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The UC Student Worker Strike

It Could Happen Here

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What Happened to the University of Santa Cruz?

Some teaching assistants at the Santa Cruz campus decided to withhold teaching and also final exam and semester grades for a quarter in, I believe this would have been fall or fall of 2019. And they held essentially daily pickets and protests at their central entrance of their campus. This resulted in quite an extreme response from Santa Cruz administration,. They called in the California Highway Patrol. There was a highly militarized response to what was essentially a few grad students not doing grades. So this response, the images that came out of this, people getting arrested for being in the street and such started to actually provoke sympathy actions across the rest of the campus. Then March of 2020 happened. Almost all of us, our

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