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Fourteen arrested protesting massive cuts to University of California system, defending public education
Here's Substance, the only newspaper of education resistance--and the only newspaper willing to cover such news as this. For a photo of this event, go to the url below.
Compare the lead in the San Francisco Chronicle story with that in Substance.
Chronicle: University of California police arrested 14 raucous protesters who briefly shut down a regents meeting today in San Francisco where a proposed tuition hike was being discussed.
Substance: Two hundred University of California workers and students staged a protest against the 32% tuition increase (raising tuition for California residents to over $10,000/year), hundreds of layoffs, and sweeping cuts to academic and research programs being imposed by the UC Board of Regents (led by billionaire Regent Richard Blum, husband of Senator Diane Feinstein) and executed by UC President Mark Yudof.
by Jack Gerson
San Francisco, September 16 -- Two hundred University of California workers and students staged a protest against the 32% tuition increase (raising tuition for California residents to over $10,000 / year), hundreds of layoffs, and sweeping cuts to academic and research programs being imposed by the UC Board of Regents (led by billionaire Regent Richard Blum, husband of Senator Diane Feinstein) and executed by UC President Mark Yudof. Fourteen protesters were handcuffed and arrested for the crime of holding a banner that read "People's Board of Regents". The protesters chanted "Whose university; Our university"; and "Layoff Yudof". At their rally outside the meeting, several of the protesters called for defending public education at all levels against privatization.
The Regents demonstration is just one indicator of the momentum that's building for the September 24 day of action. Eight hundred UC faculty have now pledged to walkout and bring their classes to the picket lines. The University of California Student Association -- the largest student organization in the UC system -- voted overwhelmingly to participate in the walkout, and more student groups are coming on board every day. UPTE / CWA has called a one-day strike of nine thousand UC research and technical workers for 9/24, and CUE -- representing 12,000 UC clerical workers -- will honor UPTE's lines. Staff, faculty and students are working cooperatively in the developing movement.
This is a fight for quality public education and against privatization. It is shaping up to be the largest and most visible blow yet struck against the privatizers. We may well look back on September 24 as the day the tide turned in our favor.
This fight is our fight.
Links:
http://ucfacultywalkout.com/ (UC faculty open call for a walkout, including list of signatories)
http://berkeleycuts.org (Provides the real facts about UC's supposed budget crisis)
http://upte.org (UPTE / CWA web site, with links to September 24 picket line locations and times)
— Jack Gerson
Substance
2009-09-17
http://substancenews.net/articles.php?page=891§ion=Article
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