Rebecca Gross
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@Becsgross
getting a PhD in literature @ucsc | formerly: editorial assistant @readlux | tweeting about indie pubs, zines, labor things, & punk
The Santa Cruz Veterans Hall is an example of what urban public space can look like: a place where DIY culture meets veteran community support—underwritten by the county government. @Becsgross explores how this decades-old space has survived and thrived. bayareacurrent.com/in-santa-cruz-…
New dispatch! The 2023 grad strike at the University of Michigan was a signal struggle in the recent upsurge of militancy in higher education, from which organizers in the sector stand to learn as they confront new and forbidding challenges: longhaulmag.com/2025/08/15/str…
ZOHRAN MAMDANI'S FATHER - Mahmood Mamdani is an anti-Israel, Marxist professor at Columbia University. He's known for his anti-Israel views and obsession with "colonialism." In a recent course, Mahmood promoted "the necessity of violence in anticolonial struggle."
One year ago today, academic workers at UC Santa Cruz assembled at the base of campus and raised a picket, launching the first significant strike in solidarity with Palestine as part of the wave of activism that surged across US universities that spring. longhaulmag.com/uc-strike-for-…
2000+ Jewish professors, staff, students circulating letter on Mahmoud Khalil's arrest: "We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities."
🧵IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH
Columbia fired our union president the day before we start bargaining—less than a week after allowing ICE to abduct our coworker. Join us tomorrow to make sure they can hear us from the bargaining table!
