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VIDEO FROM MARCH 15TH PROTEST IN SACRAMENTO
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Yeah everyone was there, deep as fuck....
last year is was about 12,000, this year around 15,000+ from San Diego to LA to Fresno to Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Rosa, + on
We'll see if our voices were heard, if not, guaranteed next time shit wont go down so peacefully... Its time we march up in that muthafuckas office and demand shit, im tired of marching and not getting our demands met. Its time the people rise up
ya hurdddd
last year is was about 12,000, this year around 15,000+ from San Diego to LA to Fresno to Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Rosa, + on
We'll see if our voices were heard, if not, guaranteed next time shit wont go down so peacefully... Its time we march up in that muthafuckas office and demand shit, im tired of marching and not getting our demands met. Its time the people rise up
ya hurdddd
Turnout was real nice, thousands came out
For those who don't know:
The Facts on Schwarzeneggar’s Destructive Budget Plan:
· Termination of Higher Education Outreach: The 2003-2004 state budget saw a 50% cut in funding to UC Outreach programs that ensure access to quality education for the economically disadvantaged and historically under represented. Governor Schwarzenegger now plans to terminate all remaining state funding (33.3 million) for the UC Outreach programs. This provides zero funding for 2004-2005 and will annihilate these valuable programs.
· Fee Hikes: Arnold wants to raise tuition fees at all community, state, and university of California colleges. He wants to raise community college tuition from $18 to $26 a unit, raise UC and CSU undergrad fees by 10%, and graduate fees by 40%, and turn away 8200 students from the UCs.
· The extra Community College fees don’t even go back to the schools: they go to the state, creating an increased tax on the working class.
· Schwarzenegger plans to even further cut educational spending, meaning that hundreds of teachers and staff will loose their jobs, hundreds of classes will be cut, and the remaining classes will be crammed over capacity.
· Education is a Human Right: Regardless of class, ethnicity, or gender- education is our birthright, a right that our state seeks to deny us with its new budget plan.
We've already seen whats happening in Contra Costa County.. (termination of Counselors, Librarys, Music & Athletic departments) which happens to be a result of Prop 13, which made it so that budgets for schools were determined by the property value of the counties. Before prop 13, school budgets were equally given throughout the state, but after it past, it made it so that depending on how much property value a county has, then thats how much tax is taken to put back into schools. So lets say you live in a poor neighborhood where crime is high, the property value is low, therefore the district receives very little money to be put back in schools. This is just another example of how fucked up a Capitalistic society can be when you are the bottom of the barrel. Healthcare and Education should be a right, not a privilege, these are the basics of human needs in order to suceed in a society based on status.
This is not the first, and won't be the last, we must continue to organize because numbers is all they see, so numbers is what we'll be. 15,000 thousand strong and still counting
For those who don't know:
The Facts on Schwarzeneggar’s Destructive Budget Plan:
· Termination of Higher Education Outreach: The 2003-2004 state budget saw a 50% cut in funding to UC Outreach programs that ensure access to quality education for the economically disadvantaged and historically under represented. Governor Schwarzenegger now plans to terminate all remaining state funding (33.3 million) for the UC Outreach programs. This provides zero funding for 2004-2005 and will annihilate these valuable programs.
· Fee Hikes: Arnold wants to raise tuition fees at all community, state, and university of California colleges. He wants to raise community college tuition from $18 to $26 a unit, raise UC and CSU undergrad fees by 10%, and graduate fees by 40%, and turn away 8200 students from the UCs.
· The extra Community College fees don’t even go back to the schools: they go to the state, creating an increased tax on the working class.
· Schwarzenegger plans to even further cut educational spending, meaning that hundreds of teachers and staff will loose their jobs, hundreds of classes will be cut, and the remaining classes will be crammed over capacity.
· Education is a Human Right: Regardless of class, ethnicity, or gender- education is our birthright, a right that our state seeks to deny us with its new budget plan.
We've already seen whats happening in Contra Costa County.. (termination of Counselors, Librarys, Music & Athletic departments) which happens to be a result of Prop 13, which made it so that budgets for schools were determined by the property value of the counties. Before prop 13, school budgets were equally given throughout the state, but after it past, it made it so that depending on how much property value a county has, then thats how much tax is taken to put back into schools. So lets say you live in a poor neighborhood where crime is high, the property value is low, therefore the district receives very little money to be put back in schools. This is just another example of how fucked up a Capitalistic society can be when you are the bottom of the barrel. Healthcare and Education should be a right, not a privilege, these are the basics of human needs in order to suceed in a society based on status.
This is not the first, and won't be the last, we must continue to organize because numbers is all they see, so numbers is what we'll be. 15,000 thousand strong and still counting
every politician says that, to get elected you have to appeal to "the people" as well as "the money" Once you have "the people" then you can do what you want with "the money" In this case, the prison guard union is the strongest and wealthiest of all in California. To get elected here, you have to have their support, without that, you have nothing. That's one of the reasons why Davis never TOUCHED the prison industrial complex, and raised employees of the CDC (california department of corrections) salaries by 300 %, all the while issueing thousands of pink slips to teachers. His campaign was funded almost entirely by that union.
Its politics, but the peoples voice are louder than anything that gets swept under the rug
that doesn't mean we should sit back and accept what ever gets privatized or charged. look at south africa, with the end of apartheid in '94, water, healthcare and education was guaranteed free for all, but look what happened...who came along? NAFTA, slavery all over again in the framework of privatization.
Since the state makes more money off prisons than schools, then they invest more time, energy and money into prisons.
FROM 1851-1985 THERE WERE A TOTAL OF ONLY 12 PRISONS BUILT IN CALIFORNIA...THATS A 150+ YEAR PERIOD.
BUT FROM 1985-2000 THERE WERE 22 PRISONS BUILT, NOW IF THAT ISN'T CRAZY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.
legalized slavery baby, and now they want to take away our education? its bad enough most of our people dont make it past high school....
FUCK EM ALL!!
Its politics, but the peoples voice are louder than anything that gets swept under the rug
that doesn't mean we should sit back and accept what ever gets privatized or charged. look at south africa, with the end of apartheid in '94, water, healthcare and education was guaranteed free for all, but look what happened...who came along? NAFTA, slavery all over again in the framework of privatization.
Since the state makes more money off prisons than schools, then they invest more time, energy and money into prisons.
FROM 1851-1985 THERE WERE A TOTAL OF ONLY 12 PRISONS BUILT IN CALIFORNIA...THATS A 150+ YEAR PERIOD.
BUT FROM 1985-2000 THERE WERE 22 PRISONS BUILT, NOW IF THAT ISN'T CRAZY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.
legalized slavery baby, and now they want to take away our education? its bad enough most of our people dont make it past high school....
FUCK EM ALL!!
That fuckin sucks dick. I'm poor as fuck and I'm headin to SDSU in a year as a transfer student and fees ain't gonna be coo. Who the fuck voted for this dick head? Bustamante would of helped the fuck outta the poor and prolly would of increased financial aid. But didn't the governator also increase student funding by 9%?