<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Labor Studies program & affiliated faculty & other faculty friends,</div><div><br></div><div>Please sign this petition to save CSU Labor Studies & please circulate this WIDELY!</div><div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px">Sign the petition: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefgFy7t_gvCAn18DrGfbTFOEsSwcQQEQ9eH7wP1x9e3Qq-Fg/viewform?pli=1" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefgFy7t_gvCAn18DrGfbTFOEsSwcQQEQ9eH7wP1x9e3Qq-Fg/viewform?pli=1</a></li></ul></div><div>See the email below from Trevor Griffey for more background information and a link to the sign-on letter content, also found here: <b>SF State Petition</b>: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PvVEFJhyHY6gTDNEhjiCQYp4xMUWb3ef/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102332740729829268616&rtpof=true&sd=true" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PvVEFJhyHY6gTDNEhjiCQYp4xMUWb3ef/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102332740729829268616&rtpof=true&sd=true</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(181,196,223);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:lawcha@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">lawcha@googlegroups.com</a> <<a href="mailto:lawcha@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">lawcha@googlegroups.com</a>> on behalf of Trevor Griffey <<a href="mailto:trevorgriffey@gmail.com" target="_blank">trevorgriffey@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Date: </b>Tuesday, August 12, 2025 at 11:02</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:lawcha@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">lawcha@googlegroups.com</a> <<a href="mailto:lawcha@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">lawcha@googlegroups.com</a>><br><b>Subject: </b>[LAWCHA] Please Circulate and Sign: Save CSU Labor Studies<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p>Hi all, <u></u><u></u></p><p>Budget cuts are hitting some California State University (CSU) campuses hard, and San Francisco State is proposing to eliminate its Labor Studies major. <u></u><u></u></p><p>Please circulate :<u></u><u></u></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px">SF State Petition: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PvVEFJhyHY6gTDNEhjiCQYp4xMUWb3ef/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102332740729829268616&rtpof=true&sd=true" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PvVEFJhyHY6gTDNEhjiCQYp4xMUWb3ef/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102332740729829268616&rtpof=true&sd=true</a><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px">Sign the petition: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefgFy7t_gvCAn18DrGfbTFOEsSwcQQEQ9eH7wP1x9e3Qq-Fg/viewform?pli=1" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefgFy7t_gvCAn18DrGfbTFOEsSwcQQEQ9eH7wP1x9e3Qq-Fg/viewform?pli=1</a><u></u><u></u></li></ul><p>Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p><p>Trevor Griffey</p></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Ellen Reese<div>Professor, Department of Society, Environment, and Health Equity (<a href="https://sehe.ucr.edu/" target="_blank">https://sehe.ucr.edu/</a>)</div><div>Chair of Labor Studies (<a href="http://laborstudies.ucr.edu/" target="_blank">laborstudies.ucr.edu</a>)<br></div><div>Faculty Co-Director of the Inland Empire Labor & Community Center (<a href="http://ielcc.ucr.edu" target="_blank">ielcc.ucr.edu</a>)</div><div>UC-Riverside</div></div><div><br></div><div><b>Most recent books </b></div><div><div><i>Unsustainable: Amazon, Warehousing, and the Politics of Exploitation</i> (with Juliann Emmons Allison, UC Press, 2023)</div><div><div><a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520388383/unsustainable" target="_blank">https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520388383/unsustainable</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><i>The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy</i>, co-edited with Jake Alimahomed-Wilson (Pluto Press, 2020; Winner of UALE's <span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt">Best Book Related to Labor Education Award, 2020-2021)</span></div><div><div><a href="https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341484/the-cost-of-free-shipping/" target="_blank">https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341484/the-cost-of-free-shipping/</a><b><br></b></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div></div></div></div></div>