Anti-Racist Grad Worker Collective at UNC

🌱we are a grassroots worker-led movement🌱
The UNC system needs a #COLA ✊ Reopening campus in a pandemic is deadly 📧 [email protected]

[Anti-Racist Grad Worker Collective at UNC @unc4cola]

White faculty have offered so little material support on this front. The tweet below is the equivalent of “thoughts and prayers.”

Students and grads and workers have risked our security and suffered greatly without them… for decades.

Where’s your strike, white faculty?

[Kurt M Ribisl @KurtRibisl]

I am reeling at hearing the news this morning that a second prominent Black leader this week is leaving her faculty position at UNC. We must fight harder to create a more inclusive environment at Carolina for our faculty, staff, and students. We have work to do.

[UNC Anti-Racist Alerts @UNC_Alerts]

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If you see racists on campus before we do, please text a brief description/location to the number above. Trained verifiers will confirm all tips before sending an alert.

[UNC Anti-Racist Alerts @UNC_Alerts]

We have intel that white supremacists - including one or both of those who desecrated Unsung Founders Memorial - may be at UNC-CH at some point on Friday, 8/20 (the 3rd anniversary of the Silent Sam toppling).

We will send an SMS alert if we see them or other racists on campus.

[Lindsay Ayling @AylingLindsay]

Faculty Council took a similar line with Carol Folt (she must be defended because the next chancellor will be worse)

Our chancellors will always be terrible, so let's challenge the power of the office (and the BOG, BOT, other structures) rather than defend the awful status quo.

[Lindsay Ayling @AylingLindsay]

Again, UNC Police were watching the whole time. They didn't try to prevent the monument being desecrated.

Putting more racist cops by Unsung Founders will do nothing except make it a more threatening and unwelcoming environment for BIPOC students and community members.

[UNC Anti-Racist Alerts @UNC_Alerts]

UNC must take steps now to address the Black Student Movement’s demands. Make it clear to dangerous white supremacists that they are not welcome on campus. Renovate Unsung Founders to stop the routine disrespect for enslaved & free Black workers who built this campus.

[Lindsay Ayling @AylingLindsay]

Anti-racists cleaned and placed flowers on Unsung Founders memorial.

Police watched from their cars for over an hour and did nothing to prevent the desecration of the monument. Contrast this with the hundreds of thousands they spent trying to protect Silent Sam.

[Lindsay Ayling @AylingLindsay]

Acting UNC Police Chief Holland was the cop who punched a Black student during the demonstration in favor of Nikole Hannah-Jones.

[Anti-Racist Grad Worker Collective at UNC @unc4cola]

🖤 Urgent call for solidarity 🖤 Show up for this community member who needs our support. Fundraiser linked blow. https://t.co/bFyqmIdkJk

[RI DaSēr @so_treu]

Which was put on full display over the last couple of years with the Silent Sam fiasco and the school targeting the queer Black grad student who started the protests. None of this is surprising or unexpected if you've been paying attention.

[Joe Killian @JoekillianNC]

Gang, we should talk about some of the things I saw at yesterday's #UNC BOT meeting on tenure for #NikoleHannahJones.

I should start by saying my observations are informed by 20 years of professional reporting - covering cops and courts, local and state government, higher ed.

[Lamar Richards @lamarrichards_]

“…makes clear to me one thing — racism is alive and kicking. The idea or notion that this was simply about freedom of speech or academic freedom is false; this, my friends, is about the freedom to be Black in America.” https://t.co/9eIOItx2yQ