On December 10th, the Council of UC Faculty Associations formally endorsed a petition demanding the withdrawal of the “Protest Guidelines” issued recently by the UCR Dean of Students. CUCFA believes that these Guidelines are a blatant attempt to abridge students’ right to free speech and dissent at UCR. The Guidelines include requirements that exceed the UC policies on protest and that may be […]
Category: protest and collective action
Letter to UC Riverside Chancellor White Condemning UCR’s “Protest Guidelines”
One month ahead of the Regents Meeting that will take place at UC Riverside on 17-19 January, the UCR administration has just adopted a series of anti-protest measures under the guise of promoting “safe protests”. The Board of the SDFA has written to Chancellor White at UCR condemning the new policy and requesting its removal.
Students Reclaim CLICS Library
Monday morning of Finals Week, UCSD students reclaimed a long-revered study space – the Center for Library & Instructional Computing Services (CLICS) Library. Closed in June 2011 thanks to $3M budget cut to the libraries, CLICS has stood empty for most of the school year. But members of various student groups, including the Student Affirmative […]
UC Berkeley Academic Senate Votes to “Condemn” Chancellor Robert Birgeneau
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buovLQ9qyWQ&feature=share On November 28th, the UC Berkeley Academic Senate, meeting after a string of clashes between nonviolent protestors and campus police, adopted a resolution to condemn UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau for his handling of the situation, and called for a more coherent and humane policy for dealing with nonviolent student protest.
Occupy UC Davis Calls for a General UC Strike Nov. 28th
Occupy UC Davis General Assembly on Nov 21st, with an estimated 5000 participants, has called for a UC-wide “general strike” on Monday, November 28th, to coincide with the multi-campus UC Regents meeting. While the strike action has been officially ratified by student or staff unions at the various campuses, several groups are planning walk-outs, teach-ins […]