Jim Crow 2 , Fascism & The General Strike UFCLP Class
https://youtu.be/-eQaeTJ29B0
This panel is about the rise of Jim Crow 2, Fascism and the need for a general strike was held by United Front Committee For A Labor Party
This panel was on 5/27/26
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Jim Crow 2 , Fascism & The General Strike UFCLP Class

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On July 4th 2026: Fight Against Ellison's Fascist Control of The Media & Defense Of KPFA & Pacifica
https://youtu.be/06cN29Oivb8
On July 4, 2026 the 250th anniversary of the US a rally was held outside the offices of fascist Larry Ellison's Oracle offices in Redwood City.… Ellison and his son David through Oracle is financing the corporate capture of major parts of the US media including CBS, Warner, TikTok, CNN and Paramount.
Tens of thousands of Paramount workers will lose their jobs if they take over Paramount since they have borrowed $49 billion to complete the purchase.
Part of his take-over plans is also to support the Israeli genocidal war on Palestinians. He has personally contributed millions of dollars to the IDF.
The rally was also called to launch the campaign to defend the democratic control of the Pacifica network which has been threatened by a corporate centralization of the network and the elimination of local community programming and control.
Speakers running for Pacifica and KFPA spoke at the Oracle rally and talked about the struggle for democratic media and the fascist take-over of CBS, Warner, TikTok, Paramount, CNN by Larry Ellison and his son
David who owns Skydance Media.
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ILWU10 Workers Protest Unloading At Levin Terminal Of Ship Of Sugar To Bust ILWU6 C&H Strikers
https://youtu.be/QEkB5QUAQG8
The C&H Sugar refinery in Crockett owned by ASR could not unload ship of sugar cane from the Philippines at the C&H docks because ILWU Local 10 members …refused to work since their fellow ILWU Local 6 members were on strike at the sugar refinery.
The company then moved the sugar ship to the industrial Levin Terminal in Richmond and was working to unload the sugar at this terminal with oil, steel and coal.
Local 10 longshore workers talked about the work along with the issues and Harvey Schwarz, the ILWU historian and author talked about the history of the ILWU Local 6 longshore workers at Crocket which was organizing in 1937.
This interview was done on July 23, 2026
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U.S. to Overhaul Radiation Safety Rules to Spur Nuclear Expansion
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission plans to end longstanding guidance that radiation exposure be “as low as reasonably achievable.”
…https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/climate/nrc-radiation-regulation-nuclear-overhaul.html?searchResultPosition=1

White steam pours out of four cooling towers at a nuclear plant in Georgia.
The proposed rule changes could make it cheaper and easier to build and operate new nuclear power plants in the United States.Credit…Audra Melton for The New York Times

By Brad Plumer
Published July 1, 2026
Updated July 2, 2026
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday proposed overhauling its safety rules for radiation exposure from nuclear power plants, saying that the current regulations are too costly and go beyond what is needed to protect human health.

The N.R.C. would keep its existing limits on the maximum amount of radiation that workers and the public can receive each year. But it is proposing to eliminate a principle in place for decades that said nuclear-plant operators should keep radiation exposure “as low as reasonably achievable.” In some cases, that meant regulators could order plants to install additional equipment to drive radiation exposure far below the legal limits.

The agency said that this often led to additional costs “without a measurable safety benefit.” It added that the maximum dose limits were already set “well below levels associated with known health effects.”

The N.R.C. also proposed on Wednesday a sweeping package of changes aimed at simplifying the process for choosing locations for and licensing new nuclear reactors.

Taken together, the rule changes could make it cheaper and easier to build and operate new nuclear power plants in the United States. The Trump administration has urged the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the nation’s safety regulator, to streamline its rules in order to greatly expand the use of nuclear power.

“N.R.C.’s regulations have not kept pace with new technologies and our energy needs,” said Ho Nieh, the chairman of the commission. The proposed rules, he said, would “strip out rigid frameworks and unnecessary conservatism to accelerate the safe deployment of new reactors and expand existing capacity across America.”

The new rules wade into a longstanding and often fierce debate over how much protection against low levels of radiation is worthwhile.

Experts agree that high doses of radiation are dangerous and can cause various types of cancer. But there’s much more disagreement about the effects of lower doses of radiation, such as the amounts that workers at nuclear power plants might receive in the course of their jobs.

Different studies have found that low doses can be harmful, neutral or even beneficial. Many researchers say the science is inconclusive, particularly since people are naturally exposed to varying amounts of background radiation in day-to-day life.

For decades, many researchers and regulators have tried to simplify things by adopting what’s known as the “linear no-threshold model,” which says that the effects of radiation scale down linearly with the dose, and that even tiny amounts of radiation can have small negative effects. While researchers say it’s extremely difficult to prove or disprove this model, some say it’s a reasonable precaution.

Since the 1970s, regulators have in turn adopted the principle that radiation exposure from nuclear power plants should be kept “as low as reasonably achievable.” That might mean installing additional shielding and equipment at plants or hiring more workers so that they could be rotated more often in order to keep radiation exposure to each individual as low as possible. And it means operators should always be looking for ways to limit exposure further.

Yet supporters of nuclear power have argued that shifting targets for safety make it more difficult and expensive to build and operate nuclear plants — which produce far less air pollution than coal- or gas-burning power plants — with little detectable safety benefit.

In its proposed rule, the N.R.C. said that instead of requiring radiation exposure be “as low as reasonably achievable,” it would allow more flexibility for plant operators to manage exposure and adopt new methods for evaluating radiation doses. The agency is also proposing to allow certain medical workers who work with radioactive materials to voluntarily receive higher doses.

“Our radiation dose limits remain unchanged. What we’re eliminating is unnecessary ambiguity,” Mr. Nieh said.

Some experts said the new rules were unlikely to cause major changes at existing plants, since many plant operators already keep radiation exposure far below the maximum legal limits.
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Steam pipes snake from turbines inside the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia.
Since the 1970s, federal regulators have held a standard saying that nuclear power plants should keep the amount of radiation that workers and the public are exposed to “as low as reasonably achievable.”Credit…Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times
Current U.S. nuclear plants “already operate far below what the regulatory limits are because they recognize it’s the best practice for the operations of the plant and the workers,” said Patrick White, an expert on nuclear power at the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental group. “It’s hard to imagine operators changing that just because the regulations are changing.”

Others have suggested that the new rules could make it easier for companies to develop new plants. The Breakthrough Institute, a pronuclear group, published research suggesting that moving away from the “as low as reasonably achievable” standard could cut the cost of building reactors by as much as 20 percent because developers might need to use less steel, concrete, shielding and labor.

Opponents of nuclear power criticized the new rules. The changes “would allow nuclear facility workers and the general public to be exposed to higher levels of cancer-causing radiation just to save the nuclear industry money,” said Edwin Lyman, the director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a frequent critic of the industry.

Separately, the agency said it was streamlining an array of rules that developers of nuclear power plants have to follow for siting, building and licensing plants. Traditionally, for instance, companies have to receive an N.R.C. license before they can begin construction. The new rules could allow companies to conduct more types of early site work while they wait for N.R.C. approval, allowing them to speed up project timelines.

The agency will solicit public comment on both proposed rules for 45 days and is expected to finalize them later this year.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission was established by Congress as an independent agency responsible for overseeing the safety of the nation’s nuclear power plants and approving plans for new reactors. The agency’s safety rules, which have become more stringent since the 1970s, have sometimes been blamed for the slowdown in construction of U.S. nuclear plants. Only three new reactors have come online since 1996.

Since taking office, President Trump has sought to exert greater authority over the agency, including breaking precedent by firing one of its Democratic commissioners last year. (The five-member board traditionally has commissioners appointed by both parties who serve for fixed terms. It currently has three Republican appointees and two Democratic appointees.)

Last May, Mr. Trump issued a series of executive orders telling the N.R.C. to overhaul its rules and take no more than 18 months to approve new reactors. Mr. Trump has also ordered the agency to clear all major regulatory decisions with the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, creating a new level of political oversight.

Mr. Nieh, who was appointed by Mr. Trump, has said that the agency will continue to make its own decisions. “There’s no political pressure on our safety decisions,” he said on Wednesday.

Nuclear power has attracted bipartisan interest in the United States in recent years, particularly as demand for electricity rises. Nuclear reactors don’t emit planet-warming greenhouse gases, unlike coal and gas plants, and they can produce electricity around the clock, unlike wind turbines and solar panels. While some Democrats remain opposed because of concerns over safety and the disposal of nuclear waste, others have come to see it as a tool to fight climate change.

In 2024, Congress overwhelmingly passed a bill aimed at speeding up the development of a new generation of nuclear plants. Since then, the N.R.C. has taken several steps to streamline its regulatory processes, including issuing permits for new reactors in Wyoming and Tennessee within 18 months, a quick pace for the agency.

Still, some Democrats who support nuclear energy are concerned that the Trump administration may be moving too fast.

The Energy Department, for instance, is encouraging start-ups to build a new generation of small demonstration reactors on federal land under an accelerated approval process that does not involve the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Those reactors could then apply for N.R.C. approval under a new streamlined pathway, a process that some Democrats have criticized as lacking transparency.
Brad Plumer is a Times reporter who covers technology and policy efforts to address global warming.

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Time, Place & Manner: Scott Wiener, Gavin Newsom & The Attack On Democratic Rights In Education
https://youtu.be/6wuFS4FfeAI
SJSU Professor Dr. Sang Kil at a victory press conference returning her to her job at San Jose Sate University
reported that California Governor Gavin …Newsom and Congressional candidate Scott Wiener were involved in
targeting Palestinian student, faculty and union supporters at CSU, UC and K-12 with rules such as Time, Place
and Manner as well as SB 715 which says criticism of Israel's genocide is anti-Semitism and coerces teachers
not to have any discussion of Palestine and the genocide.
The attack on democratic rights by Democratic Party politicians according to Professor Kil is helping to set up a
repressive state.
The leadership of UAW 4811 and UAW Region 6 are supporting the candidacy of Scott Wiener for Congress to
replace former House leader Nancy Pelosi.
This press conference was in front of the MLK Library at San Jose State University on June 30, 2026.
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$12B science bond to offset Trump research cuts misses California ballot deadline
University of California leaders, UAW 4811, UAW Region6 and scientists had supported the bill, which they called critical to securing the future of science in the state.
…https://www.berkeleyside.org/2026/06/29/12b-science-bond-to-offset-trump-research-cuts-misses-california-ballot-deadline
By Felicia Mello
June 29, 2026, 2:19 p.m.

California Assembly Member Pilar Schiavo listens to Caltech Ph.D. student Isaac Aguilar explain his research on metals found in the ash following the Los Angeles fires during a science fair for threatened and cancelled research held in Sacramento on Jan. 26. Credit: Fred Greaves for Berkeleyside
A proposed $12 billion bond measure to fund scientific research missed a deadline last week to qualify for the November ballot, dimming the hopes of scholars and University of California leaders who had aimed to use the funds to backfill losses in federal grants.

Are you a UC researcher whose work has been affected by federal grant cancellations?
Send me an email to reporter Felicia Mello at felicia@berkeleyside.org, or message her on Signal at Felicia.97.
State Sen. Scott Wiener urged state legislative leaders on Friday to extend the deadline and place the measure on the ballot in a joint statement with two other authors of the bill and a union leader, saying the Trump administration’s slashing of federal science funding “calls for real urgency.” (Any deal would likely need to happen before July 2, when the Legislature is set to adjourn for the summer.)

The bond proposal came as the administration has canceled thousands of grants to scientists nationwide that it said didn’t align with its priorities and is proposing rules that would further politicize federal grantmaking. UC Berkeley alone has lost tens of millions in funding from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies.

“The University of California is facing the most significant disruption to our research enterprise in our history,” UC President James Milliken said at a May rally in support of the bond.

The bill would have given Californians the opportunity to vote in November on whether to set up a state fund to support research in curing deadly diseases, preventing wildfires, tackling climate change and other scientific quests. In addition to raising $12 billion through a bond measure, the state would also have collected private donations, and would have received a portion of the revenue from inventions developed with money from the fund.

State Sen. Scott Wiener, who has proposed the multi-billion-dollar scientific research fund, talks at the science fair in January. Credit: Fred Greaves for Berkeleyside
Originally designed to raise $23 billion, the proposal was scaled down during the legislative process and passed the state Senate with bipartisan support. But it failed to make it to the Assembly floor before Thursday’s deadline for measures to qualify for the November ballot.

Nick Miller, a spokesperson for Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, said legislative leaders — who typically come to an agreement with the governor before placing bonds on the ballot — faced painful choices as they tried to plan for Medicaid cuts and other federal policy changes that were likely to impact the state in the near future.

“Trump’s full-scale assault on California touches nearly every public service and program,” Miller wrote in an email. “California simply cannot backfill all these draconian cuts — and the economic chaos Trump has unleashed forces the state to prepare for even more uncertainty ahead, severely constraining bonding capacity.”

A spokesperson for the governor’s office did not respond to messages seeking comment.

As California’s leading public research university, UC Berkeley would have likely benefited significantly from the state fund, along with other UC campuses, private universities and labs.

“Scientific discoveries are absolutely critical to working families across California,” Mike Miller, president of United Auto Workers Region 6, a union that represents UC scientists, said in a joint statement Friday with Wiener and Assembly coauthor José Luis Solache. They urged the Assembly, Senate and Governor Gavin Newsom to place the bond on the ballot, saying it would “secure the future of science in California.”

Researchers say their jobs have become more unstable as Trump administration has pulled back on funding

The campaign for SB 895 marked a rare moment of collaboration between the leadership of the UC and unions representing the university’s scientists, both of which sponsored the bill. Early-career scientists in particular emerged from their labs to hold a mock science fair, gather signatures from the public, and otherwise try to convince legislators that their work is critical to the state’s future.

large-science-saves-lives_2026_01_26_FG23488.jpeg
Christopher Rae, a UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher who is investigating potential new treatments for tuberculosis, at the January science fair. Credit: Fred Greaves for Berkeleyside
Lara Schwarz, a UC Berkeley postdoc who studies how heat waves and wildfire affect human health, said job opportunities in her field were far more scarce than they had been just two years ago, as the National Institutes of Health pulled back on funding.

“California is experiencing more and more heat waves and wildfire smoke events and that’s not going away anytime soon,” she said. “The fact that we won’t have the funding to research this and understand how to respond is going to lead to drastic consequences on the health of Californians.”

The science bond, she hoped, could prevent researchers like her from needing to go abroad to pursue their work — or leaving the field altogether.

Housing bond may have crowded science bond off the ballot

Science bond supporters also faced competition from another pressing California challenge: the state’s housing crisis. Last week, Newsom struck an agreement with legislative leaders to place an $11 billion bond measure on the ballot that would fund the building and preservation of affordable housing.

Because bonds are essentially large loans the state takes out, with taxpayers paying the interest, their supporters often worry that having more than one such big-ticket measure on the ballot can weaken voter buy-in. State leaders, too, fear taking on too much debt. Voters are also set to decide in November on a more narrowly focused $8 billion bond measure, backed by billionaire philanthropist Gary Michelson and some patient advocacy groups, that would fund research into immunotherapy for serious diseases.

While court rulings have restored many of the grants to UC researchers that the Trump administration had sought to cancel, deep uncertainty remains about the future of federal science funding. Rules proposed by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget last month would require political appointees to review all new grants to ensure they serve the president’s priorities.

And in April, the National Science Foundation suspended another $21 million in research grants to UC Berkeley, saying the university failed to report foreign funding received by the projects’ principal investigators, a charge some of those researchers denied.

$12B science bond to offset Trump research cuts misses California ballot deadline

University of California leaders and scientists had supported the bill, which they called critical to securing the future of science in the state.

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$12B science bond to offset Trump research cuts misses California ballot deadline
University of California leaders, UAW 4811, UAW Region6 and scientists had supported the bill, which they called critical to securing the future of science in the state.
…https://www.berkeleyside.org/2026/06/29/12b-science-bond-to-offset-trump-research-cuts-misses-california-ballot-deadline
By Felicia Mello
June 29, 2026, 2:19 p.m.

California Assembly Member Pilar Schiavo listens to Caltech Ph.D. student Isaac Aguilar explain his research on metals found in the ash following the Los Angeles fires during a science fair for threatened and cancelled research held in Sacramento on Jan. 26. Credit: Fred Greaves for Berkeleyside
A proposed $12 billion bond measure to fund scientific research missed a deadline last week to qualify for the November ballot, dimming the hopes of scholars and University of California leaders who had aimed to use the funds to backfill losses in federal grants.

Are you a UC researcher whose work has been affected by federal grant cancellations?
Send me an email to reporter Felicia Mello at felicia@berkeleyside.org, or message her on Signal at Felicia.97.
State Sen. Scott Wiener urged state legislative leaders on Friday to extend the deadline and place the measure on the ballot in a joint statement with two other authors of the bill and a union leader, saying the Trump administration’s slashing of federal science funding “calls for real urgency.” (Any deal would likely need to happen before July 2, when the Legislature is set to adjourn for the summer.)

The bond proposal came as the administration has canceled thousands of grants to scientists nationwide that it said didn’t align with its priorities and is proposing rules that would further politicize federal grantmaking. UC Berkeley alone has lost tens of millions in funding from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies.

“The University of California is facing the most significant disruption to our research enterprise in our history,” UC President James Milliken said at a May rally in support of the bond.

The bill would have given Californians the opportunity to vote in November on whether to set up a state fund to support research in curing deadly diseases, preventing wildfires, tackling climate change and other scientific quests. In addition to raising $12 billion through a bond measure, the state would also have collected private donations, and would have received a portion of the revenue from inventions developed with money from the fund.

State Sen. Scott Wiener, who has proposed the multi-billion-dollar scientific research fund, talks at the science fair in January. Credit: Fred Greaves for Berkeleyside
Originally designed to raise $23 billion, the proposal was scaled down during the legislative process and passed the state Senate with bipartisan support. But it failed to make it to the Assembly floor before Thursday’s deadline for measures to qualify for the November ballot.

Nick Miller, a spokesperson for Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, said legislative leaders — who typically come to an agreement with the governor before placing bonds on the ballot — faced painful choices as they tried to plan for Medicaid cuts and other federal policy changes that were likely to impact the state in the near future.

“Trump’s full-scale assault on California touches nearly every public service and program,” Miller wrote in an email. “California simply cannot backfill all these draconian cuts — and the economic chaos Trump has unleashed forces the state to prepare for even more uncertainty ahead, severely constraining bonding capacity.”

A spokesperson for the governor’s office did not respond to messages seeking comment.

As California’s leading public research university, UC Berkeley would have likely benefited significantly from the state fund, along with other UC campuses, private universities and labs.

“Scientific discoveries are absolutely critical to working families across California,” Mike Miller, president of United Auto Workers Region 6, a union that represents UC scientists, said in a joint statement Friday with Wiener and Assembly coauthor José Luis Solache. They urged the Assembly, Senate and Governor Gavin Newsom to place the bond on the ballot, saying it would “secure the future of science in California.”

Researchers say their jobs have become more unstable as Trump administration has pulled back on funding

The campaign for SB 895 marked a rare moment of collaboration between the leadership of the UC and unions representing the university’s scientists, both of which sponsored the bill. Early-career scientists in particular emerged from their labs to hold a mock science fair, gather signatures from the public, and otherwise try to convince legislators that their work is critical to the state’s future.

large-science-saves-lives_2026_01_26_FG23488.jpeg
Christopher Rae, a UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher who is investigating potential new treatments for tuberculosis, at the January science fair. Credit: Fred Greaves for Berkeleyside
Lara Schwarz, a UC Berkeley postdoc who studies how heat waves and wildfire affect human health, said job opportunities in her field were far more scarce than they had been just two years ago, as the National Institutes of Health pulled back on funding.

“California is experiencing more and more heat waves and wildfire smoke events and that’s not going away anytime soon,” she said. “The fact that we won’t have the funding to research this and understand how to respond is going to lead to drastic consequences on the health of Californians.”

The science bond, she hoped, could prevent researchers like her from needing to go abroad to pursue their work — or leaving the field altogether.

Housing bond may have crowded science bond off the ballot

Science bond supporters also faced competition from another pressing California challenge: the state’s housing crisis. Last week, Newsom struck an agreement with legislative leaders to place an $11 billion bond measure on the ballot that would fund the building and preservation of affordable housing.

Because bonds are essentially large loans the state takes out, with taxpayers paying the interest, their supporters often worry that having more than one such big-ticket measure on the ballot can weaken voter buy-in. State leaders, too, fear taking on too much debt. Voters are also set to decide in November on a more narrowly focused $8 billion bond measure, backed by billionaire philanthropist Gary Michelson and some patient advocacy groups, that would fund research into immunotherapy for serious diseases.

While court rulings have restored many of the grants to UC researchers that the Trump administration had sought to cancel, deep uncertainty remains about the future of federal science funding. Rules proposed by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget last month would require political appointees to review all new grants to ensure they serve the president’s priorities.

And in April, the National Science Foundation suspended another $21 million in research grants to UC Berkeley, saying the university failed to report foreign funding received by the projects’ principal investigators, a charge some of those researchers denied.

$12B science bond to offset Trump research cuts misses California ballot deadline

University of California leaders and scientists had supported the bill, which they called critical to securing the future of science in the state.

www.berkeleyside.org

SJSU professor fired for pro-Palestinian activism sues university
Sang Hea Kil, who was fired in 2025, has sued San Jose State University for discrimination
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/06/30/sjsu-professor-fired-for-pro-palestinian-activism-sues-university/
Sang Hea Kil, the San …Jose State University justice studies professor who was terminated for her pro-Palestinian activism and then later reinstated, speaks during a press conference outside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Tuesday, June 30, 2026, in San Jose, Calif. Kil announced Monday that she has sued the California State University Board of Trustees and SJSU for violating her rights under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the First Amendment.
Sang Hea Kil, the San Jose State University justice studies professor who was terminated for her pro-Palestinian activism and then later reinstated, speaks during a press conference outside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Tuesday, June 30, 2026, in San Jose, Calif. Kil announced Monday that she has sued the California State University Board of Trustees and SJSU for violating her rights under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the First Amendment. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
Molly Gibbs is a Bay Area News Group reporter.webp
By MOLLY GIBBS | mgibbs@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: June 30, 2026 at 3:45 PM PDT | UPDATED: July 1, 2026 at 4:37 AM PDT

Sang Hea Kil, the San José State University professor who was fired for her pro-Palestinian activism in 2025, is suing the college, alleging the school discriminated and retaliated against her, subjected her to a “hostile work environment,” and violated her First Amendment rights.

The civil rights lawsuit, which was filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court in late May, but not announced until Monday, follows an arbitrator’s ruling last week that overturned Kil’s termination, deeming it an “excessive” punishment for a professor of more than 17 years with no prior disciplinary action. The arbitrator said it should be reduced to a one-month unpaid suspension and awarded her back pay.

The lawsuit seeks $10 million in damages and names as defendants the California State University board of trustees, SJSU president Cynthia Teniente-Matson, SJSU Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Vincent Del Casino and former SJSU Interim Senior Associate Vice President for University Personnel, Jeanne Durr.

“This is an incredible victory for free speech, academic freedom, student protest, freedom of assembly and pro-Palestine speech on campus and beyond,” Kil said at a press conference Tuesday outside SJSU’s Martin Luther King Jr. Library to announce her lawsuit and celebrate her reinstatement. “This is our victory. Let’s use this as a watershed moment to turn the tide against targeted repression on our campus and in this nation.”

In a statement Tuesday, San José State University said the campus is aware of Kil’s lawsuit and “strongly disputes the allegations and will respond and defend itself through the judicial process.”

On the arbitrator’s findings, the university said SJSU has consistently maintained that no employee “has been or would be subject to disciplinary action for lawfully exercising their First Amendment Rights, including protected speech or expression.”

The school said the arbitrator “made no finding that Dr. Kil was disciplined because of their viewpoints or protected speech,” but rather, “found that discipline was warranted based on their actions, which were substantiated as unprofessional conduct, and reduced only the level of discipline imposed.”

“Specifically, the arbitrator found that Dr. Kil engaged in unprofessional misconduct for, among other things, participating in efforts to intentionally disrupt a colleague’s classroom lecture and taking actions that clearly violated the University’s time, place, and manner policy. The report noted the “unprofessionalism of such conduct cannot reasonably be disputed,” the university said.

A tenured professor of justice studies and former faculty adviser for Students for Justice in Palestine, Kil was placed on administrative leave in May 2024 and subsequently fired for “repeated violations of university policies” including directing and encouraging students to violate university policies, engaging in harassing and offensive conduct and comments directed toward colleagues, and targeting at least one colleague for engaging in their work duties by publicly identifying them and posting inflammatory comments and creating a risk of harm to them, according to the university.

She is widely considered one of the first full-time, tenured professors to be fired from a public U.S. university in connection with the student protests over the war in Gaza that have spread across college campuses nationwide.

In her lawsuit, Kil said she first came under fire from the university in April 2024. The school informed her she was being investigated for allegedly “disrupting the university’s business operations and encouraging students to do the same” during a February 19, 2024 campus protest she attended that opposed the appearance of Jewish studies professor, Jeffrey Blutinger, who was speaking about the Israel-Hamas war. An altercation broke out and a another San Jose State professor, Johnathan Roth, was put on administrative leave for allegedly placing a hand on a student protestor during the confrontation.

“Undeterred” by the school’s “discriminatory attempt to intimidate her,” Kil said in her suit, she later attended a May 8, 2024 sit-in protest held at the university where she criticized the school’s “Time, Place and Manner Policy” — which sets rules on free speech activities on campus to “ensure the safety and wellbeing” of the school community — for infringing on free speech.

The lawsuit said Kil also told students “it’s not too late” to do “an encampment” and later served as the spokesperson for the student’s encampment that began on May 13, 2024. Kil spent three nights at the ten-day student encampment, according to the suit.

Kil was placed on administrative leave on May 24, 2024 for disrupting the school’s business operations and inciting students to violate university policies, the lawsuit said. She was terminated on June 30, 2025 for her alleged “disregard for university policies” including the school’s time, place and manner policy, according to the suit.

The arbitrator’s June 2026 report said her grounds for termination were “unprofessional conduct” and “failure or refusal to perform the normal and reasonable duties of (her) position.’”

Kil appealed the decision to a faculty hearing committee, which ultimately determined that the school’s decision to fire Kil was not justified but the university upheld her termination anyway, according to Kil’s lawsuit and the California Faculty Association.

She subsequently sought arbitration, which was held in March, with the arbitrator overturning the university’s decision last week.

Kil’s lawsuit also alleges that during the hearing, “SJSU personnel made Islamophobic comments” which she filed a federal Title VI Civil Rights complaint over in November 2025. She said she also found “racist graffiti threatening a mass shooting and referencing Asian, Jewish and Muslim people” on her office building that same month, which she reported to the school and perceived as a threat directed at her, according to the lawsuit.

In her suit, Kil alleges the university discriminated against her and subjected her to “adverse employment actions” by suspending her, “conducting a sham investigation,” making false statements about her, failing to meaningfully address the racist graffiti directed at her, disregarding the faculty hearing’s findings and terminating her due to her “association with Palestinian, Middle Eastern, Arab, and Muslim individuals and her own gender, race and sexual orientation.”

Kil also alleges that the university “knew and should have known” of the discrimination, harassment, hostile work environment and retaliation she suffered, but says the school failed to take action.

Kil’s discrimination allegations center around the university’s treatment of SJSU professor Roth, who was placed on administrative leave and whom Kil alleges was not fired and instead was allowed to return to his teaching position before quietly retiring.

“SJSU’s extreme treatment of Dr. Kil stands in sharp and alarming contrast to its treatment of other faculty who do not share her political views, identity, or association with Arab, Muslim and Palestinian individuals,” Kil’s lawsuit alleges. “For example, Dr. Johnathan Roth — a white, heterosexual, male professor at SJSU who publicly supports Israel and expresses anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim sentiment.”

Several local community organizations spoke in support of Kil’s reinstatement and expressed concern over her “excessive” termination and its implications for freedom of speech.

“When people who support Palestinian rights or who are Muslim or of the Islamic faith speak out, they face extreme punishments,” said Sean Allen, president of the San Jose/Silicon Valley NAACP. “And when those same individuals are victims of harm, the response from our institutions is too often slow, dismissive, or absent altogether. We saw that double standard play out on this very campus.”

SJSU professor fired for pro-Palestinian activism sues university

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SJSU professor fired for pro-Palestinian activism sues university
Sang Hea Kil, who was fired in 2025, has sued San Jose State University for discrimination
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/06/30/sjsu-professor-fired-for-pro-palestinian-activism-sues-university/
Sang Hea Kil, the San …Jose State University justice studies professor who was terminated for her pro-Palestinian activism and then later reinstated, speaks during a press conference outside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Tuesday, June 30, 2026, in San Jose, Calif. Kil announced Monday that she has sued the California State University Board of Trustees and SJSU for violating her rights under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the First Amendment.
Sang Hea Kil, the San Jose State University justice studies professor who was terminated for her pro-Palestinian activism and then later reinstated, speaks during a press conference outside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Tuesday, June 30, 2026, in San Jose, Calif. Kil announced Monday that she has sued the California State University Board of Trustees and SJSU for violating her rights under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the First Amendment. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
Molly Gibbs is a Bay Area News Group reporter.webp
By MOLLY GIBBS | mgibbs@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: June 30, 2026 at 3:45 PM PDT | UPDATED: July 1, 2026 at 4:37 AM PDT

Sang Hea Kil, the San José State University professor who was fired for her pro-Palestinian activism in 2025, is suing the college, alleging the school discriminated and retaliated against her, subjected her to a “hostile work environment,” and violated her First Amendment rights.

The civil rights lawsuit, which was filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court in late May, but not announced until Monday, follows an arbitrator’s ruling last week that overturned Kil’s termination, deeming it an “excessive” punishment for a professor of more than 17 years with no prior disciplinary action. The arbitrator said it should be reduced to a one-month unpaid suspension and awarded her back pay.

The lawsuit seeks $10 million in damages and names as defendants the California State University board of trustees, SJSU president Cynthia Teniente-Matson, SJSU Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Vincent Del Casino and former SJSU Interim Senior Associate Vice President for University Personnel, Jeanne Durr.

“This is an incredible victory for free speech, academic freedom, student protest, freedom of assembly and pro-Palestine speech on campus and beyond,” Kil said at a press conference Tuesday outside SJSU’s Martin Luther King Jr. Library to announce her lawsuit and celebrate her reinstatement. “This is our victory. Let’s use this as a watershed moment to turn the tide against targeted repression on our campus and in this nation.”

In a statement Tuesday, San José State University said the campus is aware of Kil’s lawsuit and “strongly disputes the allegations and will respond and defend itself through the judicial process.”

On the arbitrator’s findings, the university said SJSU has consistently maintained that no employee “has been or would be subject to disciplinary action for lawfully exercising their First Amendment Rights, including protected speech or expression.”

The school said the arbitrator “made no finding that Dr. Kil was disciplined because of their viewpoints or protected speech,” but rather, “found that discipline was warranted based on their actions, which were substantiated as unprofessional conduct, and reduced only the level of discipline imposed.”

“Specifically, the arbitrator found that Dr. Kil engaged in unprofessional misconduct for, among other things, participating in efforts to intentionally disrupt a colleague’s classroom lecture and taking actions that clearly violated the University’s time, place, and manner policy. The report noted the “unprofessionalism of such conduct cannot reasonably be disputed,” the university said.

A tenured professor of justice studies and former faculty adviser for Students for Justice in Palestine, Kil was placed on administrative leave in May 2024 and subsequently fired for “repeated violations of university policies” including directing and encouraging students to violate university policies, engaging in harassing and offensive conduct and comments directed toward colleagues, and targeting at least one colleague for engaging in their work duties by publicly identifying them and posting inflammatory comments and creating a risk of harm to them, according to the university.

She is widely considered one of the first full-time, tenured professors to be fired from a public U.S. university in connection with the student protests over the war in Gaza that have spread across college campuses nationwide.

In her lawsuit, Kil said she first came under fire from the university in April 2024. The school informed her she was being investigated for allegedly “disrupting the university’s business operations and encouraging students to do the same” during a February 19, 2024 campus protest she attended that opposed the appearance of Jewish studies professor, Jeffrey Blutinger, who was speaking about the Israel-Hamas war. An altercation broke out and a another San Jose State professor, Johnathan Roth, was put on administrative leave for allegedly placing a hand on a student protestor during the confrontation.

“Undeterred” by the school’s “discriminatory attempt to intimidate her,” Kil said in her suit, she later attended a May 8, 2024 sit-in protest held at the university where she criticized the school’s “Time, Place and Manner Policy” — which sets rules on free speech activities on campus to “ensure the safety and wellbeing” of the school community — for infringing on free speech.

The lawsuit said Kil also told students “it’s not too late” to do “an encampment” and later served as the spokesperson for the student’s encampment that began on May 13, 2024. Kil spent three nights at the ten-day student encampment, according to the suit.

Kil was placed on administrative leave on May 24, 2024 for disrupting the school’s business operations and inciting students to violate university policies, the lawsuit said. She was terminated on June 30, 2025 for her alleged “disregard for university policies” including the school’s time, place and manner policy, according to the suit.

The arbitrator’s June 2026 report said her grounds for termination were “unprofessional conduct” and “failure or refusal to perform the normal and reasonable duties of (her) position.’”

Kil appealed the decision to a faculty hearing committee, which ultimately determined that the school’s decision to fire Kil was not justified but the university upheld her termination anyway, according to Kil’s lawsuit and the California Faculty Association.

She subsequently sought arbitration, which was held in March, with the arbitrator overturning the university’s decision last week.

Kil’s lawsuit also alleges that during the hearing, “SJSU personnel made Islamophobic comments” which she filed a federal Title VI Civil Rights complaint over in November 2025. She said she also found “racist graffiti threatening a mass shooting and referencing Asian, Jewish and Muslim people” on her office building that same month, which she reported to the school and perceived as a threat directed at her, according to the lawsuit.

In her suit, Kil alleges the university discriminated against her and subjected her to “adverse employment actions” by suspending her, “conducting a sham investigation,” making false statements about her, failing to meaningfully address the racist graffiti directed at her, disregarding the faculty hearing’s findings and terminating her due to her “association with Palestinian, Middle Eastern, Arab, and Muslim individuals and her own gender, race and sexual orientation.”

Kil also alleges that the university “knew and should have known” of the discrimination, harassment, hostile work environment and retaliation she suffered, but says the school failed to take action.

Kil’s discrimination allegations center around the university’s treatment of SJSU professor Roth, who was placed on administrative leave and whom Kil alleges was not fired and instead was allowed to return to his teaching position before quietly retiring.

“SJSU’s extreme treatment of Dr. Kil stands in sharp and alarming contrast to its treatment of other faculty who do not share her political views, identity, or association with Arab, Muslim and Palestinian individuals,” Kil’s lawsuit alleges. “For example, Dr. Johnathan Roth — a white, heterosexual, male professor at SJSU who publicly supports Israel and expresses anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim sentiment.”

Several local community organizations spoke in support of Kil’s reinstatement and expressed concern over her “excessive” termination and its implications for freedom of speech.

“When people who support Palestinian rights or who are Muslim or of the Islamic faith speak out, they face extreme punishments,” said Sean Allen, president of the San Jose/Silicon Valley NAACP. “And when those same individuals are victims of harm, the response from our institutions is too often slow, dismissive, or absent altogether. We saw that double standard play out on this very campus.”

SJSU professor fired for pro-Palestinian activism sues university

The lawsuit follows an arbitrator’s ruling last week that overturned Kil’s termination, deeming it an “excessive” punishment for a professor…

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CA UAW Local 1115 State Scientists Left Out Of The Budget By Newsom & State Democrats
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State scientist raises were cut from CA budget at the last minute. No one can say why By William …Melhado Updated July 2, 2026 5:10 PM
Wednesday, July 1, 2026. RENÉE C. BYER rbyer@sacbee.com California state scientists ended last month anticipating a pay bump at the start of the new fiscal year in July. The union, which represents roughly 4,500 environmental scientists, toxicologists and other state scientists, was one of the only unions expecting salary increases this summer. But on Tuesday evening, the union received notice from the California Department of Human Resources informing labor leaders that the Legislature did not appropriate funding for the raises employees were scheduled to receive the following day, said Jacqueline Tkac, the president of the California Association Professional Scientists, UAW Local 1115. “I genuinely believe that it’s a mistake,” Tkac said. “I would like to think that members of the Legislature would not have intentionally left our contract out of the budget.”

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The FIFA World Cup has been more and more driven by the need to increase profits and privatization. Professor George Wright has spent his life following and being involved …in sports and giving a class analysis to the role of the Olympics, Super Bowl and World Cup. He talks about the history of the World Cup and how it has been organized to increase profiteering and breaking up the games for more ads.
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Time, Place & Manner: Scott Wiener, Gavin Newsom & The Attack On Democratic Rights In Education
https://youtu.be/6wuFS4FfeAI
SJSU Professor Dr. Sang Kil at a victory press conference returning her to her job at San Jose Sate University reported that California Governor Gavin Newsom… and Congressional candidate Scott Wiener were involved in targeting Palestinian student, faculty and union supporters at CSU, UC and K-12 with rules such as Time, Place and Manner as well as SB 715 which says criticism of Israel's genocide is anti-Semitism and coerces teachers not to have any discussion of Palestine and the genocide.
The attack on democratic rights by Democratic Party politicians according to Professor Kil is helping to set up a repressive state.
The leadership of UAW 4811 and UAW Region 6 are supporting the candidacy of Scott Wiener for Congress to replace former House leader Nancy Pelosi.
This press conference was in front of the MLK Library at San Jose State University on June 30, 2026.
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https://youtu.be/JPfO9KV31Vk
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https://youtu.be/YkqNzPKNSpc
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https://youtu.be/upXMZeEomzY
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Time, Place & Manner: Scott Wiener, Gavin Newsom & The Attack On Democratic Rights In Education
https://youtu.be/6wuFS4FfeAI
SJSU Professor Dr. Sang Kil at a victory press conference returning her to her job at San Jose Sate University reported that California Governor Gavin Newsom… and Congressional candidate Scott Wiener were involved in targeting Palestinian student, faculty and union supporters at CSU, UC and K-12 with rules such as Time, Place and Manner as well as SB 715 which says criticism of Israel's genocide is anti-Semitism. The attack on
democratic rights by Democratic Party politicians according to Professor Kil is helping to set up a repressive state.
The leadership of UAW 4811 and UAW Region 6 are supporting the candidacy of Scott Wiener for Congress to replace former House leader Nancy Pelosi.
This press conference was in front of the MLK Library at San Jose State University on June 30, 2026.
Additional Media:
UAW Members Demand that UAW Rescind Endorsement of Zionist & Billionaire Shill Scott Wiener
https://youtu.be/JPfO9KV31Vk
Zionist CA State Senator Scott Wiener Protested At KQED Congressional Debate
https://youtu.be/YkqNzPKNSpc
No Genocide By Israel In Gaza According to SF Demo Party Politician Scott Weiner
https://youtu.be/upXMZeEomzY
UCSF Dr. Rupa Marya Targeted By Zionist Scott Weiner & Fired For Opposing Genocide In Palestine
https://youtu.be/Yr1DDEphSQE
Weiner Supporters Go Crazy At Jane Kim Rally In SF-There Is No Working Class Housing Crisis In SF?
https://youtu.be/o_1xxLF35fw
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Time, Place & Manner: Scott Wiener, Gavin Newsom & The Attack On Democratic Rights In Education

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