University of Michigan graduate workers protest for Palestine
by Michael Mueller and Promise Li
Tempest’s Promise Li interviews Michael Mueller, an arrestee during a November 17 Palestine protest at the University of Michigan.
CUNY for Palestine
Two statements of solidarity
by CUNY for PalestineTwo statements by people affiliated with the City University of New York and related colleges in support of the Palestinian people.
Get ready for a fiery fall
Building on the year’s academic labor fights
by Dana CloudTempest’s Dana Cloud surveys the year’s labor struggles in higher education and concludes that the moment may be right for another surge.
Their indoctrination and ours
by Tyler Thier
As the right wing tries to impose restrictions on what can be taught, Tyler Thier says that educators should fight back by exposing students to deliberately provocative material.
Intersectional organizing wall-to-wall at Rutgers
Interview with Rutgers professor Deepa Kumar
by Dana Cloud and Deepa KumarTempest member Dana Cloud spoke to Rutgers professor and AAUP-AFT leader Deepa Kumar about how the union united faculty and graduate students across academic ranks in a strike that brought the administration to the bargaining table and won major gains. This strike is a signal moment in the higher education labor movement.
“We shut this place down because everybody walked out”
Interview with Rutgers workers about their strike
by Mel Bienenfeld, Hank Kalet, and Sebastian LeonTempest member Mel Bienenfeld interviewed with Rutgers workers Hank Kalet and Sebastian Leon about their historic strike, its methods, and its gains.
Resisting the backlash
Tempest panel to defend Black studies
by Kristen Godfrey, Jesse Hagopian, Daniel HoSang, and Phil GasperSpeakers on the Tempest Panel “Resisting the Backlash, Defending Black Studies” look to educator organizing and labor movements in higher education as inspiring sites of struggle to defend Black studies against the right-wing backlash.
Resisting the backlash
The fight to defend Black studies
by Dana CloudA Tempest Collective event on Sunday, March 26 at 2 pm EDT.
Princeton graduate workers are fighting like tigers for a union
by Promise Li
Tempest member Promise Li reports on the recently announced union card campaign launched last month by PGSU at Princeton University.
Victory for the Dartmouth student workers
We demanded $21 an hour! We got $21 an hour!
by Nancy WelchTempest member Nancy Welch interviews Grace Hillery, a sophomore and member of the Student Workers Collective at Dartmouth, on their recent union contract victory for student workers.