Group:
Bail Out the People Movement
Baltimore Algebra Project, Baltimore, MD
Brother Tracy Gibson & Associates, Inc. Philadelphia, PA
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
Education Action Now, CSU Monterrey, CA
Education Rights Campaign at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Fight Imperialism Stand Together (FIST)
International Action Center
Jersey City Peace Movement, Jersey City
Joint Forces at SDSU, San Diego, California
Labor Art & Mural Project, Central CT State University
Liberty Tree Foundation
M4 Coalition @ SDSU San Diego, CA
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
Peoples Video Network, New York, NY
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 Alternative
Socialist Organizer
Socratic Punk, Tampa, Fl
Solidarity
SpeakOut – the Institute for Democratic Education and Culture, Oakland CA
STAND at Queens College, Flushing, New York
Students For A Democratic Society – Birmingham Chapter, Birmingham Alabama
Students for a Democratic Society – UNC Chapel Hill
Students for a Democratic Society – Gainesville
Students for a Democratic Society – Milwaulkee
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 – Tuscaloosa
Students for a Democratic Society – Wilbur Wright College, Chicago, IL
Students for an Educated California, San Diego, California
Student Labor Action Project
UE 150, North Carolina Public Service Workers Union, North Carolina
Undergraduate-Graduate Alliance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Venice Student Union, Los Angeles, California
Young Democratic Socialists – William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
Youth Against War and Racism, Minneapolis and St. Paul Metro Area, Minnesota
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
International Endorsers
AStA (student representative body) at the University of Marburg, Germany
Worldwide Nepalese Students’ Organisation-Nepal
CUE-Teamsters Local 2010 Berkeley,
San Francisco Labor Council, AFSCME Local 444, Diane
Brown, president elect United Teachers Of Richmond, Charles Brown,
Former Chief Steward AFSCME 444
Jack Gerson, Oakland Education Association Bargaining Team & OEA rep
to CTA State Council and Alameda Central Labor Council
Dave Welsh : San Francisco Central Labor Council Delegate,
American Association of University Professors, California State University Employees Union, Student Worker Action Team @ UCB, Solidarity Alliance (UCB), RAZA Caucus (UCB),
Education 4 the People! 
As far as I understand there has been no demands set by the coalition as of yet. At the October 24th conference no demands were agreed upon. We suggest the following:
1) For massive indefinite strike action to reverse the cuts, layoffs and fee hikes.
2) For free quality education for all from pre-school to university.
3) Drive the Military, CIA and NSA off campus.
4) End furloughs against public workers and rehire all laid off workers
5) For full employment
6) End the privatization of public education. End Charter school drive of Obama and Duncan.
7) Defeat the imperialist invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan
At today’s Northern California regional meeting, the following demands were passed. There may have been more; a full report will be posted later.
a. Fully funded, free public education from preschool through graduate school and adult education
b. No privatization of education; no union busting, no charter schools; down with No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top
c. Reverse the fee hikes
d. Student, faculty, staff, parent, and working class community control over the entire public education system, from preK-12 through graduate school and adult education
At Sunday’s Norcal coordinating committee, a more complete set of demands was adopted. Some of those listed in Tommy’s posting were passed in slightly altered form; some were combined; and there were other demands that were passed (e.g., Full Citizenship Rights for Immigrants with No deportations; End resegregation of public education; and others). I believe that Ryan from SFSU, who chaired the session, has the final list of demands as approved at Sunday’s meeting. Ryan and I agreed to do the final writeup and publish the demands, and Ann Robertson from SFSU also agreed to work on this. Ryan — if you’re reading this, can you get in touch with Ann and me and send each of us the list of demands, so that we can get the final version out soon.
Thanks,
Jack Gerson
Jack, if possible someone from HWRS would like to be involved in the project of writing up the demands passed on Sunday. Can you please email us at hw4rs@yahoo.com and let us know what the best way would be for us to get a chance to have some input into the draft before it gets published? Thanks!
NorCal Demands from 1/10/10 – Draft as of 1/19/10
I’m writing on behalf of the demands committee from the January 10
northern california coordinating committee meeting (Shane Mason, Ann
Robertson, Michelle Stewart, Ryan Sturges, Jack Gerson) I’m sending
out the demands agreed on at the meeting, as combined and reorganized
by the demands committee. The meeting had agreed to use four main
categories of demands (education; public services / jobs; war and
prisons; immigrants’ rights). In addition, following the round of
voting (partially reported in the minutes that went out yesterday),
the body agreed (by acclamation) to combine several of the demands
under the main framing demands. The demands committee was charged with
taking the various sub-demands that the body had agreed on combining
and organizing them coherently into the four categories. We have
worked collaboratively on this, and what follows is the product of our
joint work.
Fully Funded Free Accessible Quality Public Education for All
1. End the resegregation of public education; Open admissions
2. No privatization; No charter schools
3. No union-busting
4. End No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top
5. Democratic control of education by students, staff, parents,
teachers and the working class community.
6. Roll back the fee hikes, furloughs, salary cuts and layoffs
Full Funding for Public Services / Jobs for All
1. Restore and expand all cut programs and jobs
2. Jobs for all
3. Tax the Rich; tax the corporations
4. Amend Prop. 13 / tax corporate property at a higher rate
No War, No Cuts
1. Immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan
2. Money for education and services, not war and incarceration
Full Citizenship Rights for Immigrants
1. No Deportations
2. End the ICE Raids
3. Full access to scholarship and financial aid for immigrant students
There are a number of problems with this draft, as has already been pointed out in emails to the Northern California and East Bay mailing lists. I will not repeat the points made in those emails here, but I don’t want anyone who reads Juan’s post, above, to think that it is the final version. It is not, at least as far as my comrades and I are concerned. The draft is partially correct, but not entirely; it includes proposed demands that did not receive a majority vote, and omits other proposals that did. I hope we will be able to work out the differences and agree on a final version that accurately reflects the voting at the January 10 Northern California meeting.
I am on a committee for a march on March 4th and 22nd. I feel were doing this all wrong. We have so many colleges in California, why are we not uniting. We need to work together more and get more students. We should have tens of thousands of students at the strikes. We need to have all community colleges, state colleges, UC’s, and privates all there. We need to do better with coordination. Please email me so we can work together, and become more effective.
Thank you,
Etienne R. Bowie
I’m deeply grateful to those working on this. I’m a UC alum, and am coming over from the East Coast to attend the 3/4 demonstration, because of how important it’ll be.
This is clearly a critical moment to defend and fight for the availability of high-quality public education. While I appreciate the holistic view that it stems from, I think that this list of demands veers far away from the core of the issue, which I think dilutes the movement and will in turn distance MANY of the many many folks who should and could be mobilized right now.
That’s just my take. I will be there on 3/4 solely to defend state financial support of the California public education system — and all of its students, faculty, staff, and other community stakeholders.
It´s great to realize, that protests spread all over the world. Keep on!
Have a look at our demands: http://www.bildungsstreik-koeln.de/koelner-erklaerung/cologne-declaration
WE DEMAND the AMERICAN CONSTITUTION BE TAUGHT!!!!!!!!!!
We DEMAND AMERICAN TRUE HISTORY BE TAUGHT!!!
We DEMAND WASHINGTON< LINCOLN< JEFFERSON AND TRUE PRINCIPLEAS OF LIBERTY UNDER GOD BE TAUGHT!!!!!!!!!!
What an amazing amalgamation of completely unrealistic, unachievable utopian goals! This is nothing less than a complete indictment of the failure of our current educational system, that someone could even come up with a list like this, much less consider it rational or beneficial!
You silly bunch of Communists who want other people to pay for all your wants need to just grow up!
Get a job; pay for your own education; then get a real job; raise a family; contribute something to the world, and save for your old age. Then see if you want some nitwit to demand your life savings so he doesn’t have to work for what he wants.
Other than ending slavery, fascism and communism war has never solved a single thing!
Are you guys for real? If so, why not move to Europe and keep our founding principles in tact? They’d love you guys over there!!
RE: #4. We demand democratic voting of laws and officials in all educational
governments along with the repeal of the 2/3 vote in legislature.
Californians need to help collect a million signatures this month to put the California Democracy Act on November’s ballot. This will meet demand #4, and restore funding to California’s schools.
Go to http://www.CA4Democracy.com to download petitions.
You people have no common sense whatsoever! You all rail on all these topics, which sound wonderful, but you have no means for paying for any of them. You are all a bunch of communist kooks!!!
I realize that this all seems good enough, but it is all socialist. Who is going to pay for all the teachers, books, computers, etc.? Um… Tax payers (us). I’m poor (and when I say poor I mean it,) 23, and have worked my butt off at dead end jobs to try to go to college. I still haven’t been able to go, if I could go at no cost to myself I would, but I also understand that not every one can do that. You would demolish the system your trying to get in to just because your not willing to work and save to go to school.
Ruin it for everyone, so that everyone can have it? It’s like what McDonald’s did to the hamburger, you could make a nice burger yourself if your willing to wait or you can get the burger that everyone gets that is probably not even 100% real.
What is more rewarding?
P.s. The Big Red M in march and the Red woman with her fist in the air is so much like the old communist and socialist propaganda, it’s not even funny. Maybe the Big red M is for Marx.
Tom, there is always money for unnecessary war. We are spending trillions on fixing other country’s problems when our own people are suffering. There is no lack of money, the trans-national corporations are have sucked out unprecedented record profits with tax breaks, write-offs and loopholes they paid politicians for. They aren’t in need of our labor in the global market, so we have to start local re-manufacturing, re-building our own infrastructure with a jobs program created by forcing the pig rich to pay their fair share.