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12th February 2012

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Below is an announcement and background info on an upcoming, southern California regional student conference in support of protest against the dismantling  of post-secondary education in the state.  These details are provided by a CSULA student actively supporting the Occupy movement in solidarity with this effort to gain more support for university and college education in California.  Please feel free to pass this info on to all interested parties.  Thank you.  ………………………………………………………………….. STUDENTS OCCUPY LA SUPPORTS EDUCATION BY & FOR THE 99% !  -  EDUCATION is a SOCIAL HUMAN RIGHT !! GET INVOLVED !  2 CSULA CLUBS SEEKING REFORMS TO CA EDUCATION: SQE - STUDENTS FOR QUALITY EDUCATION@CSULA lolafagbamila@yahoo.com -  sqe.csula@gmail.com -  or their FB page   SQE meetings: Mondays - 3:15 pm at The Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities (CSGS)  KH D-4050  – 4th  Floor King Hall (D wing)     CCSJ - CAMPUS COMMUNITY FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE @ CSULA EducatingandMobilizing@gmail.com or their FB page   CCSJ meetings: Thursdays - 2:30 pm The Center for the Study of Genders  and Sexualities (CSGS)  KH D-4050  – 4th  Floor King Hall (D wing)   ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….   Upcoming Event  -  Crisis in Higher Ed: Educating and Mobilizing Ourselves Across Campuses Attend this FREE regional gathering of California students across S. CA ! !       Date  -  Saturday, February 18, 2012 Time  -  11:00 am until 4:00 pm Where – CSULA -  U-SU Los Angeles Room, 3rd Floor       “Let’s Work Together! On Saturday, February 18, 2012 students from across Southern California and from Community College, CSU, and UC campuses will meet at CSULA to discuss the crisis in education in discussion-based, small-group workshops, and to develop strategies for fighting rising costs, austerity measures, privatization, and police violence on our campuses and in our communities. Our intent is to develop solidarity actions across, and in defiance of, the hierarchically structured, racist, and class-based education systems and the socioeconomic conditions that created them.”     Please bring some food to eat for lunch.  The day’s tentative schedule:   First Plenary 11:00  -  11:45 am 1st Workshop Session 11:45  -  12:30 am 2nd Workshop Session 12:45  -    1:30 pm Lunch   1:30  -    2:15 pm Last Plenary Session   2:15  -    5:00 pm ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….   A STUDENTS OCCUPY LA (SOLA)  /  OCCUPY EDUCATION CALL TO ACTION WHY SHOULD STUDENTS IN CALIFORNIA DEMAND AN END TO FEE AND TUITION INCREASES ? California students are opposed to past and current increases in educational tuitions and fees, and seek an end to the continuing cost hikes for and budget cuts to our schools.  Continual tuition and fee increases have placed the cost of a university degree out of reach of working class minority families and youth.  California’s public post-education system is so underfunded that course offerings and faculty are drastically cut.  Thus it takes many students twice as long as it should to graduate, compounding the debt crisis for most other students. The lack of well-paying, available jobs upon graduation means these students will have a very hard time repaying loans.  In the USA, the student loan industry has become a huge, government-entitled beast that usurps enormous amounts of wealth for the banks and other loan sharks at the expense of students’ well-being.  This loan system, which most students rely on to pay for their degrees, is labeled a “debt slavery” system.  Note: in almost 2 dozen industrialized countries, post-secondary education is free. As just one example, the costs of attending the CSU system are now overwhelming.  These costs have quadrupled over the past decade.  Ten years ago, annual tuition was about $1,600.  Currently annual tuition for full-time undergraduate students is $5,970.00.  When campus fees are included, the average total cost rises to more than $7,000.00 before books, room and board, transportation and other costs.  At this time, the average cost of a full-time, undergraduate student to study in the CSU system per year - living away from parents - is about $ 23,000.00 annually.  You’re looking at about $138,000.00 to graduate with a bachelors degree over 6 years.   It is taking many CSU students 7 or 8 years to graduate, as the availability of classes has been severely restricted due to continual university budget cutbacks.   The current 2011-2012 proposed CSU fee increase for tuition is the ninth fee increase in nine years. A $498 increase in 2012-13 fees would come on top of a 12 % hike in the fall of 2011, a 9 % increase in 2010, and a      32 % increase in 2009. We demand that the higher public education system in California receive proper public funding.  We insist California post-secondary public education be restored as the “Master Plan” established in the 1950s by Governor Jerry Brown’s father, Governor Pat Brown.  The intent of this system was to make higher education accessible and affordable to all students, not reserved only for the wealthy.  The youth are America’s future. Undermining access to quality education attacks and undermines the well-being of youth and society.  These continued attacks violate the spirit of numerous international human rights agreements, including the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights accepted by the United States in 1948. When the state spends more money on prisons than on education - when our inclination and effort is to incarcerate rather than educate minority youth - when prison guards get higher salaries than professors - when 59% of every federal tax dollar goes to war and war-related expenses instead of education and other basic human services - when student loans in the USA have risen over one trillion dollars, eclipsing the nation’s credit card debt - when the same people fleecing students of their future earnings foreclose on about 10 million homeowners using predatory sub-prime loans, and are not held criminally accountable - when 50 million people cannot afford health care insurance, and hundreds of thousands die prematurely because of it  - when 99% of us pay 25% and 33% of our income in taxes, while many of the wealthy 1% pay 15% to zero percent in taxes - when 33% of the millions of homeless in the USA are veterans - then it is abundantly clear that the system is broken and we require a complete overhaul of the waysOUR society is operated.  As our first step, we are demanding an end to all new fee and tuition increases across the state, and a return to proper funding for all public education in California.  Join us in taking to the streets, insisting on proper funding for education, & fundamentally changing the way our society functions.  Let us dedicate ourselves to this task! END CA UNIVERSITY & COLLEGE BUDGET CUTS & TUITION / FEE HIKES ! RESTORE CALIFORNIA HIGHER EDUCATION’S MASTER PLAN !!  

Below is an announcement and background info on an upcoming, southern California regional student conference in support of protest against the dismantling  of post-secondary education in the state.  These details are provided by a CSULA student actively supporting the Occupy movement in solidarity with this effort to gain more support for university and college education in California.  Please feel free to pass this info on to all interested parties.  Thank you.

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STUDENTS OCCUPY LA SUPPORTS EDUCATION BY & FOR THE 99% !  -  EDUCATION is a SOCIAL HUMAN RIGHT !!

GET INVOLVED !  2 CSULA CLUBS SEEKING REFORMS TO CA EDUCATION:

SQE - STUDENTS FOR QUALITY EDUCATION@CSULA

lolafagbamila@yahoo.com -  sqe.csula@gmail.com -  or their FB page

 

SQE meetings: Mondays - 3:15 pm at The Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities (CSGS)  KH D-4050  – 4th  Floor King Hall (D wing)

 

 

CCSJ - CAMPUS COMMUNITY FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE @ CSULA EducatingandMobilizing@gmail.com or their FB page

 

CCSJ meetings: Thursdays - 2:30 pm The Center for the Study of Genders 

and Sexualities (CSGS)  KH D-4050  – 4th  Floor King Hall (D wing)

 

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Upcoming Event  -  Crisis in Higher Ed: Educating and Mobilizing Ourselves Across Campuses

Attend this FREE regional gathering of California students across S. CA ! !

 

 

 

Date  -  Saturday, February 18, 2012

Time  -  11:00 am until 4:00 pm

Where – CSULA -  U-SU Los Angeles Room, 3rd Floor

 

 

 

“Let’s Work Together! On Saturday, February 18, 2012 students from across Southern California and from Community College, CSU, and UC campuses will meet at CSULA to discuss the crisis in education in discussion-based, small-group workshops, and to develop strategies for fighting rising costs, austerity measures, privatization, and police violence on our campuses and in our communities. Our intent is to develop solidarity actions across, and in defiance of, the hierarchically structured, racist, and class-based education systems and the socioeconomic conditions that created them.”

 

 

Please bring some food to eat for lunch.  The day’s tentative schedule:

 

First Plenary 11:00  -  11:45 am

1st Workshop Session 11:45  -  12:30 am

2nd Workshop Session 12:45  -    1:30 pm

Lunch   1:30  -    2:15 pm

Last Plenary Session   2:15  -    5:00 pm


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A STUDENTS OCCUPY LA (SOLA)  /  OCCUPY EDUCATION CALL TO ACTION

WHY SHOULD STUDENTS IN CALIFORNIA DEMAND AN END TO FEE AND TUITION INCREASES ?

California students are opposed to past and current increases in educational tuitions and fees, and seek an end to the continuing cost hikes for and budget cuts to our schools.  Continual tuition and fee increases have placed the cost of a university degree out of reach of working class minority families and youth.  California’s public post-education system is so underfunded that course offerings and faculty are drastically cut.  Thus it takes many students twice as long as it should to graduate, compounding the debt crisis for most other students. The lack of well-paying, available jobs upon graduation means these students will have a very hard time repaying loans.  In the USA, the student loan industry has become a huge, government-entitled beast that usurps enormous amounts of wealth for the banks and other loan sharks at the expense of students’ well-being.  This loan system, which most students rely on to pay for their degrees, is labeled a “debt slavery” system.  Note: in almost 2 dozen industrialized countries, post-secondary education is free.

As just one example, the costs of attending the CSU system are now overwhelming.  These costs have quadrupled over the past decade.  Ten years ago, annual tuition was about $1,600.  Currently annual tuition for full-time undergraduate students is $5,970.00.  When campus fees are included, the average total cost rises to more than $7,000.00 before books, room and board, transportation and other costs.  At this time, the average cost of a full-time, undergraduate student to study in the CSU system per year - living away from parents - is about $ 23,000.00 annually.  You’re looking at about $138,000.00 to graduate with a bachelors degree over 6 years.   It is taking many CSU students 7 or 8 years to graduate, as the availability of classes has been severely restricted due to continual university budget cutbacks.  

The current 2011-2012 proposed CSU fee increase for tuition is the ninth fee increase in nine years. A $498 increase in 2012-13 fees would come on top of a 12 % hike in the fall of 2011, a 9 % increase in 2010, and a      32 % increase in 2009. We demand that the higher public education system in California receive proper public funding.  We insist California post-secondary public education be restored as the “Master Plan” established in the 1950s by Governor Jerry Brown’s father, Governor Pat Brown.  The intent of this system was to make higher education accessible and affordable to all students, not reserved only for the wealthy.  The youth are America’s future. Undermining access to quality education attacks and undermines the well-being of youth and society.  These continued attacks violate the spirit of numerous international human rights agreements, including the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights accepted by the United States in 1948.

When the state spends more money on prisons than on education - when our inclination and effort is to incarcerate rather than educate minority youth - when prison guards get higher salaries than professors - when 59% of every federal tax dollar goes to war and war-related expenses instead of education and other basic human services - when student loans in the USA have risen over one trillion dollars, eclipsing the nation’s credit card debt - when the same people fleecing students of their future earnings foreclose on about 10 million homeowners using predatory sub-prime loans, and are not held criminally accountable - when 50 million people cannot afford health care insurance, and hundreds of thousands die prematurely because of it  - when 99% of us pay 25% and 33% of our income in taxes, while many of the wealthy 1% pay 15% to zero percent in taxes - when 33% of the millions of homeless in the USA are veterans - then it is abundantly clear that the system is broken and we require a complete overhaul of the waysOUR society is operated.  As our first step, we are demanding an end to all new fee and tuition increases across the state, and a return to proper funding for all public education in California.  Join us in taking to the streets, insisting on proper funding for education, & fundamentally changing the way our society functions.  Let us dedicate ourselves to this task!

END CA UNIVERSITY & COLLEGE BUDGET CUTS & TUITION / FEE HIKES !

RESTORE CALIFORNIA HIGHER EDUCATION’S MASTER PLAN !!

 

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