October 7th National Actions/Contacts Listing - Submit Now! Next Nat'l Call, Endorse and Spread the Cal to Action

[Wesley Strong]

NATIONAL OCTOBER 7TH AD-HOC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE TO DEFEND PUBLIC EDUCATION

*FORWARD TO ALL LISTS* Post to the National October 7th Listing - Submit Local Contacts and Actions! http://www.defendeducation.org/?page_id=1107 As we are now three weeks away from October 7th, the National Ad-Hoc is now accepting posts to the national action listing. People are encouraged to post local plans for the 7th and/or contacts for the area. They will be listed online just as they were for march 4th. Submit your actions and contacts today! Follow us on Twitter! - http://twitter.com/forpublicedoct7 October 7th on Facebook - Facebook Organizing Group / Facebook Event Next National Conference Call Sunday September 19th, 2010 8pm Eastern / 7pm Central / 6pm Mountain / 5pm Pacific Call in Number: (218) 339 4300 Access Number: 697890 Agenda October 7th One Nation for Public Ed Oct 2nd Endorse the National Call! Click Here National Actions to Defend Public Education, October 7th 2010 Last fall, California sparked a movement that has grown drastically over the past year. Much energy went toward building March 4th 2010, National Day of Action to Defend Education, which as a resounding success in the struggle to defend public education. Thousands organized and participated in the events of that day which took place in 32 states.  Major actions took place throughout California, but also in Milwaukee, New York City, Illinois, and Baltimore with hundreds of actions planned nationwide. University of Puerto Rico students capped off a two-month strike with a victory receiving many concessions from administration. What is clear is that this fight is not over. The lines are drawn. As working families struggle to recover from the crisis, access to education is diminishing as cuts continue to come. California activists have proposed October 7th as the next Day of Action. Internationally, activists are focusing on October and November as crucial moments in the struggle to fight back against neoliberalism and defend education rights. We, the below signed organizations and individuals, call on students, teachers, faculty, staff, workers, and parents to unite together and Defend Public Education this fall. In Texas, the Board of Education has drastically changed the content of Texas textbooks, to include praise of Joseph McCarthy, and many other clauses. In Arizona, The state has passed the racist SB1070 that mandates police detain anyone looks like an undocumented worker. Following this, Arizona is also shutting down ethnic studies programs. In New York City, Chicago, and Detroit, districts are facing massive school closings. Public universities throughout the country are raising tuition costs and looking for more private investors. Budget cuts, tuition hikes, school closings, and right-wing reforms are hitting working families the hardest, especially in communities of color. As these cuts continue to come, we see the costs of neoliberalism hit home harder than they have before. Public education has been losing funding for years, much of which disappeared because of neoliberal changes to the economy. The current budget crisis in many states will result in further drastic cuts to public education, including further cuts to underfunded schools, increases in unpaid days off for staff, a incentive program promoting “reforms” that are outright attacks on teachers, a restructuring of the public university around the needs of private business – largely supported by massive private grants, and tuition hikes that threaten accessibility to higher education for working families and people of color. As the education disparities between poor and affluent grow ever wider, public schools serving communities of color are swiftly being re-segregated, provided fewer resources, and less-experienced teachers. These students are being tracked into non-academic, dead-end programs while ethnic and multi-cultural classes and opportunities are being cut. This crisis and this solution are a direct result of neoliberal-era ideology, reducing or dissolving taxes on the rich and corporations while working people struggle to provide for their families out of their ever-shrinking pockets. As private interests gain more power, as the private dollar begins to strengthen its influence in education, our democratic rights are being stripped away. The time to act is now, students teachers and staff are preparing for the next wave of actions. We need your support and participation to make this day a historic moment in American history. To get involved please Email: fall_a...@defendeducation.org or call us at 8609162761 Endorsers Group: American Association of University Professors Bail Out the People Movement Baltimore Algebra Project, Baltimore, MD Brother Tracy Gibson & Associates, Inc. Philadelphia, PA California State University Employees Union Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions, U.S. and Canada Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) De Anza Restoring Education, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA East Village Community School – Parents Association, New York, NY Education Action Now, CSU Monterrey, CA Education Rights Campaign at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee The Edmonia Lewis Center for Women and Transgender People Fight Imperialism Stand Together (FIST) Freedom Socialist Party Freedom Road Socialist Organization Georgia Students for Public Higher Education International Action Center International Socialist Organization Jersey City Peace Movement, Jersey City Jobs with Justice Triad NC,Greensboro NC Joint Forces at SDSU, San Diego,  California Labor-Community Forum of the South Bronx Community Congress Labor Art & Mural Project, Central CT State University La La Voz de los Trabajadores- Worker’s Voice- LIT(CI) Liberty Tree Foundation M4 Coalition @ SDSU San Diego, CA Mankato Area Activist Collective March 4ward Coalition, CSU East Bay May 1st Coalition for Worker & Immigrant Rights-NYC Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shut-offs New York City Labor Against the War Pan-African News Wire, Detroit, Michigan Pan American Solidarity Organization, Portland, OR Peace & Freedom Party- L.A. County Peoples Video Network, New York, NY Plan of Action in a Changing Era Project Great Futures,Los Angeles, CA Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts (PHENOM) Radical Women Revolutionary Students Union – Utah Valley University S.O.S. Save Our Schools Coalition, Providence, RI San Diego Democratic Women’s Club, San Diego,  California Socialist Action Socialist Alternative Socialist Organizer Social Justice Allainces – UCR,Riverside Socratic Punk, Tampa, Fl Solidarity SpeakOut – the Institute for Democratic Education and Culture, Oakland CA STAND at Queens College, Flushing, New York Student-Farmworker Alliance Students Fight Back Students for a Democratic Society – Animas Students For A Democratic Society – Birmingham Chapter, Birmingham Alabama Students For a Democratic Society, University of California LA Students for a Democratic Society – Diablo Valley Students for a Democratic Society – Gainesville Students For a Democratic Society, University of Illinois of Chicago Students for a Democratic Society – James Madison Students for a Democratic Society – McDaniel College Students for a Democratic Society – Milwaulkee Students for a Democratic Society – University of Minnesota Students For a Democratic Society, University of North Carolina Ashville Students for a Democratic Society – UNC Chapel Hill Students for a Democratic Society – University of North Carolina- Charlotte Students for a Democratic Society – Northern Virginia Students for a Democratic Society – University of Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society – Rochester Students for a Democratic Society – Syracuse Students for a Democratic Society – Tuscaloosa Students for a Democratic Society – Waukesha Students for a Democratic Society – Wilbur Wright College, Chicago, IL Students for an Educated California, San Diego,  California Students For Unity, Portland, OR Student Labor Action Project Take Back Our Transit System, New York, New York UE 150, North Carolina Public Service Workers Union, North Carolina Undergraduate-Graduate Alliance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United National Peace Conference University Council- AFT, Univ. of California University of Georgia Living Wage Coalition, Athens, Georgia UPTE-CWA Local 9119 Venice Student Union, Los Angeles, California Veterans for Peace Whatcom Peace & Justice Center Winthrop University Socialist Student Union Workers World Party Young Democratic Socialists Young Democratic Socialists – William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ Youth Against War and Racism, Minneapolis and St. Paul Metro Area, Minnesota Youth for Socialist Action Individual, in the order submitted (group names for ID purposes only): Ben Manski, AFT 6100, Sociology Faculty, Madison College Jackie Hayes, UAlbany Coalition to Defend Education, Albany, NY Michael Mulholland, AFSCME Local 207, Detroit, MI Noam Chomsky, MIT Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Internationally renowned Critic of US Foreign Policy Dan LaBotz, Socialist Party candidate for the U.S. Senate from Ohio. Cincinnati, Ohio Shannon Gibney, MN Organizing Group, Minneapolis Andre Powell, Delegate, Metro Central Labor Council, Baltimore, Maryland Mike Gimbel, AFSCME Local 375 , Saylorsburg, PA Susan E. Davis, National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981, New York City Heather Cottin, La Guardia Community College Gloria Rubac, Houston Federation of Teachers, Local 2415, Houston Dave Welsh, Delegate, San Francisco Labor Council, San Francisco, CA Sara Flounders, International Action Center, NYC Greg Dunkel, PSC – AFT Local #2334, New York City Robin McCubbin, California Teachers Association, Chula Vista, California Minnie Bruce Pratt, Professor, Women’s & Gender Studies, Writing & Rhetoric, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies, Syracuse, NY Milt Neidenberg,Local 840, IBT retired,Brooklyn, NY Michael Friedman, PSC-AFT, NYC Mary Lou Finley,Peace and Freedom Party,USA Justin, DestroyIndustrY, Raleigh, nc Jack Gerson, Oakland Education Assoc., Oakland,CA Eugene Ruyle, Oakland, Peace & Freedom Candidate for Congress in the the 6th CD (Marin and Sonoma Counties) Robin Goodman, United Faculty of Florida, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL Ned Stuckey-French, Fate of the State/United Faculty of Florida Helen Kuan, Social Justice Alliance, Riverside, CA Anne Winkler-Morey, Ethnic Studies Week John P. Falchi, Plan of Action in a Changing Era, San Diego, Ca Mark Clinton,Political Science, Holyoke Community College,Holyoke, Massachusetts Alex Steed, STEED 2010, Cornish, Maine Billy Wharton,Socialist Party USA International Endorsers AStA (student representative body) at the University of Marburg, Germany Worldwide Nepalese Students’ Organisation-Nepal Youth For International Socialism The Brasilian Assembleia Nacional Dos Estudantes Livre Part of the International Student Movement Global Wave of Actions

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