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DESCRIPTION:The Coalition for a Truly Public UC is a group of students, staff, faculty, 
 and community members calling for justice and a truly public University of 
 California. We come together as a group with the understanding that, 
 although each of our respective struggles has its own unique details and 
 dynamics, they are ultimately all rooted in the same foundation. In that 
 spirit, we are uniting our efforts to expose and fight against the ongoing 
 privatization of the University of California system, and accompanying 
 exploitation of working class people in the form of real estate 
 speculation, displacement, and militarized policing – not only within the 
 state of California, but across the world.\n\nWe believe the UC has the 
 potential to be an affordable, public university whose future is 
 democratically determined by students, faculty and the surrounding 
 communities and not the endless search for profit. However, we know that 
 these aspirations are a far cry from the current reality. If there is to be 
 any progress toward achieving them, we put forward the following 
 demands:\n\n\n1. We DEMAND a truly public (i.e. zero-tuition) higher 
 education system, governed according to democratic process where regular 
 people in the system have meaningful power and opportunity to impact major 
 decision making.\n\n\n2. We DEMAND the UC cease efforts to demolish and 
 displace the 1921 Walnut st tenants and building on People's Park as 
 outlined in UC Berkeley’s 2021 Long Range Development plan. More 
 generally, the University of California should cease ALL real estate 
 acquisitions and real estate speculation, particularly such acquisitions 
 that will displace people and other threatened species, and instead create 
 housing options that are accessible to students and working class people, 
 which necessarily means priced below the current market rate in most UC 
 campus towns.\n\n3. We DEMAND the demilitarization of and divestment from 
 campus police, with reinvestment into services that actually benefit 
 students. We call for the end to UCPD involvement in labor disputes and in 
 harassing and displacing homeless people in the areas on and around UC 
 campuses, such as People’s Park in Berkeley.\n\n4. We DEMAND an end to 
 the pattern of privatization, devaluation, and contracting out of UC labor 
 across all 10 UC campuses.\n\n5. We DEMAND an end to the UC’s ties to 
 colonial and imperial projects. This means ceasing support of, and direct 
 investment in, the Thirty Meter Telescope project on the sacred Mauna Kea 
 in Hawaii. It also means actively supporting Indigenous-led efforts to 
 rematriate stolen land, remains, and property held by the Regents and 
 Anthropology Departments across the state.\n\n\nJOIN US FOR A RALLY IN 
 PROTEST OF THE UC REGENTS MEETINGS OCCURRING AT THE SAME TIME. THE UC 
 DECISION MAKING PROCESS IS UNDEMOCRATIC AND THE REGENTS ARE HIDING FROM THE 
 PEOPLE USING COVID RESTRICTIONS\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/07/14/18843721.php
SUMMARY:UC Regents Public Assembly
LOCATION:1111 Franklin St Oakland CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/07/14/18843721.php
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