PAOLA BACCHETTA UC Berkeley Public Talk at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the TWLF at UC Berkeley ABSTRACT This is a version of a public talk by Professor Paola Bacchetta of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley, which she read at a rally that commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the Third World Strike on the same campus. The rally was part of a series of related events and it took place on the steps of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley on January 22, 2019. The rally speakers and participants included elders from the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) movement, current students and professors, and community members. The purpose of the rally was to bring people together to remember and honor the struggle of the TWLF and to inspire links between the past and present struggles. KEYWORDS Ethnic Studies, Third World Strike, TWLF, twLF, UC Berkeley INTRODUCTION What follows is a version of a public talk by Professor Paola Bacchetta of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley, which she read at a rally that com- memorated the fiftieth anniversary of the Third World Strike on the same campus. The rally was part of a series of related events and it took place on the steps of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley on January 22 , 2019 . The rally speakers and participants included elders from the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) movement, current students and professors, and community members. The purpose of the rally was to bring people together to remember and honor the struggle of the TWLF and to inspire links between the past and present struggles. It is thanks to the TWLF that San Francisco State University instituted the College of Ethnic Studies and UC Berkeley created the Depart- ment of Ethnic Studies, including African American Studies, which later became an independent Department now called African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies. In 1999 , a generation of students at UC Berkeley who mobilized under the name of the twLF, fought to save the Ethnic Studies Department from facing severe budget cuts. As a result, the University instituted the Center for Race and Gender (CRG), a research center that encompasses work on race and gender across disciplines and deeply connects to local, national, and transnational communities of color and of struggle. Later, feminists fought for and the University established the program that evolved to become what is now the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. That Department is dedicated to intersectional and transnational teaching and research that understands gender and sex- uality as formed inseparably with critiques of colonialism and coloniality, racism, capi- talism, speciesism, and other relations of power. 158 Ethnic Studies Review, Vol. 42 , Issue 2 , pp. 158 –161 , Electronic ISSN: 2576 -2915  2019 by the Asso- ciation for Ethnic Studies. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p¼reprints. DOI: https://doi.org/10 .1525 /esr.2019 .42 .2 .158