{"id":44690,"date":"2025-10-23T13:07:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=44690"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:07:06","slug":"students-unions-advocates-at-uc-berkeley-urge-individuals-to-vote-yes-on-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/students-unions-advocates-at-uc-berkeley-urge-individuals-to-vote-yes-on-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Students, unions, advocates at UC Berkeley urge individuals to \u2018Vote Yes on 50\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/users\/profile\/Hannah%20Kaminker\">Hannah Kaminker | Staff<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oct 22, 2025 (DailyCal.org)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/dailycal.org\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/e\/58\/e58dd892-0389-441c-8ac2-a7d703e8ad91\/68f85507786e4.image.jpg?resize=400%2C258\" alt=\"prop50_Kai Boom_staff.jpg\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">UC Berkeley students are encouraged to \u201cVote Yes on 50.\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/users\/profile\/Kai%20Bloom\">Kai Bloom | Staff<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In late August, California lawmakers voted to initiate a Nov. 4 special election to pass Proposition 50. As mail-in voting opened earlier this month, student groups, advocates and the union workers at UC Berkeley are advocating for Prop. 50 and urging students to \u201cVOTE YES.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prop. 50 would replace the district lines drawn by a state nonpartisan commission with new boundaries created by partisan lawmakers \u2014 allowing Democrats to win up to five more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, said Eric Schickler, the co-director of campus\u2019s Institute of Governmental Studies, or IGS.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The five new seats could counteract the five seats that Texas lawmakers created and gained through unilateral redistricting by the state legislature earlier this year, Schickler added.NextStay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>California lawmakers, in response, have positioned Prop. 50 as a defense against this Republican action and the President Donald Trump\u2019s administration. However, in California, as opposed to Texas, voters will decide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the IGS, Schickler is working on polling registered voters in California on their plans for the special election. Schickler said the polling is \u201cencouraging\u201d for supporters of the proposition, but IGS will not have the results until the end of the month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe ability of Democrats to make this election about Trump gives an advantage,\u201d Schickler said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t make a prediction at this point. I want to see the final polls before doing that.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the past few weeks, student groups and workers\u2019 unions across the UC system have begun to advocate for the proposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an Instagram Reel, Cal Berkeley Democrats shared footage of a projection onto Sproul Hall that said \u201c#Yes on 50, this November give Trump the finger\u201d and \u201cFDT\u201d earlier this month. The student organization also posted infographics promoting the prop and passed out pins advocating for the measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"4\" height=\"3\" src=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-42.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44691\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/users\/profile\/Aarya%20Mukherjee\">Aarya Mukherjee | Senior Staff<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Khalid Mahmood, an organizer with United Auto Workers 4811, the union representing 48,000 UC academic workers, said he has been working on talking to students about the proposition, making sure they have a plan to vote. Mahmood added that there are lots of organizations on other campuses in the state that are in a partnership with the California Labor Federation to \u201cfight for shared priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think a lot of people are going to vote for this, not necessarily because they see an ad, but because somebody takes the time to have a conversation with them,\u201d Mahmood said. \u201cYou can really connect to them peer to peer and say, \u2018Hey, this is what I care about.\u2019\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mahmood said President Trump is attempting to maintain a permanent Republican majority in Congress, which Prop. 50 is attempting to combat. If the Republican Party maintains its majority, Mahmood said, increasing attacks against higher education may lead to significant changes to the university.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After talking to students, Mahmood said almost no one that he has talked to has expressed opposition to the special election measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s this notion sometimes that politics can feel alienating or you can feel disconnected or that it\u2019s just not worth participating in. I would kind of push back on those because all of us are dependent on the role the federal government plays in our day-to-day,\u201d Mahmood said. \u201cProp. 50 is too important a moment to pass up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late August, California lawmakers voted to initiate a Nov. 4 special election to pass Proposition 50. As mail-in voting opened earlier this month, student groups, advocates and the union workers at UC Berkeley are advocating for Prop. 50 and urging students to \u201cVOTE YES.\u201d Prop. 50 would replace the&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/students-unions-advocates-at-uc-berkeley-urge-individuals-to-vote-yes-on-50\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44690"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44692,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44690\/revisions\/44692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}