OccupyColleges: GENERAL STRIKE NOVEMBER 28... National Student General Strike Monday November 28. At this week’s huge General Assembly on the UC Davis campus, students voted by a margin of 1720 to 3 to hold a general strike next Monday.
That call has been taken up by student activists across the country, including the folks at Occupy Colleges. It’s not clear yet how widespread next Monday’s actions will be. On the one hand, the strike has been called for the first day back from the Thanksgiving break, leaving organizers little time to plan and get the word out to students on campuses. On the other hand, last week’s pepper spray incident at Davis has galvanized American student activists like no other event in recent memory. I’ll be tracking planning for the Monday strike over the weekend and reporting back what I find. Stay tuned. Saturday Update | More info here. Like this: Like Loading...
Student Activism: Nov28: A Tale of Two Universities. Last week a massive General Assembly on the UC Davis campus called a student strike for today, November 28, on campuses across California.
The strike was intended to call attention to police violence in UC, and to highlight student demonstrations against today’s meeting of the University of California Board of Regents. The UC Regents were supposed to meet earlier this month at the system’s out-of-the-way Mission Bay campus, but that meeting was cancelled in the face of planned student demonstrations. Today’s rescheduled meeting will take place by teleconference, with regents scattered across the state. UC Davis is one of the meeting’s four physical locations, but as of the weekend only the board’s two student members (one of them non-voting) planned to be present at what has become the new center of resistance to the university’s capricious regulations and reprehensible institutional violence. This is what UC has come to. Like this: Like Loading...
CUNY N28 WEB. OccupyUSA: info: Students line up to... Liza Sabater: RT @katz: Going down Lexin... Ryan Devereaux: The student demonstration... Vote The Bums Out!: I just scanned C-Span's li... Open_letter. UC Davis Chancellor Katehi’s past: Police repression in Greece, FBI spying in the US. By Jack Hood 28 November 2011 The pepper spraying of peaceful student protesters at the University of California, Davis has become a focal point for national outrage over the police repression of demonstrations against social inequality.
The police action was ordered by UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, who was acting on behalf of the UC Regents and the Democratic Party-controlled political establishment in California, which is determined to enforce a new round of drastic tuition increases on students. Katehi has spent the past week and a half defending herself against demands for her resignation, while making half-hearted attempts to distance herself from the police violence.
However, Katehi’s claims of innocence in the matter are belied by her past. She has played a major role in developing repressive measures against students protesting austerity measures and is a prime example of the growing nexus between corporate CEOs, academic administrators and the police-intelligence apparatus. Liza Sabater: RT @johnknefel: The band h... Vote The Bums Out!: Open the gates...Chris Hed... Liza Sabater: MT @RDevro: Approximately...