Upcoming Events:

** April 24th - 2nd Statewide planning conference, Santee High School, LA

** May 6th - Senate Budget Subcommittee meeting on UC, Sacramento, Room 3191

** May 13th - 50 years of student activism in the Bay Area, SF City Hall

Calendars can be found at reclaimuc.org or UCSolidarity.org

Past events:

** March 4th National Day of Action & Strike for Public Education (for more info, see: defendeducation.org)

News:

Regular updates can be found at our blog:

http://ucdemocracy.blogspot.com/

Key articles:

HV Lehr (2009) Beyond UC vs Sacramento: It's the Relationships that Matter, Berkeley Daily Planet, October 15

M Taylor (2008) UC Democracy: After 140 Years, It's Time for Change, Berkeley Daily Planet, November 6.

See also our initial archive of articles on the UC Regents, 1958-1975 here: (3.8 MB)

Past Events:

** UC Berkeley Decal Potluck Come celebrate our last class with a potluck. 5:30pm, Mon. May 11, 250 Dwinelle

** "Education for Democratization," a Spring 2009 UCB decal course. To educate, inspire and empower students to research and apply UC Democracy! After students heard speakers, we researched and completed fliers, infosheets, lobbied student governments and even held a panel (see below)! Thanks for a fabulous experience and leadership of UC students! We look forward to this decal continuing in Fall 2009 with previous decal students Kyle and Lauren stepping up as two fabulous new facilitators. Way to go!

**UC Democracy Stakeholders Panel thanks all participants and organizers; Monday, April 27 6pm  101 Morgan

"Come listen to and help build the case for Democratization with student leaders, union leaders, faculty, nonprofits and other stakeholders! Learn where money flows in the UC and how to change it!" Speakers included:

• Roxanne Winston ASUC President
• Maricruz ManzanaresAFSC-ME Union Local 3299
• Ignacio Chapela, UCB faculty
• Tinbete Ermyas, Greenlining Institute: Higher Edu. campaign
• Christina Oatfield, ASUC Senator

** Workshop - UCSA Student Lobby Conference, Sacramento, March 2009

** UC Democracy Kickoff! Speaker Panel - Fundraiser - was a success! The Project for UC Democracy held a kickoff event Nov. 18 2008 to announce a statewide campaign to Democratize the UC Regents

Check out our news report from the Berkeley Daily Planet

• Charles Schwartz, UC Berkeley Physics Professor Emeritus
• Marcela Sadlowski, student activist
• Jesse Arreguin, Berkeley City Council Member-elect, Dist.4
• Christina Oatfield, ASUC Senator
• Ignacio Chapela, UC Berkeley Associate Professor
• Ariel Luckey, spoken word poet