October 29th, 2011: Teach-In and Townhall

We Won't Pay For Their Crisis!

At School: Public schools are being closed, teachers laid off, classrooms overcrowded and college and university fees raised, while programs and enrollments are cut. Community Colleges, UCs and CSUs will turn away hundreds of thousands this year. Over 50% of the K-12 budget has been cut in the last three years!

At Work: Nearly 20% of working people are unemployed, with much higher rates for young people and minority communities. Wages are falling, benefits being cut, and attacks on workers and unions increasing as people are doing more work for less pay.

At Home: One million homes were repossessed last year, with over a million more expected in 2011. Vital services like healthcare, public transit, programs for children, the elderly and the disabled are being destroyed, leaving the worst off with even less. Currently in the US one in six people are living in poverty.

At The Top: The very rich are doing better than ever. Last year banks and corporations made their largest profits in recorded history - over $1.68 trillion. California, the 8th largest economy in the world, has 88 billionaires with a total estimated wealth of $245 billion. Politicians have chosen to spend trillions of our tax dollars on wars & bailing out banks and big corporations while cutting public services.

The Time To Organize Our Forces For A Fight Is Now!

Saturday, October 29th 2011, please come to our Teach-In & Townhall to get information and resources, voice questions and ideas, and organize with others to build resistance where you are. We must all become organizers if we’re going to create the fightback we need.

Schedule

• 10:00 AM -- 12:30 PM: Registration, coffee --Atrium
• Videos
• Presentation – Budget cuts when the money is there
• Discussion
• Presentation: What Can we do? How can we fight back?
• Discussion
• 12:45-1:30 PM Lunch in the Atrium
• 1:45 – 3:00 PM Workshops

WHEN: Saturday, October 29th

10am - 3pm (see schedule below)

WHERE: Berkeley City College Auditorium
2050 Center Street (at Shattuck) near Downtown Berkeley BART

email us: Mail@AgainstCuts.org

Thursday March 4th SF Rally @ 5pm

Thursday March 4th Rally in SF in Defense of Public Education -

Meet in the Atrium at 12:20 for a mini parade and sign making-

2:30 People taking BART leave.

3:30 people signed up for busses meet in front of the school.

There will be ice cream during the sign making!

See you there!!

Speak Out - Feb 10th

Hello Everyone,

Just a note to let everyone know that we are having our meeting as usual this Wednesday Feb 3, 12:20-2pm in Room 15 in BCC's Basement

We will also have our Speak Out next week on Feb 10th in collaboration with the Producer's Club. If you know any other clubs interested in participating, please let us know!

Attached is the flier for the Speak Out and our General Meetings Flier.

You will notice that starting Thursday Feb 11 we will have night meetings of Global Studies Club specifically about planning for March 4th and other action against the cuts.

Any input, please let us know!

Thanks, and see you soon :-)

Winter Cuts Potluck

Join us Dec. 5th for a potluck and discussion with peers about the budget cuts and organizing for March 4th. BCC Atrium - 2050 Center St, Berkeley Ca. 12pm - 3pm. Be there or be square!

Oct. 24th Conference Round Up

The 24th Conference on Saturday fulfilled its stated purpose of deciding on a single date of statewide action.

March 4th, 2010 - California Education will have a day of mass action. Strikes, walkouts, speak outs, occupations, sit ins, teach ins - mass dissent.

With March 4th in mind we'll continue our efforts at BCC to deepen and broaden the movement to stop privatization of the public education system and establish what is our right: an education system where anyone who wants to go to school can go to school, regardless of race, income and ability.

November 7th is the Teach in at BCC. It will be a day of teaching each other and networking. Please RSVP for this event. Also be sure to check for the "upcoming events" panel to keep up with actions happening around the bay area with our sister schools.

Education is a right! Not a privilege!

November 7th BCC Teach in

Here are the Flyers for the BCC teach in. Spread them about! Right click and save to print.

October 24th Statewide Conference!

October 24 Mobilizing Conference to Save Public Education

We have the power to stop the catastrophic budget cuts, fee hikes, and layoffs — but to save public education in California requires coordinating our actions on a state-wide level.

We invite all UC, CSU, CC, and K-12 students, workers, teachers, and their organizations across the state to participate in and collectively build the October 24 Mobilizing Conference to Save Public Education. The all-day conference will take place at UC Berkeley (contact us for more logistics).

The purpose of this conference is both simple and extremely urgent: to democratically decide on a state-wide action plan capable of winning this struggle, which will define the future of public education in this state, particularly for the working-class and communities of color.

Why UC Berkeley? On September 24, over 5,000 people massively protested and effectively paralyzed the UCB campus, as part of the UC-wide walkout. A mass General Assembly of over 400 individuals and dozens of organizations met that night and collectively decided to issue this call.

We ask all organizations and individuals in the state who want to save public education to endorse this open conference and help us collectively build it.

• Save public education!
• No budget cuts, fee hikes, or layoffs!
• For state-wide student, worker, and faculty solidarity!

Please visit www.savecapubliceducation.org to endorse this conference and to receive more details.