Nov 16-20: Schedule of events at the Berkeley campus
UC BERKELEY Strike Week: November 17th through 20th
Schedule of Events for
the Solidarity Strike and Open University
ucstrike.com / ucsolidarity.org / solidarityalliance.ucb@gmail.com
STRIKE
TO PROTEST UC REGENTS MEETING IN UCLA 11/17 TO 11/19
Wednesday, November 18th
Day 1 of the Strike: WALK OUT
5:00 am. UPTE Picket lines start at construction sites
7:15 am. Main Picket lines
begin at all campus entrances
8:00 am. Sit-ins begin at Dwinelle
Hall
11:00 am. Begin gathering on Sproul Plaza for the Rally
Noon. Strike
Rally sponsored by the Solidarity Alliance
Speakers include (list and order
subject to change)
Ananya Roy, UC Berkeley Professor and Solidarity
Alliance
Solidarity Coalition at UC Davis: Catherine Fung (Grad Student),
Joshua Clover (Professor) and Jeff Bergamini (UPTE)
Berkeley UCUC: Nancy
Reiko Kato (UPTE), Joe Pulido (AFSCME), Juan Garcia (CUE),
Annie McClanahan
(UAW), Mary Kelsey (UC-AFT)
Faculty Organizing Group at UCSC: Barbara Epstein
(Professor)
Bob Hass, UCB Professor and Former Poet Laureate of the US
UCB
Students: Hugo Camarena, Noah Stern, Viola Tang, Sohir Albgal, Marika Goodrich,
Tavae Samuelu
Kathryn Lybarger, AFSCME and Solidarity Alliance
1:30
pm. Send off of activists taking the bus to UCLA
1:30 - 3:30 pm. March led by
the Strike Committee of the General Assembly
4:00 pm. First Strike Meeting:
What's Next?
7:00 pm. Film Screening and Discussion of Salt of the Earth
(1954)
ASUC Senate Chambers, Eshelman Hall
9:00 pm on. Solidarity
Booty Shake in the Bear's Lair Food Court
Thursday, November 19th.
Day
2 of the Strike: OPEN THE UNIVERSITY / SHUT DOWN THE REGENTS
5:00 am. UPTE
Picket lines start at construction sites
7:15 am. Main Picket lines begin at
campus entrances
8:00 am. UPTE Picket lines at UCOP in Oakland
8:00 am.
Sit-ins begin at Dwinelle Hall
9:00 am - 10:00 pm. Celebration of the 40th
Anniversary of The Black Scholar
Lipman Room, 7th floor of Barrows, Born of
the SF State Strike, all TBS events are in Solidarity
9:00 am - 3:00 pm. The
Open University Lectures in the Bear's Lair Food Court
9:00 - 10:00. Welcome
to the Open University / International Skype Connection
10:00 - 11:00. Gray
Brechin, "It doesnt have to be this way: Higher Ed in the New Deal"
11:00 -
12:00. Daniel Graham on "The Coup in Honduras"
12:00 - 1:00. Ananya Roy on
"The Financialization of Everything"
1:00 - 2:00. Michael Cohen and Kathryn
Lybarger on "The IWW and American Labor Radicalism"
2:00 - 3:00. TJ Clark on
"From Print Capitalism to Screen Capitalism"
9:30 am - 3:00 pm. The Open
University Workshops on Sproul Plaza
9:30 - 10:30. Field Trip and
Experiential Learning Tour with AFSCME 3299
10:00 - 11:00. "This is what
Berkeley did for me" a photo workshop
12:00 - 1:00. "What is Public? A
participatory event in search of the public"
12:00 - 1:00. "Utopias at
Work"
12:00 - 1:30. Capoeira on the Picket Lines: Demonstration and workshop
at Bancroft and Telegraph
1:00 – 2:00. Katherine Lee, "Academic Labor: A
Workshop for Students and Workers"
2:00 - 3:00. Annie McClanahan & West
Hays: "Prisons and Education: Teaching in CA Prisons"
2:00 - 3:00. Gray
Brechin & Peter Byrne, "UC Inc. Workshop on Researching the Regents"
MORE AS WANTED, NEEDED and ABLE
Noon. Striking Workers March from
Bancroft and Telegraph
3:10 pm. Dump trash at California Hall,
Sponsored by ASFCME
Bring your campus trash and rally at the east entrance of
California Hall.
4:00 pm. Second Strike Meeting: What's Next?
7:00 pm.
Film Screening: "Alcatraz is not an Island" 102 Krober Hall
40th Anniversary
of the Occupation of Alcatraz & American Indian Heritage Month
8:00 pm.
Musical performance by John Handy Quartet, Lipman Room, Barrows
Part of The
Black Scholar Celebration
9:00 pm. Film Screening and Discussion of The Times
of Harvey Milk (1984)
ASUC Senate Chambers, Eshelman Hall
Friday,
November 20th
Day 3 of the Strike: ESCALATE
11:00 -12:00 am. Bridges
Recruitment & Retention Center Rally on Sproul
Noon. Mass Gathering at
California Hall
9:00 - 1:30 Celebration of The Black Scholar's 40th
Anniversary, Lipman Rm, Barrows
2:00 - 5:30 pm: Poetry Reading sponsored by
The Black Scholar
10:00am - 5:00pm: 40th Anniversary of the Occupation of
Alcatraz, Bancroft Hotel
Speakers include original occupiers Dr. Lehman
Brightman, Dr. LaNada War Jack and Ilka Hartmann as well as student
presentations.
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