For a while now, I’ve been hearing rumblings about a planned second walkout in the University of California system, scheduled for November 18.
This semester’s first UC walkout took place on September 24. On that day, some ten thousand students, faculty and staff came together to protest budget cuts, enrollment reductions, and a huge planned tuition increase.
That fee hike is on the university Regents’ agenda for their next meeting, to be held November 17 through 19 at UCLA.
More to follow. Stay tuned…
studentactivism.net 
1 comment
Comments feed for this article
November 12, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Marko Stankovic
There will be a strike/walk out Nov. 18th, 19th, and 20th.
Informational poster –http://www.ucsolidarity.org/sites/default/files/poster1.jpg
Organizations — http://ucstrike.com http://saveuc.org and http://ucsolidarity.org
“At their November 17-19 meeting the UC Regents will be voting on an additional 32% student fee increase. These proposed fees have already been pledged as collateral for $1.35 billion worth of new construction bonds despite an “extreme fiscal emergency.” The Regents will also vote to lay off nearly 2,000 more workers, continue with furlough plans and cut classes and critical student services. The executive administration wants to convince us that their hands are tied by Sacramento, but we know the real crisis is one of priorities. During these days The University Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE) will be striking, the Coalition of University
Employees (CUE) will be striking and we will be converging at UCLA and at UC Berkeley to confront the Regents and fight their austerity measures.”