Post-Labor Organizing Resources

Links for Awareness, Action, and Wellness

► Resource Guide for Students and Postdocs on how to discuss race and inequity in science with their research teams.

Resources for Support, Wellness and Community Healing

"Activist Trauma Support formed in 2004 in the UK, due to a recognition of the potential for people involved in political activism to have distressing or traumatic experiences. Over the following decade, ATS ran Wellbeing Spaces at a number of large convergences like G8 and Climate Camps, facilitated workshops at many gatherings, supported individuals by telephone as well as face-to-face, produced the literature available on this site and collaborated with groups doing similar work in other countries. The initial focus on post-traumatic stress widened to include burnout when this too was observed to be a problem in activist groups and grassroots campaigns."

Black Feminist Reflections on Activism:

Learn about Labor Activism at UCSF

UCSF Janitors Strike, 1970:

"The UCSF Janitors' Strike of 1970 occurred during a period of national unrest. A group of employees gathered to present a list of demands to the University, highlighting injustices taking place on campus. The Black Caucus, which supported the strike, was instrumental in starting the conversation that would move USCF toward a future that now includes greater diversity and fairness for all UCSF students, faculty and staff."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please note that most of the primary archival resources have not been digitalized yet. Please contact the library or archival institution to book an appointment to see the physical file. If you have any questions about using archival catalogue, please contact UCSF Library, Archives & Special Collections.

Sources collected by Shinyi and Peggy Tran-Le (Research and Technical Services Managing Archivist, UCSF)

Learn about Labor Activism Beyond UCSF

This book revisits the student-led movements in the postwar era which demanded that universities to provide better services for the increasingly diversified student population—female, minorities, foreign, and indigenous student communities.

The San Francisco General Hospital Strike, 1970:

The Unionization and Strikes of California Nurses Association in 1970s-1990s:

 

Please note that most of the primary archival resources have not been digitalized yet. Please contact the library or archival institution to book an appointment to see the physical file. If you have any questions about using archival catalogue, please contact UCSF Library, Archives & Special Collections.

Sources collected by Shinyi and Peggy Tran-Le (Research and Technical Services Managing Archivist, UCSF)

Guide to Having Respectful Conversations

This Guide to Having Respectful Conversations from Repair the World provides tools to utilize when facilitating a space for difficult conversations surrounding identity.

Here are their suggestions on how to create a space that in which individuals can express and listen to each other's lived experiences and where both their experience and someone else's are incorporated into a larger communal narrative:

  • Acknowledge that you and others might have moments of discomfort
  • Establish group ground rules
  • Use "I" statements
  • Be respectful of introverts - and of silence
  • Provide space for everyone to have a voice

If the discussion becomes heated or uncomfortable:

  • Avoid "right" and "wrong"
  • If it will help, take a breath (or two) before responding
  • Be intentional about your language
  • Keep power dynamics in mind
  • We all make mistakes
  • Use facts graciously - not to shut down a conversation
  • If you're offended, consider some options:
    • Call people "in", not "out"
    • Move back and listen
    • Remove yourself from the conversation

Last updated on March 10, 2023.