A new academic year is upon us and with it a new set of problems. We are entering the second year of the Trump administration, an administration that rescued the latent white-supremacist rhetoric that long existed in our society. Trump’s political climate has affected our university in particular ways by dangerously making neo-fascism appear “cool”…

From our talented ally Sam Wohl.

Welcome to the Third World Archives Solidarity Project. We are a project of the UC San Diego Lumumba Zapata Collective and trace our existence to a long-standing tradition of Third World solidarity among academics who seek to make a better world.* There are thousands of autonomously run archives located throughout the Global South, mostly run…

As we wrap up academic year 2016-17, we are happy to share the Lumumba Zapata Collective’s end of the year assessment of the current state of affairs at UCSD.  In this assessment we inform you of struggles both past and upcoming for next academic year. We give this brief summary and urge you to talk…

“We need solidarity more than ever, recognizing that all solidarities are imperfect, often fragile, temporary, and always forged in struggle and sustained through hard work. In our state of emergency, political disagreements, slights, misunderstandings, and microaggressions should not prohibit us from fighting for people’s rights, privileges, and lives.” Robin D.G. Kelley, 2016 [1] This communiqué…

We are the Lumumba Zapata Collective, an intersectional (multiracial, multigendered, multiabled) coalition of faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students at the University of California San Diego who have coalesced around the struggle for a truly public university that centers social justice, both in pedagogy and practice. We trace our genealogy to the 1968 UCSD Third…

January 20, 2017 (Trump’s Inauguration Day) Transcript of Speeches from Strike/Walkout Rally. The day began at 8am with about 60 striking faculty, TAs, and students picketing the Faculty Club parking lot, forcing the space to be shut down for nearly two hours. The picket moved to Gilman Dr. to shut down the main campus thoroughfare…

Six UCSD faculty members from four different departments contributed to this document. Fascism. The word evokes totalitarianism, authoritarianism and government repression. It recalls Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy and the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War. Fascism was an ultra-nationalist, anti-liberal, anti-communist movement that sought a revolutionary transformation of society through a mass organization led by…