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Santa Cruz Indymedia | Education & Student Activism | Labor & Workers | Racial JusticeUCSC Coalition Rallies Against Budget Cuts, Fee Hikes and Layoffs
On May 28th, students, staff, workers, and faculty rallied at the base of the UC Santa Cruz campus to protest the UC administration’s decision to cut Community Studies department staff, Latin American Latina/o Studies professors, and director positions at the American Indian Resource Center and the Women’s Center. The rally was organized by the New UC, a coalition that seeks to save quality of education in the UC from regressive, belt-tightening attacks, to ensure universal access to education, and to promote freedom of thought in the university.  sleeping_5-28-09.jpg While these cuts are seen as part of a larger budget crisis in California, organizers with the New UC say that the execution of budget reductions at UCSC and across the UC system are unjust, undemocratic, and discriminatory. In solidarity and support of the hunger strikers and their demands, the New UC is calling for those concerned by recent budget cuts to protest, declaring “No Cuts, No Hikes, No Layoffs.”
For more information, including lists of demands, see: UCSC Students Hunger Strike http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/24/18597741.php UCSC coalition says No Cuts, No Hikes, No Layoffs http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/28/18598828.php And from 2006, check out: The Need for Ethnic Studies http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/02/27/18051651.php UCSC Charged With Disadvantaging Students, Faculty and Workers of Color http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/07/18272891.php  respect-the-space_5-28-09...  under-oak_5-28-09.jpg  hunger-strike_5-28-09.jpg  institutionalized-coloniz...  student-affairs-cop_5-28-... UC Santa Cruz Police Chief Mickey Aluffi burns petroleum while talking to Alma Sifuentes (yellow cap) and Margaret Ortega from Student Affairs.
 cue_5-28-09.jpg Members of the Coalition of University Employees (CUE) share their experiences with students.
 cut-the-top_5-28-09.jpg  new-fsh_5-28-09.jpg  fair-housing_5-28-09.jpg  cut-blumenthal_5-28-09.jpg  humyn-generator_5-28-09.jpg This humyn powered bicycle generator, which also has a solar panel, was brought to the rally by Takashi of People Power and provided amplified sound for the rally.
 cut-nukes_5-28-09.jpg The University of California: America's Most Ecocidal "Green" University
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/13/18588632.php  slashing-diversity_5-28-0... Martin, a graduate student, father, and resident of Family Student Housing, spoke about the inadequate and unsafe living conditions at FSH.
 white-sage_5-28-09.jpg Daniel “Nane” Alejándrez, co-founder of Barrios Unidos, smudges students with white sage.
Smudging is a ritual way to cleanse a person, place or an object of negative energies, spirits or influences. The smudging ceremony involves the burning of special, sacred plants and herbal resins, then, either passing an object through the resulting smoke, or fanning the smoke around a person or place. The spirit of the plant then purifies whatever is being smudged.  save-cmmu_5-28-09.jpg The Coalition to Save Community Studies is a student-led group that includes students of all majors, faculty, alumni, and all others who are concerned with the academic integrity of the Community Studies department. Formed in April 2009 in light of UC wide budget cuts, the coalition brings together different constituencies to educate the public and advocate for the preservation of the department and major. The coalition seeks transparency and engagement in the budget decision making process through diplomacy and outreach to other affected students.
 ucsc-hypocrisy_5-28-09.jpg This persyn read propaganda by UCSC to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the institution's words compared to its actions.
 jonas_5-28-09.jpg Susanne Jonas, a pink-slipped lecturer in the Latin American and Latina/o Studies (LALS) department and world-renowned expert on the Guatemalan Peace Accords speaks with Sister Paula Livers-Powell, Founding Dean & Director of the African American Resource Center.
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