Austrian students endorse your STRIKE!
Here in Austria, where the European student strike started a few weeks ago
and has motivated students at 40! Universities, we are still fighting for
OUR EDUCATION!
We, the worldwide GENERATION 09, have to unite!
Working group at
Medical University of Vienna
www.generation09.com
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Dear fellow students of UC Berkeley,
When we heard, that the occupied .Wheeler Hall. was evicted by police power, disbelief and wrath spread out.
We, the striking students of Humboldt University of Berlin, want to declare our solidarity with you and comfort you in any further steps. Your protest against redundancy of staff, cutback of expense and increase of college tuitions is more than justified. Stand your ground against this kind of repression!
Press group for the striking students of Humboldt University of Berlin
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presseag.besetzunghhu@gmx.de
to ucsolidarity
We, the students of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düorf in Germany,
show our solidarity with the striking students of U.S. America.
Since 4 days we occupy our auditorium to initiate a discussion about the
education system.
All over the world students have the same aims!
Expand public education for everyone!
More influence at the campuses!
No tuition fees!
Stand on!
Be solidary!
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Solidarity from Connecticut Students Against the War!
Declaration of Student Solidarity
Students, Youth, Workers, People of Color, and all Oppressed Peoples are
being forced to absorb the crisis of Wall Street. We are being attacked and
Wall Street and Washington are trying to make us pay for their crisis.
Their plan is to cut our public programs, attack our social support
systems, attack our families with mass layoffs, and expand the war on
workers and the poor. The conditions that Students and Youth are faced with
are just the beginning of what we will experience as we enter the world as
workers. In this common interest, Connecticut Students Against the War
issues the following statement:
Students and Youth all over the world face tuition increases, firings of
staff workers, adjunct, and non-tenured faculty, cuts to programs and
classes, expansion of class sizes in college and the public school system,
cuts in essential programs, a general decrease in opportunities for
employment, the Economic Draft and growing military influence in Youth
Programs and schools.
In Connecticut, our public schools are facing drastic cuts threatening the
jobs of an estimated 1500 teachers and paraprofessionals, threats to unions
contracts, the closure of several extracurricular programs, and the halt in
school purchases of needed supplies. This threatens the jobs of these
workers and the quality of each student's education as class sizes grow,
work hours increase, supplies drop, and as the crisis deepens.
At the same time that we receive no relief from our debts, while the
government bails out the institutes who are responsible for the crisis,
while it continues to fund illegal wars and occupations around the world.
We have become victims of a crisis that we could not prevent and over which
we have no control to reverse.
We as Connecticut Students Against the War declare opposition to tuition
increases, staff reductions, forced work increases, abandonment of children
and students, attacks on union contracts, cuts to academic programs and
classes, and any present or future disciplinary measures by administrations
against students struggling for justice.
We call for the canceling of all student debt, an expansion of the
education system, an expansion of employment opportunities for youth and
workers to include truly green jobs, an expansion of government aid to all
who seek education, and a reduction of tuition costs to increase access and
affordability to higher education. We call for students in the public
education system and at the college level to unite with their communities
to resist all cuts and to demand an end to the war on workers and the poor
to make us pay for the crimes of high finance.
We declare support for and stand in solidarity with struggles against cuts
in education and social support systems.
We declare our support and stand in solidarity with UC Students who are
standing up against the regressive policies of the university and the state
of California.
UPTE Strike
UPTE has officially called a two-day strike (Nov. 18th and 19th) at UC Berkeley, UCOP and Richmond Field Station.
Due to limited availability you must RESERVE A SEAT! Please email davisrides@ucstrike.com with your name, email address and telephone number. The bus is free but you must have a reservation to board. Don.t delay: spaces are limited! If you have a car and are willing to drive, please allow others who do not to reserve the bus seats.
We also need carpools! If you are willing to offer rides, please send an email to davisrides@ucstrike.com with your name, email, telephone number and number of available seats. Plan to meet at the Mondavi Center at 9:00 AM for the UC Davis caravan to the mass rally at Berkeley!
Buses will be ready to leave UC Davis (outside the Mondavi Center) at 9am. They will leave from the Berkeley drop-off point at 3pm, hopefully to be in Davis no later than 5pm. If you plan to ride a bus, make sure you are at the buses by 9am in Davis and 3pm in Berkeley.
Wednesday, November 18th — WHOSE SCHOOLS? OUR SCHOOLS!
8AM-10AM: Public Comment Covel Commons-Regents Meeting Room — UCLA students, parents, alumni, and LAUSD students speak out about the impact of budget cuts on their education.
12 NOON: Press Conference and Rally to Defend Public Education, Covel Commons.
7AM to 2PM: Work Action and Picket, Covel Commons — Students, staff, and faculty picket to demand that the UC respect workers. rights and contracts.
All Night: Buses arrive throughout the evening. Dinner, music, and tent city for travelers.
Thursday, November 19th. — ALL OUT TO UCLA!
8 AM-10AM: Public Comment, Covel Commons-Regents Meeting Room — Students, staff, and faculty voice movement goals and demands to defend public education.
12 NOON: STATE-WIDE RALLY TO DEFEND PUBLIC EDUCATION AND HOLD REGENTS ACCOUNTABLE, COVEL COMMONS.
10 AM to 2PM: Plans are currently in the works for a rally, speak-out, activist art, political theater, and much more!
7AM to 2PM: Work Action and Picket, Covel Commons. - Students, staff, and faculty picket to demand that the UC respect workers. rights and contracts.
UC Davis Events
Nov 16: Teach-In — Learn about and discuss the public education crisis. 7:00PM, 1001 Giedt Hall.
Nov 19: UCDA Speak Out! — 10am outside Mrak Hall.
ASUC Endorsement
Associated Students of the University of California at Berkeley (ASUC) has endorsed the strike.
Interesting events in Europe
Several universities in Austria, Germany, London, Albania and Poland have been occupied by students in protest of other "reforms", many related to the Bologna Process, as well as issues similar to UC's (e.g. undemocratic institutions). We are not alone.
UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly Endorsement
The Graduate Assembly of UC Berkeley has endorsed the strike.
October 30: UC Berkeley GSOC Endorsement
The Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC) of UC Berkeley has endorsed the call.
October 29: UCD Solidarity Coalition Endorsement
The UC Davis Solidarity Coalition has endorsed the call.
The Solidarity Alliance of UC Berkeley has issued the following statement: "We call upon the allied students, workers, and faculty to unite in a system-wide Three Day Solidarity Strike from November 18th to November 20th. We invite all members of the UC community in Northern California to converge on the Berkeley campus beginning with a walkout and mass rally on Wednesday November 18th. We stand in solidarity with members of the Southern California community who will converge on the UCLA campus to protest the Regents' meeting. We ask for the support of all members of the California public education system to transform our schools!"
