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UO Student Workers represents over 4,000 student workers at our University and we start bargaining for our first contract next month! Our contract will be the first of its kind in the country, and we need the support of our entire campus to win. It’s time to fight for our L.I.V.E.S. and win a Living wage, Integrity in the workplace, Vital care on campus, Environmental and safety protections, and improved Scheduling!

Beginning 7 AM on Monday April 29, students are occupying the Knight Library Lawn at the University of Oregon campus to demand the university to do its part in ending the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. Throughout the last century, Israel has solidified its colonial settler state through ethnic cleansing, mass displacement, and apartheid. Today, many Palestinians occupy the Gaza Strip, one of the most densely inhabited areas on earth, where the Israeli government has killed over 34,000 people in the past seven months.

Art by Alexa Cruz Abarca Cops off Campus is back! We are building a campus-wide movement for abolition with the goal of disarming, divesting from, and dismantling the university’s police department. Campus police, especially at the UO, have had a remarkably short history, meaning we have always had other ways of addressing key needs of students and the wider community. After forming in 2012, UOPD has led charges against student protests, as well as criminalized unhoused folks, people of color, and disabled folks on our campus and in our community.

Art by Socialists for Change The Socialist Feminist Committee and Students for Choice are fighting together to get medication abortion on campus! Misoprostol, also known as the abortion pill, is one of the most demanded basic needs that is not provided by the university. The fight for this service has been going on for a long time in the state legislature, but we refuse to wait for politicians and shareholders to decide that we are allowed control over our own bodies.

Following the April 15 Shut it Down for Palestine blockade held on the I-5 by around 60 protesters, the Daily Emerald published an article covering the demonstration. In this article, they included the full names of several activists who had been arrested. These activists had been cornered and arrested by more than a hundred police armed to the teeth and in full riot gear, then were detained for upwards of 36 hours, some in solitary confinement.

Art by Oliver Bee Black and white. Evil and good. But why? White is the absence of all colors. Black is every miniscule spectra of color combined. Diversity is what has brought us this far; if there was nothing different we wouldn’t be able to combine things to create. Black is the color of rich soil, and of the heavy clouds that come to plenish land. Black is dark and darkness is when all living creatures finally get to rest, to just breathe in crisp, dark air.