Power to the WMU Professors, Anti-Genocide Protests on Campus, and More

In this post Labor Day episode we begin with an update about some local organized labor. The WMU Association of American University Professors are still fighting for what they are owed and points out how the administration has disinvested from faculty and made their jobs both more expensive and more difficult. The union also saw tattered fliers on the steps of their HQ, and points the finger at how the administration is attempting to pit WMU workers against each other.

 

We then pivot to how the ongoing protests against the genocide in Gaza will be playing out on college campuses. An article from LeftVoice provides us a broad national overview, and some coverage from the World Socialist Web Site and Bridge Michigan paint a concise picture on how suppression is playing out at the University of Michigan.

 

We close by starting the school year properly with a deft summation of the state of affairs at the American university from author, organizer, and scholar Henry A. Giroux.

 

1:30- 14:30 Updates on WMU AAUP's Contract Negotiations w/ Administration

 

15:20- 40:20 Suppression of Campus Anti-Genocide Protests Around the U.S. and at U of M

 

42:00- 1:02:45 Henry A. Giroux on How Whitewashing History Paves the Road to Fascism

 

SOURCES/ FURTHER READING

Destruction at union headquarters as WMU ramps up its campaign against its own employees
https://thewmuaaup.com/2024/08/29/destruction-at-union-headquarters-as-wmu-ramps-up-its-campaign-against-its-own-employees/

 

Stolen wages at Western Michigan University: The nickel and diming of WMU-AAUP employees
https://thewmuaaup.com/2024/09/01/stolen-wages-at-western-michigan-university-the-nickel-and-diming-of-wmu-aaup-employees/

 

As Classes Start, Universities Begin a New Wave of Repression Against the Palestine Movement
https://www.leftvoice.org/as-classes-begin-universities-begin-a-new-wave-of-repression-against-the-palestine-movement/

 

University of Michigan institutes authoritarian attacks on due process and free speech rights
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/08/26/clvc-a26.html

 

As University of Michigan classes resume, so do pro-Palestinian demonstrations
https://www.bridgemi.com/talent-education/university-michigan-classes-resume-so-do-pro-palestinian-demonstrations

 

The Right’s Push to Whitewash History Is a Precursor to Fascism
https://truthout.org/articles/the-rights-push-to-whitewash-history-is-a-precursor-to-fascism/

 

Student Debt and Class Struggle in the U.S.
https://mediacyphers.podbean.com/e/bonus-student-debt-and-class-struggle-in-the-us/