ALT Statement title in white text: UCI rank and file collective's statement on ULP strike (5/6). Green background with a watermelon symbol on the top right next to the title. Light gray text box with white text that reads: Our labor powers imperialism provides it the basic intellectual material necessary to engage in extractive and genocidal warfare and enables the university to function in its key role in the maintenance of empire. Withholding labor in service to Palestinian resistance is a bare-minimum duty for us in the imperial core, who benefit in ways large and small from the system that subjugates Palestine, even as we struggle against it.…”
ALT Statement titled in white text: UCI rank and file collective's statement on ULP strike (6/6). Green background with a watermelon symbol on the top right next to the title. Light gray text box behind main text that reads: Our presence challenges the historically narrow conceptualization of "showing up" on campus throughout strikes as local union chapters system-wide have relegated chronically ill and disabled student workers to remote positions and phone banking, thus isolating parts of our community. We maintain that the power of labor withholding is not measured by the number of bodies marching for hours at the picket line, but by the labor we collectively intend to withhold. We invite workers and union organizers to reflect on the consistent calls for picket accommodations, which have continuously been de-prioritized...”
ALT Statement titled in white text: “References” Green background with a watermelon symbol on the top right next to the title. Watermelon is overlapping onto the light gray text box used as the backdrop for the main text. Main text in white reads, “1. https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1797388297028706430 2. https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1797287498374119442 3. https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1797588330655461733 4. https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1797355111708025307 5. https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1797384470334521829 6. https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1796897882039038435 7. https://x.com/PalestineRCS/status/1796804827806093498 8. https://x.com/HossamShabat/status/1796582862499741987 9. https://x.com/shaykhsulaiman/status/1796557728627798192?s=12&t=ko-3w1SaSl_uGu8vNXRACA 10. https://x.com/wizardbisan/status/1794705434647126519 11. https://www.aljazeera.com/tag/occupied-west-bank/….”
ALT Statement title in white text: “UCI rank and file collective's statement on ULP strike (1/6).” Green background with a watermelon symbol. Light gray text box with white text: In the past 72 hours, Israel has ignited two new massacres in the Bureij and Al-Zawaida camps. People are still uncovering the decomposing bodies of martyrs from Israel's massacre in Jabalia camp. Israel is the leading recipient of U.S. foreign aid. Under the reign of Joe Biden, billions of military aid have been sent to Israel to support throughout the years. UAW leadership has endorsed Joe Biden and genocidaire Katie Porter. We vehemently reject any endorsement of politicians who make intentional decisions to maintain and expand empire. The UAW is a business union that has long acted as controlled opposition within the Amerikan racial capitalist-imperialist state to protect its economic interests.
ALT ALT TEXT second image: Statement title in white text: UCI rank and file collective's statement on ULP strike (2/6). Green background with a watermelon symbol on the top right next to the title. Light gray text box behind main text that reads: We reject UAW's statement that there is just a war in Gaza. Israel is a settler colony, like Amerika, and is a violent Zionist occupation of Palestine. Rank and file union members have demanded elected UAW leadership for months to follow through with concrete actions, and leadership has ignored this call to action. During the time we withhold our labor, the Collective will host a reading group in person. We extend an invitation for everyone to attend so we may study together and strategize on how to embody our knowledge as we strive towards a long haul strike and unyielding culture of anti-racial capitalism and anti-imperialism. In Solidarity, UCI Rank & File Collective *swipe for full statement*
ALT Statement titled in white text: UCI rank and file collective's statement on ULP strike (2/6). Green background with a watermelon symbol on the top right next to the title. Light gray text box behind main text that reads: “As gruesome images of charred and decapitated children surfacing from Israel's latest assault on Rafah have once again captured the public consciousness, the zionist regime has continued to turn Gaza to dust. In the past 72 hours, Israel has ignited two new massacres in the Bureij and Al-Zawaida camps—alongside its continued and persistent targeted attacks on Palestinian civilian homes and vehicles—mainly killing children. While Palestinians are gathering the charred and dismembered bodies of martyrs from Bureij and Al-Zawaida, and while journalists and health workers continue to be targeted and killed by zionist airstrikes, people are still uncovering the decomposing bodies of martyrs from Israel's massacre in Jabalia camp...”
ALT Statement titled in white text: UCI rank and file collective's statement on ULP strike (4/6). Green background with a watermelon symbol on the top right next to the title. Light gray text box behind main text that reads: “The UAW is a business union that has long acted as controlled opposition within the Amerikan racial capitalist-imperialist state to protect its economic interests. To this point, the Rank and File Collective is calling for the opportunity of the strike to be seen as a moment to begin the collective withholding of labor in support of Palestinian liberation. We are not interested in the dictates and boundaries of the ULP strike, as we challenge its basic premises and assumptions and how UAW elected leadership has strategized and engaged the strike thus far. Rather, we see it as a moment when we can begin to effect a substantive material impact against both the Zionist settler-colonial entity and the Amerikan racial capitalist-imperialist state by withholding our labor”
ALT a hundreds-strong march past the UCSB Liberated Zone. Large banners reading UAW 4811 UC Santa Barbara: Strike Ready! and UCSB Divest from Genocide! are visible.
