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April | 2011 | Slug OC

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Santa Cruz Academic Workers for a Democratic Union and (Grad) Student Organizing Committee. Daraka Larimore-Hall’s conflict of interest. Posted by BEM under Uncategorized. Daraka Larimore-Hall has two jobs. He is currently the President of UAW Local 2865 and is seeking a full three-year term in next week’s elections. He is also the Chair of the Santa Barbara County Democratic Party. I think this is a problem. Graduate Student in Literature. Santa Cruz Unit Chair 2009-11. Elections committee agrees to ele...

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Santa Cruz Academic Workers for a Democratic Union and (Grad) Student Organizing Committee. This page, which we’ll continue updating from time to time, is an attempt to aggregate sources of information that will help you keep up with what’s happening in California university struggles. When occupations, strikes, and major protests are in progress, the best way to follow them from afar is often through Twitter or Facebook. If you’re on twitter, you can follow the following lists:. Or, check the blogroll f...

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July | 2012 | Slug OC

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Santa Cruz Academic Workers for a Democratic Union and (Grad) Student Organizing Committee. For the Acquisition of an Armored Slug at UC Santa Cruz! Posted by John B. Cannon under News. Hypocritical student “activists” at UC Berkeley have criticized UC Berkeley’s Police Department. Of a Lenco Ballistic Engineered Armoured Response Counter Attack Truck (BearCat), even going so far as to launch a “petition” which. To call upon UCPD to desist from procuring this vehicle. Surely we at Santa Cruz deserve no l...

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Gathering Tempest: The Sorry State of Cal State

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Friday, February 19, 2010. The Sorry State of Cal State. By Barbara MacLean, M.A. The cuts to the California State University (CSU) for fiscal year 2009-2010 are unprecedented. The public and even students applying to CSU don’t have an overall understanding of the devastating changes the university is undergoing. Here are some of the details of the impact of the $564 million budget cut which the CSU refers to as “restructuring”:. 8226; Two fee increases in 2008-09—32% in just the last year! 8226; Creatio...

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Http:/ occupyCA.wordpress.com. 8211; http:/ www.utotherescue.blogspot.com/. Council of UC Faculty Associations. 8211; http:/ www.cucfa.org/. Bob Meister’s analysis of the UC bonds is available here. 8211; http:/ www.checkingeducation.com. Keep California’s Promise. 8211; http:/ keepcaliforniaspromise.org/. Http:/ www.afscme3299.org/. American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees. Http:/ www.upte.org/. University Professional and Technical Employees (Union). Http:/ www.cueunion.org/. We hope...

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Gathering Tempest: A Movement Erupts Across California

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Friday, February 19, 2010. A Movement Erupts Across California. Movement 1, State 0. March 4th: The Statewide Shutdown. City-wide coordinating committees have formed to organize for the March 4th strike and days of action. Santa Cruz, San Jose, Oakland, and San Francisco have begun flyering for and building for a day of strikes and walkouts. In addition to the UCs, CSUs and community colleges, several SF high schools also plan to walk out and Oakland teachers have authorized a strike on March 4th. I am a...

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Gathering Tempest: Asset Stripping: Understanding and Resisting the Pillaging of Public Higher Education in California

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Friday, February 19, 2010. Asset Stripping: Understanding and Resisting the Pillaging of Public Higher Education in California. By Robert Ovetz, Ph.D. 8220;Can't look away/The powers that be might take it all away/Together we burn, together we burn away”. 8212;Uncle Tupelo, “Graveyard Shift”. 8220;There is always, I believe, a close relationship between the intensity of the threat and the brutality of the response”. 8212;Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America. This strategy began to be applied to h...

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Gathering Tempest: Is “Working with Student Government” a Dead End?

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Friday, February 19, 2010. Is “Working with Student Government” a Dead End? 8220;…when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you.”. 8211;Immortal Technique, “The Poverty of Philosophy”. Their best response to us is to urge us to leave them alone and go sit through student government meetings and try to get that body to fight the budget cuts for us. Why not cut out the “middle-man”? The fact is that student government has...

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Gathering Tempest: February 2010

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Friday, February 19, 2010. From Student Strike to General Strike. 8212;James McEvoy and Abraham Miller, “On Strike…Shut It Down” in Black Power and Student Rebellion: Conflict on the American Campus (1969). 8220;Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”. 8212;George Santayana, Reason in Common Sense. Suggested Points of Unity Towards Action on March 4th. Control and maintenance of the action should remain in the hands of the strikers and occupiers themselves. GH works as an adult ed...

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Physics and Food: October 2009

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Saturday, October 31, 2009. UC Crisis Website Round Up. Much has happened with the UC budget crisis in the past couple of weeks. I've been in a hole trying to finish an analysis so I've largely skipped out on the events. Anyways, here is a list of good websites about the issues. The Phoenix Project for UC Democracy. Berkeley Alliance Against the Cuts. Labels: UC Budget Crisis. Roasted Squash with Bok Choy and Edamame. Roasted Squash with Bok Choy and Edamame. A winter squash, I used red kuri. Slice the s...