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Students and Workers Take Over Streets!
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- 21 Apr 2005
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This wednesday students and workers marched through Santa Cruz city streets, from UCSC to the county buildings, in a statewide protest against the budget cuts to education. The march was organized by the Action In Defense of Education (AIDE) network.
The AIDE (Action In Defense of Education) network held its first statewide action against the budget cuts to education yesterday, April 20th. Representing the Santa Cruz chapter of the network, roughly 150 students and union members from UCSC took over the streets in a march to the county buildings downtown. There they met and rallied with elementary school and high school students, as well as Santa Cruz and Pajaro school district teachers and parents. Cece Pinheiro, vice president of the Santa Cruz County School Board, came to show support for the cause as well.
The march took over the entire right side of Bay street, turning left onto the right lane of Mission street, then down Walnut street past Santa Cruz High School (where high school students joined the march). The marchers then took over the entire width of Pacific Avenue before turning onto Water street towards their final destination.
Protestors carried picket signs addressing the issues of budget cuts to public education and teacher and worker pay, while yelling chants such as "Students And Workers United For Justice" and "They Say Cut Back, We Say Fight Back".
Simultaneous marches took place statewide, in the Bay Area (roughly 1,000 people), San Diego (roughly 350 people), and Los Angeles (roughly 800-1,000 people).
The statewide AIDE network consists of student, parent, teacher, and community member activists fighting for the cause of public education. The network aims to bridge the gaps which have traditionally existed between activists working in different geographic regions of the state and/or representing different levels of public education (pre-k through graduate school). The three current statewide demands (collaboratively agreed upon at a statewide convergence) are:
• No More Budget Cuts to Public Education
• Fully Fund Prop 98
• Tax the Top 1%
The local Santa Cruz chapter added an additional demand of:
• Kick Military Recruiters Out Of Public Schools
For more information about the march, or about the AIDE network, please contact aide_santacruz (at) yahoo.com.
AIDE organizing meetings are held every Sunday, 4pm at the Resource Center for Nonviolence (515 Broadway at Ocean) in Santa Cruz.
The march took over the entire right side of Bay street, turning left onto the right lane of Mission street, then down Walnut street past Santa Cruz High School (where high school students joined the march). The marchers then took over the entire width of Pacific Avenue before turning onto Water street towards their final destination.
Protestors carried picket signs addressing the issues of budget cuts to public education and teacher and worker pay, while yelling chants such as "Students And Workers United For Justice" and "They Say Cut Back, We Say Fight Back".
Simultaneous marches took place statewide, in the Bay Area (roughly 1,000 people), San Diego (roughly 350 people), and Los Angeles (roughly 800-1,000 people).
The statewide AIDE network consists of student, parent, teacher, and community member activists fighting for the cause of public education. The network aims to bridge the gaps which have traditionally existed between activists working in different geographic regions of the state and/or representing different levels of public education (pre-k through graduate school). The three current statewide demands (collaboratively agreed upon at a statewide convergence) are:
• No More Budget Cuts to Public Education
• Fully Fund Prop 98
• Tax the Top 1%
The local Santa Cruz chapter added an additional demand of:
• Kick Military Recruiters Out Of Public Schools
For more information about the march, or about the AIDE network, please contact aide_santacruz (at) yahoo.com.
AIDE organizing meetings are held every Sunday, 4pm at the Resource Center for Nonviolence (515 Broadway at Ocean) in Santa Cruz.
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movements for social justice must unite
NAEES Staff, 21.04.2005 08:35
The annual Native American Ecological Education Symposium offers students and community members invaluable information and experience on Native American culture and current issues facing Native American communities. The two-day event will feature lectures, field trips and a keynote address by Winona LaDuke, the Program Director of Honor the Earth and Founding Director of White Earth Land Recovery Project. LaDuke also ran with Ralph Nader on the 1996 and 2000 Green Party Presidential ticket. LaDuke will speak Sunday morning, April 24.
Native American Fourth Annual Ecological Education Symposium
April 23rd-24th
SOU Stevenson Union
Ashland, Oregon
Ashland, ORE - Southern Oregon University's Native American Student Union, Ecology Center of the Siskiyous (ECOS), Anthropology Club, OSPRIG, The Center for First Nations Studies, Klamath- Siskiyou Wildlands Center and Peace House present the second annual Native American Ecological Education Symposium on April 23rd and 24th in SOU Stevenson Union. The event is free.
The mission is to bridge Native American ecological practices, with educational development and contemporary actions for earth restoration and stewardship on behalf of future generations.
This event begins at 9 a.m. on Saturday morning with opening remarks by David West, Director of SOU's Native American Studies Program, and symposium organizers. Saturday events will address issues of the effect of Measure 37 on native lands, SOU lodge house and arboretum projects, basket weaving, and Klamath tribe perspective on environmental issues affecting the region. Winona LaDuke- a member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg and Founding Director of White Earth Land Recovery Project will give the keynote address on Sunday at 10am. Field trips to archeological, restoration, and educational sites will depart at 12pm.
A tentative schedule can be found at: www.sou.edu/calendar. For more information, call OSPIRG at 541-552-8514.
(see attached schedule of events)
Saturday April 23rd
Stevenson Union Rogue River Room
9:00-9:30am Breakfast
9:30 Greetings/Welcome - David West and Masters of Ceremony Phil Albers
9:45-10:15 Measure 37 - Ashland City Council Member Cate Hartzell
10:20-10:45 Longhouse in SOU - SOU Students Kevin Knapp and Hesid Brandovysrael
11:00-11:30 Arboretum Project - Lucetta Nelson
12-1pm Lunch
1:00-1:45 Basket Weaving - Mary Carpland
Break
2:00-3pm Environmental Issues Concerning Tribes - Gerald Skelton Klamath Tribe
6pm - Potluck at Elmos (Elmos located Inside the Stevenson Union)
Sunday April 24th
Stevenson Union Rogue River Room/Field Trips
10:00-11:00 AM - Winona LaDuke
Noon - Field Trips
Field Trip Options: Lomakatsi field site visit, Mark Teveskov Anthropological site visit, or North Mountain Park Ethnobotanical walk with Don Todt.
For Immediate Release
Contact: Gina Lutz
April 19, 2005
(541) 552-8514
naees2005 (at) hotmail.com