I. UCLA's Call To Action Dear fellow UC community members, Students, staff, and faculty at UCLA are hard at work planning for a state-wide mobilization to UCLA on November 19th. We will provide food, music, and a tent city for travelers coming to UCLA on the evening of November 18th and staying to participate in a full day of events on Thursday, the 19th. We stand in solidarity with all actions dedicated to defending public education and fighting for equal, quality education for ALL Californians. We plan to shake up the UCLA campus with a show of unprecedented political strength in unity. Los Angeles is the home of the largest civil rights demonstrations that our nation has ever seen in the mass mobilizations against the anti-immigrant HR 4437 in 2006. We have an opportunity to bring that struggle to our campus. We invite you to join us, speak at the UC Regents’ meeting public comment, picket, rally, and march. We plan to show the UC Regents and all cynical forces working to dismantle public education that business as usual is not an option. We hope that you answer our call-to-action. All out to UCLA on November 19th, 2009! In Solidarity, UCLA Fights Back Organizers
II. Schedule of Actions STATE-WIDE CALL TO ACTION TO DEFEND PUBLIC EDUCATION NOVEMBER 18th & 19TH 2009 AT UCLA
Two days of action to coincide with UC Regents meeting
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.
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