Petition:
Remove U.C. Regent Ward Connerly
Since he became a University of California Regent in 1993, Ward Connerly, the most notorious and fanatical right wing opponent of civil rights in California, has used this position as a platform from which to spearhead a series of state-wide and national attacks on civil rights and integration. Ward Connerly is the frontman of a right wing national effort aimed at outlawing affirmative action, resegregating higher education and rendering Brown v. Board of Education a dead letter.
Connerly has posed a direct threat to the ability of the UC System to provide educational opportunity to all Californians. He was the principal author and champion of Proposition 54, an attack on civil rights, freedom of information and academic freedom so extreme and irrational that it was rejected by 63.9% of California voters of all parties. While a Regent, Connerly has also been vocal opponent of immigrants rights, opposing a vote by the Regents that allows undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition. The U.C. Regents should bring an end to this disgraceful abuse of the name of the University of California.
We, the undersigned, call for U.C. Regent Ward Connerly's immediate removal.
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Endorsed by:
| BAMN
(Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant
Rights and
Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary) Service Employees International Union (SEIU), International California Federation of Teachers (CFT) San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO Alameda Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO SEIU 790 SEIU 790 Human and Civil Rights Committee SEIU 723 SEIU 535 SEIU 535 Human and Civil Rights Committee American Federation of Teachers Local 771 ATU (Amalgamated Transit Union) Local 192 Berkeley unit of AGSE/UAW Local 2865 (graduate student instructors) LCLAA (Labor Council for Latin American Advancement), San Francisco National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 214 California State A. Philip Randolph Institute Oakland Education Association Equal Opportunity Now Caucus LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens) Council #2862, Lorenzo Patino National Organization for Women (NOW), California NAACP, Marshall TX Union Civica Primero de Mayo ASUC Student Government, UC Berkeley Alpha Epsilon Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. African-American House council, UC-Berkeley Oscar Wilde House council (LGBT-themed student co-op) Graduate Assembly UC Berkeley National Organization for Women (NOW), UC Berkeley |
Feminist Majority, UC Berkeley Arab Student Union, UC Berkeley Cal Berkeley Democrats Berkeley Students for Hip Hop Pilipino Association of Health Careers (PAHC), UC Berkeley Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, San Francisco Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, San Francisco NSBE (National Society of Black Engineers), American River College Latinos Unidos, American River College NSBE chapter, American River College Muslim Student Association, American River College Latinos Unidos, American River College Black Student Assembly, University of Southern California (USC) NAACP, USC Black Women's Caucus, USC Latino Social Work Caucus, USC Society of Hispanic Engineers, USC MEChA, USC Rites of Sisterhood, USC Black Student Union, University of Washington Minority Think Tank, University of Washington Communities United Against Violence (CUAV) Nancy Nadel - Vice Mayor and Oakland City Council Russell Ellis, Vice Chancellor Emeritus, Undergraduate Affairs, UC Berkeley Andy Stern, President, SEIU International Eliseo Medina, Executive Vice President, SEIU International Darlene Marie "Daya" Escarez Mortel, Student Regent University of Washington |
