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[2.4] #UCLA’s militarization of campus chilled academic freedom, faculty association and the right to protest university policies, thereby interfering with employee rights.

[2.3] #UCLA also overreached by closing campus activities and flooding campus with with dozens of security guards between May 6-10.

[2.2] May 16’s overbroad gag rule essentially bans any possibility of engaging these important events as a “teaching moment”.

[2.1] On May 16, for instance, the university prohibited faculty from discussing the UAW strike or any union-related matter with any employee or student.

[2] #UCLA adopted overbroad rules in the aftermath of the attack and police sweep, thereby interfering with faculty members’ exercise of their protected rights, including right to academic freedom.

[1.4] #UCLA’s conduct discourages faculty members from engaging in strikes, pickets, and other activity protected by HEERA, for fear of further violent repression.

[1.3] Like our students, faculty were brutalized and arrested in violation of the UC’s own policies of de-escalation and minimal police presence in response to protests.

[1.2] In doing so, #UCLA interfered with faculty’s protected right to advocate and organize regarding matters that impact workplace safety (i.e. protecting students, graduate workers, faculty colleagues, and staff who exercised their right to protest).