The above map, an ongoing project charting all of the events in tomorrow’s March 4 Day of Action, currently includes well over a hundred actions in some thirty-two states, with more being added all the time.
If you click on any “pin” on the map, you’ll be taken to a short description of the action, along with links to further details and contact information for the folks involved.
For new readers, the March 4 Day of Action to Defend Education is a grass-roots event in which students, faculty, and others are coming together around the country to speak and act. The Day of Action was originally conceived in California as a response to the current crisis in higher education in that state, but it has since grown to encompass students and others at educational institutions at all levels in all parts of the country — from Berkeley and San Diego to Portland, Maine and Montgomery, Alabama.
More information on the Day of Action can be found at the Defend Education website, which was one of the earliest sponsors, but there is no one coordinating group behind March 4, no one agenda, no one ideological perspective.
If you have information about other actions, you can add it as a comment to this post. (Please include links and/or details of the action if you can.) If you have questions for the sponsors of an individual action, you can usually reach them through the links at their map entry. If you have questions for me, I may be reached by email at the address on the About page of this site.
Last March 3 update | There are now 122 events in 33 states on the map.
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March 3, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Matt G
I’m not sure if you saw this, but it was posted as a comment to the google map:
“what about the university of marburg in germany – they are in solidarity as well – and other protests around the world – i should see more dots on the map! :)”
-Matt
March 3, 2010 at 5:09 pm
estudiante
UC DAVIS MARCH 4th!!!
connect the elements: a public education happening
11:30: MARCH from HART HALL TO MU
12:00-3:00: MU PATIO HAPPENING- performances, interactive spaces, skillsharing
3:00: MARCH THROUGH DOWNTOWN and CAMPUS TO MRAK!
March 3, 2010 at 6:38 pm
Joe
The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=353171321095
March 3, 2010 at 6:57 pm
jessica
hi,
is there a way people can tag their own events on here? it’s a lot of work for you to put them all on there by yourself. maybe if it was open, then people could help you to list all of the events on this website: http://www.standupforschools.org/events/event/listUpcoming
thanks!
March 3, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Robert
Does anyone have any information on the University of California at Riverside march and rally? Please contact me ASAP 951.760.1190. I’m a reporter and want to cover this event!
March 3, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Angus Johnston
I’m working my way through the California stuff — 34 CA actions on the map and counting. Everything will be up by the time I go to bed tonight.
March 3, 2010 at 8:10 pm
sekobach
Good work!
CNN uses your work as source for their own map of planned protests:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/03/education.protest/index.html?iref=allsearch
March 3, 2010 at 8:20 pm
jessica
That’s awesome! But CNN should note that the demonstrations in California are also taking place in large part at K-12 schools. College and university students shouldn’t be getting all the attention!
March 3, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Billimarie
I agree ! Plus, they forgot to mention all the marches to various offices.
-b
March 3, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Angus Johnston
There actually is a global version of the map, though it hasn’t been updated in a couple of months.
March 3, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Angus Johnston
Got it. Thanks!
March 3, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Angus Johnston
Added it, and the Facebook page for the VCU action. Thanks!
March 3, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Angus Johnston
Wow. They emailed me earlier, but it wasn’t clear what they had in mind. Interesting.
I’ll be emailing them later this evening to let them know about what’s been added to the map today.
March 3, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Angus Johnston
Try reaching out to the folks at Free UC Riverside. They’ve got an email address on their website: http://FreeUCR.org/
They’re on Twitter, too: http://twitter.com/FreeUCR
March 3, 2010 at 11:17 pm
jessica
still many more……sure we can’t help you add these events on the map?
Start the Day for Student Before-School Rally
March 4, 2010 from 5am to 7:45am
Time: March 4, 2010 from 5am to 7:45am
Location: Helix Charter High School
Street: Corner of Yale and University
City/Town: La Mesa, CA
Street: 401 Nogales St
City/Town: la Puente, Ca 91744
Nogales High School will pass out flyer to parents stating thank you for sending your kid to our school. Mock a funeral during lunch time about 12:15 PM and staff and students will wear black.
Location: CENTRAL SCHOOL
National City Elementary Teachers Association will “Start the Day for Students” at Central School, 7:00 a.m.
Time: March 4, 2010 from 6am to 5pm
Location: Main St. Bridge, over the railroad tracks and corner of Escondido and Ranchero Rd., Hesperia
City/Town: Hesperia, CA
Event Type: rally, for, schools
We are asking everyone to come out before and after school to show support for California students. Wear black t-shirts, hold black balloons and help us draw attention to the sad state of affairs California students are facing. We need the public to contact their legislators to insure secure and adequate funding for our students.
Almond Elementary in Fontana is Standing up for Students and Schools!!!
ime: March 4, 2010 from 6:30am to 8:15am
Location: Almond Ave and Foothill Blvd
Street: 8172 Almond Ave.
City/Town: Fontana
Salinas Stands Up for Education
Time: March 4, 2010 from 6:45am to 7:45am
Location: Along North and South Main Street
Street: Main Street
City/Town: Salinas
Salinas Stands Up for Education to call attention to the devastating cuts to public education and to show concern for our schools.
Alisal Union, Salinas City Elementary, Santa Rita Union and Salinas Union High School Districts invite all staff, parents, students and community members to join us along North and South Main Streets to take part of the campaign to fight for the resources our students deserve.
Save Our Future Rally, Mock Funeral, and Disaster Simulation
Time: March 4, 2010 from 7am to 7:45am
Location: Monterey Trail High School
Street: 8661 Power Inn Road
City/Town: Elk Grove, California
Monterey Trail High School students will host a “Save Our Future” Rally, Mock Funeral, and Disaster Simulation on March 4, 2010 from 7:00 am – 7:50 am.
We invite students, parents, teachers, district employees, board members, city, county, and state government officials and community members to attend and witness a mock funeral for items on the proposed budget cut for the Elk Grove Unified School District (libraries, counselors, sports, summer school, ROP courses, and 300-500 teachers).
Please dress in all black if you plan to attend.
Start the Day for Students
Time: March 4, 2010 from 7am to 7:30am
Location: Progress Park, CA
Street: 15500 Downey Ave.
City/Town: Paramount
This is a morning, district wide rally to help bring attention to the effects of the devastating budget cuts to education in the past two years. Teachers and CSEA members from throughout the district, district administrators, and even school board members are expected to attend and send a real message to Sacramento that it is time to Stand Up for Education and DO THEIR JOB.
Fresno Teachers Stand Up for Schools
Time: March 4, 2010 from 7am to 8am
Location: Fresno High School and other schools
Street: 1839 Echo Ave.
City/Town: Fresno, CA 93704
Fresno educators will stand up for students by staging demonstrations at their schools before the school day. Many of the teachers will gather at Fresno High School, 1839 Echo Ave., at 7:20 a.m. Later, Fresno Teachers Association President Greg Gaddams will speak at a rally at California State University, Fresno.
Oroville Secondary Teachers Stand Up for Schools!
Time: March 4, 2010 from 7am to 8am
Location: Oroville High School and other sites
Street: 1535 Bridge St.
City/Town: Oroville, CA 95966
eachers at the two comprehensive high schools will wear black on March 4 to protest any further cuts to public education in their district and throughout the state. Teachers will also hand out informational fliers to parents as they drop off their students.
Live Oak Teachers Association
Time: March 4, 2010 from 7am to 7:45am
Location: Highway 99 Live Oak, CA
Event Type: picketing, and, infromation
Mountain View Teachers Association
Time: March 4, 2010 from 7am to 7:30pm
Location: Mountain View School District
City/Town: El Monte, Calif
We will be starting the Day for Students 7am to 7:30 am by wearing “Have a Heart for Student” buttons, wearing pink, and passing out leaflets to parents and community members informing them about how the fiscal crisis in California is affecting our school district. There is a threat that 80 (teachers, classified, support staff) employees will receive pink slips. After 3 pm we will join Rosemead High School to assist them with informing their parents.
“Start the Day for Students” Morning Tailgate and Picketing — Yucaipa-Calimesa
Time: March 4, 2010 from 7am to 7:45am
Location: Yucaipa-Calimesa Schools
City/Town: Yucaipa and Calimesa
Event Type: informational, picketing
Come out to support Yucaipa-Calimesa Schools on the morning of March 4th. Each school site has a unique activity planned. Yucaipa High School will be picketing on Yucaipa Blvd from 7:00 to 7:45.
Sacramento City Stands Up for Schools!
7:30 Thoedore Judah Elementary
7:45am Leaflets at Tahoe Elementary
7:45am leaflet at West Campus High School
8am Woodbine Elementary teachers will leaflet at their school
8 am Crocker/Riverside Elementary School
7:45 am Matsuyama Elementary
8:30 Pacific Elementary School
7:45 C.B.Wire Elementary 7:45am.
8:00 Charles A. Jones Skills Center
7:45 Bancroft Elementary
March 3, 2010 at 11:24 pm
jessica
Potluck in the Parking Lot ~ Stand Up for Schools
Time: March 4, 2010 from 7:15am to 8:15am
Location: Rio Del Oro & Cobblestone Elementary and Riverside Meadows Middle School
City/Town: Plumas Lake, California
Come join PlumasLake teachers, classified staff, administrators, and district personnel for a quick chat and snack as you drop your child off for school. Learn about the budget cuts the State of California is facing, how it has affected our district budget by $1.5 million, and how you can help ensure no more cuts to education and our students. Check out the website
7:15am to 7:45am
Location: Las Plumas High School, Oroville High School, Prospect High School, Oroville Adult Education
Staff members will be wearing buttons, and black clothing all day to signify a funeral for public education, which is ranked 46th in funding, and a Race To The Bottom. We will be handing out factual education spending flyers for a half hour before school at each of the districts school sites.
7:15am to 7:45am
Location: Dexter Middle School
Event Type: rally
Teachers and Parents will gather in front of the school to protest cripiling State Budget cuts.
7:30am to 8am
Location: Burbank, CA
Street: 902 N Third Street & 1920 Clark Ave
City/Town: Burbank, CA
esidents of Burbank!!! All schools in Burbank Unified will be rallying in front of each High School site from 730A – 800A. Everyone is invited (Unless you have a 0 Period). Invite your family and friends! Our kids cannot ‘bear’ anymore cuts!!
7:30am to 8am
Location: La Gloria Elementary, Fairview Middle and Gonzales High School
Street: Elko St. and Fifth St.
City/Town: Gonzales
Teachers, administrators, education support professionals, parents and students will gather in front of their school site to show support for schools.
7:30am to 8am
Location: Central Avenue & Railroad, McKinleyville
Street: Central Avenue
City/Town: McKinleyville
All school staff, trustees, students, parents and community members are invited to Start the Day for Students. We plan to line the sidewalk on Central Avenue, radiating out from McKinleyville Middle School, as far as we can.
7:30am to 7pm
Location: Oakland schools, Frank Ogawa Plaza, San Francisco Civic Center
f Public Schools Were Banks, They Would Have Been Bailed Out By Now!
On March 4 Oakland teachers will participate in this statewide day of action by holding informational pickets at school sites, being part of a districtwide “Disaster Drill” at 9:15 to highlight that California’s budget is a DISASTER!, attending a mass rally at City Hall, and joining our brothers and sisters in San Francisco at their rally at 5pm.
7:30am to 8am
Location: El Segundo Middle School
Teachers, Classified Staff, Principals District Administrators, School Board Members, parents and students join a statewide movement against the budget cuts to education. The plan is to be at the front of the school at 8:00 AM and wear blue. We will have a large banner “Students, Administrators, Teachers, Classified Staff & Parents
UNITED AGAINST STATE BUDGET CUTS!”
Kern High School District, Bakersfield Elementary, Panama Buena Vista, Delano Elementary, McFarland, South Fork, Vineland, and Wasco Union High School. The “flagship” event will be held at 7:30 a.m. at Endeavour Elementary School, 9300 Meacham Road, Bakersfield, California 93312, where a brief rally will be held before class begins. For information on activities throughout the county, contact Mitch Olson, president of the Kern High Faculty Association at 661-706-6034.
7:30am to 8am
Location: Lincoln Elementary School
Street: 1600 S. Gordon St.
City/Town: Pomona, Ca
Teachers will be standing outside of School giving info to parents and community. We will also hold hands outside with our parents and students to protect our school from further budget cuts.
7:30am to 8am
Location: El Dorado Middle School
Street: corner of Concord Blvd. and West St
Please join us this Thursday, March 4, for the Education Coalition’s Statewide Activity Day. Teachers, Parents, Students, and the Community will be demonstrating at 7:30am at the corner of Concord Blvd. and West St, as well as after school @ 3:30pm on the corner of Treat Blvd. and Clayton Rd.
Please help to make this day a success. People have been asking what they can do to help avoid the cuts that public education will be receiving this school year. “Start the day for Students” is a great way for the community to get involved in sending a message to Sacramento!
City/Town: concord
March 4, 2010 at 1:59 am
Tommy
Time: 3:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Watsonville, California
Location in Watsonville: Main Plaza
Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers, Viernes Cultural, Parents, Students, and Community Partners will be holding a Rally and Education Symposium to support Public Education and bring the community together to call for, “NO MORE CUTS TO EDUCATION!”
The events begin on the Main Plaza in Watsonville at 3:00 including a rally and music by La Sangre. Art Display by Josefina Estrada, and Art Activities for Children by Mariposas Art.
March 4, 2010 at 4:52 am
Fortuna Faveat | Public education deserves your attention…TODAY!
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March 4, 2010 at 7:07 am
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March 4, 2010 at 11:30 am
Margaret Hanzimanolis
De Anza College TWO ACTION STREAMS
ON Campus:
on Quad: Teach in 10:30-12:30
March to Cupertino City Council 1:30-3:10
Screening of film WALKOUT
Buses to San Francisco:
Meet 1:30 at quad
Meet with SF organizers: 3:30
Rally at Civic Center 3-6:30
Buses back to Cupertino 7:00 pm
March 4, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Kyle Galindez
Hey! I can’t find out how to put us on the map, but students at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio are flyering all over campus with flyers that say, “Drop Tuition Not Bombs!” organized by the Campus Anti-War Network. Please put us on the map if you can!
March 4, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Angus Johnston
Adding you right now.
March 4, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Virginia L.
By lowering education standards, and making higher education generally inaccessible to a greater proportion of the population, the agendas of fear and hate-mongering can infect and flourish in the minds of the growing ignorant. It is the first step towards authoritarianism, but not the last.
March 4, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Beverley Madden
Can you add College of San Mateo, San Mateo, CA we have a rally on campus all day then will be moving to SF Civic Center to participate in a larger bay area rally. Thanks, Bev
March 4, 2010 at 2:13 pm
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March 4, 2010 at 9:19 pm
Christina
So amazing to see all the #March4 solidarity!
Please add University of Washington Seattle to the list–the local unions of Student Workers and other student groups held a massive walk-out and protest.
We took the Ave! I will have pictures posted soon.
Thank you!
@cimmer
March 4, 2010 at 11:05 pm
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March 5, 2010 at 4:54 am
jessica
Please include an INTERNATIONAL map.
March 5, 2010 at 5:15 pm
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