Crisis Fest: Nov. 18th, WILSON PLAZA 5pm-ALL NIGHT

Crisis Fest Events

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

(will be updated as MORE events are confirmed)

UPDATE: LOCATION CHANGE: WILSON PLAZA, BETWEEN THE STUDENT ACTIVITIES CENTER AND KAUFMAN.

(Decision to move made in solidarity with unions and student groups' decision to move tent city ALSO to Wilson Plaza. We want to be there for the hundreds coming in from across California that night!)

TOMMORROW, NOVEMBER 18TH, WILSON PLAZA, 5PM TO ALL NIGHT, IT'S ON!

FREE FOOD & HOT DRINKS ALL NIGHT (thanks to our unions!)

CAMP ON CAMPUS (BRING YOUR OWN TENT)

ALL EVENTS OUTSIDE OF PAULEY PAVILLION

All bands play for approximately 45 mins. unless otherwise noted.

5PM: Dobrega (music: electronics project)

Banner, Flyer and Poster Making Begins (All day event)

Literature Table with Zines, Articles and other info on the budget cuts (All day event)

530PM "Latin American Poetry Reading:

Spanish & English Translation,
Lectura de Poesias Latina Americanas: Espanol / Ingles"
(Poems Provided / Poemas Suministrados)

Screen Printing Workshop (some materials provided but bring your own if you can!)

6PM: Dodgeball Match #1

"Protest Poetry of the World at Large" (Some poems provided, but bring copies of your favorite poets' works to share with the group. Afterwards we will write our own poems to disseminate.)

6:30PM "The K-12 Resistance" (Discussion)

"How to Make Vegan Desserts" (Workshop, samples provided)

7PM Naima Earth (experimental/jazz band)

"An Absent Future?: The International Student Movement" (Discussion)

7:30PM "Third Worldism and the Global 60's" (Presentation / Discussion)

8PM Costa (d.j.) DANCE LIKE MAD! (goes till 930pm)

"How to Get Involved in Community-Powered Radio" (Workshop / Discussion)

8:30PM GENERAL ASSEMBLY: Short presentations & open discussions on 4 of the broader issues: race, war, capitalism & the future of the student movement.

9-930PM GENERAL ASSEMBLY continues.

930-10PM GENERAL ASSEMBLY continues

10 PM In Sepia (Band)

"The Struggle of Undocumented & AB540 Students" (Discussion)

11PM: Midnight Radio (Band)

"Vows on a High Place: A Ritual Without Spirituality" (Ritual)

12:01 AM YOUR acoustic performance / generalized jam session

Dodgeball Match #2

Confirmed performances with unconfirmed times:

Ultimate Frisbee
MORE Workshops & Discussions

DON'T SEE THE EVENT YOU WANT? THEN GO AHEAD AND DO IT YOURSELF!

NO NEED TO CONFIRM. DON'T ASK FOR PERMISSION!

If you need support or want to see your event posted up here, just email crisisfest@gmail.com and we'll be glad to help.

Drug & alcohol free

3 Pre Crisis Fest Art Party / Hangouts: Nov 14, 15 and 16

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BREAKING NEWS!

3 BRAND NEW PRE-CRISIS FEST EVENTS:

1. UNIVERISTY "RE-DECORATION" Art Party & Hangout
UCLA Kaufman Hall
Saturday Nov 14 9am-4pm (possibly later)

2. UNIVERISTY "RE-DECORATION" Party & Hangout
UCLA Kaufman Hall
Sunday Nov 15 12pm-6pm (possibly later)

This weekend, bring your paint, markers, chalk, cardboard, banners, paper, canvases, boxes, old sheets, old shirts, tape, glue, and other supplies, and other random junk to help create signs, posters, art, and installations for the upcoming UC STRIKE! Most importantly though, just bring YOURSELF...and some friends. We will have snacks and perhaps some cheap wine to help get us into the festive and revolutionary spirit.

We need to make this Strike & Protest VISIBLE. We need to make sure that no surface of campus goes untouched. We need to make sure that no student will be able to say he or she didn't know what was going on. We need to make some beauty, some horror, and some fun. And most importantly...we need to have fun doing it. So let's make it happen!

3. GENERALIZED PRE-CRISIS FEST HANGOUT, ART PARTY AND MORE!
Steps of Royce Hall
Monday November 16th, 12 noon to 2pm

Includes all of the above in 1 and 2 (no wine, unfortunately), music, frisbee, art supplies and most importantly, WHATEVER YOU BRING!

MOST IMPORTANTLY JUST BRING YOURSELF.

What is the point? At one level, THERE IS NO FUCKING POINT. The point is being together without all the shitty boundaries that keep us apart. At another level, we want to be visible, liberate some space on campus, have some fun, create art for the 18th & 19 and take back our university every day.

If you want to contribute, don't ask permission: do it! If you have any questions email crisisfest@gmail.com

GET INVOLVED

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Want to put on an event? THEN DO IT!

DON'T ASK PERMISSION, LET'S TAKE BACK OUR UNIVERSITY!

Have your band play, put on a workshop, read your poetry, project a movie on the wall, do a fashion show, dj a set, whatever!

Email: crisisfest@gmail.com if you need any support or need help getting the word out.

Spread the Facebook invite link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=205509788311&index=1

Crisis Fest: Call to Action

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CRISIS FEST: A Space for Music, Workshops, Dance, Joy and Protest!

On November 18th, hundreds of union members and students from all over California will converge on UCLA in the leadup to the system-wide protest of the Regents meeting. With the support of union and student groups, there will be a day and night Tent City outside of Pauley Pavillion to house our convergence!

Therfore, the students of UCLA have created the CRISIS FEST: A radical space at Tent City to respond to the crisis with new ideas, experiences, anger and joy.

We recognize the broader issues shaping the crisis: privatization, and the economic downturn, the resegregation of the university and the ongoing wars abroad.

But we don't want boring colloquiums or lectures: for one night we run our education as self-education; we protest with fun and festivity! There will be music, food, workshops and communal spirits in store for everyone.

And we want your help!

From 5pm until (at least) Midnight, we want to fill UCLA with your music, poetry & spoken word, discussions, dance, visuals, videos, d.i.y. workshops, and literature, in addition to what we've already set up (and the list will only get longer).

We have discussions of the international student movement, dodgeball & frisbee matches, mass camping on campus (bring your own tent!), screen printing workshops, banner & art making, rock & traditional Mexican music and a General Assembly to discuss the future of the movement.

DON'T ASK FOR PERMISSION! LET'S TAKE BACK THE UNIVERSITY AND MAKE IT OUR OWN!

Determine your own participation. Create your own event! Email: crisisfest@gmail.com

Sign up for the Facebook Event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=205509788311

If you need a bus ride to UCLA on Nov 18th, sign up here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=riU_2fY_2fwxry5LldJgrCRWaw_3d_3d

WRITE YOUR LIST OF DEMANDS HERE: LET'S GET 50

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Add more in the comments box. Let's see if we can get 50 demands.

1. $0 tuition

WRITE YOUR OWN "SLOGAN" FOR CRISIS FEST

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Most slogans just put people to sleep. That's because everyone's supposed to think the same thing and repeat the same words we've all heard a million times before.

So here's a list of things people have said so far when talking about Crisis Fest. No one of these is better than the others, Crisis Fest is ALL OF THESE THINGS.

The first rule of Crisis Fest is no one owns Crisis Fest
WTF is this?
We are the Crisis!
Don't ask permission, this is our university!
Fuck tuition hikes, but make love to Crisis Fest
Learn How to Strike: Skip Class
Students of the World, Unite!
Bruin Bear is Down with Crisis Fest

BETTER THAN REPEAT ONE OF THESE, LEAVE ONE OF YOUR OWN IN THE COMMENTS!

Why We Are Not Alone

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Student Movement in Vienna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfk2SOVHEWw

CSU Long Beach Students Against Budget Cuts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C03pDWkt0UY&feature=related

UC Berkeley Walkout of the 24th

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pYBLbE5KbI&feature=PlayList&p=BD56F53445ADD019&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=14

Furlough Fest: CSU Fullerton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPjv1Zx2s3M

UCSC General Assembly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNHsyAmG8m4

NYU Occupation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jduBupqS34&feature=PlayList&p=5796A04154E17942&index=1

New School in Exile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRn7ZdDNjjw&feature=related

CSU Fresno: Library Action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRxm27xKUTg

UC Riverside Walkout

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUmKFPh3OU8

17th & 18th: CSU Long Beach Solidarity!

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Think you've got mad student solidarity?

Head down to Long Beach on November 17th and/or 18th and show your support. Budget cuts, layoffs and tuition hikes are not only a UCLA issue, not only a UC issue and not only a university issue. The fronts are many but the struggle is the same.

November 17th
11am-1pm
Chancellor Reed's Office - 401 Goldenshore, Long Beach Ca

Join Students Fight Back, faculty unions and other community-based organizations for a protest at the next CSU Board of Trustees meeting.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=168790716358&index=1

November 18th
Protest!
930 to Noon
Chancellor Reed's Office - 401 Goldenshore, Long Beach Ca

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=174235700765&index=1

Free cupcakes for anyone who attends these two events & Crisis Fest. No purchase necessary. Offer void in VT, AK, MN and PA.

Easy 2 Step Process for Going on Strike Nov. 18 & 19

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1. DON'T DO WHATEVER YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO.

2. GO DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO.

Guess what? Over 1,400 students, TAs and Professors (yes, professors) have already agreed to go on strike. Want to add your name to the list?

http://www.ucstrike.com/

Flyers, Posters, Art: Distribute or Make Your Own!

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Why Tuition is Going Up in 600 Words (or less)

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UC on Wall Street: Another Reason Your Tuition Goes Up

Bob Meister, President, Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) Professor of Political and Social Thought, UCSC

How does UC sell $1.3 billion in construction bonds immediately after declaring an “extreme financial emergency,” slashing funds for teaching and research and cutting staff and faculty pay? By using your tuition as collateral. Higher tuition lets UC borrow more for construction even while it cuts instruction and research.

You’re often told that your tuition goes up because the state pays less for higher education, but you’re almost never told that UC isn’t obliged to use your tuition in the way it uses public money. Unlike state funds, your tuition money can also pay the interest on construction bonds and be used as bond collateral.

UC has in fact promised its bond trustee (Bank of New York Mellon Trust) and the companies that rate bonds (S&P and Moody’s) that bondholders have first claim on your tuition in the event of default. (See the full “They Pledged Your Tuition to Wall Street.”) It has also promised bondholders that it will raise tuition as needed to avoid bond default. Most importantly, UC has pledged to do nothing to lower the ratings on its bonds. Your tuition is not only pledged to Wall Street, Wall Street could demand the next tuition hike by threatening to lower UC’s Aa1 bond rating.

Harvard, the world’s richest educational corporation, curbed construction when endowments fell because its people and programs came first. Its bond rating, slightly higher than UC’s, does not seem to have suffered. UC, however, seems to have the opposite priorities. It started borrowing against your tuition in spring 2004—when Gov. Schwarzenegger gave it a green light to raise tuition, and claims the ability to do this in every prospectus for bonds partially backed by your tuition.

By June 2008, UC’s pledged collateral has jumped by 60% (from $4.2 billion to $6.72 billion). Tuition, a large and growing component of that collateral, will have risen by 109% since 2004 if this year’s increase happens. The Regents have approved another $2B in projects that they plan to fund primarily with tuition-backed bonds, because this is where their debt-bearing capacity will grow. When these new bonds are issued, after your tuition hike is a done deal, debt service on all tuition-backed bonds will have risen to around $430M, nearly double what it was last year. Your tuition and fees make up the largest component of this debt service and the only component that UC has pledged to increase.

Increasing the collateral for bonds and paying more in debt service are clearly among the reasons why the Regents want to raise your tuition. But students would be more likely to resist if they knew this. By describing tuition increases as a simple substitute for state educational funds, UC avoids the question of how much goes for construction, rather than instruction.

Don’t be fooled by the argument that UC is simply emulating the great private universities. The ones I know now use their endowment income to subsidize tuition for students who would otherwise need loans: UC, by contrast, now pledges its ability to drive you and your families deeper into debt so that it can increase its leverage on Wall Street. This is what it looks like to privatize a great public university.

Will you go along with this November’s 32% tuition increase, now that you know the money is being promised to Wall Street?

It will happen unless you stop it.

How Much Should Your Tuition Cost?

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Analysis brought to you by Crisis Fest.

List of Crisis Fest Celeberity Supporters

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Andre 3000 / Outkast
Steven Colbert
The Strokes
Christian Bale
United Auto Workers
Ozzy Ozborne
Wes Anderson
AFSCME
Lil Wayne
Mary-Kate Olsen
UPTE
Slavoj Zizek
Ghostface Killah
UCLA Chancellor Block
UC President Yudof
The Bruin Bear

Need a Ride to UCLA: Sign Up Here

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Unions are being kind enough to provide buses for a donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=riU_2fY_2fwxry5LldJgrCRWaw_3d_3d