Starting with the October 24th State-wide Mobilizing Conference and ending with the Nov. 2nd Dia de Los Muertos event.

OCT 24th – NOV 2nd: ANOTHER WEEK OF HIGHER EDUCATION!

Saturday, 10/24 Statewide Mobilizing Conference for Public Education
9am-5pm in Pauley Ballroom, MLK Student Union
Sponsored by the UC Berkeley General Assembly
http://www.savecapubliceducation.org/

Monday, 10/26 Teach-In on the Crisis of the Public University

4-7pm in Pauley Ballroom, MLK Student Union
Speakers: Ariel Boone, Jayna Brown, Stan Glantz, George Lakoff, Ananya
Roy, Nancy Skinner, Phil Ting, Alberto Torrico
Sponsors: CalSERVE Coalition, Bridges Multicultural Resource Center, SAVE
the University, Solidarity Alliance, Berkeley Faculty Association, and the
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=161632052406&ref=mf

Tuesday, 10/27 Naomi Klein “The Shock Doctrine: California Style”

8pm in Pauley Ballroom, MLK Student Union
Free. Tickets available only at the door from 6:30pm on.
Sponsored by the Mario Savio Lecture Fund
http://savio.org/the_lectures.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=156234379839&ref=ts

Wednesday, 10/28 Robert Cohen “Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio”
5pm in Free Speech Movement Cafe, Moffitt Library
Speakers: Robert Cohen, Saul Scott, Lynn Hollander Savio, Leon Litwack,
Colleen Lye
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/fsmprograms/upcoming.html

Thursday, 10/29 Ruthie Gilmore: “Life In Hell…or How Capitalism Saving
Capitalism From Capitalism SHOULD FIRE OUR POLITICAL IMAGINATION”
5pm-8pm, Bancroft Hotel, 2680 Bancroft Ave.
Sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender & Geography Dept
http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/gilmore

Monday, 11/2 Day of the Dead/Día de los Muertos:

Varied activities include altars with social justice themes sponsored by the Center for Latino
Policy Research and others, and a Louisiana style Jazz funeral sponsored
by the Solidarity Alliance. The events will aim to highlight the acts of
the “dead” in the cemetery that, according to UC President Mark Yudof, is
the UC. Other UC campuses are planning similar activities. Location &
time TBA.