(9 May 2024)
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Los Angeles - 9 May 2024
1. Various, UCLA faculty & staff hold protest signs and march to campus rally
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Berreto, UCLA Chicano Studies Professor:
"We're here today to demand three actions to begin our community's repair, including one, the immediate resignation of Chancellor (Gene) Block and a vote of no confidence and a vote of no confidence from the UCLA Academic Senate. Number two, that all legal charges be dropped for all students, staff and faculty who were involved in the encampment and peaceful protest, as well as the subsequent ongoing arrests of any UCLA affiliates, legal and academic amnesty. And third, that UCLA issued a written report within 30 days to fully disclose all investments and call on UCLA to divest from all military weapons production companies and supporting systems, and to maintain active dialog with the demands of the student protesters."
3. Various professors at rally holding protest signs
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Charlene Villasenor Black, UCLA Chicano Studies Chair:
"The university administration has gotten it wrong every time and shamefully put our students' lives in danger. As a department that exists in large part thanks to acts of civil disobedience, we feel especially strongly that the university must protect our students' rights to free speech and peaceful protests."
5. Professor holds "UCLA Faculty for Free Palestine" sign
STORYLINE:
Some professors at UCLA are demanding that the administration stop its plan to punish students recently arrested while protesting the ongoing war in Gaza at a tent encampment on campus.

The faculty held a press conference Thursday to announce their demands, which also includes the resignation of UCLA Chancellor Gene Block over his administration's handling of the protest.

They blamed Block for the violence that broke out last week when Pro-Israel counter protestors engaged in a violent confrontation with pro-Palestinian students while police failed to intervene.

After the violence, hundreds of the students were arrested and the encampment removed.

More than one thousand UCLA faculty and staff have signed a letter decrying the chancellor's actions.

They said the Academic Senate will hold a vote of no confidence in Block on Friday.

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