Pro-Palestinian protesters have initiated demonstrations at the University of Michigan's commencement ceremony in Ann Arbor city.

MICHIGAN STATE POLICE VIOLENTLY PUSH CHANTERS BACK, ARBITRARILY SLAM A PROTESTER INTO THE GLASS TO ARREST THEM BEFORE UNLEASHING TEAR GAS

ARE YOU PROUD OF DOING THIS INSTEAD OF HAVING A SINGLE MEETING Santa Ono Jordan Acker Sarah Hubbard, Regent @umich

YOU ARE TRAUMATIZING US

Featuring workshop presentations by Asif Ali Akhtar, aakash solanki Mila T Samdub Salwa Hoque Mrinalini Ravindranath Pratik Nyaupane, Preeti Raghunath, Anubha Abhishek Sekharan
Full program: bit.ly/DataficationWo…

Hi #HCI #STS #Infosci , I am applying for a PhD this year in the US. I am interested in questions on Caste, HCI and Design, especially 'How the design of digital platforms reproduces caste'. Please suggest advisors who are looking for students & would be interested in this topic!

🚨𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: California Assembly has spoken loud and clear by passing SB 403 with a 50-3 majority! This monumental bill puts an end to caste discrimination, extending legal protection to all facing caste oppression. A huge step towards equality and justice💙 #JaiBhim #SB403

'With an effective 80% raise and new benefits for parents, international students, and transgender workers, members are finally seeing months of striking and hard work pay off.'

Read our press release for more info: geo3550.org/2023/08/22/geo…

BREAKING: Grad Workers Vote for Tentative Agreement (TA) with U-M

Winning a living wage for most PhD students and major gains in harassment protections, police abolition, and parent & transgender grad care, the TA is a testament to the power of our strike.

#ManipurViolence @SamuelTKhongsai The looting of modern weapons from the state police armories in Manipur has caused havoc as the miscreants allegedly used them in attacks on their enemies, the Kukis. Surprisingly, both the state and central governments of India seem unfazed by…

Are you working on issues of racial and data justice? We are hiring!

🌏 New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 🌏

'Geographies of race and ethnicity 2: Black Feminist Geographies' by Pat Noxolo

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03… Pat Noxolo Uni of Birmingham Geography Birmingham

In an important win for AIGWU, during the conciliation process with UC, the District Labour Commissioner in Gurgaon has identified the UC partners as full time workers who deserve overtime pay and asked them to open the blocked IDs

So, X the everything app is modelled on super apps. A brief thread of critical mostly open access resources on what a super app is. Please add what I missed to this 🧵!
First off Jake Pitre 🎃 ed report on super apps for The Platform Lab theplatformlab.com/super-apps

'Rajasthan Minimum Income Guarantee Bill' tabled in Assembly!
Guarantees 125 days empl to rural & urban households for adults who can work, & min pension of Rs 1000 pm, with a 15% incr per year for those who can't. Many firsts!! Read this historic bill:
drive.google.com/file/d/1t-5Hi2…

#UrbanCompany | देशभर में बीते दिनों से Urban Company के कर्मचारियों में गुस्सा है। हालांकि कंपनी इन्हें बाकी Gig Workers की तरह कर्मचारी नहीं बल्कि पार्टनर्स कहती है। देखिए न्यूज़क्लिक की ग्राउन्ड रिपोर्ट

Mukund Jha

youtu.be/t0RGERN6SsM

#UrbanCompany WorkersProtest…

12th July 2023 All India Protest Day of Urban Company workers At the call of
AIGWU - All India Gig Workers Union and CITU CENTRE

✊🏾 #UCPartnersFightBack until victory!

WATCH : youtu.be/3f_wvFNkmq4

A comprehensive account of Urban Company partners' struggles against permanent ID blocking.

UC claims they asked 'few partners who were not meeting the marketplace standards' to 'part ways'; but each story shows the callous & precarious conditions gig workers operate under.

Decode spoke to 14 female Urban Company gig 'partners', and all of them expressed that they have different forms of loans taken over the years and now the blocking of IDs has made them anxious about their future. #UCPartnersFightBack

boomlive.in/decode/voices/…

Karnataka: Angry Urban Company Workers Plan Nationwide Protests newsclick.in/karnataka-angr…

NO TO THE LOOT AND EXPLOITATION OF UC WORKERS THROUGH ARBITRARY & PERMANENT ID BLOCKING!

12th July 2023 All India Protest Day of Urban Company 'partners' at the call of AIGWU - All India Gig Workers Union and CITU CENTRE ✊🏾 #UCPartnersFightBack until victory!

A thread of our demands..(1/n)

The situation has only been made worse for workers by Urban Company. And workers have had enough! There is now a nation-wide call to protest repressive and violent policies that only force workers into even more dangerous and destitute conditions. Share widely!