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      • Forum 7.0 // People’s University for Gaza, Introduction
      • Forum 7.1 // Campus Circulation & Noncirculation: Fall 2024
      • Forum 7.2 // The New Age of McCarthyism: The Challenges of Teaching About Palestine in a Post-October 7th World 
      • Forum 7.3 // Teaching The Question of Palestine: Interdisciplinary Considerations 
      • Forum 7.4 // UCSC People’s U Reflections on Kinship, Community, and Care
      • Forum 7.5 // Making Meaning of What We’ve Lost:  Collective Grief, Community, and Campus Crackdowns in the Wake of the Encampment Movement  
      • Forum 7.6 // What My College’s Palestine Encampment Taught Me About Love 
      • Forum 7.7 // Solidarity until Liberation against the Militarized University
      • Forum 7.8 // From New York Liberation School to Intifada University
      • Forum 7.9 // From Central America to Palestine:The importance of solidarity and global connections The People’s University
      • Forum 7.10 // Sustaining Dialogue
    • On Peer Review
      • Forum 1.1 // On Peer Review, Introduction
      • Forum 1.2 // On Peer Review, by Marissa J. Moorman (Radical History Review)
      • Forum 1.3 // On Peer Review, by Rocío Zambrana (Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy)
      • Forum 1.4 // On Peer Review, by Andrew Dilts (Abolition Journal Collective)
      • Forum 1.5 // The Precarity of Peer Review, by Eli Thorkelson (precarious ethnographer)
    • Mauna Kea
      • Forum 2 // Enduring Hawaiian Sovereignty : Protecting the Sacred at Mauna Kea, Introduction by J. Kehaulani Kauanui
      • Forum 2.1 // For Mauna Kea to Live, TMT Must Leave, by David Uahikeaikalei‘ohu Maile
      • Forum 2.2 // In Ceremony and Struggle: The Lāhui at Puʻuhonua o Puʻuhuluhulu, by Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar
      • Forum 2.3 // Stop TMT: Bearing Witness to the Decolonial Change the World Has Long Needed, by Dean Itsuji Saranillio
      • Forum 2.4 // Ke Mau Nei Nō Ke Ea O Ka ʻĀina I Ka Pono, by Noenoe K. Silva
    • The Border is the Crisis
      • Forum 3.1 // Four Things You Need to Know About the Border by Lisa Sun-Hee Park
      • Forum 3.2 // The Racist, Sexist, Classist, and Homophobic Past of the “Public Charge” Clause by Julio Capó, Jr.
      • Forum 3.3 // On Common Ground: Concentration Camps in the ‘Home of the Free’ at the Southwest Border and in History by Hana C. Maruyama
      • Forum 3.4 // ‘3 Mexican Countries’: When All Latin American Migrants Become Mexicans by David Hernández
      • Forum 3.5 // #Microsyllabus: Immigration Enforcement and the U.S.-Mexico Border
    • From Carr to Classroom
      • Forum 4 // From Carr to Classroom : Pursuing Historical Knowledge in the Shadow of the Confederacy
      • Forum 4.1 // Where do we study history?
      • Forum 4.2 // Carr, the Confederacy, and Conversations Ongoing
      • Forum 4.3 // Renaming the Carr Building and its Role in the Discussion of Race-Based Issues
      • Forum 4.4 // Confessions of a White Moderate
      • Forum 4.5 // The Past is for the Living
    • White Terror, “Red” Island: A People’s Archive of the Jeju 4.3 Uprising and Massacre
      • Forum 5.2 // Literature of Memory Struggle
      • Forum 5.3 // Reiterations of Dissent
      • Forum 5.4 // Early Cold War Genocide: The Jeju 4.3 Massacre and U.S. Responsibility
      • Forum 5.5 // Silent Wounds of Jeju 4.3
      • Forum 5.6 // “So Many Stories You Never Heard”: An Inheritance of Loss (an interview with Dohee Lee)
      • Forum 5.7 // Over 5,000 Days of Resistance: An Interview with Anti-base Activist Choi Sung-hee on the Gangjeong and Jeju Struggle for Peace
      • Forum 5.8// Sangsuwon (The Origin of Water), HOBAK Jeju Solidarity zine #1
    • Campus Policing
      • Forum 6.1 // Abolitionist Study and Struggle in and beyond the University
      • Forum 6.2 // Who Polices the Campus? The Relationship between Administrators and Campus Police
      • Forum 6.3 // No Guns, No Cops, No Code: the 1980s Anti-Deputization Movement at the University of Michigan
      • Forum 6.4 // The Local as Problem: A Berkeley Story
      • Forum 6.5 // Abolition, Universities, and the American Right
      • Forum 6.6 // Against Naïve Autonomy: Critiquing the Policing of South African University Campuses
      • Forum 6.7 // Scaling Up and Building Solidarity: A Conversation with Organizers from the Cops Off Campus Coalition
      • Forum 6.8 // Art: Praxis & Power
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