The Lower Frequencies

Send us Fan Mail As this episode goes live, seven people are facing felony conspiracy and false imprisonment charges–and up to fifteen years in prison–for having been among the 26 Bay Area residents who, in the early morning of April 15, 2024 (tax day), took the extraordinary step of protesting the U.S.-funded Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza on the Golden Gate Bridge. Holding a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we are joined by Keith Miyake , a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and Labor Studies at UC Riverside and a core member of the UC Ethnic Studies Council. Keith talks about how their moorings in STEM and ethnic studies inform and sharpen their research and organizing, including within the university, and how their work as an environmental engineer in So...

Send us Fan Mail In the first episode of a new series, “The War Within,” featuring those fighting against war, imperialism, and repression from inside the UC system, we talk to BT Werner about their long history of organizing at UC San Diego (UCSD). Werner, a physicist who has been at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for 35 years, discusses how understanding complex systems can help us figh...

Send us Fan Mail When the UC Regents and administration failed to stand up to the demands of the Trump administration, faculty and workers stepped up to join the fight.  In this episode, Zoé Hamstead (Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, UCB, co-chair of Berkeley Faculty Association, CUCFA Chair of Legal Affairs), Annie McClanahan, (Associate Professor of English, UCI, Co-President o...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 4:  UC Move Your Money! In this episode of The Lower Frequencies , we speak with UCLA Associate Professor of Anthropology Hannah Appel (who is also Associate Faculty Director of the Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy and co-founder and organizer with the Debt Collective ), about a new systemwide UC campaign that empowers faculty to begin the process of divesting...

Send us Fan Mail In this third installment of The Lower Frequencies we host educators, lawyers, and activists who share practical advice and inspiration for teachers to defend the presentation of vital topics in K-12 schools. In response to the intensification of attacks to censor the teaching of genocide and queer and trans lives, for example,  Lupe Carrasco Cardona, Mark Kleiman, Tracie Noriego...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 2:  The People v. the UC: Thomas Harvey and Mark Kleiman In the first of a series on “The People v. The UC,” The Lower Frequencies welcomes movement lawyers Thomas Harvey and Mark Kleiman to discuss their tireless work defending the students, staff, and faculty of the University of California from repression.  Mark and Thomas discuss what brought them to movement law, thei...

Send us Fan Mail The Lower Frequencies,  Episode 1 Policing Ethnic Studies:  The Legislative Jewish Caucus and AB 1468 The inaugural episode of The Lower Frequencies features guest Marcy Winograd and members of the UC Ethnic Studies Council discussing AB 1468, a bill authored and introduced by the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, without any consultation of ethnic studies experts, that would...