author: Undercurrents staff

Affinity groups

February 27, 2024

Against protests, Pomona admin to move first-gen, Black, Latinx student affinity groups to SCC basement

Dean Jackson approached groups in November to ask if they wanted to leave their spaces, but said that the decision was already “90% made.”

Labor

February 25, 2024

#dropstarbucks: CSWA launches new campaign at teach-in

Student organizers called out Starbucks’ history of child labor, suppression of Palestinian speech and union-busting.

Palestine

270+ students walk out in the rain to support Pomona divestment, protest disciplinary action against students

"My disciplinary sanctions do not scare me...we are more powerful together. We keep each other safe."

Palestine

February 24, 2024

SJP brings Maya Wind and Robin D.G. Kelley to discuss scholasticide in Palestine

Wind talked about her research in occupied Haifa, where Pitzer College maintains a study abroad program.

Palestine

February 19, 2024

Palestine action brings together demands for Pomona divestment, Suspend Pitzer Haifa

On Feb. 9, more than 100 students participated in an action that targeted a Pitzer Board of Trustees meeting and included a delegation at Alexander Hall.

Palestine

February 16, 2024

JVP hosts Shabbat inside Pitzer admin building to call for suspending Haifa study abroad program

The action came after 150 students delegated to admin to suspend the program, and in coordination with National JVP.

Labor

“We’re powerful when we’re together”: IE Amazon workers host structured organizing training on campus

The training pushed for organizing by building intentional majorities instead of numerically large but short-lived movements.

Palestine

January 16, 2024

Palestine solidarity protesters disrupt December 8 Pomona admissions panel

With red-painted hands, more than 50 students demanded the college to divest from weapons manufacturing and condemned the Nov. 29 arrest of a professor.

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."

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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