FROM THE OCCUPY SAN DIEGO FACEBOOK EVENT FOR MAY DAY 2012:
No work. No school. No Banking. No Shopping. A day without the 99% is a day people all over the world can stand up to the powers that be and say “Enough is enough!” Join us! (If you can’t, at least take the day off or change your profile picture!)
On May 1st, 2012 every continent, every country, every state, every city will stand up!
11am CITY COLLEGE RALLY
12pm SOLIDARITY MARCH – CIVIC CENTER
3:30pm EDUCATION CUTS RALLY – ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL
4pm-6pm WORKER RALLY – CIVIC CENTER
5:30pm CHICANO PARK FESTIVAL
Participating Organizations:
SEIU USWW | UFCW LOCAL 135| UNITEHERE LOCAL 30 | UNION DEL BARRIO | SD LABOR COUNCIL | UNITED TAXI WORKERS | AFT | OCCUPY LABOR SOLIDARITY | ACCE | ICWJ | ANAKBAYAN SD | CENTER OF POLICY INITIATIVES | DOMESTIC WORKER CAMPAIGN | CANVASS FOR A CAUSE | AFSC SD | EMPLOYEE RIGHTS CENTER | LA INVASORA 99.7FM | EQUALITY ALLIANCE SD | UPTE-CWA 9119 | S.A.M.E. | OSD | PARTY FOR SOCIALISM & LIBERATION | ANIMAL PROTECTION & RESCUE LEAGUE | INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST ORGANIZATION | IWW | OCUPEMOS EL BARRIO | AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION LOCAL 1309 | OCCUPYRCORNER | STUDENTS FROM SDSU, USD, CITY COLLEGE, UCSD & MORE!
MAY DAY 2012: A day without the 99%.
May day is about the debt imposed on you for daring to dream about a college education.
It’s about the healthcare you can’t afford, the family member with a disease which goes untreated because they lack insurance.
It’s about your car that got repo-ed after you lost your job.
It’s about your home that got foreclosed on by the bank.
It’s about your family, who came here for a better future, and got lost in the broken immigration system, and found that they’re denied access to legal work, education and security because they’re undocumented.
It’s about you, the gay kid who gets bullied at school, and will grow up in a country which denies you equality and humanity, simply because you love someone of the same gender.
It’s about the fact there’s no jobs, even if you got that college education and those grades.
It’s about the single mother who struggles to support her kids on minimum wage – which is not a living wage.
It’s about the woman who makes it through Harvard, works her butt off in one of the best law firms in the country, and constantly loses out on that promotion because she’s not a man.
It’s about the homeless African-American man who lives on the street and gets thrown in jail for peeing in a park, because there are no toilet facilities on the street for those like him.
It’s about the protestor who gets beaten and thrown in jail for holding a sign in a public space which says he want equality.
It’s about the farmer who’s had to leave his home and work, because the state raised his land tax.
It’s about the father who loses a son to a pointless war over oil in a foreign land.
It’s about the fact this is not the America we were brought up to believe in.
IT’S TIME TO TAKE TO THE STREETS!
This event has been organized by workers, union and non union to tell the 1% NO MORE! We will be marching from Civic Center to demonstrate in front of the banks that have taken our homes, the state building for taking our medical care, the ICE building that has deported and destroyed families and all other places that have waged a war on working people!!
More info visit: www.occupylaborsolidarity.org or http://www.occupymay1st.org/Seemore
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SJP at UCSD Denounces ASUCSD
In Uncategorized on March 5, 2012 at 9:00 amSJP at UCSD Denounces ASUCSD Failure to Uphold Principles of Community and Corporate Responsibility for Palestinian Human Rights
Students for Justice in Palestine, UC San Diego
Associated Students at UCSD failed the “Resolution in Support of UC San Diego Corporate Accountability through Divestment from Corporations Profiting from Violent Conflict” in a 13-20-0. The decision came after over seven hours of public input and deliberation.
The SJP community and its allies were repeatedly demonized by members of the public as well as university staff and faculty. UCSD students were publicly singled out, followed, and harassed outside the AS chambers. In addition, senators who were seen as sympathetic to SJP’s dedication to corporate responsibility and human rights were sent threats and verbally harassed throughout the night. SJP questions the dedication of administration to Principles of Community as no authority present made moves to protect the student body from such intimidation.
Such open hostility is not new for those who advocate for human rights and corporate responsibility on campus. Earlier this quarter, SJP members were harassed at their event by university staff, fliers for the organization have continually been defaced, and students are continually harassed during Muslim Student Association’s Justice in Palestine week. Despite this, students have still presented issues such as divestment, and will continue to do so.
Furthermore, It has come to the attention of SJP at UCSD that the office of the president at AS sent emails advocating for the rejection of the divestment bill. President Alyssa Wing also attempted to contact outside organizations and individuals to submit open letters aimed to frame divestment as divisive. SJP at UCSD condemns her abuse of executive power as a violation of the Principles of Community. Additionally, the rhetoric she employed in accusing students of playing a “game” is deeply offensive. SJP questions whether advocating for the corporate responsibility and the humanity of Palestinians are what the office of the president believes to be a “game.”
SJP at UCSD encourages students to contact AS president Alyssa Wing at aspresident@ucsd.edu or 858.534.4452 to express distaste with the tactics of her office and the decision reached by Associated Students at UC San Diego regarding divestment.
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Students for Justice in Palestine is a diverse group of students, faculty, staff, and community members centered at the University of California, San Diego and organized in accordance with democratic principles to promote justice, human rights, and the right of self-determination for the Palestinian people.