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Thursday, November 19, 2009

UCB Protests -- Revised Schedule for Thursday

berkeley.org

Note the Open University events, and the change in time of workshop on academic labor-11 am. We'll have a ladder faculty, a lecturer, a grad student and a union representative on the panel.

Please spend time on the picket line if you possibly can. I've added links to news coverage at the bottom.

5:00 am. UPTE Picket lines start at construction sites

7:15 am. Main Picket lines begin at campus entrances

8:00 am. UPTE Picket lines at UCOP in Oakland

8:00 am. Sit-ins begin at Dwinelle Hall

9:00 am - 10:00 pm. Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of The Black Scholar

Lipman Room, 7th floor of Barrows, Born of the SF State Strike, all TBS events are in Solidarity

9:00 am - 3:00 pm. The Open University Lectures in the Bear's Lair Food Court

9:00 - 10:00. Welcome to the Open University / International Skype Connection

10:00 - 11:00. Gray Brechin, "It doesnt have to be this way: Higher Ed in the New Deal"

11:00 - 12:00. Daniel Graham on "The Coup in Honduras"

12:00 - 1:00. Ananya Roy on "The Financialization of Everything"

1:00 - 2:00. Michael Cohen and Kathryn Lybarger on "The IWW and American Labor Radicalism"

2:00 - 3:00. TJ Clark on "From Print Capitalism to Screen Capitalism"

9:30 am - 3:00 pm. The Open University Workshops on Sproul or in the MLK Multicultural Center (*)

9:30 - 10:30. Field Trip and Experiential Learning Tour with AFSCME 3299

10:00 - 11:00. "This is what Berkeley did for me" a photo workshop (Sproul)

*11:00 - 12:00. Katherine Lee, "Academic Labor: A Workshop for Students and Workers"

12:00 - 1:00. "What is Public? A participatory event in search of the public" (Sproul)

12:00 - 1:00. "Utopias at Work" (Sproul)

12:00 - 1:30. Capoeira on the Picket Lines: Demonstration and workshop (Sproul)

*2:00 - 3:00. Annie McClanahan & West Hays: "Prisons and Education: Teaching in CA Prisons"

*2:00 - 3:00. Gray Brechin & Peter Byrne, "UC Inc. Workshop on Researching the Regents"

12:30 - 2:00 pm. Anthropology Teach-In Multiversity Room, Newman Hall -- HOLY SPIRIT Chapel (2700 DWIGHT WAY)

Jeff Schonberg, "Wartime Crimes: Homelessness, Addiction and Poverty in America."

Nancy Scheper-Hughes, "Making in Crazy (and less so) in Peoples' Park & Vets of forgotten wars."

Noon. Striking Workers March from Bancroft and Telegraph

3:10 pm. Dump your trash at California Hall, Sponsored by ASFCME Bring your campus trash and rally at the east entrance of California Hall.

4:00 pm. Second Strike Meeting: What's Next?

7:00 pm. Film Screening: "Alcatraz is not an Island" 102 Krober Hall

40th Anniversary of the Occupation of Alcatraz & American Indian Heritage Month

8:00 pm. Musical performance by John Handy Quartet, Lipman Room, Barrows

Part of The Black Scholar Celebration

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