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WHO ARE “CLERICALS� AT UC?

UCSC students are planning a week of action to co-incide with the Global Week of Action for economic justice. There will be five days of events to educate and activate students around the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)

Last year, the UC made $786 million more than it spent. Yet all we hear about is the “budget crisis.� This doesn’t sound like a budget crisis to us. Our university is in crisis, it’s true, but the main issue isn’t the budget. The main issues are priorities and power. Our resources are being extracted. The space we have to live and learn in is contracting. What all of us really need is a say in how the university distributes its vast resources. What we need is democratization.

Following the success of the community organizing and signature gathering for the referendum petition against the Coast Hotel project in Santa Cruz, the hotel owners conducted a detailed phone survey in Santa Cruz and learned that not only the hotel, but all the people and politicians associated with it were terrifically unpopular. Following the survey, the hotel pulled the plug on the project and the community is now free to plan for their future without having to pay for a huge hotel hugging the beach.