[spectre] Help host and join the virtual sit-in in solidarity with october7th actions for education!

[micha cárdenas]

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/////////Virtual Sit-In for October 7th Day of Action for Public
Education///////////

In solidarity with the October 7th Day of Action for Public Education
we call for a virtual sit-in of the websites of the Office of the
President of the University of California and the UC Regents. This
virtual sit-in will take place for all of October 7th, from 12:00AM
the night before to 11:59PM the night of.

*We need hosting for this action. Please contact any of us if you can
provide hosting for the html files for the action.*

Recent actions taken on March 4th by students, faculty, staff and
allies around the world were joined online by a virtual sit-in. The
swift and violent response to the virtual sit-in from the UC
administration and police against Ricardo Dominguez only reveal the
effectiveness of the action and must be seen as part of a larger
strategy of the criminalization of resistance including the arrest of
hundreds of faculty, students and staff around the world who are
struggling to redefine what the future of education will be. The UC
continues to make efforts to expand the
prison-military-university-industrial complex in the face of demands,
occupations, strikes and blockades by those willing to put their
bodies, physically and digitally, on the line for a better future for
education.

By organizing this action, in the tradition of ECD as a distributed
tactic as performed by the Electrohippies, the Federation of Random
Action and the borderlands Hacklab, we are demonstrating that the
hydra has a million heads and Yudof, the Regents and their police
cannot stop Electronic Civil Disobedience by putting their boot on the
neck of one man. A virtual sit-in is a mass action by thousands of
people and we will not be stopped.

More virtual strikes can be expected until:

* The budget cuts across the UC system are turned back
* Those laid off in the past year are rehired
* Charges are dropped and investigations ended against all of those
arrested for struggling for the future of their education

Join the actions in the streets, the campuses and the university
buildings if you can. If you want to join the virtual sit-in, go here
for a list of urls:

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/01/18660447.php?show_comments=1

http://october7thecd.wordpress.com

If you have any questions about this e-action contact:

(alphabetical)

Zach Blas, zachblas at gmail.com
Xandre Borghetti
Micha Cárdenas, azdelslade at gmail.com
Elizabeth Chaney, chaneyeh at gmail.com
Holly Eskew, h.eskew at sbcglobal.net
John Falchi, pacerjp14 at sbcglobal.net
Autumn Hays, autumnhays at ymail.com
Lindsay brandon hunter, lindsaybrandon at gmail.com
Linzi Juliano
Rashne Limki
Bradley Litwin
Benjamin Lotan, benjaminlotan at gmail.com
Luis Martin-Cabrera
Elle Mehrmand, ellemehrmand at gmail.com
Courtney Ryan, crdram12 at gmail.com
Lisa Sloan, lisaasloan at gmail.com

If you would like to help organize the action and be added to the list
of organizers, email us.

--
micha cárdenas

Co-Author, Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs, Atropos Press, http://is.gd/daO00
Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego
Lecturer, Critical Gender Studies Program, University of California, San Diego
Artist/Researcher, UCSD School of Medicine
Artist/Theorist, bang.lab, http://bang.calit2.net

blog: http://transreal.org

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