Claremont Undercurrents

Palestine

November 5, 2023

Promising escalation, 370+ students delegate to Pomona treasurer, demanding Israel divestment

"We’re here because Pomona College in particular has fallen on the wrong side of history multiple times."

Labor

October 23, 2023

Amazon 101 recap: CSWA boosts warehouse organizing with a history lesson

Two UCR professors, one a WWRC board member, discussed the history of labor and environmental justice organizing around Inland Empire Amazon warehouses at a CSWA event.

Palestine

October 11, 2023

Second SJP event addresses ‘pinkwashing’ of Israel

Organizers aimed to break down “binary, progressive versus backwards” narrative about queerness in Israel and Palestine

Abolition

October 7, 2023

WorldWE’s “Sex Trade 101” Introduces Prostitution Abolition to the 5Cs

“[The term] 'sex work' sanitizes and glamorizes the inherent harms of the sex trade and invalidates the violent and traumatic experience of most people in the sex trade.”

Labor

October 6, 2023

Retail concessions workers strike at Ontario International Airport

Three years after their contract expired, workers asked for a living wage of $21 per hour, rising to $25 by 2025. Hudson counter-offered $21 by 2027.

Abolition

5C PrisAb’s teach-in covers policing, prison industrial complex

"There's a level of community that [is needed] in order for carceral options to not be the primary response from people when they're facing some sort of inconvenience."

Palestine

October 4, 2023

Palestine 101 Recap: ahead of campaign, SJP starts the year with a history lesson

"In order to understand the Palestinian struggle, you must understand it through a framework...[of] settler colonialism."

Commentary

October 2, 2023

Scholarship as Separation

I didn't read any books in high school. Everything was always incredibly boring and distant...

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.

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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Promising escalation, 370+ students delegate to Pomona treasurer, demanding Israel divestment

Amazon 101 recap: CSWA boosts warehouse organizing with a history lesson

Second SJP event addresses ‘pinkwashing’ of Israel

WorldWE’s “Sex Trade 101” Introduces Prostitution Abolition to the 5Cs

Retail concessions workers strike at Ontario International Airport

5C PrisAb’s teach-in covers policing, prison industrial complex

Palestine 101 Recap: ahead of campaign, SJP starts the year with a history lesson

Scholarship as Separation

Palmdale Amazon drivers extend four month strike to San Bernardino

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