author: Undercurrents staff

Palestine

January 5, 2024

“Not in our name”: Jewish students host Alexander Hall sit-in in solidarity with Muslim Student Association

“We will feel safe when we know that our Judaism is not being used to justify the silencing, surveilling, harassing, and policing of our peers."

Palestine

CMC affinity groups release statement expressing solidarity with Palestine

Leaders of Latine, Black and AAPI student groups criticized a faculty statement for "failing to acknowledge ... genocide."

Commentary

December 12, 2023

Undercurrents statement regarding Dec. 8 protest coverage

Since Oct. 12, we have set the standard for responsible visual reporting of protests. On Dec. 8, we fell short of our standard.

Palestine

November 13, 2023

113 students shut down Pomona Family Weekend Address, demanding divestment from Israel

The action came after students promised escalation in an Oct. 25 delegation attended by at least 370 people.

Commentary

November 5, 2023

Our commitment: finding and telling the truth about Palestine

We are committed to archiving our resistance as it's tied to collective struggles for a free Palestine, honoring the brave testimony and stories stemming from this movement.

Labor

September 25, 2023

Palmdale Amazon drivers extend four month strike to San Bernardino

After their contract was terminated by Amazon, workers seeking safer working conditions are on an Unfair Labor Practice strike around the country.

Labor

August 6, 2023

Pitzer workers fired for taking a discarded couch reinstated after delegations, union advocacy

“This was an old student's couch that we took...we are not criminals,” Vazquez said.

Palestine

April 25, 2023

SJP and Prisab co-host Stop LAPD Spying Coalition talk about LAPD and IDF surveillance

U.S. police and Israeli apartheid surveillance share logics of “othering,” technologies of legitimization, organizers said

Labor

April 20, 2023

Whittier College dining workers go on indefinite strike for higher wages, pension fund

Claremont students have picketed alongside Whittier students and workers from 7 AM to 7 PM on weekdays since March 27.

Labor

April 8, 2023

La Verne dining hall union to votes to strike, picket alongside Claremont and Whittier workers

Pomona’s contract set the standard for dining worker wages and benefits in the area, Union representative Arun Ramakrishna PZ ’22 said.

Undercurrents reports on labor, Palestine liberation, prison abolition and other community organizing at and around the Claremont Colleges.

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Issue 1 / Spring 2023

Setting the Standard

How Pomona workers won a historic $25 minimum wage; a new union in Claremont; Tony Hoang on organizing

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