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Together, we’re working to expand USC access to working class LAUSD students, fighting to increase the affordable housing stock in USC’s neighboring communities, mobilizing to abolish the USC police, and organizing to make USC a good employer that respects workers’ right to form their union.

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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S ANTI-RACIAL DISCRIMINATION RECOMMENDATIONS FALL FAR SHORT; COMMUNITY DEMANDS ABOLISHMENT OF USC POLICE FORCE

The reality is the USC Police is rotten from the bottom up and must be abolished. The recommendations made by USC Department of Public Safety Community Advisory Board are mere smoke and mirrors, a continuation of the status quo, and allow for perpetual terror against Black and Brown residents, students and staff.”

Coalition of Students, Clergy, Labor, and Community Groups Send Letter to LA County District Attorney Demanding an Immediate and Comprehensive Investigation of USC Police Department

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The letter to County District Attorney George Gascón calls…

KABC-7 Covers our Abolish USC Police Rally

On the heels of our ground-breaking report exposing USC-DPS hiring of fired LAPD officers, KABC-7 reports on our rally calling for USC to abolish the USC police.

Capital & Main Takes a Deep Dive into our Report on USC’s Hiring of Officers Fired by the LAPD

Capital & Main is putting our USC-DPS investigative report in the spotlight with a deep dive into what’s going down with the USC police. In case you missed it, our report exposes USC-DPS’ track record of hiring former LAPD officers with a history of excessive force and racial discrimination allegations, credibility and dishonesty issues, and officer-involved shootings.

USC Forward’s Coalition of Students, Clergy, Labor and Community Groups led a Caravan to USC Dept. of Public Safety to Demand the Abolishment of USC Police Force

Dozens of students, community members, clergy, and labor allies led a car caravan today through South Los Angeles to the USC Department of Public Safety (USC-DPS) to hold a press conference demanding the university take immediate steps to abolish the USC police force and reinvest those funds in expanding scholarships for low-income students.

South LA Community Leads Caravan and Rally to Demand City Build Affordable Housing, Not Luxury Hotel at Former Site of Bethune Library

USC Forward joined scores of South Los Angeles residents, clergy,…

USC Students, Clergy, Labor, and Community Groups Caravan to USC DPS to Demand University Abolish Police Force

Dozens of students, community members, clergy, and labor allies…

Graduate and Undergraduate Students, Community Leaders, and Clergy Erect Tent City at USC Campus

On Saturday, a broad coalition including community leaders, South…

A Call for Accountability

Fellow Graduate Students, We at USC Forward stand with survivors…