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A Call for Days of Action against the Tuition Hikes/Occupation: A Do-It-Yourself Guide
DAYS OF ACTION AGAINST THE TUITION HIKES
University students and workers in California must organize immediately to occupy, blockade
and strike on all campuses November 17-19.
http://theimaginarycommittee.wordpress.com to read the rest of the call and download 'occupation: a do-it-yourself guide'
University students and workers in California must organize immediately to occupy, blockade
and strike on all campuses November 17-19.
http://theimaginarycommittee.wordpress.com to read the rest of the call and download 'occupation: a do-it-yourself guide'
DAYS OF ACTION AGAINST THE TUITION HIKES
University students and workers in California must organize immediately to occupy, blockade
and strike on all campuses November 17-19.
We call for a wave of occupations and blockades to bring the university to a halt. The proposed fee hikes of 32 percent, to be ratified November 17-19, are only the latest indication that the California university system is bankrupt. We cannot allow it to continue through the end of the term.
Too many workers have already lost their jobs. The jobs for which our educations supposedly prepare us have already disappeared. We have given our ‘representatives’ enough time to work out peaceful solutions to these problems, and we see no indication that they have made any progress.
We are not interested in any more tedious conferences or assemblies, which draw out hundreds of people, but only for an endless conversation. We are not interested in more ’symbolic protests’, whether walkouts or strikes, insofar as they are pre-announced to end after one or a few days. More meetings and protests will only waste our energies, while the administration continues to implement its plans without hindrance.
A movement of occupations has been building. Multiple occupations broke out in recent weeks at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley, at CSU Fullerton and CSU Fresno. These occupations are part of a worldwide movement, stretching from California to New York, from England to Greece and Austria.
These occupations have proven that we can take action immediately. People are convinced to act not through endless talk, but when they see that others are willing to take risks. It is only when those who have little to lose actually do something that those who have a lot to lose can join them.
These occupations have proven that we can take action without fear. The administration has been so brazen, raising tuition and cutting jobs, only because we let them. In fact, they are the ones who have to fear confrontation, not us. They have done and can do nothing to stop us, but only if we act.
These days of action are a chance for us to expand our movement, for new people to get involved, for new spaces to be taken and transformed.
University students and workers in California must organize immediately to occupy, blockade
and strike on all campuses November 17-19.
We call for a wave of occupations and blockades to bring the university to a halt. The proposed fee hikes of 32 percent, to be ratified November 17-19, are only the latest indication that the California university system is bankrupt. We cannot allow it to continue through the end of the term.
Too many workers have already lost their jobs. The jobs for which our educations supposedly prepare us have already disappeared. We have given our ‘representatives’ enough time to work out peaceful solutions to these problems, and we see no indication that they have made any progress.
We are not interested in any more tedious conferences or assemblies, which draw out hundreds of people, but only for an endless conversation. We are not interested in more ’symbolic protests’, whether walkouts or strikes, insofar as they are pre-announced to end after one or a few days. More meetings and protests will only waste our energies, while the administration continues to implement its plans without hindrance.
A movement of occupations has been building. Multiple occupations broke out in recent weeks at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley, at CSU Fullerton and CSU Fresno. These occupations are part of a worldwide movement, stretching from California to New York, from England to Greece and Austria.
These occupations have proven that we can take action immediately. People are convinced to act not through endless talk, but when they see that others are willing to take risks. It is only when those who have little to lose actually do something that those who have a lot to lose can join them.
These occupations have proven that we can take action without fear. The administration has been so brazen, raising tuition and cutting jobs, only because we let them. In fact, they are the ones who have to fear confrontation, not us. They have done and can do nothing to stop us, but only if we act.
These days of action are a chance for us to expand our movement, for new people to get involved, for new spaces to be taken and transformed.
For more information:
http://theimaginarycommittee.wordpress.com
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Posting the same call to action from the handles of myriad psuedo-organizations makes me think you're getting little groundswell, so you're startin to pimp it with fabrictated "action groups".
...I guess we'll find out the truth on the 18th when we see the turnout.
...I guess we'll find out the truth on the 18th when we see the turnout.
I don't know who posted this article up, but I posted the other one up.
I had no hand in writing/typing any of the original info, all I did was "forward" (aka copy & paste)
what I found on one of the websites.
Glad to see both up.
I had no hand in writing/typing any of the original info, all I did was "forward" (aka copy & paste)
what I found on one of the websites.
Glad to see both up.
If you look at the last couple of months, this huge fee hike has proven more effective at turning out students at commuter campuses and among previously nonpolitical students. It's sort of like the draft, directly affecting young people. Most students cannot get part-time jobs (if they can get a job at all) much above $10, and thousands in additional fees essentially guarantees that education can't be paid with summer jobs (like it could previous to 2004).
Unless the organizers totally fail to promote the event at the smaller CSUs, people will turn out.
Unless the organizers totally fail to promote the event at the smaller CSUs, people will turn out.
how do you know who wrote this? there seem to be a lot of really flawed perceptions about there being some fixed group of people that everything is revolving around. maybe because people have been trained by this society to only think in terms of static identities and formal organizations.
get a clue.
get a clue.
It would be a shame if this floundered because of an elite and artificial divide: student and non-student.
A pure student action won't work. A pure UC student action is doomed to failure.
Non-students are a valuable resource that is not being drawn upon by this movement.
The UC effects the lives of many Californians who don't actively participate in the UC system. Their police, the labs, animal testing, green washing, and even the economic blackhole they've helped create.
A pure student action won't work. A pure UC student action is doomed to failure.
Non-students are a valuable resource that is not being drawn upon by this movement.
The UC effects the lives of many Californians who don't actively participate in the UC system. Their police, the labs, animal testing, green washing, and even the economic blackhole they've helped create.
What we really needed was much more long term focused action that involves getting everyone involved. As we see from other examples like UCSC, UCLA, and others across the globe, we must unite and stand in solidarity. We are all students looking for a drastic change to this education and deserve to help one another out. LETS OCCUPY EVERYTHING THEN!
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