Free the UC! Day of Action at Regents Meeting, March 19
Students hold rally, festival, and more on the Iraq war anniversary
On March 19th, 2003, the US began the current illegal and immoral invasion, and subsequent occupation, of Iraq. Five years later, the UC Regents -- the decision-making body of the university system which performs the most military-funded research in the country -- will callously choose this day for their next meeting.
The Coalition to Free the UC, organized primarily out of UC Berkeley, has called for a UC system-wide day of action both against the Iraq war and to transform our university into an institution which prevents such bloodshed, rather than enabling it. Chief among the actions of that day will be the action at the UC Regents Meeting, at 7:30 AM at UC San Francisco's Mission Bay Campus, featuring a rally, festival, and an alternative Regents' meeting.
More actions have been proposed and discussed at other UC campuses -- use the contact information in the right-hand column or click here to learn about actions on a UC campus near you! |
UC Santa Cruz Week Against War, March 10-14
Demil Day with Weapons Inspection Tour and Waste Dump Thurs, 3/13
UC Santa Cruz's Students Against War is commemorating the anniversary of the war in Iraq early with their Week of Action Against War, scheduled for March 10-14. Monday, 3/10, will feature Creative Resistance in the Bay Tree Plaza, with public interactive art, slam poetry, and t-shirt making. Tuesday will emphasize counter-recruitment, bringing David Solnit, global justice organizer and co-author of Army of None, to speak and prepare for the rest of the week's events. Wednesday's theme is "The War at Home", connecting local and current events to understand and combat war in our everyday lives, featuring workshops on immigration, the 2008 presidential elections, and more.
Thursday, March 13th is Demil Day, set to expose and end UC nuclear weapons lab management and campus militarism, with a Nuclear Waste Dump in the Bay Tree plaza all morning and a Weapons Inspection Tour highlighting UCSC's ties to the war in Iraq and the military. Finally, on Friday SAW will cap the week with a mass rally against the war, set to draw thousands! Come to the events and get involved in ending the war! |
Report from UC Santa Barbara Protest Against War, Feb 12
On February 12th, over 500 students at UC Santa Barbara marched from Pardall Tunnel across campus to the ongoing Army Industry Research Conference hosted by the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB), blocking off the conference and effectively shutting it down. The conference is a yearly event where officials in the armed forces come together with researchers at the UC, MIT, and CalTech to request and give funding for research projects to help them more effectively fight, for example, the war in Iraq. By shutting down this conference, UCSB students made a valuable and necessary strike towards identifying and ending the institutions which create and perpetuate wars of aggression. Three protesters were arrested on minor charges. For more details, pictures and video, see the articles at SB Indymedia and in the Santa Barbara Daily Sound. |
Spring Quarter Coming Soon: Enroll in UC and the Bomb!
The UC and the Bomb class program, initiated in the Spring of 2005 at UC Berkeley, is still going strong in yet another term of student-directed, self-initiated cooperative education on the nuclear weapons complex and the UC's involvement therein. In Berkeley, UC and the Bomb is ongoing in the Spring semester through the DeCal program; in Santa Cruz, it will be featured as an action research team in the Education for Sustainable Living course in the upcoming Spring quarter. For more information about a UC and the Bomb class at your campus, or for information about enrollment, use the contact information in the right-hand column or click here. |
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