{"id":134,"date":"2010-04-11T04:50:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T01:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lavozdelostrabajadores.co.cc\/?p=134"},"modified":"2010-04-11T04:50:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T01:50:36","slug":"the-struggle-for-public-education-in-california-a-growing-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2010\/04\/11\/the-struggle-for-public-education-in-california-a-growing-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Struggle for Public Education in California: a Growing Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>The struggle for Public Education in <\/strong><strong>California<\/strong><strong>: a growing movement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:  georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:  georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/litci.org\/en\/images\/image\/Berk_opt.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"right\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nWritten by Workers Voice &#8211; USA: \u00a0Thursday, 04 March 2010<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The educational community is uprising in <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">California<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">. On  March 4th students and education workers will be the protagonists of  the first major state struggle against the Obama and Schwarzenegger  administrations\u2019 austerity measures.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Democrats  and Republicans are forcing working class and oppressed communities to  pay the cost of the budgetary deficit, induced by the donation of  trillions of dollars made by the White House to bankers and<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:  georgia,serif;\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> firms to  free them from bankruptcy. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">The <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">University<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> of <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">California<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"> System Mobilizes in Resistance <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">These measures have provoked  significant resistance, with the public education sector t<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:  georgia,serif;\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">aking center  stage. After a three-week hunger strike taken by Los Angeles teachers in  2009 May, UCB (University of California \u2013 Berkeley) workers and  students began organizing against the furloughs, layoffs, pay cuts for  staff and the fee hikes, restricted admissions and curtailment of  academic programs for students in last June. At the UC, this is a fight  against both the state legislature and the bangster Wall Street types  appointed by the Governor to man<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">age the UC system, the Board of Regents.  With the largest mobilization in the UC-wide walkout on Sept. 24th, UC  Berkeley emerged as the best organized campus. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">On Oct. 24th, students and education  workers from across the state converged on UCB for a historic mobilizing  conference, which brought together the most militant sectors of  rank-and-file public ed<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">ucation workers, teachers and students to decide  democratically on a plan of action for a united fight back. Out of the  conference emerged, for the first time, the possibility for statewide  coordination of struggle and March 4th as the date for a strike \/ day of  action. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">The struggle generalizes: the  coordinated week of action across public e<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">ducation<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">On Nov. 18th through 20th, the  educational community held coordinated protest actions during the week  of the UC Regents, CSU Board of Trustees and K-12 Board of Education  meetings to shut down business as usual. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Unlike on Sept. 24th, the resistance  was widespread, a clear indication of the <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">depth of the anger the budget  cuts have provoked. At Cal State Fresno students reclaimed their library  in protest against cut hours of operation. At SF State, students  rallied and held a spirited sit-in style occupation of the  administration office. Students at City College of SF organized a  several hundred strong march to SF State in solidarity. The <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Oakland<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> teachers held a week of education on the crisis. The epicenters of this  struggle were in <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Los  Angeles<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> and <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Long Beach<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">,  the sites of the Regents and Trustees meetings, and at UC Berkeley,  where we held a historical three-day student and workers strike. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">The <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">University<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> of <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">California<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> On  Strike! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Across the UC system, thousands of  students, workers and faculty mobilized to protest layoffs, furloughs,  and the 32% student fee hike, converging on UCLA to shut down the  Regents Mee<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">ting, through the occupation of the building where they had  assembled.\u00a0 The vicious UC and LA police arrested 14 people and injured  many more. At UCSC, 500 people blocked campus entrances and occupied the  administrative and other buildings. And at UC Davis, 52 protesters were  arrested during a sit in, followed by more building occupations. The  grad student instructors and technical and clerical workers at UCB  called for a two-day strike. Students took u<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">p the call with a three-day  strike and they were joined by a weeklong strike of the Bears Lair food  court. During the strike, thousands of students and workers took to the  stree<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">ts, marching to both Berkeley High and the community college.  Outside, they chanted: \u201cOne Struggle! One Fight! Education Is A Right!\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">On day two of the strike, the picket  lines were organized at the worksites; the ac<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">tivists marched to the  administration building and delivered uncollected garbage at its front  door to protest against cuts to custodial staff. On the third day, after  the Regents pushed through the fee hike, students took over Wheeler  Hall, demanding the reinstatement of 38 laid-off AFSCME workers, a  commitment from the UCB administration to protect <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Rochdale<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">, a  student affordable housing unit, and a fair contract for the Bear\u2019s  Lair. The administration respon<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">ded with an army of police equipped with  tear gas, tasers, and rubber bullets. But the administ<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">ration\u2019s brutal  use of police force rekindled the struggle. With the support of  thousands of students and workers who threw their bodies in front of the  army of police battalions, the students held the hall for 12 hours and  successfully negotiated to have their charges reduced. This was a major  victory of the enormous power of students and workers when they act as  one, showing clearly the class nature of the conflict. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">A new layer of activists fighting  against <\/span><\/strong><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Obama and  Schwarzenegger<\/span><\/strong><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"> repression appears<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The broad UCB mobilization and the  severity and the severity of the Regents decisions radicalized a whole  new layer of students and workers whose level of political consciousness  was transformed on the picket lines and in the barricades. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The activists marched on the <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Oakland<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> courthouse in support of those arrested. From there, we took over the UC  Office of the President to protest the administration\u2019s arrogant  refusal to negotiate with protestors. At Cal State San Francisco, in a  major escalation, students took over the <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Business<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Building<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> and  held it for almost 24. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Since the strike days, the  administration\u2019s willingness to employ violence against students and  workers has increased dramatically. In fact, by the end of the semester,  the administration had made over 100 protest-related arrests at UC  Berkeley alone. Moreover, the UC and Schwarzenegger administrations gear  up for new levels of repression, even openly making statements against  &#8220;terrorism&#8221; and for students to be &#8220;prosecuted under the fullest extent  of the law&#8221;. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">The struggle achieves its first  victory, but\u2026 <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The independent and democratic  mobilization of students and workers led Schwarzenegger to propose a  &#8220;new model&#8221; for higher education, raising public spending to the UCs and  CSUs from the actual 7.5% to 10% of the total <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">California<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> budget (it was 13% in 1970) at the expenses of capping the prison budget  to 7% (11% today). If this announcement is a victory in the sense that  is recognizes the strength of our movement and our collective power, it  is also and foremost an attempt to co-opt and divide the movement for  public education. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">First, we are not fighting for a  random increase of funding at the expenses of other public workers.  Second, the &#8220;cuts&#8221; to &#8220;prison spending&#8221; are mainly cuts to professional  educators and other social public workers that work in the prison  system. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Finally, the Governor proposal not  only does not satisfy the needs and demands of the UCs and CSUs, but is  furthermore an attempt to isolate the &#8220;elite institutions&#8221; from the rest  of the public education system, leaving K-12 and the CCs without  resources. We need to refuse categorically this attempt to divide us and  buy us out: We fight together, we stay together! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">March 4th, an action and strike  day everywhere <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The agitation and mobilization of the  students and workers in every school or workplace that is affected by  the cuts need to be increased to organize the action day. In this sense,  the regional and city-based March 4th strike\/actions committees have a  key role to play in order to unify the emerging struggles inside every  sector of public education. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The K-12 teachers are being attacked  all across the State. The United Teachers of Richmond are losing their  healthcare benefits and facing unprecedented increases in class sizes.  Meanwhile, their union leadership is promoting the charterization of the  whole school district. In <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Oakland<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">,  many schools are closing and in <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Los Angeles<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">, the  school district wanted to give away 250 schools in the district to  charters. Thanks to the mobilization of the rank-and- file UTLA members,  only 37 were charterized. In <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Berkeley<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> too  the school district wants to create charter schools and the teachers are  fighting back. These struggles have to be linked to the mobilizations  in the CCs, UCs and CSUs! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">But the crisis and the cuts are  affecting all public workers, even if their union leadership is not  organizing the fight back. SEIU local 1000 rank-and-file members  authorized the call for a strike by a yes vote of 74% in the summer when  the cuts where made public, but the union leadership preferred to  \u201clobby\u201d the legislature to negotiate to reduce the layoffs.  Nevertheless, hundreds of prison teachers have been protesting the  entire month of December against the layoff of 1,000 prison educators.  The same happened with SEIU 1021, representing over 54 000 public  workers (city and county workers, health-care and social services) in  Northern California, when the rank-and-file voted down twice a tentative  agreement that included layoffs before the leadership managed to impose  the contract. In order to coordinate all these struggles and to  determine a common program of action, United Public Workers for Action  called for a Public Workers Mobilizing Conference Saturday February 20th  in <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">San  Francisco<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">The need for a political  leadership <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">F<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">or this  movement to succeed, we need to provide an alternative political  leadership for the workers who want to fight, especially inside their  unions. This fight is inseparable from the political fight in our unions  for workers democracy, the end of staff privileges and the independence  of working class organizations from bourgeois parties, such as  Democrats and Republicans. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">We also need to be able to organize  the non-unionized workers and to develop a democratic base organism for  students, unemployed workers and community members that want to fight.  We believe that in this acute crisis, the process of mobilization and  struggle will change the political consciousness of many that will  experience and understand the inherent inequalities and contradictions  of <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">US<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> imperialism. But our task is not only to show this contradiction to the  fighting masses, it is also to change the too long ongoing situation: we  need to fight for the political power to change this system. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The bourgeoisie has its own  leadership in national and state governments and is ruling the state for  the interest of the corporations. The American working class, though,  hasn\u2019t achieved its class independence to build its own political  organization, in order to conquest the strength and capacity to defend  its class interests and seize power to abolish class society.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> The students and workers mobilization at <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">California<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> may  represent the first step in this way.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 2275px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The struggle for Public Education in <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: ClearfaceGothicLH-Light;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">California<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">: a<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> growing movement<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/litci.org\/en\/images\/image\/Calif%20berkeley-1214_opt_%281%29.jpg?resize=240%2C160\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" align=\"left\" \/>The  educational community is uprising in <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">California<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">. On  March 4th students and education workers will be the protagonists of  the first major state struggle against the Obama and Schwarzenegger  administrations\u2019 austerity measures.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Democrats  and Republicans are forcing working class and oppressed communities to  pay the cost of the budgetary deficit, induced by the donation of  trillions of dollars made by the White House to bankers and firms to  free them from bankruptcy. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">The <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">University<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> of <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">California<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"> System Mobilizes in Resistance <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">These measures have provoked  significant resistance, with the public education sector taking center  stage. After a three-week hunger strike taken by Los Angeles teachers in  2009 May, UCB (University of California \u2013 Berkeley) workers and  students began organizing against the furloughs, layoffs, pay cuts for  staff and the fee hikes, restricted admissions and curtailment of  academic programs for students in last June. At the UC, this is a fight  against both the state legislature and the bangster Wall Street types  appointed by the Governor to manage the UC system, the Board of Regents.  With the largest mobilization in the UC-wide walkout on Sept. 24th, UC  Berkeley emerged as the best organized campus. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">On Oct. 24th, students and education  workers from across the state converged on UCB for a historic mobilizing  conference, which brought together the most militant sectors of  rank-and-file public education workers, teachers and students to decide  democratically on a plan of action for a united fight back. Out of the  conference emerged, for the first time, the possibility for statewide  coordination of struggle and March 4th as the date for a strike \/ day of  action. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">The struggle generalizes: the  coordinated week of action across public education<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">On Nov. 18th through 20th, the  educational community held coordinated protest actions during the week  of the UC Regents, CSU Board of Trustees and K-12 Board of Education  meetings to shut down business as usual. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Unlike on Sept. 24th, the resistance  was widespread, a clear indication of the depth of the anger the budget  cuts have provoked. At Cal State Fresno students reclaimed their library  in protest against cut hours of operation. At SF State, students  rallied and held a spirited sit-in style occupation of the  administration office. Students at City College of SF organized a  several hundred strong march to SF State in solidarity. The <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Oakland<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> teachers held a week of education on the crisis. The epicenters of this  struggle were in <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Los  Angeles<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> and <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Long Beach<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">,  the sites of the Regents and Trustees meetings, and at UC Berkeley,  where we held a historical three-day student and workers strike. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">The <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">University<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> of <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">California<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> On  Strike! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Across the UC system, thousands of  students, workers and faculty mobilized to protest layoffs, furloughs,  and the 32% student fee hike, converging on UCLA to shut down the  Regents Meeting, through the occupation of the building where they had  assembled.\u00a0 The vicious UC and LA police arrested 14 people and injured  many more. At UCSC, 500 people blocked campus entrances and occupied the  administrative and other buildings. And at UC Davis, 52 protesters were  arrested during a sit in, followed by more building occupations. The  grad student instructors and technical and clerical workers at UCB  called for a two-day strike. Students took up the call with a three-day  strike and they were joined by a weeklong strike of the Bears Lair food  court. During the strike, thousands of students and workers took to the  streets, marching to both Berkeley High and the community college.  Outside, they chanted: \u201cOne Struggle! One Fight! Education Is A Right!\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">On day two of the strike, the picket  lines were organized at the worksites; the activists marched to the  administration building and delivered uncollected garbage at its front  door to protest against cuts to custodial staff. On the third day, after  the Regents pushed through the fee hike, students took over Wheeler  Hall, demanding the reinstatement of 38 laid-off AFSCME workers, a  commitment from the UCB administration to protect <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Rochdale<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">, a  student affordable housing unit, and a fair contract for the Bear\u2019s  Lair. The administration responded with an army of police equipped with  tear gas, tasers, and rubber bullets. But the administration\u2019s brutal  use of police force rekindled the struggle. With the support of  thousands of students and workers who threw their bodies in front of the  army of police battalions, the students held the hall for 12 hours and  successfully negotiated to have their charges reduced. This was a major  victory of the enormous power of students and workers when they act as  one, showing clearly the class nature of the conflict. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">A new layer of activists fighting  against <\/span><\/strong><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Obama and  Schwarzenegger<\/span><\/strong><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"> repression appears<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The broad UCB mobilization and the  severity and the severity of the Regents decisions radicalized a whole  new layer of students and workers whose level of political consciousness  was transformed on the picket lines and in the barricades. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/litci.org\/en\/images\/image\/Berk_opt.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"right\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The activists marched on the <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Oakland<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> courthouse in support of those arrested. From there, we took over the UC  Office of the President to protest the administration\u2019s arrogant  refusal to negotiate with protestors. At Cal State San Francisco, in a  major escalation, students took over the <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Business<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Building<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> and  held it for almost 24. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Since the strike days, the  administration\u2019s willingness to employ violence against students and  workers has increased dramatically. In fact, by the end of the semester,  the administration had made over 100 protest-related arrests at UC  Berkeley alone. Moreover, the UC and Schwarzenegger administrations gear  up for new levels of repression, even openly making statements against  &#8220;terrorism&#8221; and for students to be &#8220;prosecuted under the fullest extent  of the law&#8221;. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">The struggle achieves its first  victory, but\u2026 <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The independent and democratic  mobilization of students and workers led Schwarzenegger to propose a  &#8220;new model&#8221; for higher education, raising public spending to the UCs and  CSUs from the actual 7.5% to 10% of the total <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">California<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> budget (it was 13% in 1970) at the expenses of capping the prison budget  to 7% (11% today). If this announcement is a victory in the sense that  is recognizes the strength of our movement and our collective power, it  is also and foremost an attempt to co-opt and divide the movement for  public education. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">First, we are not fighting for a  random increase of funding at the expenses of other public workers.  Second, the &#8220;cuts&#8221; to &#8220;prison spending&#8221; are mainly cuts to professional  educators and other social public workers that work in the prison  system. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Finally, the Governor proposal not  only does not satisfy the needs and demands of the UCs and CSUs, but is  furthermore an attempt to isolate the &#8220;elite institutions&#8221; from the rest  of the public education system, leaving K-12 and the CCs without  resources. We need to refuse categorically this attempt to divide us and  buy us out: We fight together, we stay together! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">March 4th, an action and strike  day everywhere <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The agitation and mobilization of the  students and workers in every school or workplace that is affected by  the cuts need to be increased to organize the action day. In this sense,  the regional and city-based March 4th strike\/actions committees have a  key role to play in order to unify the emerging struggles inside every  sector of public education. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The K-12 teachers are being attacked  all across the State. The United Teachers of Richmond are losing their  healthcare benefits and facing unprecedented increases in class sizes.  Meanwhile, their union leadership is promoting the charterization of the  whole school district. In <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Oakland<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">,  many schools are closing and in <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Los Angeles<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">, the  school district wanted to give away 250 schools in the district to  charters. Thanks to the mobilization of the rank-and- file UTLA members,  only 37 were charterized. In <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Berkeley<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> too  the school district wants to create charter schools and the teachers are  fighting back. These struggles have to be linked to the mobilizations  in the CCs, UCs and CSUs! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">But the crisis and the cuts are  affecting all public workers, even if their union leadership is not  organizing the fight back. SEIU local 1000 rank-and-file members  authorized the call for a strike by a yes vote of 74% in the summer when  the cuts where made public, but the union leadership preferred to  \u201clobby\u201d the legislature to negotiate to reduce the layoffs.  Nevertheless, hundreds of prison teachers have been protesting the  entire month of December against the layoff of 1,000 prison educators.  The same happened with SEIU 1021, representing over 54 000 public  workers (city and county workers, health-care and social services) in  Northern California, when the rank-and-file voted down twice a tentative  agreement that included layoffs before the leadership managed to impose  the contract. In order to coordinate all these struggles and to  determine a common program of action, United Public Workers for Action  called for a Public Workers Mobilizing Conference Saturday February 20th  in <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">San  Francisco<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">The need for a political  leadership <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">F<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">or this  movement to succeed, we need to provide an alternative political  leadership for the workers who want to fight, especially inside their  unions. This fight is inseparable from the political fight in our unions  for workers democracy, the end of staff privileges and the independence  of working class organizations from bourgeois parties, such as  Democrats and Republicans. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">We also need to be able to organize  the non-unionized workers and to develop a democratic base organism for  students, unemployed workers and community members that want to fight.  We believe that in this acute crisis, the process of mobilization and  struggle will change the political consciousness of many that will  experience and understand the inherent inequalities and contradictions  of <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">US<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> imperialism. But our task is not only to show this contradiction to the  fighting masses, it is also to change the too long ongoing situation: we  need to fight for the political power to change this system. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The bourgeoisie has its own  leadership in national and state governments and is ruling the state for  the interest of the corporations. The American working class, though,  hasn\u2019t achieved its class independence to build its own political  organization, in order to conquest the strength and capacity to defend  its class interests and seize power to abolish class society.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> The students and workers mobilization at <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">California<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"> may  represent the first step in this way.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The struggle for Public Education in California: a growing movement Written by Workers Voice &#8211; USA: \u00a0Thursday, 04 March 2010 The educational community is uprising in California. On March 4th students and education workers will be the protagonists of the first major state struggle against the Obama and Schwarzenegger administrations\u2019 austerity measures. 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