This short dispatch reflects on the recent cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) student movement at the University of California We outline a short history of student labor activism at the University of California, Berkeley, and juxtapose it with the struggles that have come out of the Department of Ethnic Studies since 1969 We discuss the context of COLA and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the aims, goals, and development of the movement from an ethnic studies perspective
COLA, COVID, and 50/500 Years of Struggle: A Dispatch from the University of California, Berkeley, Wildcat Strike