In response to the drastic financial cuts now impacting the University of California at every level, and to the general attack on public education of which they are part, the Solidarity Alliance at Berkeley joins colleagues from across the UC system and calls upon faculty, staff, students and community members to support a Walk-Out and Teach-in on September 24, 2009.
Specifically, we urge:
1. All members of the campus community to honor the picket lines on Sept 24th.
2. Students to demand, and faculty to devote, teaching time to discuss the crisis, its history and its consequences, in the days leading up to the Walk-out.
3. Faculty, staff, students, and community members to gather on Sproul Plaza between Noon and 2:00 on Sept 24th for a Rally and Teach-In.
We believe that these actions are necessary to preserve and fulfill the mission of public education at the University of California and beyond.
Two notes:
1. This resolution was passed unanimously, with all of the union and student bodies represented welcoming the idea of faculty support at a central event on the 24th.
2. Nothing here should be taken to conflict with ongoing plans for “teach-ins” of various kinds, obviously more intensive and exploratory than the 24th Rally, on the 21st, the 23rd, and perhaps on the evening of the 24th itself — after the union walk-out is over.]
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Thanks for organizing this. Please help cover the budget crisis and walkout on our local indymedia center: indybay.org.
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