Posts Tagged ‘ UC Strikes ’

On the night I chose not to die… I was a woman of color. On the night I chose not to die, I fought with anger and determination, and finally fell asleep with a satisfied smile born not from my own sheltered existence, but from the momentary dissolving of the reality of privilege. That night...
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An anonymous submission — Ed. The student-worker Movement should heed the lesson of November 20th: disruption of ‘business as usual’ at the University through direct action is instrumental to the Movement’s successful resistance to the Regents’ project of privatization of the University of California. For the experiences of Fall semester 2009 demonstrate that it...
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Berkeley, CA – In Sproul Plaza of UC Berkeley, hundreds gathered for a dance party that began around 10pm on Thursday, February 25. At the peak of the party (around 12am) the 250 people dancing surrounded the loudspeakers as together they moved farther into campus. As we approached Durant Hall, a building currently being...
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Berkeley Law Lecturer Stephen Rosenbaum is representing two students charged with violating UCB rules. UC Berkeley law lecturer discusses the Office of Student Conduct from Josh Wolf on Vimeo. Angela Miller was thrown in jail and held on more than $100,000 bail after she was arrested from a crowd gathered outside UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert...
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This email is circulating. The room for the meeting is confirmed to be Boalt 110. **Important information about legal representation and support for students facing Office of Student Conduct charges at UC Berkeley from the 11/18, 11/20, or 12/11 occupations on campus or the demonstration at the Chancellor’s residence on 12/11.** This email is coming from a group of...
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Or why non-violence discourse is destructive. There is a growing commentary critiquing the blind discursive commitment to non-violence that permeates many aspects of on-campus resistance in California. FN1 In the wake of the assaults on Chancellor Birgeneau's on-campus mansion, the hegemony of non-violent discourse was threatened and some insight into where constituent interests lie was...
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PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION UC BERKELEY “OPEN UNIVERSITY” RAIDED BY UC POLICE, 65 ARRESTED Contact: Elias Martinez (559) 999-4964 and Ianna Owen (570) 977-0487 This morning, on the fifth and final day of a weeklong “Open University” held at UC Berkeley’s Wheeler Hall, University of California Police stormed into the building around 5am, arresting 65 people...
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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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