Gh8j
School admin and governing bodies weren’t clueless about their disastrous reopening plans, they knew exactly what they were doing.
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Solidarity with our comrades in the streets of Raleigh fighting for Black liberation tonight.
Call for jail support below.
If you can bring (diet-inclusive) food or snacks, and the usuals (phone chargers, cigarettes, water) please do so.
Here are some helpful graphics - we'll include updates on supplies if they're needed!
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Omololu Refilwe Babatunde fought against UNC & for the removal of white supremacist honorifics. A critical scholar, she wrote her thesis on Black geographies (dir. by @LocoCravey) & organized w/ the Real Silent Sam Coalition. Our work would not be possible w/o Babatunde's labor.
@curs @DiamondHolloman @UNCequity @BlackGeogs @UNChistory @UNCSouth @theAAG @maliniranga @sharparty THIS EVENT!🌎🌎🌎 @geographyunc alumna Omololu Refilwe Babatunde celebrating black brilliance & contesting white supremacy in higher ed. Fri 9/4. RSVP: tinyurl.com/y3xffll5
