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online petition, fwiw
There's a petition, started by members of my union but open to all, calling for Birgenau and other top corporate cronies to resign, following the culmination of their collusion to destroy the foundations of public education in which they authorized cops to beat students and faculty peacefully demonstrating on Sproul plaza last week.
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We did it. For reals.
AWDU swept the entire Executive Board slate (which we ran for on the platform of ASAP decentralizing power within through collectivizing it, and decentralizing power away from through returning resources to local units and decision-making power to membership meetings and local units.
Here's the statement signed by many many many of us, from Read more... ) -
WE WON.. this round
Wow. I didn't exactly expect that, or not so quickly. But the UAW actually backed down on this ( Read more... ) -
From an actual sit-in
I'm writing this from inside our union office, we are sitting down in solidarity with our union members who are camping outside the room in UCLA in which our abandoned ballot boxes languish, waiting for voting to resume. The corrupt incumbents of UAW 2865 are attempting to destroy a democratic process, two days into vote counting they abandoned the ( Read more... ) -
What I wrote to my students, the day after the cops kicked my class out of Wheeler Hall
Those of you who tried to come on Thursday, I apologize - the police let several of us in and we were inside the building until police came and told us the chancellor was closing the building at which point we had to leave ( Read more... ) -
I expect the UC to be dismantled by 2016
I guess that's incentive for me to finish my diss ASAP (actually, it seriously is ( Read more... ) -
whew
So the night I was coming in to Boston (on my much-delayed flight), my dad slipped and broke his hand. He's okay now, it's in a cast and such but it meant the days leading up to xmas (which we celebrate as gift giving and cooking a nice meal day) were rather hectic. Mom oughta retire. More because of the strain of commuting and the way she can't ( Read more... ) -
new mix and vote for my sxsw panel!
Last chance (last bleg) to vote for my SXSW panel: Music & Metadata: SXSW music or SXSW interactive
And also, I uploaded a new mix - for those of you who missed the radio broadcast, check out Soundcloud for the Bass, Wobs & Zaps mix! -
Fedex fun
I forgot my phone in NY. "No Problem" I says to myself I says "I can afford Federal Express overnight shipping."
See if you can glean from below what is happening. My friend shipped it on Thursday the first. You can read the developments from the bottom up.
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