• Organizing in uchicago’s Culture of Amnesia (part 1)

    by Motyl, April 10, 2025, 11:00 /// At first glance, Woodlawn Residential Commons is like any other modern building. If you’ve had the displeasure of living there, you might have been hounded by false alarms or driven half-mad by paper-thin walls that didn’t even touch the ceiling—you could hear almost every word your neighbor said, […]

  • UChicago’s Guide to “Civil Behavior in a University Setting” Amidst Genocide

    by anonymous, April 4, 2025, 13:10 /// What follows is a set of policies changed following the campus activism of 2024, announced by the University of Chicago this past July. We are sharing this now as figures on campus call for the University to stand up for free-expression in the face of increased repression of […]

  • Plainclothes UCPD Officers Return

    by anonymous, April 4, 2025, 12:41 /// A week ago today, on March 28th, at an event hosted by the Chicago Forum on Free Expression about the ongoing assault on Universities by the current administration, a community member identified a member of the audience as a plainclothes University of Chicago Police Department officer. Said officer […]

  • Why UCUP Cut Ties With the maroon

    by UCUP Organizer, November 10, 2024, 2:31 /// “the maroon needs us more than we need them.”  The chicago maroon has long asserted itself as the go-to newspaper on campus for good journalism. From the second we get here, it’s where we’re told to look to find rigorous, comprehensive coverage of a whole host of […]

  • RECAP: Actions at Uchicago this Year So Far

    by editors, November 10, 2024, 2:25 /// Timeline: Sept 25: Palestine Legal and UCUP filed a federal civil rights complaint against uchicago with the Office of Civil Rights + uchicago announces new protest policies The complaint demands an investigation of uchicago’s discrimination against Palestinian, Muslim and Arab students, as well as students associated with Palestine. […]

  • kill fascists, take hormones (in the midwest)

    by Trans Midwest Survival Collective, November 7, 2024, 11:59 /// Trans autonomy is trans survival.  In our near neighbor states of Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Iowa, trans kids and adults are facing political repression and infringement on their bodies.  As a collective of trans folks, we know that the ability to transition, including the […]