Check this interesting article on Sac State's President. He is being audited by the Attorney General.
http://cbs13.com/local/CSUS.President.Being.2.1379531.html
This is the news video.
http://cbs13.com/services/popoff.aspx?categoryId=7&videoId=65263@kovr.dayport.com&videoPlayStatus=true&videoStoryIds=65263@kovr.dayport.com&videoTime=14.262&stationName=KOVR&
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
Mock Funeral Photo & Video Summary!
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 almost 400 Sacramento State students, faculty and media correspondents joined the Sac State Coalition in mourning the death of California's committment to the higher education master plan at a "Mock Funeral".
The Mock Funeral began with a small march around the Library Quad, gathering the first 100 or so students. As the march grew it's span encompassed the entirety of the Library Quad!!!
As the crowd began to grow larger than expected, faster than expected, we moved into the grassy area of the Library Quad and proceeded to start the "funeral service" in rememberence to California's committment to the higher education master plan. Even the sun came out in attendence...
There was a small coffin placed in the middle of the gathering, symbolizing the Mock Funeral. A number of student and faculty speakers rallied the crowd, creating a beautiful energy that hadn't been present at Sac State in a long time.
Students went into an uproar when they learned that a now ex-senior official in the Chancellor's Office had wasted over $150,000 in misc. travel expenses over a three year period, with charges like $400 a night suites at 5 star hotels...
>(Photo by The Sacramento Bee.)
We passed out note cards and asked students to write down what fee increases, furloughs, decreased class offerings, part-time lecturer cuts & other affects of budget cuts meant to them. As the speeches finished up we had everyone put their cards into the coffin.
One of the lead organizers, Alma Lopez, then picked up the coffin and began the march to the administration building on campus... 100's, plural, followed, chanting in unison!
(Photo by The Sacramento Bee.)
Students were upset, even angry, charging the air with an emotional electricity, fueling the peaceful and civil demonstration in rememberence of a time where higher education was accessable, affordable, and rich in its quality.
(Photo by The Sacramento Bee.)
The coffin was carried into and up the stairs of the administration building, towards President Gonzalez's office...
(Photo by The Sacramento Bee.)
Students marching outside of President Gonzalez's Office. A.S.I. student government President Robert Torres stands by idlely as the protest marches past!
(Photo by The Sacramento Bee.)
As everyone made it out of the administration building, safely and unharmed, we rallied out front of the President's Office window. Below is a video that a student took of the march and how it ended, safely and peacefully! A great success...
To everyone who was able to make it out... Thank you for joining the Sac State Coalition in the mourning process.
However, please remember that we are still here, within the higher education system, and that we must take full advantage of the quality of education that's before us or we are only hurting ourselves... So we will fight for better accessability, affordability and quality of public higher education, for ourselves, for family and friends, and for the future of California... but we will also continue to learn in the never ending progression of ourselves, taking great pride in that.
Sac State STAND UP!!!
In Solidarity,
-Robert Graham
The Mock Funeral began with a small march around the Library Quad, gathering the first 100 or so students. As the march grew it's span encompassed the entirety of the Library Quad!!!
As the crowd began to grow larger than expected, faster than expected, we moved into the grassy area of the Library Quad and proceeded to start the "funeral service" in rememberence to California's committment to the higher education master plan. Even the sun came out in attendence...
There was a small coffin placed in the middle of the gathering, symbolizing the Mock Funeral. A number of student and faculty speakers rallied the crowd, creating a beautiful energy that hadn't been present at Sac State in a long time.
Students went into an uproar when they learned that a now ex-senior official in the Chancellor's Office had wasted over $150,000 in misc. travel expenses over a three year period, with charges like $400 a night suites at 5 star hotels...
>(Photo by The Sacramento Bee.)We passed out note cards and asked students to write down what fee increases, furloughs, decreased class offerings, part-time lecturer cuts & other affects of budget cuts meant to them. As the speeches finished up we had everyone put their cards into the coffin.
One of the lead organizers, Alma Lopez, then picked up the coffin and began the march to the administration building on campus... 100's, plural, followed, chanting in unison!
(Photo by The Sacramento Bee.)
Students were upset, even angry, charging the air with an emotional electricity, fueling the peaceful and civil demonstration in rememberence of a time where higher education was accessable, affordable, and rich in its quality.
(Photo by The Sacramento Bee.)
The coffin was carried into and up the stairs of the administration building, towards President Gonzalez's office...
(Photo by The Sacramento Bee.)
Students marching outside of President Gonzalez's Office. A.S.I. student government President Robert Torres stands by idlely as the protest marches past!
(Photo by The Sacramento Bee.)
As everyone made it out of the administration building, safely and unharmed, we rallied out front of the President's Office window. Below is a video that a student took of the march and how it ended, safely and peacefully! A great success...
To everyone who was able to make it out... Thank you for joining the Sac State Coalition in the mourning process.
However, please remember that we are still here, within the higher education system, and that we must take full advantage of the quality of education that's before us or we are only hurting ourselves... So we will fight for better accessability, affordability and quality of public higher education, for ourselves, for family and friends, and for the future of California... but we will also continue to learn in the never ending progression of ourselves, taking great pride in that.
Sac State STAND UP!!!
In Solidarity,
-Robert Graham
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Sac State Coalition Presents The Mock Funeral
The Sac State Coalition are Sacramento based students, teachers, and individuals organizing and advocating for all students against fee increases, mandated furloughs, decreased class offerings, closed enrollments & other issues in an effort to preserve the accessibility, affordability and quality of higher education in the State of California.
The purpose of our Mock Funeral is to raise awareness about the current, statewide higher education crisis. Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 12pm in the Library Quad there will be Sacramento State students and faculty voicing their concerns about the cuts to higher education, specifically at the California State University (CSU) level. Students will be marching and carrying a mock casket that represents the death of California’s commitment to the affordability, accessibility, and quality of higher education, established in the California Higher Education Master Plan. Students will be carrying tomb stones with written messages symbolizing the cuts that have been made to higher education and how they are impacted by fee increases, reduction of classes offered, mandated furloughs, closed enrollment & delayed graduation rates.
For more information contact: Robert Graham at 916-833-3903 or Alma Lopez 209-914-5022
The purpose of our Mock Funeral is to raise awareness about the current, statewide higher education crisis. Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 12pm in the Library Quad there will be Sacramento State students and faculty voicing their concerns about the cuts to higher education, specifically at the California State University (CSU) level. Students will be marching and carrying a mock casket that represents the death of California’s commitment to the affordability, accessibility, and quality of higher education, established in the California Higher Education Master Plan. Students will be carrying tomb stones with written messages symbolizing the cuts that have been made to higher education and how they are impacted by fee increases, reduction of classes offered, mandated furloughs, closed enrollment & delayed graduation rates.
For more information contact: Robert Graham at 916-833-3903 or Alma Lopez 209-914-5022
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Central California Meeting To Save Public Education
Central California Stand Up!!!
To follow up the October 24th meeting at UC Berkeley, CSU Stanislaus is holding a meeting to save public education in California, inviting all students, faculty, workers and organizations (K-12, Community Colleges, CSUs & UCs) Saturday December 5th.
The purpose of Stanislaus's meeting is to unite all "Central Valley campuses along with workers and organizations to coordinate our efforts" for the march in March.
The date for the march is still being debated.
Below are the flyers, in both English and Spanish, calling for unity and solidarity in attending this representative meeting.
-Robert Graham
To follow up the October 24th meeting at UC Berkeley, CSU Stanislaus is holding a meeting to save public education in California, inviting all students, faculty, workers and organizations (K-12, Community Colleges, CSUs & UCs) Saturday December 5th.
The purpose of Stanislaus's meeting is to unite all "Central Valley campuses along with workers and organizations to coordinate our efforts" for the march in March.
The date for the march is still being debated.
Below are the flyers, in both English and Spanish, calling for unity and solidarity in attending this representative meeting.
-Robert Graham
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
"The Birth of A New Movement"
Last week UC Berkeley protested against the 32% fee increases in the UC system by the Board of Regents.
Students found themselves protesting in Wheeler Hall where 40 students were arrested. In the process students were beaten, breaking the peaceful atmosphere of the students and turning the protest into a violent situation.
Now, UC Berkeley is investigating whether police brutality played a factor in the arrests made and the eventual end of the protest.
Democracy Now breaks the Berkeley story, discussing what happened and showing footage of police brutality. Decide for yourself...
Democracy Now UC Berkeley Protest Video
Fast-forward to 32:57 for the full story on the investigation of police brutality by Berkeley Police during the protest! At 38:00 video of the police violently beating a student is shown...
In solidarity,
Robert Graham
Students found themselves protesting in Wheeler Hall where 40 students were arrested. In the process students were beaten, breaking the peaceful atmosphere of the students and turning the protest into a violent situation.
Now, UC Berkeley is investigating whether police brutality played a factor in the arrests made and the eventual end of the protest.
Democracy Now breaks the Berkeley story, discussing what happened and showing footage of police brutality. Decide for yourself...
Democracy Now UC Berkeley Protest Video
Fast-forward to 32:57 for the full story on the investigation of police brutality by Berkeley Police during the protest! At 38:00 video of the police violently beating a student is shown...
In solidarity,
Robert Graham
Monday, November 23, 2009
For Immediate Release!!!
UCSC students are currently, as I write this, occupying both the Kresge Town Hall and the Kerr Hall with hundreds of students in opposition to the recent 32% fee increases!
This is epic... Following the recent UC Davis and UCLA protests (See Below) UCSC is keeping the spirit of affordable and quality education alive.
Read the list of demands here:
"The demands in spanish are available on http://occupyca.wordpress.com/
Demands:
1. Repeal the 32% fee increase
2. Stop all current construction on campus
3. UC funds and budget are made transparent
4. Verbal and written commitment to Master Plan
5. Total amnesty to all people occupying buildings and involved in student protest concerning budget cuts including: Doug G., and Brian Glasscock and Olivia Egan Rudolph
6. Keep all resource centers open: engaging education, women's resource center, and all other diversity centers
7. Keep the campus child-care center open
8. Repeal cuts to the Community Studies Field Program
9. Re-funding the CMMU field studies coordinator positions
10. Get verbal and written agreement from admins to shut-down campus for one day for the purpose of educating students on the budget cuts
11. Said support for AB656
12. Said commitment to work-study for all who are eligible
13. Making UC Santa Cruz a safe campus for all undocumented (AB540) students and workers
14. Keeping LALS professors Guillermo Delgado & Susan Jonas
15. Repeal all furloughs to all campus employees, renege the 15% cut in labor time for custodians
16. Stop the gutting of funding for fellowships and TAships and the re-instatement of TAs who lost their jobs due the budget cuts from this quarter
17. Re-prioritizing funding so that essential student services i.e. the library get adequate funding to ensure regular library hours
18. Censure Mark Yudof
19. Un-arming UC police of all weapons including tasers
20. NO SCPD police allowed on campus
21. An apology from the regents and the state
22. Creating a free and permanent organizing space on campus for student activists and organizers (first options: Kresge Town Hall)
23. Due process for students:
a. trial by peers
b. constitutional rights for students tried under the UC judicial system
24. Making rent affordable for Family Student Housing, ensuring that the price does not exceed that of operating costs
Long Term:
1. no student fees
2. return to master plan
3. abolition of regents' positions
4. abolition of all student debts
5. tripling of funds from the state to public universities
6. all eligible students get work-study
7. highest UC salaries are tied proportionally to the lowest waged workers
8. Impeach Mark Yudof
9. Representation of students and faculty equal to UCOP/UC Regents
10. All UCSC tuition fees stay at UCSC
11. UC Money is only invested to education
a. cut ties with Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos & Livermore National Labs
Signed,
This is epic... Following the recent UC Davis and UCLA protests (See Below) UCSC is keeping the spirit of affordable and quality education alive.
Read the list of demands here:
"The demands in spanish are available on http://occupyca.wordpress.com/
Demands:
1. Repeal the 32% fee increase
2. Stop all current construction on campus
3. UC funds and budget are made transparent
4. Verbal and written commitment to Master Plan
5. Total amnesty to all people occupying buildings and involved in student protest concerning budget cuts including: Doug G., and Brian Glasscock and Olivia Egan Rudolph
6. Keep all resource centers open: engaging education, women's resource center, and all other diversity centers
7. Keep the campus child-care center open
8. Repeal cuts to the Community Studies Field Program
9. Re-funding the CMMU field studies coordinator positions
10. Get verbal and written agreement from admins to shut-down campus for one day for the purpose of educating students on the budget cuts
11. Said support for AB656
12. Said commitment to work-study for all who are eligible
13. Making UC Santa Cruz a safe campus for all undocumented (AB540) students and workers
14. Keeping LALS professors Guillermo Delgado & Susan Jonas
15. Repeal all furloughs to all campus employees, renege the 15% cut in labor time for custodians
16. Stop the gutting of funding for fellowships and TAships and the re-instatement of TAs who lost their jobs due the budget cuts from this quarter
17. Re-prioritizing funding so that essential student services i.e. the library get adequate funding to ensure regular library hours
18. Censure Mark Yudof
19. Un-arming UC police of all weapons including tasers
20. NO SCPD police allowed on campus
21. An apology from the regents and the state
22. Creating a free and permanent organizing space on campus for student activists and organizers (first options: Kresge Town Hall)
23. Due process for students:
a. trial by peers
b. constitutional rights for students tried under the UC judicial system
24. Making rent affordable for Family Student Housing, ensuring that the price does not exceed that of operating costs
Long Term:
1. no student fees
2. return to master plan
3. abolition of regents' positions
4. abolition of all student debts
5. tripling of funds from the state to public universities
6. all eligible students get work-study
7. highest UC salaries are tied proportionally to the lowest waged workers
8. Impeach Mark Yudof
9. Representation of students and faculty equal to UCOP/UC Regents
10. All UCSC tuition fees stay at UCSC
11. UC Money is only invested to education
a. cut ties with Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos & Livermore National Labs
Signed,
The Occupants"
What I love about this list of demands is the short and long term demands as well as the effort to refund departments that were cut, ensure adequate hours for their custodians and keep certain professors, understanding that every aspect of campus affects the quality of the education experience at California Higher Education Universities.
UCSC know that we are in solidarity with you!
-Robert Graham
UC DAVIS & UCLA Fee Hike Protests...
As you might have heard, the UC Regents just increased student tuition 32%. In opposition to these fee increases students at UC Davis and UCLA protested in two different ways.
UC Davis organized a sit-in where hundreds of students rallied together, leading tot he ultimate arrest of 53 students.
UCLA organized a walk out, marched to their administrative building and rallied against the fee increases.
Below are videos of both universities as they protest in opposition to the fee hikes.
These videos pump me up every time I see them...
-Robert Graham
Sac State Unite!
UC Davis organized a sit-in where hundreds of students rallied together, leading tot he ultimate arrest of 53 students.
UCLA organized a walk out, marched to their administrative building and rallied against the fee increases.
Below are videos of both universities as they protest in opposition to the fee hikes.
These videos pump me up every time I see them...
-Robert Graham
Sac State Unite!
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