We call for the UC Berkeley administration to drop all charges and disciplinary actions against the students involved in the Architects and Engineering building sit-in on November 18, 2009, the November 20, 2009 Wheeler protest, those arrested in Wheeler Hall on the morning of December 11, 2009, and the students facing sanctions for flyering on campus.
4/5/2010 Noon. Rally at UC Berkeley Sproul Plaza. Come Show Support!
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Messages of Solidarity
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 ---- 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 ---- 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! ---- 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.
Did You Know? / Myths and Facts flyer
Logistics for Nov 18 rally in Berkeley
UCLA Events for Nov 18 and 19 (updated at protestucregents.com)
Download UCLA 5 PAGE GUIDE TO WHAT'S GOING ON
UC Davis Events
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.
Earlier
The Student-Worker Action Team (SWAT) of UC Berkeley has called for a strike beginning on Nov. 18th.
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!"