The recent pro-Palestine protests occurring on college campuses across the country, including UCLA’s own Palestinian Solidarity Encampment (PSE), have garnered widespread criticism and have been met with extreme police responses. Student protests of the past and present continue to prove that freedom movements will persist so long as systemic issues go unaddressed by those in power. Understanding this history on both a local and national scale can emphasize the importance of questioning dominant narratives and the power of community-building and actions of solidarity.

UCLA APIDA student organizations work to ensure everyone feels like they belong. What they do with the community they build is just as important, as many organizations foster camaraderie alongside raising awareness about issues regarding social justice in the APIDA community on and off campus.

Friday, October 28, marked UCLA’s annual Pilipinx American History Month (PAHM) Festival.  The festival highlighted the different Pilipino organizations found on campus; celebrated the past and present; and featured traditional cuisine, demonstrations of dance and martial arts, and even trap music from a DJ.   Despite the amount…

In the midst of government shutdown, supporters of immigration reform across the nation gathered this Saturday morning for an event called “National Day for Dignity and Respect” to march and rally in effort to pass immigration reform by the end of the year. The New York Times reported that…