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I took dozens of photos of the rally, including several panoramas of the crowd, but lost almost all of them to a camera malfunction :(
The ones left are mostly of the 3000+ crowd dispersing after the last speaker.
The Verb at Treasury Gardens for Melbourne's National Day of Climate Action rally.
Photo Credits: The Verb // Laura Owsianka
Hundreds of graduate students held an organizing rally on the University of Pennsylvania campus April 26, 2023.
Why? Their website (organize@getup-uaw.org) explains:
"We are graduate student workers at the University of Pennsylvania forming a union to improve our working conditions at Penn and to strengthen our collective voice as teaching and research assistants locally and nationally.
As graduate student workers, we make essential contributions to the world-class teaching and research conducted at Penn. However, many of us still struggle to pay high housing and other costs in Philadelphia, lack secure rights in the workplace, and face increasing uncertainty about our futures given the precarious nature of higher education and unstable regulation of visas and work authorization for international student workers.
We have already seen the power of organized graduate student workers at major institutions to dramatically improve their working conditions through unionization with United Auto Workers, including graduate student workers at Columbia, Harvard, and NYU. By building on the experiences of our peers at other universities, we can continue to raise standards for graduate student workers across U.S. higher education.
We join a growing national movement of student workers and other academics forming unions to improve our lives and our work. Graduate student workers organizing with the UAW across the country have made a difference advocating for science research funding, fair visa and immigration policies, and better working conditions in all academic institutions."
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PERSONAL FUN FACT: The material this getup is made from is fascinating. It is very delicate mesh, but it has a stretch to it. That makes dressing dolls in this form fitting leotard very easy. The skirt took some getting used to. I didn't realize that it has velcro on it. I assumed you slid the skirt up over the doll's legs. But then I was confused as to how to properly put the sash on, since it is attached. Once I realized there was a velcro closure, it made dressing my dolls much easier. It's not a huge wad of velcro either, so it isn't likely to snag and ruin the delicate material. I adore the faded blue ombre color of the skirt, and the subtle flower pattern on the leotard. The hair clip has the same fabric flower adornments as the skirt. I wish the base was metal instead of plastic, but it seems to work just fine. The shoes really threw me off when I first opened them. They literally just cover the doll's toes. The rest of the foot is bare, with the exception of the elastic straps. But these were surprisingly easy to put on my doll for the first time, and they look really interesting on.
I’ve done some @movnat stuff at home but last night I took my first actual class, with @locomotiongym (hosted by @unconventional_strength)! We did a variety of things — rolling and crawling, getups, 2x4 balance work, hinge lifting, jumping, and dead hanging (I made it 1:34 before my hands slipped). I was also told I have a nice toe splay, which is a very niche compliment 😂 but one I really appreciated since I’ve been working on my feet so much over the last year The gym is a bit of a drive for me but finances willing hopefully I’ll be able to keep it up! (ps I wasn’t asleep in this photo, I think I was blinking and/or looking down 😉) via Instagram instagr.am/p/CRUG5ZDj7eF/