NATIONAL LIST OF PARTICIPATING CAMPUSES FOR THE OCTOBER 21-22 NATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION TO DEFEND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Below is the list of campuses that are confirmed to be holding actions and other events for the national two days of action, along with a brief synopsis of what is going on at each campus. As you'll see, the two days of action are definitely nation-wide in scope. It's unfortunately very difficult to convey the real magnitude and significance of many of the events merely through the descriptions listed below. The movement to defend affirmative action is now inarguably a living reality. As of October 23, we will have to come up with ways to develop and broaden this new mass civil rights movement. At the bottom of the message is a compilation of much more detailed itineraries from a number of the participating schools. We still have not heard from a number of campuses where organizing had been started over the last few weeks. It is definitely not the full list. *** If you know of anything happening at a campus not listed below, please forward to us detailed information so that the list can be as comprehensive as possible. In addition, if you are a part of the two days of action, we would love to get a report on how things went on your campus, as well as any news coverage that you received. ==================================================================== Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) bamn@umich.edu; letters@bamn.com * Visit our website: http;//www.bamn.com * ==================================================================== UC BERKELEY - Two-day walkout; rallies, all-day teach-ins sponsored by the student government & 20 organizations, mass meetings, high-school speak-out, Oakland teachers' union forum, UCLA - Day-long teach-in and rally on 21st, mass meeting on 22nd, several forums UC SANTA CRUZ - Student-organized rally, march, and town hall meeting on the 21st; teach-in on the 22nd endorsed by over 70 faculty UC IRVINE - Outdoor affirmative action informational by various student groups on both days. UC DAVIS - Two-day walkout, endorsed by over 50 faculty and staff; all-day teach-ins, law school rally, and campus-wide rally on 21st; joint rally with anti-police brutality demonstration as well as more teach-ins on the 22nd. UC SANTA BARBARA - On October 21, walk-out, workshops, teach-ins, symposium, and cultural performances. A mass march through campus, student press conference on October 22. CSU CHICO - Rally and march on October 19. OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE (Los Angeles) - Mass demonstration in defense of affirmative action on October 21 sponsored by Progressive Student Alliance, Black Student Alliance, MEChA, and the Korean Students Association UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR - Mass march & mass meeting on October 21; mass meeting; march in coordination with National Young Women's Day of Action on October 22; several workshops run by students and faculty. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN - Panel discussions and faculty teach-in on October 21; press conference and mass protest rally on October 22. WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - Teach-ins by faculty in their classes on October 20; walkout & rally on October 21 YALE - Forums and teach-ins on the 21st; “March on Yale" sponsored by various undergraudate student groups and the graduate employees union on the 22nd. JOHNS HOPKINS - Rally, mass literature distribution, outdoor speak-out and movie on October 21; walkout and speakers on the October 22 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY - Distribution of flyers and ribbons and gathering petition signatures for support of affirmative action as well as ethnic studies programs and departments on October 21 and 22. UCLA - Day-long teach-in and rally on 21st, mass meeting on 22nd, several forums SWARTHMORE - Events to be announced from October 21 to October 25, including faculty workshop and mass meeting. UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY - Planned events to be announced. ART INSTITUTE CHICAGO - Planned events to be announced =================================================================== MORE DETAILED ITINERARY INFORMATION: =================================================================== ----------- UC BERKELEY ----------- WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1998 12-1 pm: RALLY at Sproul Plaza (sponsored by the Ethnic & African American Studies Cooperative, ASUC, and over 20 student and community organizations) 3:30-5 pm: RALLY/HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT SPEAK-OUT/MASS MEETING, at the intersection of Bancroft + Telegraph (sponsored by the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary/BAMN) 5:30-6:30 pm: Forum: "The Defense of Affirmative Action & the Fight for Equal and Quality Education in K-12," at Dwinelle Hall, Room 155 (sponsored by the Oakland teachers union: Oakland Education Association/OEA) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1998 12 noon: Teach-In: "The Fight to Defend Affirmative Action in California," at Upper Sproul Plaza (sponsored by BAMN) 6-8 pm: "What Next in the Fight to Defend Affirmative Action?" Organizing meeting at Wheeler Hall, Room 100 (sponsored by BAMN) ------- UCLA ------- UCLA EVENTS OCT. 21 12:00-1:30pm Kickoff rally -- professors, TAs, professional students speak on importance of diversity to educational excellence (Outside Kerckhoff Hall) 2:00-4:00pm Informational sessions -- student and community groups (Western Royce Quad) 2:00-4:00pm Follow up faculty meeting (1301 Rolfe Hall) OCT.22 Continued teach-in activities on Royce Quad 12:00-2:00pm Public speakers -- Jesse Jackson, Tom Hayden, Richard Polanco, Joe Hicks, Tom Saenz of MALDEF, Renee Hill assistant rector of All Saints Church in Pasadena, Kent Wong from the UCLA Labor Center -------------- UC SANTA CRUZ -------------- We are coordinating a Teach-In on Affirmative Action for Thursday, October 22, from 12 noon to 4 p.m. at Stevenson Dining Hall to affirm and demonstrate faculty concern regarding affirmative action, educational diversity, equality, and fairness within the UC system. This coincides with a statewide effort to address these issues in the UC. There are already a long list of sponsors (including the Senate Committee on Affirmative Action, American Studies, Women Studies, Community Studies, Staff and Faculty of Color Coalition, Labor Union Coalition, EEO/AA, EOP, Title IX Office, Graduate Student Association, and Student Union Association) and endorsements from 70 faculty members. Students are also planning a Rally and Teach-In on Affirmative Action for Wednesday, October 21, from 6 to 9 p.m. at McHenry Library and Kresge Town Hall to reaffirm their commitment to affirmative action within the university and the state of California at large. WED. OCT. 21, STUDENT-ORGANIZED RALLY AND TEACH-IN 6:00 PM Rally at McHenry Library 7:00 PM Teach-In at Kresge Town Hall SPEAKERS: Heliana Ramirez, SUA; Keith Curry, AIBSA and BMA; Jeremy Bautista, FSA; Graduate students Lynn Fujiwara, Tammy Ko Robinson, and Vicky Banales; Curtis Marez, American Studies; Larry Trujillo, Chicano/Latino Student Life; Rainbow Theater; and Open Mike. THURS. OCT. 22, FACULTY-ORGANIZED TEACH-IN 12 noon to 4:00 p.m. Stevenson Dining Hall SPEAKERS: Chancellor M.C.R. Greenwood; Executive Vice-Chancellor John Simpson; John Brown Childs, Sociology; Judy Yung, American Studies; Curtis Marez, American Studies; Aida Hurtado, Psychology; Larry Trujillo, Chicano/Latino Student Life; George Brown, Physics; Bettina Aptheker, Women's Studies; Vicky Banales, Graduate Studies in Literature; Andy Smith, Graduate Studies in History of Consciousness; Heliana Ramirez, Student Union Assembly; Paula Powell, African American Student Life; Don Williams, Rainbow Theater; Dania Wong Torres, Attorney; Mardi Wormhoudt, Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors; Dana Takagi, Sociology; Anthony Pratkanis, Psychology; and Allie Thomas, Staff and Faculty of Color Coalition. For more information, call EOP at 459-2296. --------- UC SANTA BARBARA --------- UCSB EVENTS WEDS **day of reflection** 11:15--walkout and people should go to the arbor 11:30--drumming begins from American Indian Student Assoc. 12:30--Go on over to Storke Plaza 1:00---Speakers begin (profs, staff, some students) 3:00---Workshops/TeachIns/Symposiums/Discussions 7:30---H.O.L.A. is ponsoring salsa night and coffee/cookies 9:00---Eternal Flame cultural groups performing THURS. **day of ACTION!!** 10:00--Meet at Storke Plaza, indegenous dancers start performing --March through campus --End at Storke with STUDENTS Speaking and press conference --------- UC DAVIS --------- UCD David Students partake in UC system-wide walkout in defense of affirmative action. Over 50 faculty and staff have signed on to participate in the walkout, and several will be doing teach-ins on the quad throughout the day. There will be small rally at the law school (dealing with grad school issus) and then there will be a massive rally on the quad at 4pm with all the students. There will be mass media publicizing the event. ALso on the second day there will be a few teach-ins, but there will be a joint rally at the steps of the capitol with the Anti-Police brutality rally. If there are any questions about UCD's participation please e-mail me back at echen@ucdavis.edu. --------- UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR --------- WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21 8:00-5:00 Affirmative Action Information table - SWAAN - School of Social Work McGregor Commons (corner of E. Univ. & S. Univ.) 10-11:30AM "Community Consciousness & the Affirmative Action Debate" - Professor Al Young, CAAS & Sociology - Michigan Union, Pond Room 12:00PM-2:00PM RALLY & MARCH - Steps of the Michigan Union 1:00-2:30 "The Attack on Affirmative Action: New Words,Old Feelings" Professor Nesha Haniff, CAAS & Women's Studies - McGregor Commons, School of Social Work 2:00-4:00PM MASS MEETING-Organizing a National Movement to Defend Affirmative Action Michigan Union, Pond Room 4:00-5:30PM "Personal Reflections on Affirmative Action in the Latino Community" - Professor Maria Ontiveros, Law Hutchins Hall Rm. 100,Law Quad 4:00-5:30PM "The Struggle Towards Progress" - Woodrow Stanley, Mayor of Flint, Mich. Union - Pond Room 6:30-8:00PM "The History of Affirmative Action: What It Is & How It Was Won" Shanta Driver, Nat'l BAMN Organizer - MLB Auditorium 3 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 9:00-11:00AM "Building Multicultural Coalitions" - Professor Lorraine Gutierrez, School of Social Work Room #2816 (corner of E. Univ. & S. Univ.) 10-11:30AM "Tracking & the Myth of Merit"- Professor Carol Kinney, Sociology - Mich. Union, Anderson Rms. A & B (1st flr.) 10-11:30AM "Social & Legal Equality" - Panel Discussion Michigan Union, Anderson Room D (1st flr.) 10-11:30AM "The Failure of Colorblind Justice" - Professor Matthew Countryman - Hutchins Room 218,Law Quad 12:00-2:00PM RALLY & MARCH for National Young Women's Day of Action Steps of the Michigan Union 1:00-4:00PM Three Workshops by the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA)- Michigan Union, Anderson Rm. D 2:00-4:00PM "Our Voice Will Be Heard: Students' Intervention into the Lawsuit" Milton Henry, atty. for LS&A intervenors; Miranda Massie, atty.for law school intervenors; Student Intervenors - Michigan Union, Anderson Room A&B 4:00-6:00PM "The Illusion of Race & the Myth of Gender" - Professor Jon Lockard, CAAS - Michigan League, Room "C" (3rd Flr.) 6:00-7:30PM "Activism & Apathy: Women at U of M" Film by the Undergraduate Women's Studies Association (UWSA) - Angell Hall, Auditorium B 7:30-9:00PM "Racism 101" Film presented by the Minority Affairs Commission (MAC) - Angell Hall, Auditorium B THE FOLLOWING GROUPS SUPPORT THE DAYS OF ACTION: United for Affirmative Action, Michigan Student Assembly, APALSA, Anti-Racist Action, BAMN, Black Law Students Alliance, Black Student Union, Graduate Employees Organization (GEO), Latino Law Students Association, Law Students for Affirmative Action, Michigan Feminist Studies, Minority Affairs Commission, NALSA, National Lawyers Guild, OUTLaws, Perspectives of Women, SANGAM (E-Bd.), SOLE, SWAAN, Undergraduate Women's Studies Association, United Asian American Organization, WLSA (Political Committee) ------- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN ------- Anti Racist Organizing Events. . . Here are the events for this week. It is urgent that everyone try to get out to as many of these events as possible, but especially to the rally on Thursday. Distribute this calendar to any other groups that may be interested. TUESDAY OCTOBER 20TH 7pmInformal Discussion, "Racism & Hopwood: Building the Student Movement", Jester West 2nd Floor Piano Lounge WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21ST 12noon Center for Mexican American Studies panel discussion, "Access and Opportunity in Education", Texas Union Governor's Room 1:30pm Faculty for Justice in Education Teach-In, Texas Union Theater 7pm AROC interactive panel discussion, "Fighting Institutionalized Racism, Forging Communities of Resistance", Batts Room 7 THURSDAY OCTOBER 22ND 11am Joint Press Conference, AROC and Progressive Faculty, West Mall 12noonProtest Rally, West Mall Please come to all of these events and help build the student movement against racism and inequality in education. If you would like to help out organizing for these events call Dave at 477-9154, Wali at 447- 2143, or J. at 374-9358.Email to tvg.dave@mail.utexas.edu Power to the Students! ------- YALE ------- Oct 21st: Panel 1: "Affirmative Action Under Siege in the University" Faculty and Administrators discuss the current crisis over affirmative action in higher education. Specifically, we will be discussing the role of private institutions in the national debate. The recent publication of "The Shape of the River" by former presidents of Princeton and Harvard has brought private universities into a much more prominent role in the current debate. Our president (Richard Levin) has been asked to participate on this panel (although I doubt he will). Panel 2: "Affirmative Action--Conflicting Issues Within Minority Communities" Students from various organizations of color and the Women's Center will discuss points such as: number games in Yale admissions (i.e. how minority groups are pitted against one another in the race for admission), the use of class in affirmative action debates, the contraversy over "overrepresented minorities," and the complex of being a beneficiary of affirmative action. Oct 22nd: March on Yale Undergraduates and graduates (from GESO--the group fighting for union status for grad students) will join together to march on the key administrative buildings at Yale. We will discuss the current struggle in public universities, and connect the affirmative action fight to our current campaign for more faculty and curricular diversity. ------- JOHNS HOPKINS ------- october 21, 1998 8am--Rally & Information Dissemination On North Charles St (baltimore) 9am--Assembly & Speakers on the Eisenhower library lawn 8pm--Movie: Debate on Affirmative Action october 22, 1998 11:30am--Walk-out 11:45am-Speakers and Student Reflections (assemble on the gilman quad breezeway) 7pm-Fred Pincus (prof of sociology at University of MD-Baltimore County) "Affirmative Action: Just the Facts" Students/Admistration: "Where do we go from here?" The organizations co-sponsoring are: hopkins black student union, hopkins chapter of naacp, in conjunction with the black faculty and staff of jhu and all minorities on campus In response to the call to act on October 21 and 22, (information below) the Hopkins chapter of the NAACP will be lining both sides of Charles Street between University Parkway and Art Museum Drive from 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. Wednesday, October 21, 1998. Immediately following, students along with several guest speakers, will gather on the beach for a rally. ------- ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY SOLIDARITY STATEMENT ------- The Latina/o Graduate Student Alliance (LGSA) and Raza Women at Arizona State University are in full support of the UC walkouts occurring October 21-22. In solidarity, we will distribute black ribbons and flyers both days to inform the campus community of the walkouts and gather signatures in support of affirmative action as well as ethnic studies programs and departments nationwide. As Latina/o graduate students comprising 1% of over 14,000 ASU graduate students, we are angered by the anti-affirmative action legislation passed in California through the UC Regents and Proposition 209. We are as well infuriated over recent efforts to dismantle ethnic studies at institutions of higher education. We realize the immense time and energy that such organizing efforts necessitate. We also realize the importance of building alliances across boundaries (i.e. states). If there is anything else we can do to support your efforts, or if you need a direct link to those who support you at ASU, please contact either one of the LGSA co-chairs. Sincerely, Perlita R. Dicochea - prdicochea@aol.com or perlita.dicochea@asu.edu Jennifer R. Mata - jrmata@imap4.asu.edu [END OF MESSAGE]