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Open University Schedule
Title of workshop, teachout, or performance Corporate Control of Our Food System Description Time Location Katie Cantrell- The Coalition to Fight Factory Farming will educate students about the government-aided corporate control of our food system, which has resulted in food deserts and the national obesity crisis. We will 10am-11am Sather Gate also discuss the other "99%" - animals kept in intensive confinement on factory farms, and the connection between animal treatment and social justice. Gabriel Hetland- In addition to economic inequality, much of the popular discontent fueling the Occupy Movement has to do with a critique regarding the dysfunctional nature of America's political system. The notion of representation itself has come under attack, with the Occupy Movement adopting decentralized democratic decision-making. This talk examines participatory democracy in Venezuela, which may offer a model for how to 10am-11am Sproul "occupy the state" and then transform it. The speaker will discuss participatory budgeting in Torres municipality, where radical political leaders have given 100% of the municipality's budget over to ordinary citizens. How well has this model worked? How was this achieved? How might we think about bringing participatory democracy to the US? George Lakoff, professor of cognitive science and author of influential handbooks for progressive framing, will be taking his 11:00 class outside and opening it to the public. He will talk about the language and metaphors of the 11am-12pm Sproul Plaza Occupy Movement. Arm yourself to speak truth to power! Bradford Taylor- We will be discussing selected poems (from Shelley, Whitman, and perhaps others) that address the kinds of community that can form around persecution, oppression and injustice. Organized by some 11am-12pm Sproul Plaza English grad students. Photocopies of poems will be provided.
Occupy the State: What Venezuela's Experiment in Participatory Democracy can teach the Occupy Movement George Lakoff on the framing of the Occupy Movement Persecution, Poetry, Community
Since reforms under the military dictatorship headed by Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), Chile's educational system has been characterized by a high degree of privatization and inequality. Beginning in 2006, but exploding in the "Chilean Winter" of 2011, millions of students, workers and community members in Chile and abroad have mobilized in support of the students basic demands of a quality, free public education and an end to profit Resistance in Chile: The Student Movement, Strikes in the educational system. Come hear and talk about Chile's system of education and the students' struggle to 11am-12pm Sproul Plaza transform it! against Privatization and Profit in Education James Gerardo Lamb - I am a Chilean-American PhD student in the department of Sociology, currently writing my dissertation about the Labor Movement during Chile's dictatorship and recovered democracy. I have family and friends currently involved in the public education movement in Chile. massage chain(train) On Building a University at San Quentin lets show the power of human positive energy and make a human massage chain. A way of showing people power through positive actions. It's often noted that California spends more on its prisons than on its public universities. During this teach-out, we'll consider the relationship between California's educational and correctional crises, and we'll discuss the work that the Prison University Project has done and continues to do to redress them. Sproul plaza under 11am-12pm the trees at sproul hall. 11am-12pm In front of Dwinelle Hall
Sociologists debate the role of social movements and how best to analyze them, but how can we understand Occupying Social Movement and explain the occupy movement, particularly Occupy Cal? UC Berkeley sociologists will speak to the broader Theories: Sociology Meets political and economic contexts for the movement, such as war spending. Panelists will also speak to a range of specific occupy issues from the significance of students in political movements to how digital activism and Occupy Cal social media may (or may not) make a difference. If the whole world is watching Occupy Cal, what do they see? I'll be giving a short talk relating the thoughts of Slavoj Zizek and Mario Savio to the day's actions. I'll especially Zizek, Savio, and Occupy Cal be dealing with counterarguments to critics, and legitimizing the movement through data, historical precedent, and a little bit of psychoanalysis. If enough people are interested, we'll have a civil debate/forum at the end.
12pm-1pm
Sproul
12pm-1pm
North lawn in front of Sproul hall. On the North Side lawn of Sproul Hall, just a hop, skip and jump from the UCPD station. Sproul Plaza by the coffee shop
Prof. Michael Cohen and Christopher Patrella- We will be discussing the long history and current crisis of prisons 12pm-1pm in California and around the country. People from Critical Resistance and UC Prison Education program will be and 1pmon hand to help provide facts and context and together we will connect the dots between the politics of hyper 2pm incarceration and the current push for austerity in California Higher Education. 12pm-1pm and 1pm2pm
AF3IRM, A trans-national and anti-imperialist women's organization is mobilizing in Occupy in 7 cities. Learn Women Resisting Banks and about how women of color are disproportionately affected by capitalism and discuss what we can do to both The War question and strengthen the Occupy movement by promoting the needs and voice of immigrant women and women of color.
Dwinelle Plaza
Organizing 101 Why We Can't Wait: Developing Independent, Anti-Racist Leadership for Our Movement
1pm-2pm To win we need to build the movement on a politically independent, anti-racist basis. This teach out will draw lessons from the immigrant rights movement of 2006 and the civil rights movement of the 1960's to inform a direction for our new social movement today, and the urgency of new leaders coming forward. Herbert Docena and Shannon Ikebe- The Occupy Cal and the larger Occupy Wall Street movements emerged-and are getting stronger--in the context of continuing global financial, social, and ecological crises. Many countries are wracked by growing debt and financial instability, with banks and investors passing on the burdens of austerity to those least able to afford it. New progressive--or at least relatively more democratic-1pm-2pm governments are struggling with the contradictions and constraints of governance. Meanwhile, after two decades of failed negotiations, an increasing number disasters linked to climate change are causing more suffering to the already suffering. How can we understand the resurgence of protest in the United States in the context of these global crises? What have been its causes and what are its likely consequences for the rest of the world? Tenaya Lafore- By sharing our stories about why we are part of the 99%, we will learn about our commonalities and our differences. Based on the 99% blog, this workshop will help us to build community and solidarity. Please 1pm-2pm come! Geography Professor Dick Walker will be giving a lecture on finance and the state of public education, Tues., at 2pm 2PM, in front of McCone Hall. He'll be addressing the problems with public education today and solutions we can seek.
Sproul Plaza