[migrawatch-public] UCSC Hunger Strike for Students of Color!

UCSC's STUDENT OF COLOR COALITION HUNGER STRIKE

UCSC's Student of Color Coalition is hunger striking in order to put
pressure on UCSC's administration to maintain and secure resources which
are vital to the success and retention of students of color at the
university. Some short term demands include making UCSC a sanctuary
campus, having UCSC publicly support and push for passing the Dream Act
and fair contract negotiations for workers. SCC is looking for as much
support as they can and would like people to be informed about their
struggle.

Keep reading for more info!

Solidarity
Stand in solidarity with us!

* Come hang out and show support at the base of campus anytime between
7am-8pm! There will be activities, performances, study time, and
more!

* Call the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor and tell them you support
the demands of the Student of Color Coalition

Chancellor George Blumenthal: (831) 459-2058 Ext. 9-2058
Vice Chancellor Felicia McGinty: 831) 459-2474 Ext. 9-2474
or e-mail Blumenthal at chancellor@ucsc.edu (Please CC
ucsc.soc.collective@gmail.com)

* Bring supplies to the base of campus. We need: lemons, maple syrup,
tents, water. (Contact cchavez@ucsc.edu for donations of any
supplies)

* Pick up fliers from us at the base of campus and give them to your
classes, organizations, and friends!

* Ask your teachers/TAs to relocate class to the base of campus

* Relocate your organizations meetings and/or events to the base of
campus

* Join our Facebook Group!

Student of Color Collective Demands

Short Term:

• Hire full-time AIRC (American Indian Resource
Center) and WC (Women's Center) directors with student
voice in hiring process

• Maintain academic integrity and current structure
of Community Studies Dept. by keeping field study
coordinators Mike Rotkin and Flor Marchetti and Department
Manager Penny Stinson.

• Retain two LALS professors Guillermo Delgado and
Susan Jonas

• Make UCSC a sanctuary campus

• UCSC publicly support the Dream Act
(state/federal)

• Permanent funding for Ethnic- Year-End Ceremonies
from college C.A.O.s and Provosts

• RC (Resource Center) rep as liaison to between
local tribes and UCSC. Maintain respectable relationships
with local tribes.

• Equitable rent for family student housing. No rent
increase for year of 09-10

• Fair transparent negotiations with workers and
unions to ensure equitable pay, working condition and
representation

• No layoffs!

• No worker deportations by ICE

• Freeze on cuts over the summer

Long Term:

• Chancellor support/funding of SIO programs for
Students of Color

• Institutionalized scholarships and other resources
for under-resourced immigrant students

• Access and affordability to higher education for
underrepresented communities- STOP STUDENT FEE HIKES!

• Outreach and retention of faculty and staff of
color (CPS)

• Fill Asian American "specialist" position for
American Studies

• Movement towards an Ethnic Studies Program

• Affordable and quality housing for under sourced
immigrant students

• No cuts to D resources

• No cuts to rape awareness

Student of Color Collective Mission Statement

The Student of Color Collective (SOCC) is a coalition of
student of color organizers actively working for an
equitable, more accessible higher education for all
students. Comprised of student leaders, ethnic
organizations, and concerned students of color, the
collective works to take back ownership over the system of
higher education that has historically excluded/exploited
communities of color. The collective recognizes the
particular struggle of students of color to access,
engage, and retain themselves in an institution that has,
through the use of institutionalized racism, undervalued,
underutilized, and overlooked the importance of a diverse
student body. The collective asserts that as a public
institution, it is the duty of the university to serve the
public justly by reflecting the demographics of
California.

Following a long legacy of student of color activism,
and a thirty year long fight to maintain vital resources
for students of color on this campus, the collective
asserts that students of color are valuable assets to the
UCSC campus and must be treated by the university as such.
During times of budget cuts and economic uncertainty, it
is the duty of the university to prioritize those who are
most immediately impacted, students of color from
historically marginalized communities. It is the duty of
the university to therefore, adequately fund, promote, and
support resources for these students of color in order to
maintain a healthy, diverse campus.

The Student of Color Collective maintains the needs of
students of color include but are not limited to access to
effective outreach and retention programs which work to
target marginalized communities, access to effective
resource centers that work to address the needs of
students of color as stated by students of color, people
of color representation on all levels of administration,
retention of faculty of color, decision making power in
all proposed or actual budget cuts which effect student of
color resources, and accountability and transparency by
all UCSC administrators over all budget decisions.

The collective holds the university accountable to its
claim "To serve society as a center of higher learning,
providing long-term societal benefits through transmitting
advanced knowledge to all California students" (University
of California Mission Statement). As active stakeholders
in this institution of higher learning the Student of
Color collective reclaims the university as a taskforce
for creating a strong, diverse, and educated generation of
leaders.

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