Student Labor Action Project

OCTOBER 7 2010 DAY OF ACTION TO DEFEND HIGHER EDUCATION

A list of SLAP chapters engaging in the day of action is below. To learn more and see a complete list of actions, visit www.defendeducation.org.

State City Campus Event Details Contact CA Pleasant Hill Diablo Valley College We will be having a rally on campus with music, performances and many speakers and a march to culminate the event. CA Inland Empire UCR and RCC UCR and RCC will coordinate an action from their campuses and converge into a larger march in Downtown, Riverside. UCR: Starting at the bell tower @ 11am and rally around the school and then start marching @ 2pm to downtown Riverside (Corner of Market and University). RCC: Rally at RCC @ noon (in front of the MLK building) and start march @ 2:30pm towards Riverside Downtown toward the Gandhi statue. Cal State San Bernardino and San Bernardino Valley College will also participate in the action, as well as local high schools. The rally in Downtown, Riverside will commence at 3pm. aruiz013@gmail.com(951) 544-6837 CA Los Angeles University of California- Los Angeles Rally at 12 Noon, Meyerhoff Plaza with students and campus labor unions to speak out against budget cuts and privatization plans Eric Gardner, gardner.ec@gmail.com. CA San Diego San Diego City College Campus, UCSD, SDSU, Community Colleges, K-12 Walkout of San Diego City College Campus and all UCSD, SDSU, Community Colleges, K-12, Unions, and community grassroots organizations rallying and marching in Downtown San Diego in the evening. educationforallcoalition@live.com 8586251127 www.educationforallcoalition.com CA Vallejo Saint Mary's College of California Expressions of Quality Public Education. Students at Saint Mary's College of California will be invited to participate in an artistic expressions action and awareness day and tag Ferroggiaro Quad with their chalk, poster, and body art, words, poetry, etc. that express the importance of quality public education for them ara1@stmarys-ca.edu 7078536655 http://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Hermandad-Saint-Marys-College-of-California/147087691996243?ref=ts DC Washington George Washington University GW is hosting a panel on the crisis of education. FL Orlando Jenga blocks event in student plaza. Will be the "building blocks" of society. GA Athens University of Georgia (Athens) October 7th at UGA will be a "celebration of education" on North Campus in front of the Administration building at noon. This will entail music, signs, dancing, flyering, chanting, and a bunch of other cool stuff. A group of people will be at this location for most of the day, but a big push for people will be at noon for an hour or so. GA Atlanta Georgia State University (Atlanta) GSU will hold a festival to celebrate higher education in the Courtyard (Library Plaza in front of Library North) at 12:15 P.M. Students will be able to fill out report cards for legislators/university administrators, enjoy some free snacks, and possibly a step/dance show (this is still in the works/not confirmed yet!!!). At 7:00 PM Ela Gandhi (granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi) will be speaking as a guest of the College of Education in the Speaker's Auditorium, and she has agreed to mention GSPHE's struggle, as well as acknowledge October 7th as the national day of action to defend education and encourage audience members to get involved. GA Atlanta Georgia State U., Kennesaw State U., Georgia Institute of Technology and other colleges and universities in the metro-Atlanta area, as well as metro Atlanta high school students Atlanta (citywide action) - Students, professors, teachers, workers and supporters will meet at 4:30PM in north end of Woodruff Park in Atlanta. There will be a brief rally at 5:00 P.M. followed by a march to the Capitol to present a report card to legislators at 5:30 P.M. Tahereh 678-755-3686 Georgia Students for Public Higher Education - http://gsphe.tk/ IL Chicago Wright College event at the Board of Trustees meeting to present their demands around Chicago City Colleges' plans to make cuts. Viviana Moreno vama4a@gmail.com IL Chicago University of Illinois- Chicago rallying on the quad at 11:30 along with others in the UIC coalition against budget cuts Kait McIntyre kait.mcintyre@gmail.com. ME Portland We are having a rally and speakers. A panel with student speaker, a faculty member or two, surely a union representative. sffein@usm.maine.edu 2077124188 MA Amherst The Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts (PHENOM) is organizing a statewide march and rally to draw attention to the funding crisis in public higher education. The statewide March & Rally to Defend Public Higher Education, a dramatic week-long walk across the state, will culminate with a rally at the State House in Boston on Thursday, October 7th - a National Day of Action to Defend Public Education (see http://www.defendeducation.org) endorsed by PHENOM. The march will begin on Saturday, October 2, at Berkshire Community College and end with a huge rally at the State House on October 7. Events at campuses and in communities along the way will dramatize the importance and plight of public higher education in our state. Confirmed stops will include: Berkshire Community College - October 2 UMass Amherst - October 3 Worcester State College - October 4 Framingham State College - October 5 UMass Boston - October 6 State House - October 7 MA Boston UMass Boston 1pm Rally at UMass Boston; 1:30-3pm March to the State House organized by PHENOM genevieve.morse@umb.edu and http://www.phenomonline.org/ MA Boston K-12 4:30pm United k-12 and higher education rally, in front of the State House on the Boston Common. joshua.koritz@gmail.com 716-598-4757 NY New York Brooklyn College, City College New York, Hunter College, Queens College Rallies planned throughout the day NY New York Unified New York City rally Harlem State Office Building 163 West 125th Street, just east of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. BLVD(seventh avenue), then march across Harlem via 125th street to Frederick Douglas to 141st street and to CCNY. hcrazycat@yahoo.com 720-979-9491 www.march4ny.wordpress.com NY Syracuse hosting an "alternative university" event. Michael John Kowalchuk, mjkowalc@syr.edu OR Portland Portland State University Hundreds will rally at Portland State University calling for affordable education for all. Students, faculty, workers, and community members will participate in coordination with hundreds of thousands from across the country and around the globe. colliers@pdx.edu 503-808-0689 www.defendeducationpdx.wordpress.com VT Burlington University of Vermont A DAY TO DEFEND PUBLIC EDUCATION: THE COST OF CUTS AT UVM 4-5:30 pm John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill On October 7 students, faculty, and staff nationwide will rally to defend public education against layoffs, cuts,and such attacks as Arizona's recent ban on public funding for ethnic studies programs. nwelch@uvm.edu 802-656-4171 www.unitedacademics.org