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Editorial Board Salutations! This issue’s theme is Crystallize. Our creators who followed this theme could take many routes: whether it was about a subject that seems to be stuck - crystallized - in history to this present day, it could be about fiery pain or immense pressure (vital steps in the formation of crystals), a current application of crystals (ex: how crystals are a big part of the witchtok movement and all the cultural appropriation that comes with it), something beautiful or clear like a crystal, and more!

EUGENE: The bargaining team of the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF - AFT Local 3544) has announced plans to request state mediation following yesterday’s bargaining session with the University of Oregon. The groups have been in contract negotiations since March 2023, yet a tentative agreement between the two parties is far from being reached. GTFF’s bargaining team hopes that mediation will spur progress and move the parties toward a tentative agreement.

As I begin the final term of my first year in Eugene and am starting my first full term with The Student Insurgent, I feel a good deal of reflection is in order. As I flew away from my life in rural upstate New York, I expected to feel the world open up to me and to be engulfed by an array of new experiences reaching out for me, but the romantic projections of my life after high school were met with the reality of the mundanity of the life I have always lived.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 17th, 2023 UO Student Workers Union uostudentworkers@gmail.com | (503) 819-0288 University of Oregon students gathered this afternoon in front of the Global Scholars’ Hall, where they charge a student was illegally fired for supporting a union organizing effort. UO Student Workers is organizing a union for the nearly 3,000 undergraduate student workers on campus – including tutors, dining hall and recreation center workers, teaching and research assistants.

ch0ccyra1n: Alongside contributing to summerisle’s piece Introduction to Anarcho-Nihilism, I also took it upon myself to write the piece Anarchist Leaks the TSA No Fly List because it exposes the racism inherent to the security theater institution in the form of data visualization. This sort of approach to understanding institutional racism has previously been used by W.E.B. DuBois for the 1900 Paris Exposition, and I hope my article will be insightful.

Introduction With the reorganization of The Student Insurgent over the course of the summer including the formation of this committee, it felt right to create a new website. This article discusses what to expect going in, and the philosophy that got to version 2.0 of the website, which is now live as of the publishing of this article. Don’t worry about the old site! You can still access version 1.1.5 (the last version of the old site) at https://old.

The Insurgent is back at last, comrades- did you miss us? We missed you! A lot has happened this summer, both in the community at large and within our own community here at The Student Insurgent. It’s time we check back in and discuss our progress since the April and May issues, in light of months of work that drastically altered the publication’s functioning for the better. As promised, a new editorial board has been fully instated, consisting of eight editorial members and one ombuds position to guarantee well-facilitated meetings and just decision making.

Forwarded from an anonymous trusted source A warm hello to all readers of The Student Insurgent and defenders of reproductive rights everywhere. As you may know by now, we are on the verge of losing reproductive autonomy nationwide. This egregious violation of human rights should shock and disgust anyone with the most basic sense of compassion. With a single unappealable decision penned by a handful of unelected, black-robed ghouls, tens of millions of people will no longer be in full control of their own medical choices.

Originally published to Instagram Following the feedback we received today, we have been carefully considering the response to our initial publication and the following artist’s statement, and we apologize. We apologize for the harm that our actions inflicted, and we have spent much of today reflecting as an organization. We have read every single one of your comments, and we know an apology is not enough. We at the Insurgent recognize that we are predominantly white, therefore we have a heightened responsibility to dismantle racism and hold ourselves accountable when we perpetuate anti-Blackness.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE In a shocking collapse of student autonomy at UO, it appears that the EMU Student Union and its associated funding has been given over to administration control. Sources say that the decision to hand over $17 million of the I-Fee budget was reached by ASUO President Isaiah Boyd. A previous version of this release falsely stated that Boyd made the decision without Senate approval, but the minutes for the Jan.

On February 8th, 2022 the Daily Emerald first reported on the decision by ASUO President Isaiah Boyd to transfer the budget and authority of the EMU out of the ASUO’s Incidental Fee budget to the University of Oregon administration. This development came out of nowhere and was not reported on until the decision was already made. The backroom deal between President Boyd and VP of Student Life Kevin Marbury had zero transparency or public discussion and surprised even the members of the ASUO Senate who were also not briefed on the move to remove the EMU from the I-Fee budget until after it had already occurred.

UOSW Ballot Initiative Statement & Updates Over the past few months, UO Student Workers in collaboration with UOYDSA have been disseminating our Student Labor Survey and meeting with student workers in hopes of collecting stories and opinions about the material conditions of workers at the University of Oregon in order to produce a ballot measure that would expand worker power. Well, the results are in, and they don’t look good: poverty wages, harassment from management and customers, insufficient COVID-19 precautions, shitty scheduling, the list goes on.

Insofar as the rights and interests to which the student workers of University Housing are concerned, a coherent set of goals is necessary. Such goals must be of sufficient scope so as to meaningfully impact student workers and be achievable through methods practical to implement. We, as student workers for University Housing, have both a moral and practical imperative to achieve these goals. Thus I submit this manifesto, a comprehensive list of goals and ideals, so as to give us purpose and something to strive for:

Content Warning: Fascist violence, Police violence

While communities across the West continue to rebuild from the literal ashes of fire seasons past, Oregonians are witnessing the timber industry hastily take what’s left of our fire- burned forests. Post-fire logging is the West’s brand of disaster capitalism. In the aftermath of wildfires, the timber industry turns a profit by advancing extensive logging programs in the name of “forest resilience” and “community fire safety.” Cloaked in nice- sounding euphemisms, post-fire clearcuts are still advancing on public lands and National Forests around Oregon.

Enough Parties, let’s party! The United States of Amerikkka has historically and is today home to no less than a dozen revolutionary socialist political parties. Communist Party USA, Socialist Party USA, Socialist Workers Party, Communist Workers Party, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Revolutionary Communist Party, Socialist Equality Party, Socialist Alternative Party, Socialist Labor Party, the list goes on (and on). Really only two ever even attained relevance, let alone power, those first two, CPUSA and SPUSA, and those waves of relevance were both in the first half of the 20th Century and long gone now.