Potter here, PBS Wisconsin.
Yep, we're ready.
Could you please give us an update on where we stand
right now with the protests here at UW Madison?
Yeah, absolutely.
So right now, there's a rally going on behind us
as we are protesting the genocide in Palestine.
We are standing in solidarity as university students,
as university faculty in solidarity with Palestinians
in Gaza, and writ large, who no longer
have any universities because they've all been bombed.
Today, specifically, we are talking
about how we are acting in good faith in these negotiations,
and we don't necessarily feel as though the faculty has been.
We are willing to sit down with the chancellor
if they are willing to do so in good faith.
But we're in a weird situation right now
where we feel as though they are trying to tell us
that the way to go about our demands
is to go through a shared governance process.
This is absolutely something we are willing to do,
and in fact, wrote a proposal about how
to go about that process and the things we
would be proposing within it.
However, the chancellor also will not
commit to not interfering with that democratic process, which
is something we saw her do in 2017.
So where do things stand right now with negotiations?