The March 4 Day of Action

A report in yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle says that widely-despised University of California chancellor Mark Yudof plans to join California students in an upcoming march on Sacramento. The march, scheduled for March 4, has been billed as a Day of Action in Defense of Public Education, and will include rallies, lobbying, and labor actions.

Correction: The Chronicle’s claim that Yudof and the regents would be participating in the March 4 Day of Action was incorrect. See this follow-up post for details.

Students around the country have been watching events in California unfold since September, and the March 4 action, originally planned as a California event, has begun to draw interest from coast to coast. Concrete planning is still spotty, but I’m hearing a growing buzz, and I’ll be tracking information as I receive it.

Update | Here’s a good concise statement of the argument that the regents’ participation in the Day of Action is “a cynical publicity stunt.”

Second Update | I’ll be tracking groups’ participation in the day of action here…

• The original national call for a day of action came from these California folks.
• A separate national call came from this “ad-hoc body” two days later.
• The New School Reoccupied, in New York City, is on board.
• Here’s a national Facebook group.
• A listserve out of Massachusetts.