Category: Stories
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VIDEO: ICE Concerns for CU Boulder Community
The activity of ICE, or Immigration & Customs Enforcement, has grown in intensity since the beginning of Trump’s second term as president. Communities of color are feeling targeted with threats of violence and family separation. CO-DIRECTORSAšiihkionkonci ParkerDeborah LosekeBronte Moore EDITORAšiihkionkonci Parker FOOTAGE Al Jazeera Muslim Justice League ACLU Trash Heap CUSG Joaquin Salinas
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Arab Terrorist Costume, CU Boulder Chabad’s “Wild West” Purim Party, and Colonial Imaginaries
At a “Wild West” Purim party hosted by Chabad at CU Boulder on March 2, a Jewish student arrived wearing a thobe and keffiyeh, carrying a prop stick of dynamite. The costume was, by its own visual logic, an Arab terrorist, a figure so thoroughly sedimented in American popular culture that it needed only a…
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CU continues investment in the Center for African and African American Studies while Helping Bomb Africa
The Center for African & African American Studies (CAAAS) received a $2 million investment on Feb. 2 from CU Chancellor Justin Schwartz and CU President Todd Saliman. Despite this large reward, Black and African students on campus are critical of CU and the timing of this investment. The investment will provide support for CAAAS’s programs,…
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CU Boulder Kicks Off Black History Month
By Shaun Smith On Monday, Feb. 2, the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) conducted its fourth annual ‘CAAAS Day,’ an event filled with a buffet for guests and celebrations to kick off Black History Month alongside the University of Colorado Boulder’s Alumni Association and Ethnic Studies department. In…
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CU Students hold “useless” Protest
The so-called “United States” saw mass protests and a general strike initiated by labor unions and community leaders on Jan 30 in response to the killing of two white protestors by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including one at CU Boulder. Sophia Grossman, a junior in aerospace engineering, planned this walkout and march at…
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CU bans Indian students for reheating food, students win $200,000 in lawsuit
In September 2025, two Indian students at CU Boulder filed a civil rights lawsuit against the university over racist remarks, and four months later, they won their case. Although they won the case, their academic careers at CU have been forcefully ended due to the events that transpired. The incident took place on Sept 5,…
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CU Boulder Celebrates 150 Years of Native Genocide
CU Boulder Chancellor Justin Schwartz sent out a mass email and announcement on Jan 12 at 7:15 a.m. containing an invitation for students to attend his “State of the Campus Address” as well as a video welcoming students back, bringing to attention CU’s 150th year anniversary. Some students believe this celebration of 150 years is…
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Fire Alarm Halts CU Boulder Event With Lockheed Martin Space President
A fire alarm at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Aerospace Building interrupted a scheduled campus event Monday afternoon, forcing the evacuation of the facility and halting a talk that featured the president of Lockheed Martin Space, according to an email sent to students and faculty in the department. The message, written by Aerospace Chair Hanspeter…
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CU’s Money Is Moving Through ICE’s Flight Network
The University of Colorado Boulder is financially linked to the federal deportation system through its long-standing contract with Key Lime Air, a Colorado airline now confirmed to operate flights for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). That relationship, critics argue, means CU funds help sustain an aviation network used to move detained migrants between ICE…
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Theory: Creative Workspaces In A Democratically Planned Economy
By Ludwig Yeonan Introduction The reconciliation of Individualism and Democratic Economic Planning is based on a distinction between different types of labor, and how work is done and income is allocated for each type. In particular, it has been shown that creative labor must not be accounted for in an economic plan, and all should…
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