December 2009
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Letter to Prof. Christopher Kutz, Chair, Berkeley...
Dear Prof. Kutz, We, the undersigned UC Berkeley geography graduate students, wish to express our dismay at the “Open letter from the Academic Council to the University of California community,” dated November 30, 2009 (PDF). We assume that there will continue to be disagreements between the Council and many of us students about what constitutes a “necessary policy” in...
November 2009
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Teaching the Budget and the Crisis
Here are some links to materials you can use for your own learning, talking to others, or preparing a class.
Teaching Resources « Created at UCSC for use throughout UC system. Includes: lesson plans, powerpoint slides, news and opinion pieces from the press and media, resources for action.
Budget Documents « Also via UCSC
Parent Resources « Also via UCSC
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Members of the Faculty wrote to Birgeneau...
November 22, 2009 [via]
Open Letter from Concerned Members of the Faculty to Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau,
We, the undersigned faculty, are writing to voice our strenuous objection to the use of unwarranted violence by the police forces enlisted by the University of California at Berkeley to patrol the student demonstration outside of Wheeler Hall on Friday, November 20th. It is now...
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An Open Letter to Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau,...
Dear Chancellor Birgeneau,
We write this letter in response to your email sent out on Friday, November 20, 2009, at 10:49pm (posted here), regarding Berkeley’s campus-wide protest of UC fee hikes, lay-offs and other cuts that have decreased the accessibility and quality of public education across the University of California’s campuses. We feel that this email misrepresented Friday’s protests...