The Speak Out

What happened at Berkeley last week, with 5000 people showing up to show their opposition to the budget cuts could be the beginning of a movement. It is our job to extend that movement as far as possible. And we must start with extending it to BCC. So, we encourage everyone to get involved.

Here's where to begin:

This is an update about this week. Come to the meeting this Thursday to help organize and build for the Speak Out on October 8th.
The Meeting is Thursday, 10/1 at 12:15 in room 54.
Attached is a flyer for the Speak out on October 8.

Stacks of printed Flyers will be available all week in the atrium. Spread them to all your classes

Right Click and save to your Desktop for printable versions.

9/24 walkout Speech

Budget Cuts Rally

People!

This is yet another big week for us. Tomorrow (Monday) we will be meeting in room 313 to discuss plans for our budget cut displays and speak out taking place October 1st. If you know anyone affected by the cuts, and they might want to speak out against them, let us know! The meeting tomorrow is going to be all about that.

Then on Thursday, as most of you know, is the big rally and UC-wide walk-out at Cal. We will be meeting at 11:30am (sharp!) in front of BCC, then walking up to Sproul Plaza on campus. If you have a red "no cuts to education shirt", sport it! If you don't, buy one for only $5 on Thursday so we can properly represent. I understand many of you may have classes, if you can try to explain to your teachers the importance of this event and missing some/all of class. Sometimes we have to make sacrifices in order for real change to happen, I know you all understand.

There should be flyers around for this all week, tell the people in your classes, friends, family, EVERYONE! Let's make this a big deal. This is our time to fight back!

I look forward to seeing you all there!

-Jen

District 9

Thanks everyone who showed up to watch (or not watch) District 9 last night. In case you weren't able to make it, UA theaters played a very dirty trick on us and changed the times of the show the day of, leaving us movieless and a quite bummed. So instead, we just got fro-yo and hung out for a bit. Shame on you, United Artists!

So maybe we'll plan on seeing another movie? We'll discuss it at the next meeting. Ciao!

The Busy Week of 9/14

Hi Everyone,

Boy, do we have a busy week!

As some of you know, this Tuesday and Wednesday the ASBCC is hosting a Club Rush Day in the atrium. The Global Studies Club is going to have a table set up, and I encourage everyone to join us in trying to get more BCC students involved with us. So far we are planning on selling t-shirts, having fliers with some of our upcoming events listed and a "who we are" type flier, and globe style candies. If you have any ideas about cool things we can do to get people interested, just let us know!

On Thursday we will have our meeting as usual, we will be discussing the issue of race in America. This will be a precursor to our weekend event when we will be watching the movie District 9. We will be watching the movie at UA on Shattuck probably at 7:45, but more details to be announced. Also, a possiblity of hanging out after.

So, there you go, a ton of opportunity to check out the Global Studies Club this week! Hope to see you at some point!

- Jen

Meeting Recap - Thursday 9/3

Today we watched "The Story of Stuff" with Annie Leonard. An informative animation about the stuff we consume, where it comes from, and what happens to it. It also goes into the history of consumerism and the popularization of disposable goods as a strategy introduced by economists to keep markets constantly stimulated. You can watch it by clicking here.

Next week we'll be planning some events for this semester, so put on your thinking caps, brainstorm, and we'll see you next week! Same bat time, same bat channel. (rm. 54 12:15 - 1:15)