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International Student Teach-In on the Budget Cuts:

6-8pm in the Multicultural Center in MLK.
Hosted by International Students Association at Berkeley

The event will highlight the effects of the budget cuts on international students. This event is especially important because an increase in international students is being used to help make up the budget deficit for the UC system, reducing the number of resident Californians who are admitted. This is something that International students have not asked for and do not want, and it is important for us to come together so that we can act in solidarity against the cuts.

Come to the Teach-In to learn about the tremendous financial challenges posed by the proposed (or continuing) fee increases, the reduced funding for already lacking support services for international students, and the heightening of a general misconception about international students due to the budget crisis.

Time: 6pm Monday November 16th
Venue: Multicultural Center, MLK Student Union

Speakers:
Professor Darren Zook, Political Science
Professor Bob Jacobsen, Physics
Ariel Boone, ASUC Senator
Farren Briggs, International Graduate Student
Margrethe Nergaard, Concurrent Enrollment & Exchange Student
Viola Tang, International Undergraduate Student

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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.

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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.

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