Wildcat Strike Launched by UC Santa Cruz Grad Student Workers
Submitted by R Totale on Dec 9 2019 21:48
Could the #Red4Ed strike wave spill over to higher education and graduate student organizing? Participant C.A. writes on the announced strike hours after the vote was taken. This article was first published by the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation.
Wildcat Strike Launched by UC Santa Cruz Grad Student Workers
Submitted by R Totale on Dec 9 2019 21:48
Could the #Red4Ed strike wave spill over to higher education and graduate student organizing? Participant C.A. writes on the announced strike hours after the vote was taken. This article was first published by the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation.
Students in revolt: the battle of Berkeley campus - Solidarity
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 4 2013 17:13
Contemporary pamphlet from Solidarity about the 1964 protest movement at Berkeley being waged by students asserting their right to indulge in political activity on campus. Also contains a review of Hal Draper's pamphlet The mind of Clark Kerr by L Campusino.
Against Academic Alibis: The Best Education is the Struggle – George Ciccariello-Maher
Submitted by Class War U on Aug 23 2013 14:53
Drawing on his experiences in the “cauldron of resistance” of Oakland, CA, George Ciccariello-Maher speaks on the relations between organizing in universities and struggles against police and prisons. Against academics’ use of alibis, such as ‘changing the world by teaching,’ to legitimize anything they do as a contribution to radical movements, he calls for academics to more clearly distinguish between their jobs and their political work.
Reanimating histories of struggle as weapons against neoliberalism – An Interview with Don Kingsbury
Submitted by Class War U on Aug 23 2013 04:00
Reflecting on the building occupations at UC Santa Cruz in 2009-2010 and cross-pollination between student and worker struggles, Don Kingsbury highlights the need to excavate and reanimate histories of radical movements. Under the conditions of academic precarity, and against the neoliberal privatization of the general intellect, Don calls for turning communities of necessity into communities of resistance.
No conclusions when another world is unpopular
An assessment of sorts on the wave of occupations and protests in the University of California system during the fall of 2009.
We are still here: statement from the occupation of the Business School Building renamed Oscar Grant Hall
Communique from the SFSU occupation during the Fall of 2009.
Back to Mrak: an assessment
A piece looking back at an occupation at UC Davis in Fall of 2009, calling into question the point of negotiations between one side that has the police at their disposal and the other side, the students, who are unarmed.
Reflections on Kerr Hall (by student participants)
An account of an occupation at UCSC in Fall of 2009.
Voices from Wheeler Hall
The following are excerpts from the zine that emerged from the occupation of Wheeler Hall at the University of California, Berkeley on November 20, 2009. The occupiers did not issue a communique; their opinions were so heterogeneous, and their action so spontaneous, that they opted for individual statements later compiled in a zine format. As the explanatory opening paragraph states, “What can be said is we want change. Nothing is over.”
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