All Student General Strike Monday – November 28

All Student General Strike Monday – November 28

November 28th – In solidarity with UC Davis , UC Berkeley, CUNY Schools and all students who are defending their right to protest against rising tuition cost and out of control student debt. We ask you to STRIKE! No work, no school – please join together in a central area of your choosing and stand up against the VIOLENCE and SUPPRESSION that is happening in our schools.

Please abide by the Pledge of Non-Violence to Participate in the Student Strike:

We are an open, participatory, democratic, horizontal, peaceful, and nonviolent movement.

We are not a leaderless movement, we are a movement of leaders.

As a nonviolent movement, we have agreed to refrain from violence against any person, from carrying weapons, and from destruction of property.

We reject violence, including property destruction, because we recognize that it undermines popular support and discourages the broadest possible participation among the 99%.

We believe nonviolence promotes unity, strength of message, and an environment in which everyone’s voice might be heard.

We affirm that it is the personal responsibility of every individual participant in our movement to promote and maintain nonviolent discipline and to intervene to prevent violent action by anyone in our movement.

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Total Attendees: 34
# College
Name Location

1. Bluegrass KCTCS Lexington, KY
2. Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY new york, ny Link
3. Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio Link
4. CITY COLLEGE NEW YORK, NEW YORK Link
5. CSUN Northridge, CA Link
6. CUNY Brooklyn College Brooklyn, NY
7. Daytona State College Daytona Beach, Florida Link
8. Drexel University Philadelphia, PA Link
9. Glendale Community College Glendale
10. Harvard University Cambridge Link
11. Hunter College New York, NY
12. Kean University Union, NJ Link
13. Kennesaw State University Kennesaw, GA Link
14. llaguardia community college queens,new york Link
15. Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
16. Outreach CSUSB San Bernardino Link
17. Owensboro Community & Technical College Owensboro, KY Link
18. Pasadena City Community College Pasadena, CA Link
19. Portland Community College Portland, Oregon Link
20. Queens College CUNY 6530 Kissena Blvd Flushing NY 11367 Link
21. Red Rocks Community College Lakewood, Co Link
22. San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, California Link
23. San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, California Link
24. Santa Monica College Santa Monica, CA Link
25. Sierra College Rocklin, California
26. The Graduate Center New York
27. Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts Link
28. UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA Link
29. UCLA Los Angeles Link
30. University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz Link
31. University of Vermont Burlington, VT Link
32. UW-Madison Madison, Wisconsin Link
33. Ventura College Ventura, CA Link
34. Willow International Clovis, CA

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http://occupycolleges.org/all-student-general-strike-november-28-2011-2/

Students are being encouraged to refuse to take tests and teachers to refuse to give them.

For her Law school degree owns over 100,000

her dad got out owing nothing , but if if did
he payed it within a couple of years


Same school..... different times.



the assault on education in the US is a fight
that everyone should get behind.

Students from Cleveland High School visit the Occupy L.A. site at City Hall to ask questions for their civics class. From left, juniors Joshua Lugue and Ethan Cardenas, both 16, and Pilar Bermudez, 17 talk about the movement with protesters Paul Shepherd and Summer Reese, who were were released a day after being arrested. (Michael Robinson Chavez, Los Angeles Times / November 18, 2011)


Occupy L.A. offers a hands-on civics lesson for students, teachers
By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times
November 25, 2011, 8:32 p.m.

Who says history has to be about dead men and a dreary assortment of dates and names?
For countless students and teachers, the Occupy L.A. encampment at City Hall has become a living classroom, a place to put a contemporary twist on topics such as the causes of the Great Depression and the limits of the 1st Amendment.
On a recent afternoon, students from at least three schools joined the colorful milieu of protesters — playing ball, posing with pet roosters and sounding off about corporate greed — to interview them about their aims.

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The students are part of Cleveland's humanities magnet program, which is exploring class differences in America and comparing the Occupy movement with 19th century transcendentalism.
"It fits in with everything we're doing," said Rebecca Williams, an English literature teacher at the Reseda school. "It's a real-life movement — history in the making."

Educators across the nation have taken up the Occupy movement as a teaching opportunity for civics, history, government and even geography classes. Organizations such as C-SPAN, the Bill of Rights Institute and the Annenberg Classroom have developed lesson plans for mass consumption. One such teaching tool put together by Ben Bohmfalk, a Colorado social studies teacher, features video clips and articles intended to help students evaluate the movement's aims. The lesson plan on C-SPAN's Classroom Deliberations website offers material for three reading levels and a vocabulary list that includes such words as bailouts, deregulation and meritocracy.

Bohmfalk said the link to the Occupy lesson plan was sent out to more than 40,000 teachers nationwide. A handful of them, he said, protested that teaching about the movement implies supporting it. But Bohmfalk, who also has taught about the politically conservative "tea party" movement, disagrees. "For a movement to gain so much public attention, teachers have a responsibility to teach about it," he said. "This cracks open all of the issues. It takes them out of dusty textbooks and makes them very current."


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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-adv-occupy-teach-20111126,0,1078550,full.story

I hope to see all of the UCLA students tonight at #Occupy Los Angeles. Thanks for the post!

Berkeley Faculty: No Confidence in Chancellor Over Campus Police Violence
Jon Wiener on November 25, 2011 - 12:02am ET


Berkeley is not only a school with an honored history of campus protest; it’s also our greatest public university, and its faculty include some of the country’s most brilliant and accomplished people. So when those faculty members meet to debate police violence against the “Occupy” movement on their campus, it’s big news.

On Monday, the Berkeley Academic Senate will vote on a resolution expressing “no confidence” in their chancellor, Robert Birgeneau, because of police violence against Occupy Cal campus activists there on November 9. The chancellor’s defense of police conduct was particularly outrageous: “It is unfortunate that some protesters chose to obstruct the police by linking arms,” he declared the day after the police confrontation. “This is not non-violent civil disobedience.”

Linking arms is “not non-violent”? Former poet laureate Robert Hass, who teaches at Berkeley, was one of the demonstrators; he described what happened in an op-ed for the New York Times: Alameda County sheriffs in full riot gear, “using their clubs as battering rams, began to hammer at the bodies of the line of students” who had linked arms. The sheriffs “swung hard into their chests and bellies.… If the students turned away, they pounded their ribs. If they turned further away to escape, they hit them on their spines.” Afterwards fellow poet Geoffrey O’Brien had a broken rib. “Another colleague, Celeste Langan, a Wordsworth scholar, got dragged across the grass by her hair.”

A million people have seen the YouTube video of peaceful demonstrators with linked arms being jabbed by cops with batons. Many more saw the video on TV—Stephen Colbert featured it on his show, commenting “Look at these vicious students attacking these billy clubs with their soft, jab-able bellies!”

In response to the chancellor’s statement that linking arms “is not non-violent,” students covered the campus with pictures of Martin Luther King linking arms with other civil rights leaders at the 1963 March on Washington. And some faculty members responded by proposing a vote of “no confidence” in the chancellor.

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/164798/berkeley-faculty-no-confidence-chancellor-over-campus-police-violence

Excellent! :thumbsup:

It fits into the average person's stereotypes about protesters as "radical hippie college students", which is something the Occupy movement has been trying to avoid, and needs to avoid in order to prevent alienating working class people.