"International Student Movement"

According to activists on the ground these actions will be linked to the "Global Weeks of Action for Education".

Call for November
Actions to ReFund Public Education

This week, California state budget analysts will propose $2.5 billion in new “trigger cuts” to public education. UC’s president has proposed more job cuts and up to 81% in tuition hikes to cover the shortfall. This comes in the wake of $17 billion in cuts to education since 2009 that have contributed to:

• The layoffs of thousands of teachers and workers and cuts to educational and student services.

• A 300 % increase in tuition at public universities in the last 10 years.

• Hundreds of thousands of students – particularly students of color – having to drop out or delay education plans.

• Soaring debt for students and their parents.

Students, parents, workers, and teachers have been already hit hard by this crisis and cannot afford to pay for this new round of austerity. Instead, we will make Wall Street corporations and the wealthy – who caused and have profited from this crisis – pay.

The privatization of public education is also an attack on public employees, through the privatization of the pension fund, the rising cost of benefits for workers, and the restructuring of our universities following the corporate model, that increases the number of high paid administration and management positions and cuts staffing and faculty positions.

In order to stop and reverse this process of privatization, we demand to the UC Regents and administrators and to the CSU trustees that they devote their actual and future resources to prioritize quality and accessible education by:

• A reverse of the fee increases, the layoffs and the cuts to essential services and classroom education

• Ensuring Equal benefits for all workers and retirement security

• Publicly and actively supporting the full implementation of affirmative action throughout public education and the state, beginning with Senate Bill 185.

• Publicly and actively supporting raising income taxes on California’s wealthiest and a financial transaction tax on Wall Street to save and expand public education.

This is why we call for a Week of Mass Actions starting Nov. 9^th at our campus and sites to raise awareness about the crisis of education and the need to raise taxes on the wealthy and Wall Street, as well as to send a clear message to the UC and CSUs administrations.

And we commit to mobilize our base and membership to protest the UC Regents and CSU Trustees meetings Nov 15th-17^th to demand that they reverse their decisions.

• All day Wed. Nov. 9th – Actions on UC, CSU, and Community College Campuses throughout the state.

• 10 am, Wed. Nov. 16^th— Regional Convergence at the CSU Trustees and UC Regents Meetings in Long Beach and at UCSF Mission bay.

• Local actions TBA throughout the week.

Through collective struggle, we can take a first step out of this crisis by expanding affordable, and equitable public education in California.

We resolve to work to build the above November actions, to support Occupy Actions across the State, Nation, and World, and to build coalitions with community groups, students, labor and other unions, and others to fight austerity and to stand up for pubic services, decent jobs, food, healthcare, and other human rights.

- call by UAW 2865 and UPTE