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

🚨🚨🚨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!✊✊✊

Today's action - seen by thousands of students - Chancellor Khosla of UC San Diego must commit NOW to get the campus off fossil gas this decade.