Teresa Watanabe
@TeresaWatanabe
I cover higher education for the @latimes. Previously on K-12 ed/immigration/religion/Japan/Asia biz. [email protected]
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https://www.latimes.com/la-bio-teresa-watanabe-staff.html 18-06-2012 21:40:44
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At Cal State LA, pro-Palestinian protests are ardent but smaller and quieter than the rancor at UCLA USC and other campuses. Melissa Gomez explores why. bit.ly/3UUS98B
Chancellor Gene Block heads to DC to face questioning from Congress about antisemitism at UCLA. Block says he's personally experienced antisemitism but that Islamophobia, anti-Arab hate & all bigotry are also unacceptable. Jaweed Kaleem Andrea Castillo bit.ly/3KdXhiW
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THIS PHOTO by Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times capturing police moving in on pro-Palestinian protesters at UC Irvine.
Police arrest 50 protesters on charges of 'failure to disperse after a direct police order' and a few for trespassing. bit.ly/4amGh4P
Academic workers across University of California authorize strike, alleging rights violated during protests.
Their aim: 'maximize chaos.' Less than half vote (19,780 of 48k represented by UAW 4811) but 79% of them authorized strike. via Jaweed Kaleem suhauna hussain bit.ly/3V3t6RO
BREAKING: UC Berkeley reaches agreement with pro-Palestinian protesters. Encampment taken down. UCB won't divest from Israel (@uofcalifornia position) but will assess investments in weapons, mass incarceration, surveillance industries.
Details here: documentcloud.org/documents/2466…
More on new agreement between UC Berkeley & pro-Palestinian protesters:
Chancellor Carol Christ says she backs a ceasefire in Gaza and that support for the plight of Palestinians, including protests, 'should not be conflated with hatred or antisemitism.'
'I, too, am concerned
NEW: Pro-Palestinian protesters at UC Berkeley remove most tents in encampment - without police or arrests amid campus talks.
'Protests don't end with police action. They end with negotiations,' says Chancellor Carol Christ. Jaweed Kaleem Hannah Wiley
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NEW: University of California investments in entities with ties to weapons makers, Israel, Blackrock, Blackstone and 24 other companies targeted by divestment proponents amount to about $32 billion of UC's $175 billion. Per Chief Investment Officer Jagdeep Singh Bachher.
Weapons: $3.3