Archive for November, 2009

The last post was an email from the Dean at Berkeley Law. Unsurprisingly, when a University proves that it is not a cemetery, as UC was described by President Mark Yudof, the fingerpointing has to start. The information attached to Dean Edley’s email is from the UCOP who realized months ago that the finger needed...
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——– Original Message ——– Subject: UCOP thoughts on budget crisis, etc. Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:14:51 -0800 From: Christopher Edley To: Faculty Announcement List Colleagues, I found the attached document from UCOP very useful in that it gathers together in summary...
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by Three Non-Matriculating Proletarians “If you’re scared today you’ll be scared tomorrow as well and always and so you’ve got to make a start now right away we must show that in this school we aren’t slaves we have to do it so we can do what they’re doing in all other schools to...
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24 November 2009 We the undersigned declare our solidarity with University of California students, workers and staff as they defend, in the face of powerful and aggressive intimidation, the fundamental principles upon which a truly inclusive and egalitarian public-sector education system depends. We affirm their determination to confront university administrators who seem willing to exploit...
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This was bound to be a big week in California regardless, as the threat of a 32 percent tuition and fee increase across the University of California system made a crashing entrance into reality with Wednesday’s vote by the UC Board of Regents. Perhaps the Regents and UC President Mark Yudof expected that their...
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Another from anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com INTRODUCTION: 7 AGAINST POMPEII WE LIVE AS A DEAD CIVILIZATION. We can no longer imagine the good life except as a series of spectacles preselected for our bemusement: a shimmering menu of illusions. Both the full-filled life and our own imaginations have been systematically replaced by a set of images more lavish and...
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Occupied UC Berkeley, 18 November 2009. Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is listening. UC President Mark Yudof Capital is dead labor which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor. Karl Marx Politics is death that lives a human life. Achille Mbembe Yes, very...
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Below is the statement of the group that occupied the Architecture & Engineering building on Wednesday, November 18; the first day of the UC system wide strike. The University of California is occupied. It is occupied as is the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and the Technical Institute of Graz; as were the...
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Breaking news: 150 students are occupying Pres. Mark Yudof’s Office in Downtown Oakland. Please go and show your support and solidarity with the student occupiers. Riot cops are coming.  They need support. For updates visit Twitter: http://twitter.com/ActionNewsSF/uc-berkeley-protest The address is 1111 Franklin St., near the 12th St. Bart Station. View Larger Map Share/Save
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Uncivpro.com Editor’s note: While I fully agree that the police were brutal on Friday, I do not think that this letter’s prescriptions are correct. Time and time again, law enforcement around the world is used to quell student dissent at strategic times. This will never change, regardless of policy amendments. Currently, police violence...
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