UC Green New Deal Coalition Statement on Selection of Incoming UC President, Michael V. Drake

Green New Deal at UC San Diego

Green New Deal at UC San Diego6 days ago

We stand in solidarity with UAW academic workers, as climate justice goes hand-in-hand with workers’ rights. Below is our Statement in Support of UAW Academic Workers from UCSD Faculty and Staff Working for Climate Justice that we sent this morning to President Drake and Provost Brown ✊🌎:

#FairUCNow #uawOnStrike

Finalized November 21, 2022 Statement of UCSD Faculty and Staff Working for Climate Justice in Support of UAW Academic Workers Dear President Drake and Provost Brown, We are faculty and staff at UC San Diego working for climate action and justice within our institution and our larger communit...

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Green New Deal at UC San Diego2 weeks ago

🚨🚨🚨ACTION ALERT: Speak to the Regents: Submit Public Comment to call on the UC to be fossil-free!

See slides below for more information on how to submit comments as well as what you can say.

https://bit.ly/regentsnov2022

.What power do the Regents have?

The UC Board of Regents establishes all major UC-wide policies and initiatives, such as: the cost of attendance, campus admissions, environmental policy, UC employee compensation, land management, and they perform long-range planning for all UC campuses and locations. In other words: consider them the highest legislative body of the UC — meaning: they have the power to enact policies (like a UC Green New Deal) that would fast track the UC to becoming fossil-free within the decade and ensure a just and equitable transition.

What can we do?

NOW, despite the Regents being unelected and relatively unaccountable to the people of the UC they’re supposed to serve, they DO have bi-monthly meetings that are open to the public for comment. This provides us the opportunity to make our voices heard and push for UC-wide electrification among other climate initiatives within our 70-page UC GND policy platform. We are presenting this mega-list of policies to the UC as a BUFFET of climate solutions that are at their disposal to enact. The solutions exist, what is lacking is the political will to implement them. Join us Nov 16-17 and let's leverage our voices for change!✊✊✊

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Green New Deal at UC San Diego4 weeks ago

Sign this petition to demand Chancellor Khosla to commit NOW to get UC San Diego off the gas by 2030!

https://forms.gle/Wh9sL1tvTUxdgKNP9

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Green New Deal at UC San Diego · 7 days ago
@ucsdgreennewde1

Prof Adam Aron, @swaziadam, represented our org at the San Diego City Council today ...
"Hundreds of students will be watching ..." whether the City actually implements its impressive Climate Action Plan, such as a 50% cut in building emissions by 2030, or just talks about it ... https://t.co/UqlYrGrCxf

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Green New Deal at UC San Diego · 2 weeks ago
@ucsdgreennewde1

Our organization in solidarity with striking academic workers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography ... and the wider rally outside Geisel Library.
@sruuaw @UCSD_Unions_UAW https://t.co/m0dNmPsM9Q

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Green New Deal at UC San Diego · 2 weeks ago
@ucsdgreennewde1

Will the University of California start requiring conflict of interest declarations at a minimum for fossil-financed research? Will it go even further and dissociate from fossil-finance partnerships altogether?

UC Regents
Senate Committees on Research
VP of Research Maldonado https://t.co/7pns1GJb5d

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Ben Franta@BenFranta
BREAKING: New study in Nature Climate Change shows that academic research funded by fossil fuel companies is biased.

Biased against renewables and toward promotion of fossil gas.

Given Big Carbon's big money in academia, this should raise alarm bells.
https://t.co/5qDrrWj948