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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."
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.
Tim Kelly, Conservation Council SA.
GetUp! National Day of Climate Action, Elder Park, Adelaide, South Australia.
Newly appointed National Director of GetUp! Australia, Mr Sam McLean, takes to the stage to discuss the power of online communities.
Phone in! Signing the text petition.
GetUp! National Day of Climate Action, Elder Park, Adelaide, South Australia.
The Verb at Treasury Gardens for Melbourne's National Day of Climate Action rally.
Photo Credits: The Verb // Laura Owsianka
The Verb at Treasury Gardens for Melbourne's National Day of Climate Action rally.
Photo Credits: The Verb // Laura Owsianka
Okay, this kooky getup was to send off the Crazy Hat Competition I was running as the Kingdom A&S competition for 12th Night. The goal was to get people interested in hat possibilities while having some fun at 12th night. I deliberately chose the most outrageous costume I could find...Basque. It worked and I believe a lot of people had fun with this event.
Though the pic says '87, this was really 12th Night 1997 during Logan and Arielle's first reign.
Communities all across the country held more than 140 events for a huge National Day of Climate Action. Well done to every partner organisation, volunteer, and local leader that made it happen... You're all incredible!
The Verb at Treasury Gardens for Melbourne's National Day of Climate Action rally.
Photo Credits: The Verb // Laura Owsianka
The Verb at Treasury Gardens for Melbourne's National Day of Climate Action rally.
Photo Credits: The Verb // Laura Owsianka
With a little tweed ride inspiration based on the mustache ride event logo
Thanks to the organizers and all the volunteers!
(I extended the crocheted mustache pattern linked in this Stitch and Bitch London post: www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=42592809958&ref=mf)
Mr Sam McLean, National Director of GetUp! Australia, speaking about the origins of his organisation, the issues it tackles and the changes brought about by the movement.
The Verb at Treasury Gardens for Melbourne's National Day of Climate Action rally.
Photo Credits: The Verb // Laura Owsianka
Mosman Council staff put their lunch breaks to good use on Wednesday 1 October to field an enthusiastic team in the GetUp! National Climate Torch Relay when it visited Balmoral Beach. Thousands of Australians have been carrying GetUp Climate Torches around Australia along with a powerful message – to reduce Australia's carbon pollution. Outgoing Mayor, Denise Wilton, the Greens and the Mosman Clean Energy for Eternity group were also at Balmoral along with Patron Climate Advocate, Michael Mobbs. Organiser, Frayne Dyke-Walker of Mosman noted that "the level of enthusiasm amongst the general public was a great barometer of how people are really starting to think about the ramifications of Climate Change." read more