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You may have heard about some flyers flying around campus lately, so you might know that serious sh*t is supposed to go down in the next three days. To that end, the Clog’s got a calendar of events, a “schedule” if you will, that will (hopefully) clear things up a bit.
(Note: What follows is a straight copy+paste. Kind of text heavy. Peruse at your own risk.)
UC BERKELEY Strike Week: November 17th through 20th
Schedule of Events for the Solidarity Strike and Open University
ucstrike.com / ucsolidarity.org / [email protected]STRIKE TO PROTEST UC REGENTS MEETING IN UCLA 11/17 TO 11/19
Tuesday, November 17th
Strike Kick Off Event
Cifford Odets’ “Waiting for Lefty”
A staged reading directed by Peter Glazer
Featuring UC Berkeley faculty, students and staff
8:00 pm, Booth Auditorium in Boalt Law SchoolWednesday, November 18th
Day 1 of the Strike: WALK OUT
5:00 am. UPTE Picket lines start at construction sites
7:15 am. Main Picket lines begin at all campus entrances
8:00 am. Student sit-in on the steps of Dwinelle
11:00 am. Begin gathering on Sproul Plaza for the Rally
Noon. Strike Rally sponsored by the Solidarity Alliance
Speakers include (list and order subject to change)
Ananya Roy, UC Berkeley Professor and Solidarity Alliance
Solidarity Coalition at UC Davis: Catherine Fung (Grad Student), Joshua Clover (Professor) and Jeff Bergamini (UPTE)
Berkeley UCUC: Nancy Reiko Kato (UPTE), Joe Pulido (AFSCME), Juan Garcia (CUE),
Annie McClanahan (UAW), Mary Kelsy (UC-AFT)
Faculty Organizing Group at UCSC: Barbara Epstein (Professor)
Bob Hass, UCB Professor and Former Poet Laureate of the US
UCB Students: Noah Stern, Viola Tang, Sohir Albgal, Marika Goodrich, and others
Kathryn Lybarger, AFSCME and Solidarity Alliance1:30 pm. Send off of activists taking the bus to UCLA
1:30 – 3:30 pm. March led by the Strike Committee of the General Assembly
4:00 pm. First Strike Meeting: What’s Next?7:00 pm. Film Screening and Discussion of Salt of the Earth (1954)
ASUC Senate Chambers, Eshelman Hall9:00 pm on. Solidarity Booty Shake in the Bear’s Lair Food Court. Late night chill-out in 370-371 Dwinelle (Fourth floor). Bring food, music, a blanket, relax.
Thursday, November 19th.
Day 2 of the Strike: OPEN THE UNIVERSITY / SHUT DOWN THE REGENTS
5:00 am. UPTE Picket lines start at construction sites
8:00 am. UPTE Picket lines at UCOP in Oakland
7:15 am. Main Picket lines begin at campus entrances
8:00 am. Sit-in on the steps of Dwinelle
9:00 am – 10:00 pm. Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of The Black Scholar
Lipman Room, 7th floor of Barrows, Born of the SF State Strike, all TBS events are in Solidarity
9:00 am – 3:00 pm. The Open University Lectures in the Bear’s Lair Food Court
9:00 – 10:00. Welcome to the Open University / International Skype Connection
10:00 – 11:00. Gray Brechin, “It doesnt have to be this way: Higher Ed in the New Deal”
11:00 – 12:00. Daniel Graham on “The Coup in Honduras”
12:00 – 1:00. Ananya Roy on “The Financialization of Everything”
1:00 – 2:00. Michael Cohen and Kathryn Lybarger on “The IWW and American Labor Radicalism”
2:00 – 3:00. TJ Clark on “From Print Capitalism to Screen Capitalism”9:30 am – 3:00 pm. The Open University Workshops on Sproul Plaza
9:30 – 10:30. Field Trip and Experiential Learning Tour with AFSCME 3299
10:00 – 11:00. “This is what Berkeley did for me” a photo workshop
12:00 – 1:00. “What is Public? A participatory event in search of the public”
12:00 – 1:00. “Utopias at Work”
12:00 – 1:00. “Ladies and no-gentlemen: How to Avoid Sexism in Organizational Situations”
12:00 – 1:30. Capoeira on the Picket Lines: Demonstration and workshop at Bancroft and Telegraph
1:00 – 2:00. Race and Racism on Campus and In America
1:00 – 2:00. Katherine Lee, “Academic Labor: A Workshop for Students and Workers”
2:00 – 3:00. Annie McClanahan & West Hays: “Prisons and Education: Teaching in CA Prisons”
2:00 – 3:00. Gray Brechin & Peter Byrne, “UC Inc. Workshop on Researching the Regents”
MORE AS WANTED, NEEDED and ABLE
Noon. Striking Workers March from Bancroft and Telegraph
3:10 pm. Dump your trash at California Hall, Sponsored by ASFCME
Bring your campus trash and rally at the east entrance of California Hall.
4:00 pm. Second Strike Meeting: What’s Next?
7:00 pm. Film Screening: “Alcatraz is not an Island” 102 Krober Hall
40th Anniversary of the Occupation of Alcatraz & American Indian Heritage Month
8:00 pm. Musical performance by John Handy Quartet, Lipman Room, Barrows
Part of The Black Scholar Celebration
9:00 pm. Film Screening and Discussion of The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
ASUC Senate Chambers, Eshelman Hall
9: 30 pm onwards: Nuit du cinema at 370-371 Dwinelle. Bring dinner, a pillow and a blanket, chill-out.
Friday, November 20th
Day 3 of the Strike: ESCALATE
11:00 -12:00 am. Bridges Recruitment & Retention Center Rally on Sproul
Noon. Mass Gathering at California Hall
9:00 – 1:30 Celebration of The Black Scholar’s 40th Anniversary, Lipman Rm, Barrows
2:00 – 5:30 pm: Poetry Reading sponsored by The Black Scholar
10:00am – 5:00pm: 40th Anniversary of the Occupation of Alcatraz, Bancroft Hotel
Speakers include original occupiers Dr. Lehman Brightman, Dr. LaNada War Jack and Ilka Hartmann as well as student presentations.
Ah yes. The coup in Honduras, Harvey Milk, sexism … it all ties neatly together with the regents’ meeting. Wait, what?
Also note: Chancellor Birgeneau is at UCLA for the duration of the meeting, so, uh … dumping trash in front of California Hall won’t do much.
Image Source: Jon Bradley Photography under Creative Commons
Schedule Courtesy Zhivka Valiavicharska
Earlier: (Belly)dance the Night Away
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Nov 18, 2009 at 6:25 am
I don’t see how watching movies and having a ‘party’ at the Bear’s lair, has to do with a strike, nor how it gives any credence or legitimacy to the this strike. Are students joining the strike because they can’t afford the tuition rise (and if so what are they doing partying and spending money on that)? Or because they think it’d be fun to have some days off of school before finals hits? And watch movies and drink in the interim?
From my experience, most people who go to Cal (and I graduated from there) have enough money or credit to pay the $13k. For those who don’t, the UC system has an excellent system of financial aid. What about all the parties, drinking, clubbing, drugs that more and more people participate in? Save some money on that, and crossing the $5 toll bridge into the city on Friday and Saturday nights, and spend it on tuition. ‘Public education for the masses’ sounds good in rhetoric, but seems to me most people at Cal are just interested in moneygrubbing to get to the top, get a good job, and party hearty along the way as much as they can get away with. So it seems like dressing a sow up in a silk dress, to act as though everyone is a lofty educational populist.
Face it, costs are rising everywhere, for everything. Doors open for you with a Berkeley degree and that is a lasting value that is worth $13k a year. If you could afford $10k already, you can afford $13k. It’s called student loans.