Roxy Davis

@uaw2865 What were you thinking? This is an insane concession to make, especially when our power is ramping up at the end of the quarter. You are not representing the rank and file at the bargaining table. This is not what we are striking for.

The resource collection "So is this Actually an Abolitionist Proposal or Strategy?" (interruptingcriminalization.com/binder) kicks off with a list that we return to often, from @survivepunishNY's Preserving Punishment Power. We ask of each reform:

p.s. The UC's refusal to give lecturers a fair contract is what is hurting students' ability to learn. Lecturer churn hurts their ability to learn. Lecturer poverty hurts their ability to learn. Lecturers' teaching conditions are students' learning conditions. Rinse. repeat.

Every time a strike has happened in my 2.5 short years at the UC, faculty's first worry is "We don't want to hurt the students' ability to learn." Strikes are meant to hurt. That's the point. Full stop. Cancel your classes.

@AnnaKiszt @DaltonByDay @TweenyB @danwestley @hollyrosanna This study absolutely does not say that having covid gives you lifetime immunity. There is no way that anyone who has actually read it could believe that, so either you're intentionally spreading misinformation, or you just took someone else's word without reading it yourself.

@DaltonByDay @TweenyB @danwestley @hollyrosanna nature.com/articles/s4158…

I am not okay. As an immune suppressed double lung transplant recipient for whom the vaccine doesn’t work, yesterday and today’s news is a living nightmare. Where is the care for the mental health and freedoms of immune suppressed population?

Until a STRIKE is on the table, UC admin CANNOT hear us, because we aren't yet speaking their language. To all my fellow lecturers: stand together and DEMAND a #FairContractNow To all our students, TAs and tenure-track colleagues: stand with us, so we can fully be there for you!

the only reason most people aren’t homeless is due to sheer luck. people will do mental gymnastics to avoid that reality but the sooner we all accept that the sooner we can start treating our neighbors like people and not some societal burden

“Being personally thrilled with someone going to prison is anyone’s prerogative.... Let’s be clear though: advocating for someone’s imprisonment is not abolitionist. Mistaking emotional satisfaction for justice is also not abolitionist.” - @prisonculture, #WeDoThisTillWeFreeUs

I can’t emphasize this enough— state and city officials literally engineer the conditions of poverty and conflict and then cite these things as the reason to fund militarized police forces instead of reducing poverty & or preventing violence.

The third largest military force in the world is the US police.

In anticipation of @copsoffearth’s #AbolitionMay, the Cops Off Campus Research Collective is hosting “Study, Organize, Abolish: A Cops Off Campus Research Workshop” Friday, April 23 from 3-4:50 p.m. ET (12-1:50 p.m. PT)! Registration link: eventbrite.com/e/study-organi…

remember when the Bucks went on a strike to protest police violence and other teams followed? Remember when Obama called LeBron and Chris Paul and told them to stop striking? And to emphasize voting? And to vote for the man pledging millions of dollars to police? Remember this?

When academics don’t see themselves as workers they do so to the detriment of the laboring conditions of everyone else in this system. People whose jobs are contingent keep laying this out, but it feels like not everyone has grasped it.

We have ~150 copies of You Are Holding This, Issue 001 left from our 2nd edition printing! Thanks to all who have shared pictures and videos of your zine online. Love seeing you holding it, hanging it up on your walls, taking it to the park Order here: forms.gle/Z6P8ZijUf7bEiY…

imo more than liberalized ‘acceptance’ trans & queer kids need spaces to learn/teachers to teach the radical histories of queer struggle & coalitional political work

Low-income students having to excel in order to get financial aid while rich kids can just bulshit their way through school is a good example of why meritocracy isn't real.

When you hear that an unhoused person “refused services” that includes... - refused to give up their pet to get a short-term hotel room - the shelter they were offered a space in isn’t safe for their gender/sexuality - couldn’t consolidate all their belongings into two bags