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Black grad students @UChicago are joining the #MoreThanDiversity strike by withholding their labor from diversity committees and refusing to help recruit Black students to campus until the university meets their demands for #abolition and #reparations. docs.google.com/document/d/1DO…
The original faculty letter (also calling for abolition and various forms of reparations on and off-campus) can be found here docs.google.com/document/d/1ks…
They also are calling for a full outside boycott of all UChicago sponsored events (seminars, workshops, conferences, etc.).
They also are calling for a full outside boycott of all UChicago sponsored events (seminars, workshops, conferences, etc.).
Additional, specific, reparative demands that are now part of the student letter include increased funding and scholarships for Black grad students, a "formal grievance and reconciliation process" for acts of racism, and grad student participation in university governance.
Faculty members at the University of Chicago just announced that they are going on a partial strike & calling for a worldwide boycott of the University of Chicago until demands for #reparations, #abolition, and democratic university governance are met. docs.google.com/document/d/1ks…
Also included in the demands are the creation of an Critical Race Studies Department, increased funding for the @CSRPC, and democratic control of all Diversity and Inclusion activities on campus. In short, faculty are demanding #MoreThanDiversity.
Please read the full letter and sign on if you can. This has got to be one of the most forward thinking, transformative faculty actions that I have heard of across the nation.
