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UCSB FTP @ucsb_ftp Oct 20, 2023

Happening today at El Centro at 5:30pm!! #StopCopCity

Weelaunee Worldwide Mass Action Speaking Tour. Santa Barbara, CA; Fri, Oct. 20, 2023 at 5:30 PM.
El Centro de Arnulfo Casillas at UCSB Building 406, Activity Room
Hosted by: Eagle and Condor Liberation Front (@eclf_la)
Xicana Tiahui (@xicana_tiahui)
www.blockcopcity.org
blockcopcity@gmail.com

UCSB FTP @ucsb_ftp Dec 8, 2022

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UCSB FTP @ucsb_ftp Nov 17, 2022

against all forms of policing (including by fellow workers)

UCSB FTP @ucsb_ftp Nov 15, 2022

Read on for the UCSB Cops Off Campus Statement of Solidarity for the UC Academic Workers' Strike.
Get involved with us here: tinyurl.com/ucsbftp

We are UCSB Cops off Campus, a group that organizes towards the abolition of the UC Police Department (UCPD) and the reinvestment of funds towards reparative public goods: education, cost of living adjustment for student workers, housing, mental healthcare, and other means of transformative social justice. We believe that schools are no place for police, and that UCPD, like all police departments, is violent by design and, as numerous scholars have argued, cannot be reformed.

UCSB Cops off Campus stands in solidarity with UC Teaching Assistants, Teaching Associates, Tutors, Readers, Graduate Student Researchers, Academic Researchers, and Postdocs in their historic strike against the UC’s multiple Unfair Labor Practices. We join the picket line to foreground UAW 2865’s demand for the complete defunding of the UCPD. We also join our fellow workers at the University of Michigan with GEO AFT-3550 who went on strike in 2020 and demanded the defunding of campus police.

UC has a history of using its police departments to brutalize students and to surveil and assault activists. In 2020 during the UCSC COLA strikes, UCPD and the National Guard used military-grade equipment to surveil workers, spending $300,000 per day on policing the picket line. The UC currently spends over $155 million on its campus police, and the vast majority of its actions in Isla Vista—94 percent—have to do with non-violent offences (such as public intoxication and possession). Imagine how those funds could be re-directed toward student housing, fair wages, mental health services, food access, and community-oriented services—things that a strong contract can help us win!

As an issue of worker safety, UAW 2865 and SRU-UAW have proposed to add Article XX on Community Safety to the new contract under negotiation. First and foremost, the article demands the full defunding of the University of California Police Departments. In addition, the article contains provisions to prevent the UC from calling local, municipal, county, state, or federal law enforcement, and requires that the UC notify all ASEs when non-campus law enforcement enter campus. The UC has yet to bargain over the UAW’s community safety article, noting that community safety is not a mandatory bargaining item. UCSB Cops off Campus stands with students, workers, faculty, and staff who support the UAW’s demand to defund the UCPD, and we are organizing to put pressure on the UC to take these abolitionist demands seriously.

UCSB FTP @ucsb_ftp Oct 20, 2022

Tonight (6pm) at the MCC, please join Underground Scholars in welcoming Jerome Morgan and Robert Jones to UCSB; they will speak about mass incarceration and their work to rescue young people from its grasp. RSVP on Shoreline: shoreline.ucsb.edu/UCSBMCC/rsvp_b…

Flyer for MCC event "Unbreakable Resolve: Building Free-Dem Foundations in New Orleans." Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, 6pm, MCC Theater. RSVP at Shoreline.
Event description reads, "Jerome Morgan and Robert Jones will make a powerful
presentation about mass incarceration in New Orleans and
their efforts to rescue young people from its grasp through
mentoring and community development projects. Morgan and
Jones spent more than 40 years combined in the Louisiana
State Penitentiary at Angola before they were exonerated
and released. Today they run the Free-Dem Foundations, a
nonprofit community-based youth organization in New Orleans
providing a mentoring program to serve young people in danger
of being swept into jails and prisons. Their presentation will
cover their own personal experiences with incarceration that
they have delineated in their co-authored book (with Daniel
Rideau), Unbreakable Resolve."