BMUN 72 TWLF

Hello Hello! Have any questions about the topic synopsis? Want some feedback on your position papers? Need help preparing for your first specialized committee? Never done MUN before? Want to spend time with your lovely chairs? Then we have a place for you: OFFICE HOURS! One week before conference, the TWLF chairs will be hosting office hours on: Monday, March 4, 2024: 5PM-7PM Tuesday, March 5, 2024: 7PM-8PM If you'd like to attend office hours and meet up with us, please sign up for a slot on our WeJoinIn right here ! We will be hosting them virtually on Zoom so be sure to pop by if you have any questions or concerns. See you soon! Amber us on office hours, collectively learning

Hi everyone! I hope life is treating you all well! We are quickly approaching BMUN weekend and, to help support, here's a couple of public speaking tips: Content Hopefully, you should be well-informed before even entering BMUN weekend! If not, re-read our topic synopsis (on the BMUN website) to get a fantastic overview on our topic, procedure, and legacy of TWLF. The first step of good public speaking is having the information to back it up. Whether that means statistics, historical context, and/or analysis, the content of your speeches should be meaningful and comfortable to you. That then allows you to develop the next step of a public speaking: form! Form This is the style in which your speech or any speaking engagement takes. This means good syntax, proper grammar, accessible language, and a clear narrative line. Essentially, how you write it down. Bullet points or full sentences, form often combines with presentation to create enticing public speeches. If this is your first ti...

Hi all! As we approach conference here is a quick reminder of how our committee is going to work! TWLF will be using a specialized procedure that we have created specifically for this committee, so please read this blog post as the procedure we will be using will be new to all of you. For a full explanation of our procedure, please read the Procedure Guide  published on our committee website. We highly recommend reading the entire thing to get a full understanding of procedure, but below is a TL;DR! Our committee is a hybrid between a standard BMUN committee and a crisis committee, with a few additional tweaks. Similar to a crisis committee, the default flow of committee will be a permanent moderated caucus with a speaking time of 1 minute. Delegates can diverge from the default flow by motioning for: Unmoderated caucuses to discuss more informally and work together "Round robin" caucuses where every delegate speaks once on the topic of the caucus for a set speaking time (use...

What's up everyone,  I'm Sahba and I will be one of your vice chairs for the Third World Liberation Front at BMUN 72! I'm really excited to be working with a committee topic that centers around a very important theme for me -- coalition building among communities of color in pursuit of collective advancement.  A bit about myself: I'm a fourth year student here at Cal studying political science and public policy. Some of my academic and professional interests include labor policy, democratic backsliding, and the effects of late-stage capitalism. Much of my professional experience is based in community and worker organizing for various unions and labor organizations; currently, I'm interning with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU 521), mobilizing healthcare workers and others around the Bay area to expand upon their bargaining capabilities.  This is my first (and only-- rip) year in BMUN and also my first time chairing a committee so I'm excited! Hop...

Hello! My name is Somer Alrai (she/her) and I am beyond excited to be one of your vice chairs for the Third World Liberation Front. I am extremely passionate about the topic and its impact on our very own Berkeley campus! I’m a first year at Berkeley and I’m hoping to study Global Studies interested in a future career in law. Some of my academic, professional, and personal interests include the study of human rights, Middle Eastern studies, and collective liberation! This is my first year of BMUN and even doing Model United Nations in general I’ m so excited to see what it offers. I think our topic is such a unique MUN topic and I cannot wait to see you all bring it to life! At Berkeley, I am also involved in the Political Action Committee in the Muslim Student Association and I serve as a Student Organizing director for the ASUC MEMSSA office. The activities I pursue stem from my identity as a Palestinian Muslim American which fuels my passion for advocacy for my own communities and b...

Hello everyone!! My name is Amber Chen (she/they) and I'll be one of your vice chairs for Third World Liberation Front. I'm so excited to meet you all and excited to talk about an amazing piece of Bay Area history. A little about me, I'm a third year studying Sociology and Ethnic Studies. My personal, professional, and academic interests include intersectional identity studies, anti-capitalism, abolition, contemporary social movements, and community-building. I'm currently doing research about political re-entry and private policing, examining how some formally incarcerated people engage in surveillance and carcerality  in San Francisco .  This is my third year in BMUN and I've been able to garner a wide array of experience during that time. What I'm most proud of is my work as a Head Chair for Fall Conference II and III, leading passion projects turned committees on the Salem Witch Trials and Indians of All Tribes: Occupation of Alcatraz.  I hope to bring my cr...

Hi delegates! Just wanted to check in and offer a bit more guidance on your position papers! As a reminder, TWLF is not using standard position paper format. Instead, please refer to the position paper guidelines on our TWLF committee page and follow the format detailed there! In a nutshell, there are 3 sections: Biography and positionality of character (similar to country policy in a traditional position paper) Strike ideology and proposed strike strategy (somewhat similar to solutions in a traditional position paper, but is more overarching, related to your ideological stances on the strike and what strategies should be taken) Response to 2 questions to consider Besides the format, we wanted to offer some tips on the research process and the formation of your paper.  Research The biggest favor you can do for yourself in the writing process is to really apply time and effort into understanding the topics beforehand. Luckily, we have written the key to beginning this process: your...

Hey hey hey everyone! My name is Vivian Kuang (she/her) and I am your head chair of BMUN 72's Third World Liberation Front committee. I am so hyped for conference and to meet all of you in March! In this post, I'll tell you a little bit about me; my awesome co-chairs will also be introducing themselves so check out their introductory posts as well! I am a fourth year majoring in Political Economy and Data Science, with a particular focus on inequality and social movements. In particular, some of my academic, professional, and personal interests are ethnic studies and Asian American studies, prison and police abolition, anti-deportation advocacy, and community organizing! I am currently writing my senior thesis on the impact of deportation on family networks in Asian American communities, as well as how family is configured in anti-deportation advocacy. This is my fourth and final year in BMUN but my very first time as a head chair! I did not do MUN in high school, but have exte...

Hi delegates! We are so excited to welcome you to BMUN 72 and the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) committee! In this committee, we will be simulating the UC Berkeley Third World Liberation Front Strike of 1969. This blog will act as our committee’s more informal avenue for discussion and communication before the conference – and we’d love to see you interact with it! The purpose of this blog is to (1) allow you to actively engage with the content of this committee and (2) give you all the opportunity to learn about other countries’ policies before the debate actually starts. You can post comments on posts that we make and write about literally anything relevant to the topics at hand! For example, if you’ve found follow-up content or research you’d like to share, would like to discuss your character's opinion on the topic, or have other ideas in mind, this blog is the place for that! The official TWLF committee page can be found here , where you can find our executive summary, ...