Support October 24, 2009 UCB Assembly To Save California Public Education

Support October 24, 2009 UCB Assembly To Save California Public Education

On October 24, 2009 at UCB Pauley Ballroom from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM there will be a state wide Assembly of education unions, students and community supporters. There will also be other public workers in the state attending this historic meeting that is a direct result of the successful UCB strike and rally of over 5,000 workers, students and community supporters. A key issue that came out again and again at this action was the need to fight privatization of the university. This of course is not just an issue in education for all public workers in California and nationally.
At the upcoming assembly there will be discussion on these issues as well as developing a program for a state wide strike action against the attacks on education and all public workers. The United Public Workers For Action http://www.upwa.info fully supports this assembly and urges all public workers in California to attend and work to organize conjunction action by their membership. The need for assemblies of workers at all work locations that link all union members and rank and file workers together is vital if we are going to mount an effective fightback. It has been supported by all unions on the UC campus, the CFA, CFT and many other union locals.
Collective action and organization by the 1.5 million public workers in California could have a powerful affect in building direct solidarity and also challenging the corporate control of the legislature as well as state and local government officials who are intent on making public workers pay the cost of this crisis. Also there will be Oakland Education Association members and leaders and United Teachers of Richmond Teachers who also face possible strike action against a union busting attack.
Please get you union, fellow workers on the job to participate and there will be a public workers break-out where all California public workers can come together to work on this project.

UPWA Statement of Support For
October 24 , 2009 UC California Assembly

For more information on the 24th Assembly go to
http://www.ucsolidarity.org
http://www.saveCApubliceducation.org
uc24conference [at] gmail.com


ALL OUT FOR
October 24 Mobilizing Conference
To Save Public Education!

Where: UC Berkeley - Pauley Ballroom
Time: 9 AM to 5 PM
Registration cost: Free

This is a quick reminder to urge everyone to participate in the October 24 Conference to Save Public Education.

The invitation to the conference lays out the purpose of this Mobilizing Conference as follows:

"The purpose of the conference is both simple and extremely urgent: to democratically decide on a statewide action plan capable of winning this struggle, which will define the future of public education in this state, particularly for the working-class and communities of color."

The goal is thus to decide upon specific action that can save and transform public education.

Here is the proposed conference agenda (reprinted from conference website):

Agenda

9:00 AM - Doors open

10:00 AM - Conference begins

10:00 AM to 10:45 AM - Explanation of conference and greetings

10:45 AM to 11:45 AM - General Assembly: What Next For Struggle To Save Public Education?

15 minute break

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM - Break out groups/Task-forces

1:30 PM to 2:30 PM - Lunch

2:30 PM to 4:00 PM - General Assembly and Voting: What Next For Struggle To Save Public Education?
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Network/coordinating
Conference endorsers include: UC Berkeley General Assembly; San Francisco Labor Council; California Federation of Teachers (CFT); AFSCME 3299; Oakland Education Association (OEA) ; UPTE Local 1; CUE Local 3; AFT 1493; Solidarity Alliance; Peace and Freedom Party; Berkeley SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine); Berkeley PSA (Persian Student Association), and many others.

Contact info: oct24conference(at)gmail.com -- http://www.savecapubliceducation.org