WSA Meeting Monday, May 31st

WSA's next General Meeting is this Monday, May 31st starting at 6:00 PM.

 
Objective: To evaluate progress of ABM insourcing campaign and actions related to the UC Budget Crisis.

Agenda:
- Finalize plans for Anti-racism panel (15 minutes)

     - Advertising
     - Moderator?
- ABM Insourcing Campaign (15 min)
    - Updates
    - Next Steps
- Future Actions and Events (10)
   - Brainstorm

Since campus will be closed for Memorial Day, we'll be meeting at the University Town Center Shopping Center at the tables near Asia Noodle Cafe. 

Questions?  Send an email to WorkerStudentAllianceAtUCI@gmail.com

Student Conduct Hearings for UCI 17! Come Support!

The student conduct hearings for the UCI 17 begin tomorrow (Wednesday) at 9:30 AM and last til' 3:00 PM. Show some revolutionary solidarity with your fellow comrades by coming out to the Dean of Students office! Be there! 

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122116987820874#!/event.php?eid=122116987820874&ref=mf

General Meeting is this Monday, May 24th

WSA's next General Meeting is this Monday, May 24th starting at 6:00 PM.

 
Objective: To evaluate progress of ABM insourcing campaign and actions related to the UC Budget Crisis.

Agenda:
- Debrief action at UCSF UC Regents meeting (10 minutes)

     - What went well?
     - What can we improve on next time?
- ABM Insourcing Campaign (15 min)
    - Updates
    - Next Steps
- Arizona Racism (10)
   - Updates
   - Next Steps
- Irvine 17 hearings w/Dos (15)
   - Updates
   - Next Steps
- Future Actions and Events (10)
   - Brainstorm

The weekly general meeting is in the Social Sciences Lab room 171.  It's your chance get involved organizing actions and events that actively fight inequality through multi-racial, anti-sexist, working class solidarity.

Questions?  Send an email to WorkerStudentAllianceAtUCI@gmail.com

Crashing the UC Regents Meeting at UCSF

On May 19 AFSCME 3299 and the Worker Student Alliance at UCI decided to take an 8 hour trip up to the UC regents meeting in San Francisco.  Since Chancellor Michael Drake refuses to meet with students and workers on our campus, it is necessary that we go wherever he goes and make him listen to us.

HARVEST OF LONELINESS: THE BRACERO PROGRAM

COSECHA LATINA series, in association with the UCI Latin American Film Festival:

Thursday, May 20
HIB 100
Reception: 6:15 p.m.
Screening: 7:00 p.m.

World Premiere of

HARVEST OF LONELINESS: THE BRACERO PROGRAM
directed by Gilbert G. González and Vivian Price
(U.S./Mexico, 2010, 58 min.)
In English and Spanish with English subtitles

Followed by Q & A with director

co-sponsored by the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies and the Department of Film and Media Studies

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Hidden within the historical accounts of minorities, workers and immigrants in U.S. society is the story of the millions of Mexico's men and women who experienced the temporary contract worker program known as the Bracero Program. Established to replace an alleged wartime labor shortage, research reveals that the Program was intended to undermine farmworker unionization. Blending rare archival footage and photographs together with recent interviews, HARVEST OF LONELINESS shows how several million men, in one of the largest state managed migrations in history, were imported from 1942 to 1964 to work as cheap, controlled and disposable workers. This documentary features former braceros speaking of their experiences and addresses what to expect from a new temporary contract worker program.

Gilbert G. González is Professor Emeritus, and Historian in the Chicano/Latino Studies Department. He is the author of several books: CHICANO EDUCATION IN THE ERA OF SEGREGATION, CULTURE OF EMPIRE: AMERICAN WRITERS, MEXICO AND MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS, and co-author with Raúl Fernández of CHICANO HISTORY: EMPIRE, NATIONS AND MIGRATION.
Vivan Price is a filmmaker, professor, and activist. She received her doctorate in Politics and Society at UC Irvine (2000) and is presently Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills, where she also coordinates Labor Studies. Her latest projects include a Tradewomen's Archive, funded by a Digital Humanities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a community project, Tradeswomen Address the Next Generation, funded by the California Council of the Humanities, for which LGBT youth and tradeswomen produced a series of interviews and posters. Dr. Price has published articles on gender, labor, and technology in scholarly journals and books, and her films include HAMMERING IT OUT (2000) and TRANSNATIONAL TRADESWOMEN (2006), both distributed by Women Make Movies, along with various other short films, http://www.hardhatvideo.com

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE XI LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL, PLEASE GO TO: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/spanishandportuguese/conf2010/

Meeting is this Monday, May 17th

WSA's next General Meeting is this Monday, May 17th starting at 6:00 PM.
  

Agenda items include:
- Debriefs: May 14th action  (10 minutes)

- Updates: Progress of ABM insourcing campaign, Arizona racism, Irvine 17 hearings w/DoS (40 minutes)
- Organizing: UC regents meeting in San Francisco, future actions & events (40 minutes)

  
The weekly general meeting is in the Social Sciences Lab room 171.  It's your chance get involved organizing actions and events that fight inequality through multi-racial, anti-sexist, working class solidarity.
  

On Facebook: Worker Student Alliance
Facebook for the ABM insourcing campaign: ABM Workers at UCI in Crisis!

Questions?  Send an email to WorkerStudentAllianceAtUCI@gmail.com

FIGHT PRIVATIZATION & EXPLOITATION AT UCI!!!

Date:	Friday, May 14, 2010
Time:	9:30am - 1:00pm
Location:	Sue & Gross Stem Cell Research Center (Bison and Peltason)

UCI will be holding an opening ceremony for the newly constructed Sue & Gross Stem Cell Research Center, an $80-million building funded by a public-private partnership. The swift development of this state-of-the-art facility in the face of fee hikes, layoffs, and furloughs embodies UCI’s eagerness to chase prestige and profit at the expense of its students and workers (including faculty). UCI has invested in technological innovation to bolster its reputation while accessibility to public education for its students and fair employment practices for its workers are consistently denied.

As the new stem cell research building is dedicated to advancing medicine, custodial workers who have been employed at UCI for more than 20 years do not have access to the most basic healthcare. Custodial workers outsourced by UCI through subcontracting company ABM are now facing layoffs and reduced working hours, and continue to be paid poverty wages.

Contrary to dishonest claims made by UCI administration, ABM WORKERS HAVE NOT BEEN INSOURCED by the university. In reality, UCI is attempting to circumvent negotiations with the union AFSCME and endanger the workers’ campaign by insourcing some of the positions, and not the workers. Come join us in defense of workers’ rights on this campus and tell UCI administration, NO MORE LIES!!!

Furthermore...

Governor Schwarzenegger has been invited to the opening ceremony.

He is responsible for signing the Higher Education Compact with UC President in 2004, which allows the UC system to increasingly rely on private funding and raise student tuition by 10% each year. The new stem cell building is the materialization of their privatization agenda and dismantling of public services.

COME PROTEST IN DEFENSE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION AND WORKERS’ RIGHTS!!!

http://www.ucifuture.com/StemCellCenter/

INSOURCE THE PEOPLE, NOT THE POSITIONS!

We are having a rally tomorrow at 2:00pm against the injustices continually perpetuated by the administration towards the ABM workers who are currently outsourced. The gathering point will be in parking lot 16 (by facilities). From there on, we march will advance to the administration building (i.e. Center of Bullshit Broadcasting).

We need to take action against the racist administration and to clear the air on the misconceptions they have manifested. Let the campus community know, we have NOT won, workers are NOT being insourced and we will continue to counter their propaganda with action!! March in support of the workers!!!

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