#Teaching assts #StudentWorkers on #UCLA campus repped by #UAW #union have voted to authorize a strike "in response to UC's unprecedented acts of intimidation and #retaliation directed at our rights as academic employees to free speech, protest, and collective action. Our members have been #beaten, concussed, #PepperSprayed, both by counter-protestors and by #police forces. As a union, it is our responsibility to stand beside them and demand that UC stop committing these gross Unfair Labor Practices," the UAW said. UAW Local 4811 is demanding that UC grant #amnesty to academic #employees, #students, #faculty and staff in disciplinary actions related to campus #Gaza protests.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/05/16/University-California-strike-Gaza-protests/2441715870438/ #UniversityOfCalifornia #Labor #Education

#Fascist #Italian #government's #antiLGBT #rhetoric blamed for #brutal #Police #beating of #trans #woman in #milan #Italy

A #video of a trans woman in Milan being #peppersprayed, #kicked and #beaten by three #policeofficers has caused a stir in Italy.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Italy #Fascism #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Transphobia #MoralPanic #HateSpeech #StochasticTerrorism #Hatecrimes #NoPoliceAtPride

https://www.euronews.com/2023/05/26/italian-governments-anti-lgbt-rhetoric-blamed-for-brutal-beating-of-trans-woman-in-milan