Click on the headline to link to the Occupy U/Mass Boston website.
Please sign and share! Tell the administration that the occupation of the ONLY public university in Boston should stay!
Why This Is Important
WE ARE THE 99% at UMass Boston who have seen our fees rise 8% year after year with no end inorder to carry out the 1%’s “Master Plan” for our school. We are the 99% who have had our pay frozen by the administration. We are the 99% who are going to graduate from the only public four-year school in this city with $25,000 in student debt and little prospects. We are the 99% who are tired of watching the privatization of this university. We are the 99% who don’t want our university run by the unelected bureaucrats known as the Board of Trustees. We are tired of the Board of Trustees investing our fees in hidden funds and trusts with no interest in insuring that they do not financially support war profiteers.
We have liberated this space in the campus center from the corporate administrators who control this university. We will no longer recognize their illegitimate authority; we will take the entire university back from the 1% so the 99% can have their university. Non-violent direct action and people power is our weapon against the 1% and it’s plans to corporatize the university.For far too long the 99% have been excluded from the global conversation about the direction of our schools, our neighborhoods, and our world. We are in solidarity with Occupy Wall St., Occupy Boston,Occupy UC Davis, Occupy Berkeley, and all other Occupy movements. We are in solidarity with the student revolt in Chile and those at hundreds of other universities who are holding down a space for the 99% in the conversation about our future. We hope our revolt can bring the 1%’s plan of privatization to a halt. We want the voices of every member of 99% to be heard in creating the 99%’s strategic plan for the university.
Join the conversation:
Twitter – https://twitter.com/OccupyUMB
Youtube – http://www.youtube.com/OccupyUMassBoston
Gmail – OccupyUMB@gmail.com
Tags: OUMB, Occupy UMass Boston,
Showing posts with label Defend Occupy U/Mass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Defend Occupy U/Mass. Show all posts
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
The Latest From Occupy U/Mass Boston- Defend The Occupation! Hands Off The Occupiers!
Click on the headline to link to the Occupy U/Mass Boston website.
Please sign and share! Tell the administration that the occupation of the ONLY public university in Boston should stay!
Why This Is Important
WE ARE THE 99% at UMass Boston who have seen our fees rise 8% year after year with no end inorder to carry out the 1%’s “Master Plan” for our school. We are the 99% who have had our pay frozen by the administration. We are the 99% who are going to graduate from the only public four-year school in this city with $25,000 in student debt and little prospects. We are the 99% who are tired of watching the privatization of this university. We are the 99% who don’t want our university run by the unelected bureaucrats known as the Board of Trustees. We are tired of the Board of Trustees investing our fees in hidden funds and trusts with no interest in insuring that they do not financially support war profiteers.
We have liberated this space in the campus center from the corporate administrators who control this university. We will no longer recognize their illegitimate authority; we will take the entire university back from the 1% so the 99% can have their university. Non-violent direct action and people power is our weapon against the 1% and it’s plans to corporatize the university.For far too long the 99% have been excluded from the global conversation about the direction of our schools, our neighborhoods, and our world. We are in solidarity with Occupy Wall St., Occupy Boston,Occupy UC Davis, Occupy Berkeley, and all other Occupy movements. We are in solidarity with the student revolt in Chile and those at hundreds of other universities who are holding down a space for the 99% in the conversation about our future. We hope our revolt can bring the 1%’s plan of privatization to a halt. We want the voices of every member of 99% to be heard in creating the 99%’s strategic plan for the university.
Join the conversation:
Twitter – https://twitter.com/OccupyUMB
Youtube – http://www.youtube.com/OccupyUMassBoston
Gmail – OccupyUMB@gmail.com
Tags: OUMB, Occupy UMass Boston,
Please sign and share! Tell the administration that the occupation of the ONLY public university in Boston should stay!
Why This Is Important
WE ARE THE 99% at UMass Boston who have seen our fees rise 8% year after year with no end inorder to carry out the 1%’s “Master Plan” for our school. We are the 99% who have had our pay frozen by the administration. We are the 99% who are going to graduate from the only public four-year school in this city with $25,000 in student debt and little prospects. We are the 99% who are tired of watching the privatization of this university. We are the 99% who don’t want our university run by the unelected bureaucrats known as the Board of Trustees. We are tired of the Board of Trustees investing our fees in hidden funds and trusts with no interest in insuring that they do not financially support war profiteers.
We have liberated this space in the campus center from the corporate administrators who control this university. We will no longer recognize their illegitimate authority; we will take the entire university back from the 1% so the 99% can have their university. Non-violent direct action and people power is our weapon against the 1% and it’s plans to corporatize the university.For far too long the 99% have been excluded from the global conversation about the direction of our schools, our neighborhoods, and our world. We are in solidarity with Occupy Wall St., Occupy Boston,Occupy UC Davis, Occupy Berkeley, and all other Occupy movements. We are in solidarity with the student revolt in Chile and those at hundreds of other universities who are holding down a space for the 99% in the conversation about our future. We hope our revolt can bring the 1%’s plan of privatization to a halt. We want the voices of every member of 99% to be heard in creating the 99%’s strategic plan for the university.
Join the conversation:
Twitter – https://twitter.com/OccupyUMB
Youtube – http://www.youtube.com/OccupyUMassBoston
Gmail – OccupyUMB@gmail.com
Tags: OUMB, Occupy UMass Boston,
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
From Occupied/U/Mass-Statement Of Occupation-Defend Occupy U/Mass
The UMass Boston Occupation was successfully launched this morning in the Student Center. Because we are challenging the plan of the trustees to undermine the faculty and student body, we expect a repressive response at any time and are hosting a support rally at 9:00:
http://www.occupyumassboston.org/post/16356553267/solidarity-rally-to-defend-occupy-umass-boston
We have demands. You can find the document online, but I attached the statement of Occupy.
The Board of Trustees of this public institution is privatizing everything, raising fees 8% per year, and making college unaffordable for a majority of the students who are currently enrolled.
As part of the administration's master plan, the university will abandon the mission of the college to serve the working class of Boston and will make the only public 4-year university in Boston unaffordable to the people of Boston in order to build larger, more profitable facilities. Simultaneously, they're lowering the living standard of the average employee of UMB through privatization and cuts to real services like decent healthcare.
Who made this plan? The 1% Board of Trustees, who made the decision top-down without any real input from students or teachers.
We, Occupy UMB, demand an end to the privatization of our facilities, an end to fee hikes, and a reorganization of administrative powers to reflect the desires and needs of the 99% of Massachusetts.
Cuts to public education, with the T cuts are a broad assault on the working class by the 1%. If there were no money, how do you explain the 1 trillion dollars in lost revenue to the Bush tax cuts? Or the over 4 trillion dollars (and 1 million human lives!) wasted in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? How to explain trillions in bailouts and loans from Congress and the Federal Reserve to institutions that directly victimized American and foreign people? There is money in abundance; it's just controlled by a greedy class who actively uses it to fight against social justice and the very principles they so often espouse such as equal opportunity and freedom of choice.
There's a reason that I, unlike most college students, won't be graduating with 10s of thousands in student debt. That's because both of my working-class parents found an affordable education at UMB.
All of us know graduates of University of Massachusetts campuses. Please pass the message on to students and alumni and tell them about what they're doing to the jewel of our city.
Owning the state as private property isn't a right, no-no. Controlling the process of government to enforce the institutional oppression of black people isn't a right, no-no. Telling the poor when they must die overseas to steal oil isn't a right, oh not even close!
Education for all people, now THAT's a right!
End the wars & tax the rich: free education for all!
--
:-Daniel
http://www.occupyumassboston.org/post/16356553267/solidarity-rally-to-defend-occupy-umass-boston
We have demands. You can find the document online, but I attached the statement of Occupy.
The Board of Trustees of this public institution is privatizing everything, raising fees 8% per year, and making college unaffordable for a majority of the students who are currently enrolled.
As part of the administration's master plan, the university will abandon the mission of the college to serve the working class of Boston and will make the only public 4-year university in Boston unaffordable to the people of Boston in order to build larger, more profitable facilities. Simultaneously, they're lowering the living standard of the average employee of UMB through privatization and cuts to real services like decent healthcare.
Who made this plan? The 1% Board of Trustees, who made the decision top-down without any real input from students or teachers.
We, Occupy UMB, demand an end to the privatization of our facilities, an end to fee hikes, and a reorganization of administrative powers to reflect the desires and needs of the 99% of Massachusetts.
Cuts to public education, with the T cuts are a broad assault on the working class by the 1%. If there were no money, how do you explain the 1 trillion dollars in lost revenue to the Bush tax cuts? Or the over 4 trillion dollars (and 1 million human lives!) wasted in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? How to explain trillions in bailouts and loans from Congress and the Federal Reserve to institutions that directly victimized American and foreign people? There is money in abundance; it's just controlled by a greedy class who actively uses it to fight against social justice and the very principles they so often espouse such as equal opportunity and freedom of choice.
There's a reason that I, unlike most college students, won't be graduating with 10s of thousands in student debt. That's because both of my working-class parents found an affordable education at UMB.
All of us know graduates of University of Massachusetts campuses. Please pass the message on to students and alumni and tell them about what they're doing to the jewel of our city.
Owning the state as private property isn't a right, no-no. Controlling the process of government to enforce the institutional oppression of black people isn't a right, no-no. Telling the poor when they must die overseas to steal oil isn't a right, oh not even close!
Education for all people, now THAT's a right!
End the wars & tax the rich: free education for all!
--
:-Daniel
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