Campus Forum on the Future of the Public University. Call for Open University Strike and Solidarity Actions on November 15th | Public Education Coalition. {*style:<b><i> </i></b>*} Issued by Occupy Cal After a mass rally and march of over 3,000 people, and repeated police assaults on the Occupy Cal encampment, the general assembly at UC Berkeley decided on the night of November 9th — with over 500 votes, 95% of the assembly — to organize and call for a strike and day of action on Tuesday, November 15.
We ask that all classes be cancelled or held at Sproul Plaza. The Open University strike is both a response to the University’s violent raid on the encampment, and an action against the defunding and privatization of public education in California. We will strike to reassert our collective right to freely assemble, both at the University and elsewhere, so that we are able to build public spaces where we can discuss and counter the various crises affecting our communities. We do not think that property destruction is a useful tactic and we ask those who join the Open University to respect this sentiment.
Noon – 2pm: Teach-outs in Sproul Plaza. (pdf)Open-University-Schedule. Megan A. Vrolijk: @kqed @nytimes @huffington... Occupy activists to converge on UC Berkeley campus. By ABC7 staff OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Thousands of students and protesters gathered on the UC Berkeley campus Tuesday for a day-long general strike involving teach-ins, marches and a general assembly where the Occupy Cal group decided to try again to put up tents in Sproul Plaza. Last week, 40 people were arrested after they set up tents on campus. Although the university has said that it will not allow protesters to set up tents on the campus, Tuesday afternoon, UC Berkeley's chancellor said that some tents might be allowed as a form of political expression.
Tuesday afternoon, Sproul Plaza was filled with an assortment of items that had not been explicitly banned by the unversity including a piano, a wagon wheel and a sculpture of a dinosaur, an apprent toungue-in-cheek nod by protesters. The tent issue was one of three items on the agenda for the general assembly that got underway around 5 p.m. Speeches were scheduled throughout the day, with UC Berkeley professor and former U.S.
Tags: Aaron Bady: We'll be participating in... George Lakoff (@georgelakoff) sur Twitter. Downtown Berkeley Occupy Cal. UC Berkeley Protest Poster Production. UC Berkeley Protest Poster Line. UC Berkeley Occupy Cal Nov 15. UC Berkeley Nov. 15 General Strike and Day of Action March through Berkeley. SFBG Nov 15 Occupy Cal. Occupy Cal: UC-Berkeley Students Rally for Public Education; Are Attacked by Riot Police. Occupy CAL. Huge protest at UC Berkeley - vote to set up camp. A few tents have been set up in the middle of Sproul Plaza by Occupy Cal, on Tuesday November 15, 2011 in Berkeley, Ca., as hundreds gathered for a general assembly and rally this evening, in front of Sproul Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
Photo: Michael Macor, The Chronicle A few tents have been set up in the middle of Sproul Plaza by... Thousand of people march through Berkeley in support of Occupy and to protest the raising of tuition in the UC system, Tuesday November 15, 2011, in Berkeley, Calif. Photo: Lacy Atkins, The Chronicle Thousand of people march through Berkeley in support of Occupy and... Marco Amaral lead the marchers in a chat, "Who's University, Our University," as the thousand march through downtown Berkeley and back to Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley, protesting the raising of tuition, November 15, 2011, in Berkeley, Calif. Photo: Lacy Atkins, The Chronicle Marco Amaral lead the marchers in a chat, "Who's University, Our...