UCSB Break-out Sessions, 7:00 PM, Wednesday October 14th

The Impact of prisons on education and the way forward in reversing that trend. 

-Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Dept of American Studies and Ethnicity, USC

-Craig Gilmore, Critical Resistance

-Damien Schnyder, author of “First Strike: The Effect of the Prison Regime Upon Public Education and Black Masculinity in Los Angeles County, CA”

Phelps Hall 3523 

Breaking the Stalemate: the Politics of Public Education in California

Loni Hancock, California State Senator, East Bay

Hannah-Beth Jackson, former South Coast Assemblywoman

Das Williams, Santa Barbara City Council

Julian Posadas, American Federation of State County and Municipal Workers

Phelps 3515 

The UC Budget and California Tax Policy

Stan Glantz, UC San Francisco

Lenny Goldberg, California Tax Reform Association

George Lakoff, UC Berkeley

Phelps Hall 1260

How UC is Governed

Jessie Bernal, Student Regent

Bob Samuels, UC –American Federation of Teachers

Robert Meister, UC Santa Cruz, President – UC Faculty Associations

Webb 1100

The California Dram Act: Help for Undocumented Students

Kent Wong, UCLA Labor Center

Nayra Pacheco, UCSB, IDEAS (Improving Dreams, Equality, Access, & Success)

South Hall 1431

University 101: Student-Friendly Breakdown of the UC System and the Budget Crisis  7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Celina Ayala, External Vice President of Statewide Affairs, Associated Students, UCSB

Armando Carmona, Student-Initiated Recruitment & Retention Committee, UCSB

Campbell Hall

Strategy Chart/Strategy Breakdown

David Preciado,  Isla Vista Tenants Union, 2008 Get-Out-the-Vote leader at UCSB

This workshop teaches organizers how to develop effective strategies for their campaigns

Building 387, Room 104

Legislative Action: Dealing With and Against UC in Sacramento & What Is Next.

Rodney Orr, Legislative Director, United Professional and Technical Employees

Ali Cooper, Political/Legislative Director, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 3299

Robert Campbell, former chair of Assembly Budget Committee

Christine Petit, President UAW Local 2865 (The union for TAs, readers and tutors)

Phelps 1420

Save Exercise and Sports Studies!

Erica Stenz, LeAnn Lopez, Andrea Chase, Kathleen Jequinto, Megan Killian

South Hall 1609

How is the economic crisis impacting Black and Latino students and communities?  How are students and communities responding?  How should they respond? 

Clyde Woods, Black Studies, UCSB

Gaye Johnson, Black Studies, UCSB

South Hall  1430

How education actually changes the brain 

Aranye Fradenburg, Department of English, UCSB

Kay Young, Department of English, UCSB

Janis Caldwell, Department of Engish, UCSB

English Department conference room, 2607 South Hall

Other Events

Film – announce Cup of Culture, Wed Oct 14, Multicultural Center Theater (see email for description)

Banner painting

Proposed by: Tammy Elwell (elwell@geog.ucsb.edu) TA Dept of Geography, UCSB and Verónica Montes

Outside Campbell Hall, two large tables needed, do we provide anything?