Next week, Nov. 17-19, the UC Regents will be meeting at UCLA to vote on a proposed 32% fee increase that would bring UC tuition to over $10,000 for the first time. If this passes, a UC education will become unaffordable to thousands of students, and many of us will be forced to go even further into debt. This fee increase, if passed, will be another step towards the privatization of the UC system.

Organizers of the UCLA Fights Back! coalition have issued a call asking UC students from across the state to attend the Regents meeting to protest the fee hike. Buses will be taking students down from every campus. For more information on the actions planned at UCLA, as well as how to reserve a space on the buses, please visit: http://www.protestucregents.com

We hope you’ll join us in protesting a fee increase that -if passed- will be a betrayal of the UC’s mandate to provide a public education for the people of California.

NOV. 2ND JAZZ FUNERAL FOR HIGHER EDUCATION 12-1PM starts at SPROUL ends at CALIFORNIA HALL

“Being the President of the University of California is like being the manager of a cemetery; there are many people under you, no one is listening.”
-UC President Mark Yudof

On the heels of the Regent’s vote to increase student fees by 32% and the continued defunding of all sectors of education in California, we the casualties of these decisions must take mass action against our collective death.

Come mourn the death of public education in California and celebrate our collective rebirth.

Altars to the dead on display all day at the Heller Lounge Multicultural Center in MLK.

Jazz Funeral for Public Education 12-1PM. Starts at Sproul Hall and ends at California Hall.

Dress in black OR bright colors.

Sponsored by: The Center for Latino Policy Research, the Comparative Ethnic Studies program, AFSCME 3299 the Solidarity Alliance, among others.

On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165551679846&index=1#/event.php?eid=185540297441&index=1

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.