getting a PhD in literature @ucsc | formerly: editorial assistant @readlux | tweeting about indie pubs, zines, labor things, & punk

Joined November 2013
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My latest writing, for the Bay Area Current! Check it out here:
The Santa Cruz Veterans Hall is an example of what urban public space can look like: a place where DIY culture meets veteran community support—underwritten by the county government. @Becsgross explores how this decades-old space has survived and thrived. bayareacurrent.com/in-santa-…
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It was such a pleasure to learn about the history of the Vets Hall, a venue I absolutely love here in Santa Cruz. You might not expect it, but there is such a rich leftist history embedded in the walls of that space, from both the punks and veterans who've called it home.
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We've learned a lot from our comrades at U-Mich & their 2023 strike. Here, they write about the fight for 12-month funding, which they won after a 5 month strike. This is a demand central to our current bargaining campaign, and we too can win it. Read on to find out how:
19 Aug 2025
New dispatch! The 2023 grad strike at the University of Michigan was a signal struggle in the recent upsurge of militancy in higher education, from which organizers in the sector stand to learn as they confront new and forbidding challenges: longhaulmag.com/2025/08/15/s…
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24 Jun 2025
what a legend, thanks for spreading the word!
ZOHRAN MAMDANI'S FATHER - Mahmood Mamdani is an anti-Israel, Marxist professor at Columbia University. He's known for his anti-Israel views and obsession with "colonialism." In a recent course, Mahmood promoted "the necessity of violence in anticolonial struggle."
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24 Jun 2025
Wasn’t gonna vote but then I saw a Canary Mission ad about how he shouted out the Holy Land 5 in a rap song which forced my hand. Let’s get this rent freeze
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Zohran’s victory is an earthquake. The left everywhere must dedicate itself to an insurgency against Dem incumbents. The Dem establishment has lost credibility w/ its base in the face of fascist threat. The base is looking leftward for new leadership. We are the opposition party.
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Solidarity request! We're fundraising to support our international worker comrade whose visa was revoked by the Trump administration in April. While his visa has been reinstated, we are trying to raise $500 to support his lost wages and legal fees by this Thursday, June 12. [1/5]
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Grad workers at UC, sign your name here to demand our bargaining team push for open-hybrid bargaining: bit.ly/open-hybrid
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The Santa Cruz tendency, in a nutshell
Power is not a dashboard metric, a spectacle, or a performance for the boss to see. Power is a deep structure of rank-and-file workers committed to wielding it through strike action. (10/14)
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Workers of UAW 4811 might soon anticipate a triumphant announcement from their bargaining team (BT) lauding the “win” as they pushed the UC to commit to “open bargaining.” Those workers should be wary of any double-speak. 🧵(1/14)
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One year ago today, UC academic workers walked off the job, joining the wave of Palestine solidarity activism across US universities. We demanded our employer divest from war profiteering and the genocide in Palestine, commit to (1/4)
20 May 2025
One year ago today, academic workers at UC Santa Cruz assembled at the base of campus and raised a picket, launching the first significant strike in solidarity with Palestine as part of the wave of activism that surged across US universities that spring. longhaulmag.com/uc-strike-fo…
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Happy May Day to all of our readers and workers of the world!✊
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Proud to be among those who signed this letter. Free Mahmoud Khalil!
2000 Jewish professors, staff, students circulating letter on Mahmoud Khalil's arrest: "We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities."
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GRAD WORKERS: University admin are more empowered than ever to assault your rights to organize towards better working conditions, which includes freedoms to demand divestment from genocide. This cannot go on--we must fight back!!!
14 Mar 2025
🧵IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH
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14 Mar 2025
Join UAW Local 2710 — @SW_Columbia @UAWRegion9A —Friday for an emergency rally! All allies of the working class and Americans of good conscience, speak out and stand up against this gross injustice.
Columbia fired our union president the day before we start bargaining—less than a week after allowing ICE to abduct our coworker. Join us tomorrow to make sure they can hear us from the bargaining table!
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Graduate workers of UAW 4811 at UC Santa Cruz stand in solidarity with our UAW sibling, Mahmoud Khalil, and with all workers and students at Columbia who are being targeted for their Palestine solidarity organizing.
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Well this is fucked up and a clear ULP
14 Mar 2025
In the latest assault on First Amendment rights, Columbia University has expelled and fired Grant Miner, President of UAW Local 2710, which represents thousands of Columbia student workers. The firing comes one day before contract negotiations were set to open with the University.
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This is a worker issue as much as it is a student issue. Thinking about my union sibling this morning. Free Mahmoud Khalil.
Mahmoud Khalil is a former @UAW & @UAWRegion9A member—our union stands with him and against the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education, immigrant workers, and freedom of speech.
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I can only react to this image as I am: a Jew. To make Jewish words and phrases interchangeable with ICE detention is to make Judaism the face of fascism. This has happened in Israel and will happen here if we allow it
"We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again." –President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸
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