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Cops off campus, COLA in my bank account: UC Santa Cruz Graduate Student Strike and Police Abolition
Abstract
“Cops off campus, COLA in my bank account” chanted the protesters demanding a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) and for their institution, University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), to disband university police. UCSC graduate student workers have been demanding a COLA to cope with the skyrocketing cost of living and cost of rent in Santa Cruz since Fall 2019. In December, UCSC graduate students went on a grading strike and in February on a teaching strike. COVID-19 obliterated in-person organizing and ended our picket line; but it advanced digital organizing across all 10 University of California campuses. Now, a state-wide coalition of students, workers, and faculty demands to get cops off of all of our campuses.
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