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DESCRIPTION:Students and workers across the UC system are joining together for an 
 evening of collective action to celebrate the end to Janet Napolitano's 
 reign as the UC president, and to make our position known to new President 
 Michael Drake.\n\nWe have three demands:\n1. Reinstate and drop student 
 discipline charges against all fired graduate students from UC Santa Cruz. 
 \n2. Keep all workers on payroll during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite 
 holding over $5B in reserve liquidity, UC began laying off AFSCME workers 
 at UCSD on July 1st. We demand job security guarantees for workers and 
 reappointment rights for lecturers. If austerity cuts are to be made, they 
 must begin at the top!\n3. The abolition of all UC police, the barring of 
 ICE from campus, the divestment from all ICE contractors, and the 
 protection of any UC student with an F-1 or M-1 visa from 
 deportation.\n\n___________________\n\nAs the former Secretary of Homeland 
 Security under the Obama administration, Napolitano developed the Secure 
 Communities (S-COMM) program, which led to the deportations of a record 
 number of people - 2.5 million - and created new, federally mandated 
 operational ties between local police stations and ICE. In recent weeks, 
 Napolitano has repeatedly met UC community pleas - including the systemwide 
 Academic Senate - to defund the UC police departments with expressions of 
 reluctance, if not outright refusal, to entertain these demands 
 seriously.\n\nWhile Janet Napolitano's salary as UC president was an 
 egregious $570,000, the new UC president Michael Drake was announced on 
 July 7th to receive a starting salary of $890,000. We condemn the 
 continuation of bloated UC administrative salaries while new COVID-19 
 austerity measures are implemented which endanger the livelihoods of its 
 students and workers. The UC's pandemic response has only amplified the 
 need for us to demonstrate a united antiracist and abolitionist 
 front.\n\n___________________\n\nCome on July 25th at 4pm for a rally and 
 march beginning at the UC Office of the President in downtown Oakland, 
 followed by music, food, and dancing at another location. Our route will be 
 wheelchair-accessible. ASL interpreters and Spanish translator available 
 upon request (please message us). Please wear a mask and socially distance 
 when possible.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/18835144.php
SUMMARY:F*ck the UC: No cops, no firings, no layoffs
LOCATION:UC Office of the President, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland CA 94607
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/18835144.php
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