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ATTENTION UCSC: the Afrikan Black Student Alliance (ABSA) is reclaiming Kerr Hall. This IS NOT an occupation. They are RECLAIMING their spaces. We are in need of socks, food and sleeping bags at Kerr Hall. Anything you can donate will be greatly appreciated. For more info, read: http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2017/03/06/submission-afrikan-black-student-alliance-demands/

Submission: Afrikan Black Student Alliance Demands | City on a Hill Press The Afrikan Black Caribbean identified students have spoken. The issues on this campus far exceed anything easily fixed. However Black students at UCSC have composed a list of uncompromisable demands that will make our time here more tolerable. These demands are not a huge ask, but they are pivotal…

http://www.leftvoice.org/Academics-and-Students-Call-for-a-Nationwide-University-Shut-Down-on-May-Day

Academics and Students Call for a Nationwide University Shut Down on May Day Nancy Fraser, David Harvey, Judith Butler, Cornell West, Etienne Balibar and other students and intellectuals sign a petition calling for a moratorium on May 1. The following pledge is being circulated by students, staff, faculty, and administrators across the United States. Sign and circulate this…

Are you participating in the May First march in Santa Cruz/ elsewhere? Please read below. Organizers have drafted a letter you can send to your employer(s)/faculty:

An injury to one is an injury to all!
Dear (your boss’s name),

I am writing to inform you that in honor of all workers in the world, I will not be working on Monday, May 1st as part of the International Worker’s Day.

Our bodies are spaces of politics, and hence I urge you all to consider giving the day off to your employees and encourage them to participate in a student-led march that is going to take place on May 1st.

I stand in solidarity with workers around the globe because I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired of economic and social injustice worldwide. Currently, at ‘our’ university, UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal’s salary is over $380,000 (note: he is the lowest-paid UC Chancellor). Meanwhile, more than two-thirds of UC’s clerical, administrative and support staff struggle to put enough food on their own tables. To illustrate some disparities, a UCSC Cook makes an hourly wage of $17.88, a Senior Custodian makes $19.57, and students who can receive work-study and work at a dining hall acquire an hourly wage of $10.50. Blumenthal is a prime example of the many compliant apparatuses who maintain and legitimize capitalism as the most crucial value within the economic, political and cultural sectors of the university, the country and North American society. Not only are UCSC wages insufficient to live dignified lives, but the idea of giving our physical labor in return for money is the most dehumanizing activity one can do in this world, and yet we all conform to it.

On May First, I will use my body as a space of politics and as a form of agency to deliver a message: I am not the only angry student/worker in this campus. We are many. We condemn capitalism, patriarchy, imperialism and other forms of oppression domestic and worldwide.

In the current political context, you and I cannot remain neutral. We must be critical of our job titles, responsibilities and accountability dynamics. We are being sucked into bureaucratic processes, and will ultimately become uncreative, complicit, and passive adults our capitalist society yearns for. Unless we take action, we will remain immobile bodies thinking we can liberate ourselves by critiquing the system while at the same time adhering to oppressive jobs, bureaucracies and institutions. As cliché as it may sound, if you stay neutral in moments of oppression you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Here are some things you can do on May 1st:
- Send a letter to all your employees letting them know they are not required to work on May First
- On the letter, encourage them to partake in the on-campus student demonstrations
- Send a letter to your employer letting them know you will stand in solidarity with workers worldwide and therefore cannot work on that day
- Participate in the student-led demonstrations

We do it for the undocumented and poor/low-income workers who wish to be part of the actions, but are afraid of getting arrested and consequently deported.

Sincerely,
Your name

International Women's Day Strike Pledge at UCSC:
Following the January 21st Women’s March against Trump, the largest single protest in U.S. history, women in over 30 different countries have called for an International Women’s Strike on March 8th, 2017, International Women’s Day. March 8th will be a day of action organized by and for women who have been marginalized and silenced by decades of neoliberalism.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPQBzDuJ1Axwwv2k4kDkgWOOldCCsYyDekYaNc-JLGTXCU9g/viewform?c=0&w=1

International Women's Day Strike Pledge at UCSC Following the January 21st Women’s March against Trump, the largest single protest in U.S. history, women in over 30 different countries have called for an International Women’s Strike on March 8th, 2017, International Women’s Day. March 8th will be a day of action organized by and for women who hav...

Hi all! We would like to cordially invite you to USEU’s summer planning convention.

This will be a two day meeting on September 17-18th in Los Angeles where we will discuss how USEU is doing on a statewide level, how our individual chapters are doing, and how USEU plans to proceed for this academic year.

As you all know, USEU statewide has been inactive for some time. This is an attempt by active USEU organizers and alumni to get the movement back up and running.

Please fill out this RSVP so that we can have a good estimate of how many people plan to attend, and how many people will need housing. We will also be sending some reading material and Bylaws for organizers to read ahead of time.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeng7TIe6hA_3XqnQ_tJ78xmQXbHMP5odNQlJ82KnZ6gswqaQ/viewform

USEU Statewide Planning Convention This will be a two day meeting in Los Angeles where we will discuss how USEU is doing on a statewide level, how our individual chapters are doing, and how USEU plans to proceed for this academic year.

Hi Everyone!

I hope you are all doing great and studying really hard for finals. Those of you who will be graduating this June, CONGRATULATIONS! I can't wait to see all those beautiful graduation pictures in my feed come June.

Understanding Migration from El Salvador: The Impact of US Policy | CISPES: Committee in... 2016 CISPES Delegation
Understanding Migration from El Salvador: The Impact of US Policy

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-officials-plan-sweeping-raids-in-may-and-june/

Immigration officials plan sweeping raids in May and June In January, ICE officials carried out similar raids in Georgia, Texas and North Carolina

http://www.rumbotx.com/2016/05/12/ice-estaria-planeando-nuevas-redadas-de-inmigrantes-en-mayo-y-junio/

ICE estaría planeando nuevas redadas de inmigrantes en mayo y junio | Rumbo Los planes en ciernes, que la agencia no confirmó ni desmintió, encontraron el rechazo inmediato de grupos pro-inmigrantes

Indigenous communities of El Salvador: 1. Pipiles, 2.Potones o Lencas salvadoreñas, 3. Kakawiras o Cacaoperas, 4. Xincas, 5. Mayas Chortis, 6. Mayas Pokomames, 7. Chorotegas.

Good afternoon everyone,

USEU will be having its weekly meeting tonight at 8pm in the McHenry Ground Floor, room 0349. Hope you can make it!

Hello everyone,

USEU will be having it's general body meeting tonight at 8pm in the McHenry Ground Floor, room 0349. Hope you can make it!