THE DISORIENTATION GUIDE AT UCSC

2012 Hello

You have in your hands a mass of paper and ink, research and analysis, love and rage, compiled with the intention of reshaping parts of your world. Like many other disorientation projects, we are inspired to do our work by the often massive gap between the o!cial, public face of our university and its true life and history. We aim to air its dirty past—especially when it lives on in the present—and to celebrate its joyful moments of freedom. We aim to help inspire our readers to take active part in our public university, to help empower them with an awareness of the many faces of UC Santa Cruz, of what it has been, what it is, and what it could be. "e following guide is part radical local history, part alternative resource guide, and part introduction to ongoing struggles.

Here are some things you might want to keep in mind while you read: ࠒ࠽࠼˽ࡂ࠴࠳࠳࠺࠽ࡄ࠳ࡀࡅ࠶࠳࠺࠻࠳࠲߼ࠢ࠶࠳࠵ࡃ࠷࠲࠳࠷ࡁ ࠼࠽ࡂ࠻࠳࠯࠼ࡂࡂ࠽࠰࠳ࡀ࠳࠯࠲ࡁࡂࡀ࠯࠷࠵࠶ࡂࡂ࠶ࡀ࠽ࡃ࠵࠶߼ ࠢ࠶࠳࠵ࡃ࠷࠲࠳࠷ࡁ࠼࠽ࡂ࠼࠳࠱࠳ࡁࡁ࠯ࡀ࠷࠺ࡇ ࠢ࠶࠷ࡁ࠷ࡁ࠷࠼࠼࠽ࡅ࠯ࡇ࠯࠱࠽࠻࠾࠺࠳ࡂ࠳ ࠢ࠶࠳ࡀ࠳࠷ࡁࡁ࠷࠻࠾࠺ࡇࡂ࠽࠽࠻ࡃ࠱࠶࠷࠼࠷ࡂࡂ࠽࠰࠳࠯࠰࠺࠳ ࠷࠼ࡂ࠶࠳࠱࠽ࡀࡀ࠳࠱ࡂ࠽ࡀ࠲࠳ࡀ࠰࠳࠱࠯ࡃࡁ࠳ ࠾ࡃ࠰࠺࠷࠱࠯ࡂ࠷࠽࠼ ࠯࠰࠽ࡃࡂ ࡂ࠶࠳ ࠣࠑ ࡂ࠽ ࠾ࡀ࠽࠱࠳ࡁࡁ ࠽࠼࠳ ࠯ࡀࡂ࠷࠱࠺࠳ ࠯࠴ࡂ࠳ࡀ ࠯࠼࠽ࡂ࠶࠳ࡀ߼ ࡂ࠶࠳ࡀ࠳࠷ࡁ࠼˽ࡂ࠽࠼࠳߼ࠜ࠽࠼࠳࠽࠴ࡂ࠶࠳ ࡁࡇࡁࡂ࠳࠻࠽ࡀ࠯࠼ࡇࡂ࠶࠷࠼࠵࠳࠺ࡁ࠳ࡅ࠳ ࠢ࠯࠹࠳ࡇ࠽ࡃࡀࡂ࠷࠻࠳ߺ࠴࠺࠷࠾ࡂ࠽࠯ࡁ࠳࠱ࡂ࠷࠽࠼ࡂ࠶࠯ࡂ ࠷ࡁࡁࡃ࠳ࡁ ࠲࠷ࡁ࠱ࡃࡁࡁ࠳࠲ ࠯ࡀ࠳ ࡁ࠳࠺࠴߻ ࠲࠷ࡁ࠱ࡃࡁࡁ߼ ࠗࡂ ࠷ࡁ ࡁ࠷࠻࠾࠺ࡇ ࠾࠯ࡀࡂ ࡁ࠽ࡃ࠼࠲ࡁ࠵࠽࠽࠲ߺ࠯࠼࠲ࡀ࠳࠯࠺࠺ࡇࡂ࠶࠷࠼࠹࠯࠰࠽ࡃࡂ࠷ࡂ ࠱࠽࠼ࡂ࠯࠷࠼࠳࠲߼ࠗ࠲࠳࠯ࡁߺ࠾ࡀ࠽࠰࠺࠳࠻ࡁߺ ࠽࠴ ࠯ ࠻ࡃ࠱࠶ ࠺࠯ࡀ࠵࠳ࡀ ࠰࠽࠲ࡇ ࠽࠴ ࠴࠽ࡀ࠯࠴࠳ࡅ࠶࠽ࡃࡀࡁߺ࠲࠯ࡇࡁߺ࠽ࡀ࠯ࡁ࠺࠽࠼࠵࠯ࡁ࠷ࡂ ࠯࠼࠲࠾࠶࠷࠺࠽ࡁ࠽࠾࠶࠷࠳ࡁ࠯࠺࠺࠽ࡄ࠳ࡀ࠺࠯࠾߼ ࡂ࠶࠽ࡃ࠵࠶ࡂࡁ࠯࠼࠲࠷࠲࠳࠯ࡁ߼ ࡂ࠯࠹࠳ࡁ࠰࠳࠴࠽ࡀ࠳ࡁࡂ࠯ࡀࡂ࠷࠼࠵࠯࠼࠽ࡂ࠶࠳ࡀ߼

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3 The University ࠒ࠷ࡁ࠽ࡀ࠷࠳࠼ࡂ࠯ࡂ࠷࠽࠼ ࠓ࠲ࡃ࠱࠯ࡂ࠷࠽࠼࠷࠼ࠑࡀ࠷ࡁ࠷ࡁ ࠙࠼࠽ࡅࠧ࠽ࡃࡀࠠ࠳࠵࠳࠼ࡂࡁ ࠢ࠶࠳ࠣࠑ࠯࠼࠲ࠥ࠯ࡀࠈࠒ࠳࠻࠷࠺࠷ࡂ࠯ࡀ࠷ࡈ࠷࠼࠵ࡂ࠶࠳ࠣ࠼࠷ࡄ࠳ࡀࡁ࠷ࡂࡇ 42 Race and Resistance 16 ࠏ࠼ࠗ࠼ࡂࡀ࠽࠲ࡃ࠱ࡂ࠷࠽࠼ࡂ࠽ࠥ࠶࠷ࡂ࠳ࠞࡀ࠷ࡄ࠷࠺࠳࠵࠳ The Political Economy ࠑࡀ࠷ࡂ࠷࠱࠯࠺ࠠ࠯࠱࠳ߴࠓࡂ࠶࠼࠷࠱ࠡࡂࡃ࠲࠷࠳ࡁ ࠔࡀ࠽࠻ࠛ࠽ࡀࡂ࠵࠯࠵࠳ࡁࡂ࠽ࠡࡂࡃ࠲࠳࠼ࡂࠚ࠽࠯࠼ࡁࠈࠏࠢ࠯࠺࠳࠽࠴ࠢࡅ࠽ࠐࡃ࠰࠰࠺࠳ࡁ ࠗࡁࡀ࠯࠳࠺߽ࠞ࠯࠺࠳ࡁࡂ࠷࠼࠳ࠎࠣࠑࠡࠑ ࠑࡀ࠷ࡁ࠷ࡁ࠯࠼࠲ࠑ࠯࠾࠷ࡂ࠯࠺࠷ࡁ࠻ ࠞࡀ࠷ࡁ࠽࠼࠷࠼࠽ࡃࡀࠖ࠳࠯ࡀࡂࡁࠈࠥ࠶࠯ࡂ࠷ࡁࡂ࠶࠳ࠞࠗࠑ ࠚ࠷࠰࠳ࡀࡂ࠯ࡀ࠷࠯࠼࠷ࡁ࠻ࠈࠏࠑࡀ࠷ࡂ࠷࠿ࡃ࠳ ࠤ࠷࠽࠺࠳࠼࠱࠳࠯࠼࠲ࠡࡂࡀ࠯ࡂ࠳࠵ࡇ࠷࠼ࠞࡀ࠽ࡂ࠳ࡁࡂ ࠝ࠰࠯࠻࠼࠳ࡇ 53 22 Santa Cruz Organizing ࠖ࠽࠻࠳࠺࠳ࡁࡁ࠼࠳ࡁࡁ࠷࠼ࠡࠑ ࠏ࠼ࠗ࠼࠱࠽࠻࠾࠺࠳ࡂ࠳ࠝ࠶࠺࠽࠼࠳ࠖ࠷ࡁࡂ࠽ࡀࡇ ࠟࡃ࠳࠰࠳࠱ࠡࡂࡃ࠲࠳࠼ࡂࠡࡂࡀ࠷࠹࠳߯ ࠢ࠷࠻࠳࠺࠷࠼࠳࠽࠴ࠚ࠽࠱࠯࠺ࠏ࠱ࡂ࠷ࡄ࠷ࡁ࠻ ࠔ࠷ࡄ࠳ࠢ࠶࠳ࡁ࠳ࡁ࠽࠼ࡂ࠶࠳ࠡࡂࡃ࠲࠳࠼ࡂࠡࡂࡀ࠷࠹࠳ ࠒࠗࠧࠡ࠯࠼ࡂ࠯ࠑࡀࡃࡈ ࠛ࠳࠳ࡂ࠷࠼࠵ࡁߺࠑ࠽࠼ࡁ࠳࠼ࡁࡃࡁߺߴࠞ࠯ࡀࡂ࠷࠱࠷࠾࠯ࡂ࠽ࡀࡇࠒ࠳࠻࠽࠱ࡀ࠯࠱ࡇ ࠝ࠱࠱ࡃ࠾ࡇࠥ࠯࠺࠺ࠡࡂࡀ࠳࠳ࡂࠈࠝ࠼࠳ࠧ࠳࠯ࡀࠚ࠯ࡂ࠳ࡀ ࠝ࠱࠱ࡃ࠾ࡇࠓࡄ࠳ࡀࡇࡂ࠶࠷࠼࠵ࠈࠝ࠼ࠐࡃ࠷࠺࠲࠷࠼࠵ࠝ࠱࠱ࡃ࠾࠯ࡂ࠷࠽࠼ࡁ 66 ࠣ࠼࠷࠽࠼ࠝࡀ࠵࠯࠼࠷ࡈ࠷࠼࠵ࠎࠣࠑࠡࠑ Gender and Sexuality ࠧ࠳ࡁ࠾࠺࠳࠯ࡁ࠳ࠈࠑ࠽࠼ࡁ࠳࠼ࡂ 33 ࠔ࠳࠻࠷࠼࠷ࡁ࠻ The Environment ࠟࡃ࠳࠳ࡀ߯ ࠡ࠽࠱࠷࠯࠺ࠞ࠽࠺࠷࠱࠷࠼࠵࠯࠼࠲ࠟࡃ࠳࠳ࡀࠠ࠳ࡁ࠷ࡁࡂ࠯࠼࠱࠳ ࠡࡃࡁࡂ࠯࠷࠼࠯࠰࠷࠺࠷ࡂࡇࠒ࠷ࡁ࠽ࡀ࠷࠳࠼ࡂ࠳࠲ ࠖ࠽ࡅࡂ࠽ࠕ࠽ࠕࡀ࠳࠳࠼߶࠯࠼࠲ࡃ࠼࠲࠳ࡀ࠻࠷࠼࠳࠱࠯࠾࠷ࡂ࠯࠺࠷ࡁ࠻߷࠷࠼ࠁ࠳࠯ࡁࡇࡁࡂ࠳࠾ࡁ߯ ࠚ࠽࠼࠵ࠠ࠯࠼࠵࠳ࠒ࠳ࡄ࠳࠺࠽࠾࠻࠳࠼ࡂࠞ࠺࠯࠼ 74 Resources ࠥ࠶࠯ࡂ࠷ࡁࠡࡂࡃ࠲࠳࠼ࡂࠛ࠳࠲࠷࠯ࠍ ࠕ࠺࠽ࡁࡁ࠯ࡀࡇ ࠛ࠳࠳ࡂࡂ࠶࠳ࠏࡃࡂ࠶࠽ࡀࡁ ࠠ࠳࠱࠽࠻࠻࠳࠼࠲࠯ࡂ࠷࠽࠼ࡁ ࠛ࠳࠳ࡂࡂ࠶࠳ࠏࡃࡂ࠶࠽ࡀࡁ 3 Disorientation Guide UC + WAR // KNOW YOUR REGENTS KNOW // EDU IN CRISIS

DISORIENTATION // DISORIENTATION Disorientation isorientation isn’t just a catchy pun, another community toward creating a genuinely democratic, flashy ploy to catch your attention as you navigate economically just, and environmentally sane world. your new university scene, your new town, and Dyour new social possibilities. As you read through these pages and learn more about various justice issues and campus-connected activist organizations, think about Basic Assumptions of Schooling disorientation as a process of reflection and action. If you were to go down to Pacific Avenue and Ask yourself some questions: ask random window shoppers what a young person

The University: What is a university education? How does a university should do in order to learn about the world, nine education, and the institutional complex itself, fit out of ten people would tell you: go to school. In into the larger social order? What do I think about our culture, learning is associated with schooling. To this social order, and how do I want to participate obtain knowledge is to obtain degrees. "e higher your in it, both in my years here at UCSC and beyond? grades, the more competent your knowledge. In many A fundamental assumption of the disorientation ways, certified schools are seen to have a monopoly on perspective, a perspective that by no means I want learning. "is is not an illusion, schools are strategically to portray as uniform, is that universities, not just organized to serve this function. "ey literally define, UCSC, o#er a particular orientation toward reality—a produce, and reproduce knowledge. None of this is worldview of sorts. "is essay o#ers some reflections on particularly groundbreaking, but let us think twice this worldview, asking more questions than providing about the consequences and contradictions of these answers. Needless to say, universities di#er considerably cultural assumptions. If school is a place to learn about in their culture, student bodies, faculty, and articulated the world, why is it designed to remove students from missions. "is essay is less about such di#erences and the daily activity of their community—in some cases more about assumptions built into the degree-oriented for up to 25 years? "is may be less evident in college process of university schooling. Likewise, if you believe than in high school or middle school, but by the time that in the act of practicing critique we are always we hit UCSC, this aspect of the hidden curriculum has simultaneously suggesting strategies for change, this been well-ingrained: authority and knowledge lie with essay is also about how we can help direct the collective the “experts” and the policies and books they produce. creativity, intelligence, and will of this campus Similarly, we might ask: If school is designed to foster The University 4

independent thought, then why does all our work achieve questions and practices that resist a complacent acceptance of validation through grading—a process by which one’s work is the status quo social order. measured against predetermined content and form? One cornerstone of the US social order is a severe In short, I believe that most schooling processes operate strati$cation of wealth. Despite this, many will claim that any on an upside-down conception of learning. "e best way to analysis referring to structural racism and economic inequality explain this is through example. "ink about the last time you is just trying to breed hatred and division—as if division needs watched kids under $ve do what they do. In my experience, breeding in a country where the wealthiest 1% is responsible what they do is try to $gure out everything and anything in for 60% of the nation’s income (Boles, 2011). While the sight, which is one way of saying that gap between the business elite and we are a deeply curious, learning- the average working American has oriented species. If this is so, why widened exponentially in the past few then do the great majority of students, decades, the inequality between those who were once so relentlessly curious, who own and those who labor is not yearn to get out of school? I believe new in the US. Economic inequality one answer to this question lies in existed in the colonial period. But understanding how school inverts what has historically made the US a the learning process. Rather than so-called exception has been that this create a setting where young people di#erence has not been understood as can explore their curiosity, most a product of inheritance and political schools are set up to ensure that rule (feudalism) but rather as a result students consume predetermined of hard work on the part of the curricula in a predetermined process individual. An aim of the bourgeois of scheduled courses and assignments. democratic project has always been Interestingly enough, the higher you If, in theory, schooling is believed to maintain property relations that climb the schooling hierarchy, the serve the rich while creating a popular more apparent choice you have in to give equal opportunity to all children, then belief that suggests anyone who works determining the direction of your hard enough can make it big in this exploration. But to what degree have academic achievement is one way to justify country. Yet the “rags-to-riches” our curiosities, or desires, our political scenario is extremely rare. One might and social imagination, been trained socioeconomic inequality. Rather than a system say that the exceptions, from Andrew by the time you roll into UCSC? "e Carnegie to Ice Cube, in some ways act of disorientation is about exploring being criticized as unjust, individuals are have bolstered the imaginative rule. such questions. One way this contradiction Writers who think about the blamed for failure or celebrated for success. between the dominant myth of relationship between schooling and meritocracy and the reality of class- capitalism frequently point out that the process by which a based, racist, and gendered inequality is perpetuated is through young person becomes accustomed to depending on schools for certain beliefs about the US education system. In other words, learning is an essential experience of socialization into the values many popular ideas about education help to distract people of a market-driven society (aka capitalism). As Ivan Illich writes from recognizing the roots of social and environmental injustice. in Deschooling Society, “Once we have learned to need school, If, in theory, schooling is believed to give equal opportunity to all our activities tend to take the shape of client relationships all children, then academic achievement is one way to justify to other specialized institutions.” In other words, we learn that socioeconomic inequality. Rather than a system being criticized we go to school to get knowledge, the hospital to get health, the as unjust, individuals are blamed for failure or celebrated for police to get safety, the government to get security, the salon to success. Paradoxically, we often find mainstream political leaders get beauty, the church to get saved. What if, instead of paying claiming that systemic social inequality and dysfunction can be to get degrees so that we might secure a job so that we can buy traced to problems with education. I believe that neither of all of the above, we spent time cultivating our ability and our these perspectives identifies the complex relationship between communities’ ability to provide for those needs? Such a vision is institutionalized schools, individual students, political economy, hard to sustain in a society predicated on an extreme division of and dominant cultural myths. labor where few people own the primary means of production. My analysis so far has suggested that rather than understand Disorientation is about sustaining such a vision and fostering education as an automatic solution to social problems, 5 Disorientation Guide schooling is often complicit in the perpetuation of social and strategic level, a high percentage of employers are not primarily environmental exploitation. "e connections between corporate interested in an employee with specialized skills anyway. Do and military interests, and universities like UCSC, run deep. Just a quick Google search on “What employers are looking for,” do a little investigation into the backgrounds of UC Regents, and you’ll find thousands of sites that suggest employers’ main university trustees, and those who predominantly fund campus concerns are that prospective employees can 1) creatively solve research ( SEE “KNOW YOUR REGENTS” P.9 ). When we begin to see problems, 2) communicate e#ectively and work well with our education and our university in this light, it can be rather others, and 3) efficiently manage their time. I would argue that confusing. Isn’t education the way to solve problems, rather passionately exploring any major here on campus will challenge than create more of them? Facing such contradiction is never a you to develop such skills. "e point being: make decisions on painless process, but it is precisely where growth often occurs— terms that work for you. "ink about what you value in this both on an individual and a collective level. So what can we do world and what you imagine could be improved. Ask yourself: in our own lives and as activists in the UCSC community to What are the origins and consequences of the values I embrace? reduce these contradictions? "is is a question at the core of the What kind of vocation will allow me to live out these values and disorientation project. contribute to the changes I aspire to see? "e people and student/community organizations contributing ideas and art to this publication value a world rid of racism, imperialism, homophobia, patriarchy, war, and Disorienting One’s Universe(city) the web of exploitation related to these forms of violence. We A natural starting point is the question: Why am I here? are all in some way searching, struggling, and even at times Trends indicate that more and more undergraduates view succeeding, in bringing together our work as students at UCSC college as a pre-professional training ground where the central and our commitments to building social and environmental priority is developing one’s marketability for the job hunt after justice movements. At times, as you will find expressed in graduation. While the thinking behind this approach is aimed other articles here, this means criticizing and taking action at keeping future doors open, I see this trend as closing doors in against the UC system for its hypocrisy, shortsightedness, and two ways. First, on an existential level, I think it is important for exploitation. We do this as community members, people who us to take every opportunity we can to explore what concerns take seriously the possibilities for positive social change at and us, fascinates us, challenges us, and motivates us on this all-too- through this university. After all, the UC belongs to the public. fragile journey we call life. Having the boom and bust indices of Disorientation is about a dedication to ensuring our education the employment market as one’s guide to learning seems more and our university serve the public and not profit-minded stifling than stimulating. Second, on a more pragmatic and corporate interests.

Boles, Corey. “Income Growth of Top 1% Over 30 Years Outpaced Rest of U.S.” WSJ.com. Wall Street Journal, 25 Oct. 2011. Web. Illich, Ivan. Deschooling Society. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Print. The University 6

Welcome to the Education in Crisis University of California!

Before your ride begins, I, your on- high school grads shoveling piles of money Hoooolddd Onnnn thissss isss where the board captain, will give a brief rundown high into the air. On your left, massive g’s really kick inn!!! Whooooooshhh!!!! of some of the dangers you face now that burlap bags are held open by university Ok we made it, any questions?? Yes! you’re buckled in. No, these do not include o!cials ready to catch this currency. It’s "e lady at the rear. the hazards of late night debauchery or di!cult to convey the astronomical rise “So I understand that indebted psychedelic forest excursions. "e dangers in tuition with animatrons or words, so graduates are a drag on economic growth of which I speak are of a more profound instead we use a stomach-lurching drop and that student unemployment is only nature, dangers that will threaten your to get your attention; this is a roller deepening the problem, but why else does safety and the safety of others if left coaster after all. "e drop high tuition negatively unheeded. Without further ado, let us is steep, as it is inversely a#ect students?” begin. If you have any questions, feel free proportional to the It’s di!cult Well, to answer to press the red button on the seat in front 900% increase in tuition to convey the that question, you must of you, and I will respond in turn. experienced since 1978 astronomical rise $rst understand that As we roll steadily onto the track and (Harris, 2011). "e g-force in tuition with astronomical tuition emerge from the dock, notice to your left picks up towards the end does not only a#ect the bold letters that read UC in Crisis. because our engineers animatrons or students. "at’s right, Our safety brie$ng will begin here before wanted to underscore the words, so instead the crisis of access a#ects you proceed to the docking station to fact that 200% of that we use a stomach- society as a whole. High begin your ride. increase has occurred in tuition raises students’ Oh! A question from the rear of the the past ten years (Watson, lurching drop to get dependence on loans, cart. Yes, what is your question passenger? 2012). Feel the butter%ies your attention; this but also discourages “Um, I was just wondering: what does begin to %ap violently as is a roller coaster many high-school it mean that the UC is in crisis?” we reach the apex: now graduates from applying Ah, a very astute question young haaang ooon!!!! after all. to the UC in the $rst sir, and one that is central to our safety As we hurtle place. Up ahead loom brie$ng. To say that the UC is in crisis is through darkened space the open doors of a to illuminate multiple trends that have MPPYQMREXIH F] XLI FPYVW SJ ÂEWLMRK massive wrought iron gate. Watch closely coincided in recent years. "e trends percentages, it should become clear that as they begin their creaking, mechanical include crises in university access, exorbitant tuition is a real problem. The closure. We will not pass through this quality, and accountability. Together nausea you feel is akin to what many gate, for they open only for the most they create the hazardous academic climate graduates with up to $24,000 dollars privileged socioeconomic class. While this that students in the UC, Cal State, and in debt (Harris, 2011) are feeling, so institution prides itself on being open to Community College systems must face. don’t be alarmed. Barf bags are in the all, this is not the case. "e cart will now As we continue our ride, the details of the seat back in front of you for when you take a brief pause, so as to give you all time crisis will become clear. On either side of realize that the majority of student debt to process this next bit of information. you now animatronic $gures are coming to will not be paid back, and that it has “For every 100 Latin@ students that life. On your right you will see legions of now reached over 1 trillion dollars. enter K-12, only nine enter university, 7 Disorientation Guide and only seven will graduate, and sadly only two will go to grad school, while less than one of these students will actually receive their PhD” (“Coloring,” 2012). Now if these statistics are not terrifying enough, this next set is liable to make you lose your lunch. As of fall 2012, the UC will be changing the admission policy in an e#ort to “widen the pool of applicants.” In reality, these new policies are estimated to decrease the number of students of color accepted system-wide. African-American student acceptance is estimated to decrease by 27%, Asian- American students by 12%, and Latin@ students by 3%. "ese new policies do not exist in a vacuum. "ey are on top of the UC’s little to no $nancial aid for undocumented students, and the cuts to some of the few programs, such as American studies and community studies, that teach critical race theory. "ese facts beg the question, who is this university system really for? Alright folks, it’s time to start moving again. Don’t be alarmed, but we will now be attempting to climb a rocky perform routine maintenance to this section of the track despite cli# face. "is nearly 90-degree climb is meant to illustrate the fact that it boasts the park’s largest loop: let’s all keep our how exorbitant tuition prevents people from ever being able $ngers crossed. Up above to the left and right, two gold-plated to a#ord the education that may be the gateway to $nancial tracks wind alongside us, polished and glowing. "e cars for stability. As the unemployment rate for non-college grads, ages this track are more aptly described as chariots or carriages. "e 21-24 climbs to 12.4% (Reich, 2012), and the median wage insides are not cramped and broken, they are just as opulent for the same people hovers just above poverty level, a vicious as the tracks upon which they glide, furnished with the $nest cycle becomes clear. "e crisis of access accoutrements, cushions, and televisions paid increases social inequality: the students that for by your money. But alas that track and those are now being turned away for lack of funds African American cushions are not for you or your hiney; they are denied the social mobility that education student acceptance are for UC and Cal State administration. You can provide. As tuition continues to rise while is estimated to may ask what they have to do with the crisis of graduate unemployment increases and median decrease by 27%, quality. Well my friends, in the past twenty years earnings for the same people decrease, taking Asian American by the priorities of the UC have changed so that on debt to $nance the college investment administration and pro$table departments are becomes less and less attractive, especially for 12%, and Latin@ more highly valued than the overall educational those in a lower socioeconomic classes to begin by 3 %. experience. At UCSC alone, the American and with. With underserved high schools funneling community studies departments, journalism more students of color into prison than college minor, Rape Prevention Center, and library and ( SEE “PRISON IN OUR HEARTS” P.48 ), a diploma and the promise dining hall hours have been cut due to lack of funds. Students of upward mobility have become the privilege of a select few. have been $ghting for decades for the creation of a critical race As gatekeeper to social equality, universities have the power and ethnic studies department, and while the university has to sort people in lower classes, and to keep them there. "e made many promises, they continually use lack of funds as an crisis of access, if unchecked, can reboot the cycle of poverty excuse to renege on those promises. Undergraduate education is established by systemic racism. Reckless tuition escalation has now a secondary concern, much like our safety on this section created structural barriers to education, and even for those who of the track. Watch as those shining lavish cruisers approach can surmount them, higher walls of debt and unemployment perfectly kept loop-the-loops and corkscrews. Now feel the lurk ahead. As we pass by individuals immobilized by the ball violent vibrations as we approach our loop. "e ungreased main and chain of debt and unemployment, remember that these line and our less-than-critical velocity make the loop di!cult animatrons could be you if historical trends continue. Okay, so to complete, much like a degree when there aren’t enough that ends the crisis of access. We will now dock for cart transfer. faculty to teach key courses. Just like the schooling that awaits, “What cart transfer?” completing this loop won’t result without engagement; we must Ahhhh. Well the crisis of quality approaches, so we are actively participate in the ride, so everyone hang on and lean going to transfer to cramped and unkempt cars. While tuition forward. It is paramount that we take responsibility for ourselves has increased by over 900%, the quality of your education has because unfortunately, if we crash, the managers here at the UC unquestionably declined. We at the UC periodically neglect to will bear no responsibility for the accident. Ok, here comes The University 8 the plunge!!! Haaaaaaaannnnggggg OOOooonnnnnnnn!!!!! It is important for you incoming students to note that such Whhhooooooossshhhhhh!!! Ahhh, we made it. Was any one priorities divert millions from undergraduate instruction and lost? I know that the safety bars slip from time to time… Nooo, toward more prestigious projects like the construction of new everyone’s still alive; alright then, onto the crisis of accountability. medical centers. "e end of the tunnel approaches: ahead you Above the opening to the approaching tunnel are the will notice 26 gold-encrusted thrones bedazzled with precious words Crisis Of Accountability: we pass into the hall of stones. "at is the court of the UC Regents, and it is they responsibilities, a corridor of much fault and no care. "ere on who are responsible for reckless spending, non-educational the left is the strobing tuition fact reel, which priorities, and a large portion of the UC’s reads, “…in the past $ve years tuition has budget crisis. It is from their thrones and increased 73%,” and now, “…in the $ve years various committees that tuition increases, before, it went up 47%” (Poliako#, 2012). construction projects and administrative On the right, another projection busily scrolls raises are approved. Yet these highest UC through student debt $gures, blinking and o!cials are not held accountable to the %ashing hundreds of images of the same fact students, sta#, and faulty of the university. or multiple facts at a time, “...Only 40% in Of the 26 Regents, 18 are appointed to the active repayment... Average debt of $24,000… Board directly by the California governor, Student loans never expire...” (Harris, 2011). often after having donated large sums of As we roll deeper into the tunnel our path money to the governor’s electoral campaign. will be illuminated by the %ames of a colorful Once appointed, they hold the o!ce for up blaze that surrounds us. You’ll notice that to 12 years. Many of the Regents are well- animatronic administrators are hurling connected businesspeople, and are regularly UC pension funds into the $re, a visual criticized over signi$cant con%icts of interest representation of the pyrotechnics employed in (Byrne, 2009). 2008 (Watson, 2012). Now that we’ve passed In the end, the UC has never been through that hell$re, we come to a section of representative of students, which means they the tunnel that is currently under construction. do not care what you have to say. Between a From this point there is a link to the upper surplus of ties to the world of high $nance management track, but unfortunately our carts and a lack of any mechanism for student are exceedingly overcrowded, so we will be involvement in UC governance, the Regents walking to the tunnel exit. are in an ideal position to make decisions Everyone watch your step as we exit the with no basis in the reality of student life. cars. Keep an eye out for the semi-functional neon signage on And as we arrive at our return destination, if you remember the walls. You just may be able to make out their messages. nothing else remember this: your education will not be restored “DeBTt SErVice PAYMEnts for uc ConSTruction TotAl iN by bowing to such authority, have the courage to speak truth THE HUnDreds OF MILLIONS…” “REQuEsts FoR capital to power, and perhaps in the future this safety lap won’t be ProjEcTS Often EXCeED CAmPUS NEEDS” (Poliako#, necessary. Any questions? 2012). Such signs tell the story of UC priorities in an evermore Yes, the lady at the back. competitive university marketplace. "e non-educational “Umm soo who speci$cally are these regents?” aspects of the university experience are valued more highly Good question! If you turn to the next page of your than actual instruction. "e UC is now more interested in Disorientation Guide, you’ll $nd a more thorough exposé on the quality of its brand name than the quality of its product. these corporate kings and queens.

Byrne7L[LY¸0U]LZ[VY»Z*S\I!/V^[OL<*9LNLU[ZZWPUW\ISPJM\UKZPU[VWYP]H[LWYVÄ[¹Spot.us. American Public Media, 2009. Web. 04 Sep. 2012. “Coloring Outside the Lines.” Decolonizing Education. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Sep. 2012. Harris, Malcolm. “Bad Education, Generation of Debt.” Debt. Spec. issue of Reclamations, Aug.-Sep. 2011. Hiltzik, Michael. “Is UC Regent’s Vision for Higher Education Clouded by His Investments?” Los Angeles Times 14 Jul. 2010. Web. 04 Sep. 2012. 7VSPHRVɈ, Michael, and Armand Alacbay. )LZ[3HPK7SHUZ!;OL\UM\SÄSSLKWYVTPZLVMW\ISPJOPNOLYLK\JH[PVUPU*HSPMVYUPH. American Council of Trustees and Alumni, Jun. 2012. Reich, Robert. “The Commencement Address That Won’t Be Given.”;OL/\MÄUN[VU7VZ[18 May 2012. Web. Watson, Mary-Virginia. “Teach the Budget Curriculum 2012.” 01 Feb. 2012. Web. 07 Sep. 2012. 9 Disorientation Guide

George Kieffer APPOINTED 2009 Know TERM EXPIRES MARCH 1, 2021

*HRUJH .LHIIHU·V DSSRLQWPHQW WR WKH %RDUG RI Your 5HJHQWVDSSHDUVWREHDFRQÁLFWRILQWHUHVW+HZDV 0DULD6KULYHU·VDWWRUQH\EXWUHVLJQHG SUHVXPDEO\LQ DQDWWHPSWWRGHIHQGDJDLQVWFODLPVRISROLWLFDOIDYRUV  Regents MXVW EHIRUH 6KULYHU·V H[KXVEDQG 6FKZDU]HQHJJHU  EHFDPH JRYHUQRU .LHIIHU LV DOVR WKH IRUPHU &KDLU "e University of California as powerful as the regents should RIWKH/$&KDPEHURI&RPPHUFH$WWKHYHU\OHDVW is managed by a Board of be elected democratically by the WKHJX\NQRZVKRZWRGRGJHDTXHVWLRQZKHQDVNHG Regents. "e regents have “full students, sta#, and faculty of the DERXWKLVVWDQFHRQDIÀUPDWLYHDFWLRQKHUHVSRQGHG powers of organization and UC, but as you can see, that’s ´,WKLQNWKHTXHVWLRQLVERWKWRREURDGDQGWRRQDUURZµ governance” over the UC system not how it works. Presently, the DQGFKDQJHGWKHVXEMHFW+HLVYHU\PXFKDSROLWLFDO (CA Constitution, art. 9, sec. 9). makeup of the Board of Regents SOD\HU ZKR NQRZV ZKRP WR JHW FR]\ ZLWK DV ZHOO You pay your tuition to them, is heavily guided by anyone with DVZKDWWRVD\DQGZKDWQRWWRVD\WRVWD\LQSRZHU and their control extends over enough money to in%uence .X]QLD  all ten campuses, $ve medical California politics. "e Board centers, two nuclear research generally includes some of the laboratories and more. So who wealthiest people in the state, are they? Who exactly are the with connections to some of the CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD people making the decisions that most powerful corporations in HERRY ANSING a#ect the well being of the UC’s the country. S L APPOINTED 1999 / REAPPOINTED 2010 371,000 students, faculty and According to the CA TERM EXPIRES MARCH 1, 2022 sta#, and what do they do with constitution, “the university shall the UC’s $19 billion operating be entirely independent of all Lansing was recently the budget? And how do they political and sectarian in%uence chairman and CEO for Paramount become regents? and kept free therefrom in the Pictures, a company with an annual "e basics: "ere are 26 appointment of its Regents income of some $20.1 billion. Peter regents, and 18 of them are and in the administration of its Byrne, the same investigative reporter appointed by the CA governor a#airs,” but this isn’t enforced who shed light on Dick Blum’s to 12-year terms. "ere are also in any substantial way (CA $nancial miscreancy (Byrne, 2012) seven ex o!cio regents. "ese Constitution, art. 9, sec. 9). So has this to say about her: “Since Sep. are people who are on the Board here’s a question: Can the Board 2006, Regent Lansing... has been because they hold other high of Regents e#ectively make a member of the board of directors o!ces in state government. decisions in the best interest of of Qualcomm Inc., for which she "ere is also one student regent, the hundreds of thousands of receives an annual director’s fee appointed by the Board for a working class students, sta# and of $135,000, plus stock options. two-year term. "e student faculty of the UC when so many According to her economic disclosure regent isn’t allowed to vote on of the regents are themselves statement, Ms. Lansing owns “more policy matters until their second members of the economic elite? than $1 million” in Qualcomm stock year. After looking into who runs our options. In 2009, Qualcomm paid One might think that people University, we would say no. her $485,252. Documents released by the UC Treasurer show that, after Ms. Lansing joined the Qualcomm board, UC quadrupled its investment in Qualcomm to $397 million. The University 10

NORMAN J PATTIZ APPOINTED 2001 / REAPPOINTED 2003 DICK BLUM TERM EXPIRES MARCH 1, 2015 APPOINTED 2002 Pattiz got his start Clinton’s bid for Senate. TERM EXPIRES MARCH 1, 2014 in the business world by While on the BBG, Pattiz founding Westwood One was chairman of the Middle Richard Blum is a San senator, Dianne Feinstein. in 1974—America’s largest East Committee, serving Francisco-based $nance At the time of this meshing radio network organization. as a driving force behind capitalist presiding over of Blum’s $nancial interests Westwood One is a major the creation of Radio Sawa a business empire that is, with Feinstein’s formidable supplier of tra!c news and and Alhurra Television, the to say the least, expansive. political ambitions, Feinstein sports programming on US government’s Arabic- Hedge funds? Blum owns was Mayor of San Francisco local TV stations, and its language radio and TV one outright and wields a and Blum—already one of her empire includes NBC Radio services to over 22 countries signi$cant share of various main $nancial backers—had Network, the CBS Radio in the Middle East, to others. Real estate? His much of his fortune staked to Network, CNN Radio, and supposedly counteract primary investment vehicle, various development projects Fox Radio News. Pattiz has “Islamic Extremist News” in the $7.8 billion Blum Capital in the city. a history of being caught the Middle East. "is media Partners, owns the largest real And then there is Blum’s up in $nancial election mogul is not someone you’d estate brokerage $rm on the business with the UC. Blum’s scandals: his company had want to be on the bad side planet, CB Richard Ellis, of $nancial $rm is the largest to pay over $75,000 in $nes of, seeing how much of the which Blum is chairman of the stockholder in two major for- for violating election laws. American media he controls. board. Construction? Until pro$t education funds: Career Pattiz was also nominated Apparently all of Pattiz’s public scandal prompted him Education Corporation and to the Broadcasting Board experience in the media to sell o# his holdings, Blum ITT Educational (Hitlzik, of Governors (oversees somehow qualify him to be was a majority partner in a 2010). "ese are exploitative government broadcast like not only a Regent, but also construction and engineering programs that do little to train "e Voice of America) by the Chair of Oversight of the company that did billions in applicants for future work, President Clinton, which Department of Energy’s UC- business with the US military, even though they consume came suspiciously after managed nuclear laboratories among other government over a quarter of all Pell Grants over $300,000 of campaign (Los Alamos National Lab clients. Large land-holding issued nationally, and 90% of donations to the Democratic and Livermore National $rms? Digital media company students leave with federal Party and a backing of Hilary Lab). of which Al Gore serves as loans outstanding (Hitlzik, front man? Health industry 2010). "is work amounts to corporation $ghting to a con%ict of interest; the more undermine the expansion of una#ordable the university public health care? Border- gets, the more students look town maquiladora that builds to cheaper, for-pro$t schools. Hadi Makarechian weapons components for At least we know he’s APPOINTED 2008, BY SCHWARZENEGGER the Department of Defense? quali$ed. After all, he gave TERM EXPIRES MARCH 1, 2020 Check, check, check, and $75,000 to Governor Gray 4HRHYLJOPHU^HZ[OLMV\UKLYVM*HWP[HS7HJPÄJ/VSKPUNZ:OHTYVU check. Davis’ gubernatorial race over HZ^LSSHZ*OHPYTHUVM4HRHY7YVWLY[PLZ)VHYKVM+PYLJ[VYZHUK)HUUPZ "e greatest investment the course of two years. After 3L^PZ9HUJO4HUHNLTLU[*VTWHU`(]LY`YPJOTHUOLTHRLZTVZ[ of Blum’s career was the election, he was appointed VMOPZTVUL`[OYV\NOH]HZ[^LIVMPUÅ\LUJLPU[OLOPNOLUKYLHSLZ[H[L undoubtedly his marriage, as a Regent of the University I\ZPULZZHUKTHUHNLK[VI\`OPZ^H`PU[V*HSPMVYUPHHUK<*WVSP[PJZ roughly 30 years ago, to a of California, and Chairman I`KVUH[PUN [V:JO^HYaLULNNLY»ZJHTWHPNU0UHIYPLMPU[LY]PL^ conservative Democratic of the Board. ^P[O H <*:* Z[\KLU[ QV\YUHSPZ[ OPZ HUZ^LY [V [OL X\LZ[PVU ¸+V `V\ OVULZ[S`[OPUR`V\YLWYLZLU[TPKKSLJSHZZZ[\KLU[ZSPRLT`ZLSM&¹^HZ¸0 KVU»[RUV^¹4PZRH 11 Disorientation Guide

UC PRESIDENT MARK YUDOF APPOINTED 2008 SERVES INDEFINITELY AT THE LEISURE OF THE BOARD (EX OFFICIO)

[photo: Prescott Watson] In March of 2008, the Board even more, taking o!ce on June 16, EDDIE ISLAND of Regents unanimously voted to 2008 with $924,642, budget crisis APPOINTED 2005 TERM EXPIRES MARCH 1, 2017 welcome Mark Yudof as the 19th be damned. President of the University of Another perk to Yudof’s new 7KLVUHWLUHG/DZ\HUDQGH[HFXWLYHKDVZRUNHG California. So who is Yudof, and job is his residence in the Blake IRU WKH 0F'RQHOO 'RXJODV &RUSRUDWLRQ 3DFLÀF why are all the Regents so excited House, a Northern California (QWHUSULVHV&RUSRUDWLRQDQGWKH&DOLIRUQLD6FLHQFH to have him reign over the UC? At mansion that has upheld a &HQWHU%RDUG+HEHOLHYHVWKHEHVWSODQRIDFWLRQ 64, Yudof has had a long history in longstanding tradition of regal and WR WKH 6WDWH %XGJHW &ULVLV LV WR ZDLW LW RXW DQG running public universities across lavish housing for University of HYHU\WKLQJ ZLOO EH ÀQH LQ WKH QH[W IHZ \HDUV7KLV the country. He served as president California presidents. Poor Yudof is DWWLWXGH VKRZV WKH GLVFRQQHFW EHWZHHQ ULFK DQG of the four-campus University of currently living in interim housing SRRU+HKDVHQRXJKPRQH\WRQRWEHKXUWE\WKLV Minnesota from 1997 to 2002, and in Oakland at the cost of $11,500 SUREOHPVRKHFDQDIIRUGWRZDLWLWRXW+HLVRXW chancellor of the University of Texas a month because the Blake house RI WRXFK ZLWK WKH VWXGHQWV KH LV VXSSRVHG WR EH system from August 2002 to May is under electrical and structural UHSUHVHQWLQJ VRPH RI ZKRP FDQ·W DIIRUG WR MXVW 2008. Before that, he was a faculty repairs costing between $2 million DFFHSWWKHKLNHVDQGZDLWXQWLOWKLQJVEORZRYHUOLNH member and administrator at UT and $10 million. We think he KHFDQ Austin for 26 years, taking positions should have to live in the dorms. such as Dean of the Law School from Interestingly enough, Yudof’s 1984 to 1994 and Executive Vice previous employer, the University President and Provost from 1994 to of Texas, was the main competitor 1997. Yudof’s employment history for control over the UC-managed Bruce D Varner APPOINTED 2006 has been, to put it mildly, very well- nuclear weapons labs. It was a TERM EXPIRES MARCH 1, 2018 paid. As Regent Blum described, close race between UT’s alliance “He’s expensive, but he’s worth it!” with Lockheed Martin and the 6D\LQJ%UXFH9DUQHULVDELWRXWRIWRXFKZLWKWKH While president of U of M, Yudof UC’s with Bechtel, Washington OLYHVRI8&VWXGHQWVZRXOGEHDQXQGHUVWDWHPHQW enjoyed multiple raises, bringing his Group International and BWX 9DUQHU LV D SUHVWLJLRXV FRUSRUDWH ODZ\HU KDQGOLQJ annual earnings from $225,000 to Technologies, but the UC took the FDVHVOLNHWKHUHFHQWPXOWLPLOOLRQGROODUWDNHRYHURI $350,000; never mind that 75% of bid. But Yudof didn’t have to feel the WKH6WDWHU%URVFRUSRUDWLRQ9DUQHULVDIULHQGDQG U of M’s service workers were being “disappointment” of losing this bid FRQWULEXWRU WR ORQJWLPH 5HSXEOLFDQ &$ 5HS -HUU\ paid poverty wages. In 2002, Yudof for too long once the UC Regents /HZLVZKRZDVUHFHQWO\XQGHUIHGHUDOLQYHVWLJDWLRQ arrived at University of Texas, decided he was quali$ed for the IRU KLV WLHV WR OREE\LVWV DQG FRQWUDFWRUV +H DOVR doubling his salary and becoming position at the top of their ladder. GRQDWHG  WR 6FKZDU]HQHJJHU·V UHHOHFWLRQ the 6th highest paid chancellor in Not only is Mark Yudof in the ranks FDPSDLJQ EHIRUH EHLQJ DSSRLQWHG WR WKH 5HJHQF\ the United States with a salary at of the country’s highest paid public 6)&KURQLFOH  3(%XVLQHVV  $742,209 in 2007. And with his university presidents, but he $nally most recent move to the University gets to control his long-coveted of California, his salary increased Nuclear Weapons Labs. The University 12

RUSSELL S GOULD Paul Wachter APPOINTED 2005 APPOINTED 2004 TERM EXPIRES MARCH 1, 2017 TERM EXPIRES MARCH 1, 2016

Since July 9, 2009, Russell Gould has been Paul Wachter was previous Wachter is also the manager of Chairman of the Board of Regents. Gould was Governor Schwarzenegger’s the blind trust into which all of appointed to the Board in 1998, and formerly held the main money-man, and one of the Schwarzenegger’s investments positions of Vice Chair and Chair of Finance for the most powerful political insiders were liquidated when he became Board. Gould got his degree in political science at UC in the state. He got his start in governor, which is required of Berkeley and has been representing for the crooked the world of the super-rich as elected o!cials to avoid con%icts politics of California ever since, with a resume that the founder and Executive Chief of interest. Schwarzenegger’s includes Director of the Department of Finance of the O!cer of Santa Monica-based $nancial holdings were brie%y State of California from 1993 to 1996 and prior to company Main Street Advisors. and partially disclosed in 2003 that, Secretary of the Health and Welfare Agency from "is “$nancial, strategic and during the recall campaign, 1991 to 1993. asset management” company revealing a $nancial empire of "e gold star on Russell’s resume is his employment is so exclusive that according tens of millions of dollars invested with Wachovia Bank as Senior Vice President. to a statement of economic in securities, private equity Wachovia was once the fourth-largest bank in the interests forms, Wachter $led funds, and over 100 business United States based on total assets; however, in 2008 with the FPPC after becoming ventures. Not surprisingly, many Wachovia found itself in the middle of a nasty Battle- a UC Regent last year, only 11 of these business ventures were in of-the-Banks when both Citigroup and Wells Fargo clients to the $rm were listed, partnership with Wachter. Given attempted to buy out Wachovia in light of its looming paying the company more than Wachter and Schwarzeneggar’s failure. Initially Citigroup made an o#er to Wachovia $10,000 a year. Multiple clients buddy-buddy relationship, with government support through the Federal Deposit from Main Street Advisors it’s hard to see how Wachter Insurance Corporation, and then soon after Wells were directly connected to could act as an independent, Fargo submitted an even higher o#er of $15.1 billion Schwarzenegger himself, most disinterested manager of the in stock, claiming they did not need the government notably the “Shriver Blind governor’s assets in his position. guarantee that Citibank opted for. Although Trust”—as in Maria Shriver, In fact, it was Schwarzeneggar Wachovia’s stocks had fallen 97% in 2008, the battle Schwarzenegger’s ex-wife, and a himself that nominated Wachter was still ruthless to gain ownership of its assets because member of the Kennedy Family. to the Board of Regents in 2004. in the world of banking, the bigger the better, and this $nancial crisis provided a unique opportunity for the world’s banking monopolies to bloat themselves to new extremes. In the end Wachovia sold itself to Wells Fargo, completing the merger on December 31, 2008. And all this came just before Wells Fargo hit the Monica Lozano APPOINTED 2001, BY DAVIS Bailout jackpot, being one of the $rst banks to receive TERM EXPIRES MARCH 1, 2013 a government-funded $nancial bailout, and being the bank to receive the biggest amount of money in one (YHQWKRXJK/R]DQRLVRQKHUZD\RXWLW·VZRUWKKLJKOLJKWLQJKHUYLOODLQ\ shot—$25 billion dollars. Long story short, Wells /R]DQRVLWVRQWKH%RDUGRI%DQNRI$PHULFDZKLFKKROGVELOOLRQLQORDQV Fargo buys out Wachovia for $15.1 billion, hits the $GGLWLRQDOO\%DQNRI$PHULFDKDVIRUHFORVHGRQWHQVRIWKRXVDQGVRI&DOLIRUQLD government up for a bailout jackpot of $25 billion, KRPHRZQHUV,W·VHVWLPDWHG&$KDVORVW%,//,21LQSURSHUW\WD[UHYHQXHVGXH and our UC President Gould $nds himself sitting atop WRWKHIRUHFORVXUHFULVLV³PRQH\WKDWZRXOGKDYHJRQHWRIXQGSXEOLFHGXFDWLRQ a huge pile of (our) money. DQGRWKHUHVVHQWLDOVHUYLFHV 5HFODLP8& 

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The University of California is a mobilized to contribute to the military enterprise of the political prestigious and infamously “liberal” elites, the Department of Defense, and the DOD’s contracted university, presenting itself as an institution corporate subsidiaries” (Bond-Grahm, 2003). of progressive learning, academic integrity Our academic institutions provide a dual bene$t to the and intellectual freedom. But it’s important military enterprise. First is the continuous in%ux of new to closely examine our university’s science and knowledge, allowing the Department of Defense to role in society, beyond this lofty and continuously advance the technological backbone of the American military. Examples of this relationship are found throughout the liberal image. We think it’s important, as UC system. A 2003 study of the research relationships between participants in this academic institution, the Department of Defense to be conscious of our university’s role as and full-time faculty at UCSC’s an essential building block in supporting 51% Baskin School of Engineering and perpetuating the strength of the ever- of full-time showed that at the time, 51% of expanding American military empire. faculty at UCSC’s faculty were currently engaged Baskin School in a research project that was directly funded by the DOD "ink of war industry as a pyramid that couldn’t stand of Engineering (Bond-Grahm, 2003). "e without the support of all of its sides. "e military, private were engaged in study focuses only on the Baskin corporations, and academia, while appearing to be institutions a research project School of Engineering at UCSC, that function independently of each other, are three pillars that that was directly so it does not include full-time together uphold US military dominance. Within the military- funded by the researchers, lecturers, visiting industrial-academic complex, the military is responsible for professors or graduate students. enforcing defense. Business or industry, primarily comprised DOD (Bond- But because it also omits other of corporate weapons contractors, is responsible for producing Grahm, 2003). institutions invested in war defense tools and machinery. Universities like ours are responsible (corporations, other government for providing the intellectual capital and research necessary to bodies like the Department of Energy or the Department of constantly develop our defense capabilities. In other words, the Homeland Security), it is safe to assume that a 51% share of technology and rhetoric that enable US war e#orts are birthed programs involved with the military enterprise is actually a at schools like UCSC. American hegemony, or geopolitical modest estimate of the extent of the interdependent relationship dominance, could not function without these three institutions between the military and the academy. working with and sustaining each other. "e partnership with war industries is even more “Militarization of the university refers to the process and pronounced at other UC campuses: Professor Charles Schwarz conditions in which a university’s people and resources have been of UC Berkeley’s Physics Department has measured rates of The University 14

in the Marshall Islands, equaling an average of 1.6 Hiroshima-sized explosions over the Marshall Islands every day continuously for 12 years. And it also includes over a thousand bombs detonated on the Western Shoshone Nation at the Nevada Test Site—the most bombed nation on earth—with 1,032 open air nuclear bombings and 21 sub-critical nuclear explosions (Eichstaedt, 1994). "ere is also a trend of environmental racism in the management of UC labs, as communities of color have nearly always been the targets of nuclear attacks and nuclear pollution. "is has especially been true of Native American and Indigenous communities: 18 of 20 proposed nuclear waste sites are located on Native American Reservations. Corporate Takeover

"e relationship between academia, military enterprise, and corporate industry re-solidi$ed military/military-industrial employment for graduates as high in 1994 and 1995, when management of LLNL as 48% for physics, 34% astronomy, 58% atmospheric science, and LANL was put up for bidding the $rst time since the 28% applied mathematics, 64% aeronautical engineering, Manhattan Project. "e decision to put the labs up was a 43% electrical engineering, 34% materials engineering, 36% result of a history of shady and incomplete management by the mechanical engineering, and 24% nuclear engineering (see UC Regents over the labs, including security breeches, lost or graph). stolen classi$ed material, and improper storing and handling of radioactive material. However, the UC Regents were able to UC and The Bomb maintain their grip on the world of nuclear weapons when they submitted their bid as a conglomerate with military-industrial Since the foundation of the Manhattan Project, a term used corporations Bechtel, Washington Group International and to describe the development of the US’s $rst nuclear weapons BWX Technologies, forming a Limited Liability Corporation during WWII, the UC has overseen the nation’s two largest over the labs. "ey won this new contract, beating out a nuclear research facilities: Los Alamos National Laboratory coalition between Lockheed Martin and University of Texas. It (LANL) and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was an awkward battle to say the least with a branch of Lockheed (LLNL). Martin located right up the hill on top of Empire Grade, and Information regarding lab operations is highly classi$ed, but with our new UC President Mark Yudof coming to us after as is publicly stated on the LANL website, “LANL serves as the being Chancellor at the University of Texas. design and certi$cation agency for key nuclear weapons” and "e UC, now partnered with these three corporations, is responsible for “the development of specialized munitions” has turned the management of LLNL and LANL from public (LANL, 2012). "is entails projects involving “plutonium management to private management, making it easier to change science and technology, component manufacturing, and nuclear contracts, create new nukes, and withhold information. "eir waste management.” Researchers at this UC lab also “develop LLC (limited liability) status conveniently removes responsibility more realistic models of nuclear weapons explosions”, and admit from any one of these institutions. It’s important to note the role to performing “subcritical experiments at the Nevada Test Site our new “partners” play in society. using small amounts of nuclear material” (LANL, 2012). We inherit a gruesome history as students of this institution. Bechtel is a multi-national corporation, and one of the largest With the responsibility of managing major parts of the US nuclear war pro$teers in the world, working on 20,000 projects across arsenal, we are consequently responsible for its violent uses. all seven continents since it was founded in 1898. Riley Bechtel "is includes the two atomic bombs dropped over Hiroshima ranks as the 418th richest man in the world according to Forbes, and Nagasaki during WWII, resulting in over 200,000 acute and served on Bush’s Export Council to advise the government deaths and many generations of resultant su#ering. It includes on how to create markets for American companies overseas. the 67 “test” bombs dropped on the Indigenous communities Examples of projects Bechtel has worked on range from nuclear 15 Disorientation Guide

reactors to oil pipelines to “re-building infrastructure” in Iraq. summer the VDC escalated to more confrontational direct "ey are most notoriously known for their involvement in the actions, culminating in an attempt to stop troop trains in West privatization of water in Bolivia, leading to mass protests known Berkeley by standing on the tracks. 20,000 people marched on as “"e Cochabamba Water Wars.” the Oakland Army Terminal, before police forces pushed them back. BWX Technologies seems to “specialize” in the With the invasion of Cambodia in 1970 came another management of nuclear weapons facilities, operating not only wave of action across the nation, especially in Berkeley. First at LLNL and LANL but also at the Y-12 National Security paralyzing the school with a riot in May, the momentum of the Complex in Tennessee and the Pantex Plant in Texas. Anti-War movement was building towards a strike on campus. "e faculty-run Academic Senate voted to abolish the ROTC, Washington Group International was acquired eliminating the UC as a possible site for a number of military in 2007 by URS Corporation for 3.1 million dollars, and activities. "e regents ignored the decision, but the faculty now functions as the “Washington Division” of URS. "is found inventive ways to provides another tie to the UC, because URS Corporation was Researchers at undermine the hegemonic contracted for part of the Long Range Development Plan here this UC lab also representation of the UC by at UCSC ( SEE “LRDP” P.37 ). To make it even more incestuous “develop more reconstituting “the university and complicated, Board of Regents member Richard Blum used so students could take all to preside on the URS Board, but resigned in 2005 after being realistic models of classes pass/no pass and called out for con%ict of interest. nuclear weapons could get credit for anti-war explosions”, work” (Pelfrey, 2004). "e UC is very much guilty of involvement in this military- and admit to More recently, Santa industrial-academic relationship, working closely with the performing Cruz has become one of Department of Defense and for-pro$t corporations. As a result, “subcritical the major sites of resistance the management of the University of California is not only guilty against the Pentagon and of a lack of vocal resistance to United States imperial policies, experiments its allied industries. In but of being an active participant in the deliberate violence, at the Nevada 1991, Santa Cruz students oppression and exploitation enacted by our government and Test Site using shut down Highway 1 in our military at home and abroad . So what do we do about it? It small amounts of agitation against Operation should be noted that e#orts to de-militarize and to democratize nuclear material” Desert Storm, and in 2003, the UC are one and the same. Would the UC participate in the (LANL, 2012). 7,000 Santa Cruz students military enterprises described above if it were run democratically, (along with thousands more if students, sta# and faculty had control over the a#airs of across the state) participated university management? Would students choose to partner with in the world’s largest protest ever, against the US invasion of so many major players in the war industry? Would you? Iraq. Students Against War (SAW) successfully evicted military Luckily, there is a legacy of students $ghting back against the recruiters from Santa Cruz Campus in 2005, and in November con%uence of our education with the military machine. In the of last year, antiwar protesters at UCSC career fair blockaded spring of 1965, students formed the Vietnam Day Committee the tables of Marine recruiters and aerial drone manufacturers. (VDC), an assembly that sparked an around-the-clock teach- Future actions will continue to address the military presence in alongside Zellerbach Hall, drawing attention to a wide array on campus. "ese victories, big and small, work against the of anti-war concerns, drawing in about 30,000 people. "at militarization of our schools.

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From Mortgages to Student Loans: OBAMNEY // A Tale of Two Bubbles

Families foreclosed on and forced into the streets. development that’s been brewing since the late 70’s, and Students fresh out of college and fresh out of luck; no which reached its peak in 2008, can serve as a useful job, no hope, lots of debt. What do these two things have example of what’s wrong with the whole system though. in common? For starters, both outcomes are the result "e accelerated perversion of the relationship between of $nancial bubbles caused by (among other things) lenders and borrowers during that time illustrates the

LIBERTARIANISM: A CRITIQUE A LIBERTARIANISM: the severing of connections between borrowers and degree to which our economy and our country have lenders. As the interests of these two categories diverge changed for the worse.

// and that connection becomes harder to understand, we In the run-up to the events of 2008, privately issued end up with things like the 2008 Financial Crisis and mortgages and private student loans both proliferated the impending Student Debt Crisis. Beyond that, these dramatically. Before the mid-90’s, both types of loan had outcomes are perfect examples of what happens when been overwhelmingly made directly by the government housing and education (and the debt associated with or backed by a government guarantee. But as private each) are treated as nothing more than commodities lenders begin dealing in each type of debt, the rules to be traded for pro$t. "e massive fraud and blatant of the game start to change. "e ethical connection

CRISIS AND CAPITALISM CRISIS disregard for long-term consequences that lies at the between lender and borrower is severed completely, as heart of each bubble can teach us much about why we $nancial $rms realize they can make a killing through now $nd ourselves in the worst recession since the Great buying and selling the debt of uninformed borrowers. Depression. Instead of lending money and making a pro$t o# the interest paid on it, the entire loan is now sold to Wall How bad is it? Street, where $rms bundle it up with thousands of other loans and sell that concoction to various investors, in Nearly four million homes have been foreclosed a process termed “securitization” (McClean & Nocera, on in the US since 2008 (CoreLogic, 2012). In the 2010). Whereas before the people lending the money same amount of time, Americans lost a quarter of their had a direct connection with those borrowing it (if the net worth (Altman, 2009). 54% of bachelor’s degree- borrower didn’t pay, the lender would lose money), now holders under 25 were un- or underemployed last year, the lender’s fate is entirely divorced from the borrower’s. MORTGAGES & STUDENT DEBT // DEBT & STUDENT MORTGAGES while total student debt recently topped a trillion dollars "e lender makes a loan, sells it to Wall Street, and then (Weissmann & NPR, 2012). Wall Street sells that to an investor; out of sight out of Our prospects for advancement after college are mind. Furthermore, since riskier loans charge higher markedly worse than our parents’ were. During the interest rates, the most pro$table loans have quickly past 30 years the US has become the world leader in become those with the least chance of ever being paid income inequality among developed nations, as well as back (Ferguson, 2012). the least upwardly mobile (Stiglitz, 2012). "e “land of "e only thing dictating how loans should be made opportunity” is now anything but. Unless, of course, is how fast Wall Street can gobble them up and resell you work in the $nancial sector, in which case the last them to gullible investors who don’t know what they’re 30 years have been by far the most pro$table in history buying. If the borrowers default on their loans, well, (Khatiwada, 2010). now that’s someone else’s problem. "at disconnect translates into a burning desire How did we get here? to make as many loans as possible in order to satisfy The Political Economy: Wall Street’s hunger for risky loans. Deception and "ere are many reasons for this, all of them exploitation become the norm as lending standards interconnected—deregulation, political corruption, the disintegrate. Potential borrowers become nothing more steady rise in the power and criminality of the $nancial than pawns to be manipulated; “muppets” in the words sector over the last 30 years; the list goes on and on. One of one former Goldman Sachs employee (O’Regan, 17 Disorientation Guide

2012). loans from the originators bundled up and sold as investments In order to make those risky loans, mortgage lenders target to others, that they sell (Ferguson, 2012). "ey won’t be held borrowers with poor credit histories (‘subprime borrowers’ in accountable for what ultimately happens to the loans or those $nancialese) by making aggressive and downright dishonest sales who took them out, so why worry about it? On top of that, pitches in a practice now known as predatory lending. In keeping a law was passed in 2005 that makes it impossible to declare with a history of racial and socioeconomic discrimination bankruptcy on student loans, making them one of the most so often associated with economic “advancement,” a permanent types of debt there is and giving private lenders even disproportionate number of those loans are made to people of more reason to sell as many as possible (Dugas, 2009). color and low income. Undocumented immigrants are especially "e perverse incentives that drive these bubbles place targeted—since they can’t thoroughly understand the forms the pursuit of pro$t over all other concerns—the e#ects on they are being asked to sign, it is that much easier for a lender individuals, society, the economy, even the e#ects on the very to saddle them with the most odious and deceitful types of loan. banks and mortgage companies that greedy traders and lenders It’s no coincidence that the ensuing wave worked at; all are overlooked as long as the of foreclosures was concentrated in border money continues to pile up. states like Florida, Arizona, and, of course, ,QWKHHQGZKDW While it is clearer than ever that the debt California (Ferguson, 2012). WUXO\QHHGVWR many Americans are now saddled with as a Besides the fraud that the companies KDSSHQLVD result of these bubbles was incurred under who sell mortgages directly to aspiring false pretenses, our economic and political homeowners perpetrate, the Wall Street UHWKLQNLQJRIKRZ systems continue to cling stubbornly to the banks that purchase and securitize those ZHXQGHUVWDQGWKH notion that they must be paid back in full, loans are also guilty of a massive amount EDVLFHOHPHQWV no matter the cost to the individual, or to of deception and criminal activity. Such WKDWPDNHXSD society. practices later became the basis for a $26 "e e#ects of all this debt—economic, billion settlement between 49 of 50 state IXQFWLRQLQJVRFLHW\ societal, psychological—won’t be fully felt attorney generals and the $ve largest banks VXFKDVHGXFDWLRQ or understood for decades. Although debt in the US. DQGKRXVLQJ bubbles are far from being the only thing If that sounds like a lot of money, wrong with our $nancial system, they are consider the fact that Bank of America has indicative of the political, economic, and settled a single private lawsuit regarding the same fraudulent social environment that allows them to happen in the $rst place. securitization practices for $8.5 billion. "ere have been many So what are people doing now to try and address this? A more lawsuits pending against these banks seeking similar “Student Loan Forgiveness Act” has emerged in the House, amounts. "e $26 billion settlement however, allowed the banks but its fate remains uncertain (Kristof, 2012). A number of to pay a single sum, tiny in the grand scheme of things, that will in%uential voices are now suggesting that forgiving some of largely protect them from new lawsuits in the future (Taibbi, the debt incurred during the bubble might actually bene$t the 2011). So the banks are still getting bailed out and the victims economy in a number of ways. Indeed, some say it will never be of their $nancial crisis—students, homeowners, families—are able to fully recover until that debt is largely wiped out, one way still getting sold out. or another (Kain, 2011). As a result of deceptive lending tactics by mortgage In the end, what truly needs to happen is a rethinking of how originators and massive fraud by the banks, subprime mortgages we understand the basic elements that make up a functioning shot up from 7% of total mortgages in 2001 to 21% by 2007 society, such as education and housing. As these necessities of (Perry, 2008). Private student loans went from 4% of the total life grow increasingly commodi$ed, our future is determined in 2001 to 15% by 2008 (“Private Loans,” 2011). ever more by short-term, simplistic, and destructive decisions Mortgage originators and banks made fortunes by saddling based solely on the pursuit of pro$t. homeowners and students with debts they could neither a#ord In order to change this we need to change the basic nor understand, sucking the economy into the collapse of 2008 assumptions that our economy, our nation, and our world rest and possibly setting it up for another as the Student Debt upon. We no longer have the privilege of sitting back in the ivory Bubble looms ever larger on the horizon. towers of our universities while our future crumbles around us. Mortgage originators get paid commission based on the We must genuinely apply the knowledge we gain here with the number of loans they sell, so their primary incentive is to keep aim of making real change in the real world. If we want a future making more and more. Traders and executives at banks get for ourselves we must make one by ourselves, because no one paid bonuses based on the amount of securities, which are just else is going to do it for us. The Political Economy 18

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We tend to view economic crisis as accidental hiccups; we capitalism. "is is true for food, water, education, shelter, power, think of them as occasional exceptions to the general tendency communication, health care, socialization, entertainment, for capitalism to deliver essential goods and services to people. transportation, law enforcement, and thanks to the rapid But this simply isn’t true if one examines the history of proliferation of internet dating sites, even love! Social networks capitalism a bit more closely. Crisis has left innumerable scars are part of the process of commodifying our friendships, too. on capitalism —so much so, that it would be impossible to So in order to meet our needs, which are increasingly tied speak about capitalism without them. In the US alone, we have up in our system of currency, we need to $nd a job that will witnessed periods of severe economic contraction starting in pay us to work. But the more jobs this system needs to create 1819, 1837, 1857, 1866, 1873, 1884, 1890, for people, the more commodi$ed our 1893, 1907, 1929, 1937, 1973, and 1987. *HWP[HSPZTOHZ[V life becomes. Capitalism has to constantly "is tendency has only sharpened in the last JVUZ[HU[S`ZLHYJOMVY search for more segments of our daily life few years, with the savings and loan crisis to transform into mediums of labor and of the 1990s, the energy crisis and dot-com TVYLZLNTLU[ZVMV\Y exchange. If it doesn’t, the billions of former bubble of the early 2000s, and of course, the KHPS`SPML[V[YHUZMVYT peasants becoming workers, or the worker’s subprime mortgage crisis of 2007 that kicked PU[VTLKP\TZVMSHIVY children, will not have jobs and thus won’t o# the current cycle of economic calamity. HUKL_JOHUNL spend. But even those fortunate enough to We can even start to think about the have had work, eventually lose it. "is is a history of capitalism as one giant crisis. "ere simple fact of technological development. is an oft-repeated observation that walking may just be our feet Most technology is labor-saving technology, or, technology that catching our perpetual fall-forward. Growth in capitalism works reduces the amount of time (and people) it takes to complete in a similar fashion. Capitalism searches for new industries to any given task. It lies within the legal obligations of businesses privatize as a means of shoring up its increasing inability to make to maximize the pro$ts of the owners, which translates to a a pro$t. maximization of worker productivity in practice. "e more But why does capitalism need growth in the $rst place? We e!cient one worker is, the fewer workers the owner needs on can write it o# to the greed of the wealthy who run the system, sta#. For instance, technology in call centers enables companies but there is also a more structural explanation. Capitalism comes to host a minimal amount of sta# to take on direct conversations in many di#erent shapes and sizes, but its sole precondition is with a consumer; automotive machines in a factory enable one that “people must lack direct access to the goods that they deem worker in this century to do the job of dozens in the last. necessary for life, $nding that access instead only through the "is is re%ected clearly in empirical data. Contrary to popular mediation of the market” (“Misery,” 2010). In other words, belief, manufacturing in the United States reached its peak in in order to get what we need to survive, we need to turn to 2002, and we still make much, much more than we did during 19 Disorientation Guide

WWII and during the economic boom that followed. What can people to organize themselves has also lowered wages—that’s be said is that we employ only a fraction of the workers we once why corporate pro$ts are currently hitting all-time highs, when did. Even China, with its historic rates of growth, did not see our standards of living are hitting all-time lows. Let’s say that any increase in industrial workers from 1993 to 2006 (“Misery,” again: “corporate pro$ts just hit an all-time high, wages just hit 2010). an all-time low” (Blodget, 2012). So capitalism tries to create more industries in places they What happens to the surplus populations? People who can’t didn’t exist before by consuming things previously free from $nd work are often organized along racial lines, living in the commodi$cation. It makes education, health, transportation, ghettos and slums of the world. "ey turn to illicit activities to and sustenance into arenas of pro$t and work. But when it $nds get by, because we’ll all break the law when we’re $ghting for our ways to make work more e!cient, industries eventually employ survival. Prisons and police regulate these populations, using the fewer people and capitalism has to cannibalize even more of our rhetoric of law and order to justify extreme violence to repress life. But it’s running out of things to commodify. the possibility of self-organization within poor communities. Fewer jobs means more surplus populations. Surplus "is has been true for communities of color in the US for most populations of people lower wages for folks that are working, of the nation’s history. But now surplus populations are $nding because a worker becomes replaceable, and therefore less home in American suburbs of formerly “middle-class” families. valuable. Wages have completely collapsed in the last few decades, Today’s university students are not future workers; they’re the since waves of neoliberalism, privatization, and technological future surplus. Poverty has hit a forty year-high in this country, innovation in labor-saving technologies have decreased the but it is set to climb even higher. amount of work necessary for capitalism’s reproduction. "e Capitalism shows no signs of slowing. "e train is running historic attack on organized labor, the main means working class o# the tracks; how will we pull the brake?

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Libertarianism: A Critique

It is no secret that youth in America "ey claim that we have ‘never had a free writes, “We must not allow the disastrous are pissed o#. "e system we’re living in market’, and that if only the government results of corporatism to be ascribed simply isn’t working for us. Unemployment would get out of the way, then all of our incorrectly to free market capitalism for our generation is skyrocketing, and problems would be solved. Many of us or used as a justi$cation for more the traditional safeguards of our futures on the DisGuide can sympathize with government expansion.” Paul explains the —government programs like social unease of government intervention in distinction thusly: “Socialism is a system security, medicare, and unemployment our lives, but we are equally, if not more where the government directly owns and insurance —are looking increasingly in%amed at how capitalism, waged-work, manages businesses. Corporatism is a feeble and impossible to maintain. In and the dictatorship of the rich in and out system where businesses are nominally in light of this, our generation seems to of government, call the shots in nearly private hands, but are in fact controlled correctly be looking for alternative ways every aspect of our life. Let’s cut deep into by the government. In a corporatist state, of keeping ourselves a%oat. "is means the ideology of libertarians bemoaning government o!cials often act in collusion turning to political ideas farther from the corporatocracy, and see if it holds any with their favored business interests to mainstream than your typical democrat weight. design policies that give those interests a or republican. Many have turned to the Over the last several years, it has monopoly position, to the detriment of left—socialists, anarchists, communists, become clear to the vast majority of both competitors and consumers.” environmentalists, and feminists of all Americans that the policies of the Both de$nitions are o#. Socialism stripes and colors, just to name a few. neoliberal establishment have failed. is worker ownership of the means of But plenty more have swung rightward, Consequently, the Libertarian Right is production; Paul describes its state adopting the anti-government, pro-market now attempting to distance itself from socialism variant. Corporatism means vitriol of Ron Paul, Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand, the e#ects of these policies. In his article something else entirely, so I presume that and Milton Friedman, just to name a few. “Obama the Corporatist,” Ron Paul Paul is referring to corporatocracy. But The Political Economy 20 he’s also got corporatocracy backward—it typically originate is not indirect ownership of corporations within that corporation. by the government, but rather indirect But governments lack ownership of the government by a singular internal corporations. "is last distinction is the imperative analogous to key point on which I, as a socialist, di#er the corporations’ pro$t from the Libertarian Right. We both motive. As a result, recognize the cronyism that exists between government decisions corporations and the government. "e originate outside of the question is, does big government produce government and are corporatocracy, or do corporations typically the result of produce big government? interest group pressure. "e answer of the Libertarian Right "is becomes clear is to treat big government as primary, when we look at the corporatocracy as derivative; the recent government government is the root cause of problems expansions. Obamacare, like corpocracy. But even right-wing for instance, was pushed through by the shot back up in the 2000s. "e decline scholars can be used to debunk this view. employers who traditionally provided proved temporary because the interest Corporations are inherently expansionist. their employees with health insurance groups behind high military spending "ey have a government-enforced and were now losing money due to rising were never defeated. responsibility to their shareholders to health care costs, as well as by insurance Big government is so big because maximize pro$ts. "is is known as the companies who wanted the government the corporations made it big. Reducing Friedman Doctrine, named after right- to deliver them new customers. "ere is military spending thus requires reducing wing economist Milton Friedman. not a shred of evidence that Obamacare the power of oil companies. "is can be Governments, on the other hand, are was caused by the government’s innate done through direct action, such as a not inherently expansionist. In his expansionist drive. workers’ strike at an oil rig. Or it can be book “Bureaucracy: What Government No interest group wants big done by pushing through a steep carbon Agencies Do And Why "ey Do It,” government for the sake of big tax. Here, the expansion of government right-wing political scientist James Q. government. College students don’t in one area leads to the withdrawal Wilson $nds “very little support for the want big government; they want of government in another. But the widespread notion that government government-funded public education. Libertarian Right opposes both of these agencies are imperialistic, always seeking Environmentalists don’t want big tactics. Which means that its calls for to grow by taking on new functions and government; they want the government small government are little more than gobbling up their bureaucratic rivals... to regulate pollution. Oil companies pious wishes. "e corporate elites are "ere are, to be sure, plenty of examples don’t want big government; they want the free to pick and choose which libertarian of imperialistic agencies headed by government to boost military spending prescriptions they will implement. "us, growth-oriented executives, but there are and conquer oil-rich countries. Even state they ignored Friedman’s criticism of the also many examples of reluctant agencies socialists see government control of the War on Drugs, but gleefully followed his headed by cautious, skeptical executives.” economy as a path to worker democracy, advice on $nancial deregulation. Wilson cites Marc Tipermas, “who studied not as an end in and of itself. Free market is not a rival of $ve major federal reorganization plans in "ose on the Libertarian Right corporatocracy. Rather, free market is the late 1960s and early 1970s... [and] was commit two errors. First, they do not the ideology of American corporatocracy. able to characterize 25 agency reactions distinguish between a government which "ere is no capitalism but crony to the prospect of gaining or losing an is $ning a company for an oil spill and capitalism. Capitalism cannot exist important subunit. In 15 cases, the agency a government which gives this company without the government creating and sought to grow or hold on to what it had; oil subsidies—both are covered under the enforcing capital property rights. And as in ten cases it declined a chance to grow or blanket term “big government.” Second, long as capitalism and the government actually approved of losing a subunit.” Big the Libertarian Right fails to realize that exist side by side, there will always be government means big responsibility, and if we want to change the government, we political economy problems. If the responsibility is something government must alter the relative power of various Libertarian Right genuinely wants to get o!cials generally want to avoid. interest groups. After the end of the Cold rid of corporatocracy, it should consider "e decisions of a corporation War, military spending declined, but then getting rid of capitalism. 21 Disorientation Guide

Why the election does Obamney and doesn’t matter While not an especially heated debate, Authorization Act into law, allowing inde$nite the choice between Wavy Lays and Ru&es is detention or assassination of US citizens an important one for many processed potato without a trial, extended the Patriot Act, has enthusiasts. A sense of loyalty develops for personally approved drone strikes, and failed to your choice of the ridged chips in a red bag close Guantanamo Bay. While Romney hasn’t or a blue bag. Many would be surprised to been in a position to make these choices, I’ve $nd out that no matter which you buy, your never heard him criticize Obama over them. money still goes to the FritoLay corporation. "is isn’t to say that nothing’s going "at’s right, choosing the one dressed in blue to change or that there’s no point in voting, still sends your money to the exact same place. as they do have some signi$cant policy You are given an illusion of choice between di#erences. Obama is known for a health care two nearly identical products. reform bill based on a plan Romney himself Speaking of which, let’s talk about the enacted as governor of Massachusetts. Despite upcoming presidential election. As with this, Romney is publicly denouncing the FritoLay, for both choices the money %ows reforms that he himself started. And while the same way. Obama and Romney have Obama is pro-choice, Romney believes $rmly accepted massive donations from JP Morgan, in the right of the state to control women’s Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, bodies. Romney also supports policies that and GE. Most of these companies care little make it extremely di!cult for undocumented wrong with a system which, by creating the for which candidate wins because they can immigrants to work, despite the fact that in illusion of only two political possibilities, a#ord to hedge their bets and endorse both 2010, they paid more in taxes than he did bullies people into voting against their true sides knowing that whoever wins will be in (Chan, 2012). Both candidates are members values. Still, I can’t wholeheartedly endorse their pocket. of the 1%, but while Obama’s wealth is fringe candidates for fear of splitting the leftist In addition to this, or perhaps largely estimated somewhere in the high seven vote and ending up with a uni$ed right. because of this, they share many similar $gures, Romney’s private empire tips the scale Simply put, our electoral system is in policies. "ey both believe in supporting farm at approximately $200 million (Riley, 2012). need of serious reform, but that reform won’t subsidies (which may sound nice, but is a racket Both are disconnected from the poor and be achieved solely through voting. You should to keep unhealthy processed foods like corn middle classes, but for Romney this is true to vote. It’s one of the few ways you’re given syrup cheap for consumers and pro$table for an extreme. anything resembling a voice in this system. corporations). Both agree that humans play a Perhaps more important is the fact that But that’s not an invitation to walk out of the role in climate change, but neither is willing to the mainstream red-blue political conversation voting booth with anything resembling a sense limit US business interests in doing anything only addresses a very narrow section of a much of accomplishment. As Howard Zinn worded about it. "ey also both support maintaining wider political spectrum. Focusing too closely it, “Voting is easy and marginally useful, but the abysmal current federal minimum wage, on the liberal-conservative divide means it’s a poor substitute for democracy, which the futile war on drugs, the bloated and ignoring many other possible patterns of requires direct action by concerned citizens.” dysfunctional prison system, the Patriot Act, political organization. Voting is what they let you do. True policies on immigration and deportation, and "e Republicrat party presents itself as democracy happens when you go beyond what hawkish military presence overseas. the only choice. Millions vote for the lesser of the system allows and create grassroots change You might also be surprised at the two evils, convinced that anything else is naive in your community beyond what presidential extent to which the Obama administration and impractical. Outside candidates like the chips you buy. has furthered military expansion. With Green Party’s Jill Stein are seen as a joke for Democrats in control we’ve continued to wage even attempting to break into the closed two war in Afghanistan and Iraq, to say nothing party system. Even though many progressives of what goes on at the 721 US military bases know Obama won’t enact the policies that they scattered across other countries around the support, they are discouraged from supporting world. Obama signed the National Defense the candidate who would. "ere’s something

Chan, Jacinda. “Illegal Immigrants Paid More Taxes Than Romney in 2010.” 7VSPJ`4PJ. N.p., Aug. 2012. Web. 25 Aug. 2012. Riley, Charles. “Romney’s Elusive Net worth Calculation.” *554VUL`. Cable News Network, 27 Jan. 2012. Web. 25 Aug. 2012. Organizing 22 Quebec Student Strike! An International Student Movement

What’s the di"erence between a Canadian college UNION ORGANIZING @ UCSC student and an American college student? // "at might sound like the opening to a joke, but there’s more to the question than that. Students in the US and Canada inherit di#erent political histories, and

OCCUPY X 2 OCCUPY as a result, favor very di#erent strategies with regard to activism and organizing in universities. So, in the hope // of building a stronger student movement here in the UC, this essay attempts to identify some helpful pointers from our neighbors across the border. In mainstream US conversation, the subject of CONSENSUS politics refers almost exclusively to elections and

// legislation. Voting, donating, petitioning, lobbying and awareness-raising are the basic modes of participation in political projects in this country, and this is re%ected in the strategies Within weeks, adopted by students who hundreds of the UC. "e Canadian government has been steadily push for greater quality and thousands of cutting resources for education and other social services, accessibility in our education students were on resulting in fee increases and class cuts much like we see systems. When quality and strike, shutting in California. accessibility in the UC are down universities In early February, Quebecois (keh-beh-kwah) jeopardized by tuition hikes and making government o!cials announced a 75% tuition increase, and cuts to programs, our demands for radical from $2,168 to $3,793 per year. (UC students pay

FIVE THESES ON THE STUDENT STRIKE THE STUDENT THESES ON FIVE student government’s default reform of education more than that every quarter). In response, students response is to organize systems in the walked out of classrooms and into the streets. Within letter-writing campaigns province. weeks, hundreds of thousands of students were on strike, and lobbying trips to the shutting down universities and making demands for capitol. Strict adherence to radical reform of education systems in the province. "is QUEBEC // governmental rules and procedures is the norm; anything mass mobilization was organized through a coalition of resembling civil disobedience or strategic disruption is three large student groups, FEUQ, FECQ, and CLASSE, dismissed as unrealistic and impractical, even foolish. each of which was composed of a number of smaller "is perspective ignores the most signi$cant victories of groups working in solidarity with each other (Lavey & UC student organizing, all of which were won through Tomlinson, 2012). the use of strikes, walkouts and other mass actions. It’s extremely important to note that the strike didn’t "e Free Speech Movement, Berkeley’s Ethnic Studies come from a call put out by the elected representatives of Organizing: program, and the 1980s’ Anti-Apartheid Divestment the organizations listed above. Instead, it grew organically Campaign are a few examples. from directly democratic general assemblies similar to But student organizations behind much of this era’s those made famous by the Occupy movement. Each activism su#er from selective amnesia with regard to the academic department in a Quebecois university has its strategies of past generations. How is this di#erent from own student assembly, which is part of a larger student what happens in Canada? For context, it’s important union, but votes independently on whether or not to to know that public universities in Canada are going participate. Assembly after assembly approved the strike through the same crisis that we’re experiencing here at until it had snowballed into a movement that rocked the 23 Disorientation Guide

entire province ("orburn, 2012). "e scale of the disruption political model than the one we’re accustomed to here. In was so vast that university o!cials cancelled the rest of the this model, power lies in the ability of a person (and more school term, and Quebecois legislators hurried to pass a law that importantly a group of people) to choose whether or not to would level hefty $nes against anyone picketing at a college or participate in a system. "ere demonstrating within 50 meters of university property. Students The di!culty of is no university without responded with blatant disregard for the law: a few days after it students, and there is no passed, some 300,000 people assembled in the streets for the negotiation lay in the tuition without a university. biggest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history. By then, fact that many students UC students could learn the rebellion had also spread beyond the student body, with much from the example participation from various labor unions. At the same time, the don’t simply want lower set by our transnational education sector uprising began to shift the national dialogue tuition; they see their accomplices. "e Quebec around the province’s current election. Keys components of the strike erupted shortly after main opposition party’s platform are a reversal of the fee increase actions in the context students in Puerto Rico shut and a repeal of the anti-protest law. of an e#ort to create a down 10 out the 11 campuses By the end of the school year, the Quebecois government of the national university for had o#ered some minor concessions, which were rejected by a society free from the two months, in an attempt majority of the striking students. "e concessions consisted of specter of corporate to prevent a 50% tuition measures to soften the blow of the tuition increases through a increase (Gonzalez, 2011). variety of payment plans, but these proposals fall far short of capitalism. In Chile, tens of thousands students’ goals. "e di!culty of negotiation lay in the fact that of students participated in a many students don’t simply want lower tuition; they see their seven-month strike that has evolved into a broader movement to actions in the context of an e#ort to create a society free from revamp sections of the Chilean constitution (Robichaud, 2011). the specter of corporate capitalism. In this way, the objectives of Governments around the world are trying to privatize public the Quebec student movement more closely resemble those of universities in accordance with neoliberal agendas, and students Occupy Wall Street than any more traditional education reform are resisting. "ey’re not lobbying elected representatives: e#ort. they’re pulling the supports out from under the system that is Our peers in Quebec are acting on a drastically di#erent responsible for the crisis.

*Addendum: Election results came on September 4, with the opposition party winning by less than one percentage point. The following afternoon, the heads of the new government announced that their !rst actions upon taking o"ce will be to reverse the fee increase and repeal Bill 78, the anti-protest law. At the time of printing, public responses from members of the student movement have yet to emerge. (“Marois Declares PQ Priorities as Charest Resigns”)

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I. As students we strike at the heart of the Consensus, & economy that depends on the educational system that exploits us, disciplines us, and SURӾWVRӽXV Participatory To strike as students is to recognize ourselves as workers in the present and future economy. Our labor is necessary to Democracy reproduce an educational system which is a source of pro$t and plunder for the 1% and a source of disciplined and exploitable economic labor. So long as the employing class Thought Processes of a Social Movement pro$ts o# our knowledge, we should not pay tuition and be plunged into debt in order to be employable. Instead, we should be guaranteed a wage to learn. If you were critically engaged with the “Obamney” article ( P.21 ), you might now be thinking about what II. :HVWULNHWRUHMHFWDV\VWHPWKDWGLYLGHVXV to do outside the voting booth. Fortunately, you’ve got options. As is evident from a look at the “Timeline We strike because our desire to learn must not be used to maintain violent social divisions. We reject a system that of Local Activism” ( P.57 ), there are several related exploits our di#erences and divides us along race, gender, campaigns around which students and community and class lines. We are taught that education is our best members are currently organizing. If you get involved in means to “get ahead” in life, yet many are also left behind, resistance to campus expansion, e#orts to de-militarize devalued, or simply discarded. We reject a system that forces the university, or the campaign for Critical Race and us into vicious competition and pits us against one another. Ethnic Studies (CRES), you will participate in a lot of meetings. III. We strike against a failing system that Behind every rally, march, and campus shutdown UREVXVRIRXUIXWXUH are dozens of hours of meetings. Face to face interaction We strike against the devaluation of our education through between organizers is essential for the development of austerity measures, rising tuition, and budget cuts. We strike a clear goal and strategy, and for the coordination of against being doomed to a lifelong debt, constant retraining tasks that go into carrying it out. Meetings are tools for and re-skilling, and against a system that saddles us with collective problem solving, decision making, planning, the cost of producing exploitable workers for the market. reporting, and evaluating. After a productive meeting, We refuse an educational system governed by the dictates of there often are %yers to be posted, class announcements competition, individualism, and pro$t. to be scheduled, and messages to be conveyed to other IV. :HVWULNHWRDԀUPDQGFUHDWHWKHHGXFDWLRQ students, faculty, sta#, and administrators. ZHZDQW Not everyone has the patience or free time to participate in steady %ow of meetings that are at the core We strike for an educational system that serves our collective of leftist grassroots organizing at UCSC. Not everyone needs and desires. We want to be decision-makers in our has to, either. As long as you’re willing to keep yourself collective future, for knowledge to be a genuine commons informed, talk with other people, and show up for mass and not a source of pro$t. actions, you’re doing pretty well. Meetings can alternately be exciting, boring, V. We strike to build our collective power and FUHDWHVRPHWKLQJQHZ thought-provoking, mind-numbing, exhausting and energizing, depending on the purpose of the meeting, To strike is to realize our power to determine our everyday the behavior of its participants, the skill of the facilitator, lives. We refuse to let our bodies and our minds be held and other factors. "e e#ectiveness and tolerability of a hostage to the current educational and work regimes, to meeting are heavily in%uenced by the extent to which collaborate quickly as the violent logic of capital bankrupts its participants are familiar with the process being used. us of our present and future. We strike together to build a For the past few years at UCSC, most student better world and reclaim our future. organizing meetings have operated with a ‘consensus- based’ process. "is comes from a belief in the “Five Theses on the Student Strike.” Tidal Mar. 2012: 14. Print. %\VWXGHQWVDW&81<*UDGXDWH&HQWHU¿UVWSXEOLVKHGLQTidal. importance of the principles behind pure consensus, 25 Disorientation Guide

coupled with the understanding that we’re organizing around do this, but I won’t stop others from issues from which much controversy inevitably arises. In the doing it.” interest of fostering familiarity with the mechanics of this ˆ Blocking: “I cannot support this or practice, what follows is an introduction to to consensus-based allow the group to support this.” organizing. ˆ Withdrawing from the group. Obviously, if many people express non-support or What is Consensus? reservations, stand aside, or leave the group, it may not be a Consensus is a process for group decision-making. It is a viable decision even if no one directly blocks it. "is is what is method by which an entire group of people can come to an known as a “lukewarm” consensus and it is just as desirable as a agreement. "e input and ideas of all participants are gathered lukewarm beer or a lukewarm bath. and synthesized to arrive at a $nal decision acceptable to all. "rough consensus, we are not only working to achieve better Forming the Consensus Proposal: solutions, but also to promote the growth of community and During discussion a proposal for resolution is put forward. trust. It is amended and modi$ed through more discussion, or withdrawn if it seems to be a dead end. When a proposal Consensus vs voting: seems to be well understood by everyone, and there are no Voting is a means by which we choose one alternative from new changes asked for, the facilitators can ask if there are any several. Consensus, on the other hand, is a process of synthesizing objections or reservations to it. If there are no objections, there many diverse elements together. Simple majority voting is a win can be a call for consensus. If there are still no objections, then or lose model, in which people are more concerned with the after a moment of silence you have your decision. Only the numbers it takes to “win” than with the issue itself. Voting does beginning, of course, now you have to carry it through. Once not take into account individual feelings or needs. In essence, consensus does appear to have been reached, it really helps to it is a primarily quantitative, rather than qualitative, method of have someone repeat the decision to the group so everyone is decision-making. clear on what has been decided. With consensus process, people attempt to work through "e fundamental right of consensus is for all people to be di#erences together and synthesize seemingly contradictory able to express themselves in their own words and of their own ideas. Consensus depends on people’s ability to talk peacefully will. "e fundamental responsibility of consensus is to assure about their di#erences and reach a mutually satisfactory others of their right to speak and be heard. Coercion and trade- position. Sometimes, one person’s insights or strongly held o#s are replaced with creative alternatives, and compromise beliefs can sway the whole group. Ideally, no ideas are lost, and with synthesis. each member’s input is valued as part of the solution. Roles in a consensus-based meeting: Nuts and Bolts of Consensus: "ere are several roles which, if $lled, can help consensus Consensus does not mean that everyone thinks that the decision-making run smoothly. "e facilitator (or co- decision made is necessarily the best one, or even that they facilitators) aids the group in de$ning decisions that need be are sure it will work. What it does mean is that in coming to made, helps them through the stages of reaching an agreement, that decision, no one felt that his/her position on the matter keeps the meeting moving, focuses discussion to the point at was misunderstood or that it wasn’t given proper hearing. It hand, makes sure everyone has the opportunity to participate, also means that the $nal decision doesn’t violate someone’s and formulates and tests to see if consensus has been reached. fundamental moral values, for if it did, they would be obliged Facilitators help to direct the process of the meeting, not its to block consensus. Hopefully, everyone will think it’s the best content. "ey never make decisions for the group. If a facilitator decision; this often happens because, when it works, collective feels too emotionally involved in an issue or discussion and intelligence does come up with better solutions than individuals. cannot remain neutral in behavior, if not in attitude, then s/he But, it may occasionally not, and then the decision may just be should ask someone to take over the task of facilitation for that the one supported by the most people. "ose who object can do agenda item. one of several things: A vibes-watcher is someone besides the facilitator who ˆ Non-support: “I don’t see the need watches and comments on individual and group feelings and for this, but I’ll go along.” patterns of participation. Vibes-watchers need to be especially ˆ Reservations: “I think this may be a tuned in to the surfacing of sexism, racism and other oppressive mistake, but I’ll still go along.” patterns in group dynamics. ˆ Standing aside: “I personally can’t A recorder can take notes on the meeting, especially of Organizing 26

[photos: Sal Ingram] decisions made and means of implementation and a time- keeper keeps things going on schedule so that each agenda item can be covered in the time allotted for it (if discussion runs over the time for an item, the group may or may not decide to contract for more time to $nish up). Even though individuals take on these roles, all participants in a meeting should be aware of and involved in the issues, process, and feelings of the group, and should share their individul expertise in helping the group run smoothly and reach a decision. "is is especially true when it comes to $nding compromise agreements to seemingly contradictory positions. Consensus and Action: "e goal of every decision-making process is not to decide on a solution, but also to carry out that plan of action. Without subsequent action, decisions are totally Occupy Wall Street meaningless. "is is often overlooked. It seems that a person’s commitment to any decision is in proportion to One year later: A review, celebration, their sense of participation in that decision. Consensus and critique attempts to involve all members of a group, not just the “leaders”. Consensus clearly takes more time than a simple For many observers, Occupy represents the foundational vote. But the added time can be viewed in relation to the moment for people’s political struggle, not just nationally, increased probability of the decision being carried out; but internationally. But to interpret the movement like longer decision time but shorter implementation time. this obscures the important role played by agitators across Most deadlock situations are, however, mixed up with the world to prepare occupiers for this moment. In 2009, emotions. If the root of someone’s objections to a proposal struggles for squats and land lit up across Florida. Workers is really their personal dislike for the proponent(s), then seized factories in Chicago and Paris. Students in California, hopes for resolution are virtually nil until these personal New York, and London shut down schools in strikes and issues are addressed. For consensus to work, the group roving occupation campaigns. Riots against racism roared must be able to identify and work out emotional problems from Oakland to England. "e unemployed youth of the and feelings. Arab world overturned autocracy. "is list is by no means exhaustive. Spokescouncils: It’s di!cult to speak about the multitude of social ruptures When many small clusters of organizers are operating that have emerged over the last few years with much unity. in a large group, each cluster can select one person to act "ey have been disparate in location, participants and goals, as their spokesperson. "ese “spokes” carry a!nity group’s and that makes it hard to grasp as a contiguous whole. Occupy, opinions and proposals to spokescouncils of all the a!nity if nothing else, gave us a name that evokes the many struggles groups’ reps; they are not empowered to make any $nal working people have been locked in over the past year. decisions without $rst consulting their a!nity groups Still, Occupy itself is a high-water mark moment for (unless it is a pre-determined empowered spokescouncil). protest and rebellion in our time. Within weeks of the Spokes do try to consolidate, synthesize, and iron out movement’s birth, Occupy camps had popped up in thousands di#erences between proposals so as to create a proposal(s) of towns across the nation, and terms coined by the movement agreeable to all. Information is then relayed back to the were on everyone’s lips. Community members were delivered a!nity groups by spokes, the issues at hand reconsidered, back into formerly foreclosed homes, the brutality of police and a new position (or perhaps the same old one) is regimes was exposed, labor struggles found support from the reached. "ese positions are once again brought to the unemployed, and massive blockades cut into the pro$ts of spokescouncil. If consensus is reached, great. If not, the $nancial giants. For the $rst time in decades, the exploited process may be repeated again or the group may decide to experimented with ways of $ghting against the cards they were return to the previously agreed upon position. consciously dealt by elites. And for the $rst time in decades, elites were listening. "e tone of the debate in Washington 27 Disorientation Guide changed, even if policy didn’t; a sure recognition that the people up top are afraid of the displays of discontent below. Occupy delivered a vision for what protest should be. Not a stir which would coerce the bankers, bosses, and politicians to make our exploitation a little bit fairer, but instead a real disruption of the normal rhythm of that exploitation; food distributed and healthcare provided to some who had hardly seen it. Shelter and community and all the other stu# we need to get by was found, free of charge. By providing for folks’ daily needs, even provisionally, Occupy enabled us to live without returning to the typical sites of social reproduction, ever rife with oppression: be it the broken and battered homes, the street corners, the shitty jobs, the cramped classrooms. With our needs provided for us, we could live together and develop collective practices, eroding away the parts of us that were an internalization of the world Occupy was $ghting discontent, and have room and resources to undermine against: our own greed, property, and prejudice. Living in oppression. "e camps didn’t just provide food, shelter, ensemble and $ghting in solidarity corroded that debilitating housing and community; they also provided a multiplicity of fear that comes with precarious work and its debts. But our connections that enabled a diverse array of actions against the socially-guaranteed needs also gave us time to spread our little totality that is capitalism, patriarchy, and apartheid. communes, generalizing the disruption of exploitation. With Despite the need to applaud Occupy, it still has needs provided, we could focus on projects recognizable limits. While the form of its that mattered to us: combating the system Protest ought to be protest presents a radical break with waged that robbed us of decent lives. something more work, property and hierarchies stemming from "is isn’t to say that Occupy successfully than a means of this shitty capitalist system, the content was eliminated our dependence on the world of pressure that gets often times less than poignant. All too often waged work. But thousands of unemployed us a temporary seat we became $xated on a symbolic gathering or underemployed folk found the support at the negotiating outside of a bank. Highlighting the role of and purpose they were looking for. General table; protest is $nance capital in creating the mess that we’re strikes, port blockades and campus like a break with in is crucial, but this tactic did nothing to help shutdowns temporarily liberated more people the regular rhythm us live in a world without banks; it just asked, from the grips of wage labor, and each action of our world. And while the media was watching, for politicians saw the size of the occupy camps grow, that break gives us (who are already in the banks pockets), to do if only for a limited time. "is is what is space to actively something to alleviate our economic misery. meant when Occupy declares that it has “no construct the world On this accord, Occupy has failed; banksters demands”; protest ought to be something we want to live in. and speculators have not seen criminal more than a means of pressure that gets us a charges, largely because under capitalism, their temporary seat at the negotiating table; protest is like a break schemes are legal. In other moments, some comrades would with the regular rhythm of our world. And that break gives us put together a ‘list of demands’ requesting government jobs space to actively construct the world we want to live in. for all the unemployed. But our critiques levied in the camps Occupy operates through something philosopher Walter always extended further than our joblessness. It was also about Benjamin called ‘pure means’. It $nds its justi$cation within the inherently exploitative nature of work. It questioned why its own activity and not in some end that it produces through workers only receive pennies of their companies pro$ts. It causality. So much of protest relies on the teleology of creating asked why most of our work was alienating paper-pushing that particular ends; if we draw enough attention to an issue, or beget itself and nothing more. It asked why there were always educate enough potential voters, than we can make the world more people than jobs, when there seemed to be so much work we want. Occupy, while certainly retaining a symbolic and to be done. educational edge, was principally about working to create And these are just the more or less ideological problems, spaces free of oppression for bodies to organize attacks on paling in comparison to the many technical problems that oppression. Occupy was a space where folks from di#erent occupiers still face; from overcoming police violence to backgrounds could come together, recognize their common $guring out how to meet our needs outside the framework Organizing 28 of capitalism. In other words, some of Occupy’s most occupiers from camps, arresting the possibility of their return pressing ills can only be cured with more occupations, more at every major action since. So we must face the reality that the experimentation and greater disruption. Occupy supporters camps are not likely to come back. But we can $nd new spaces, must look beyond tent encampments and toward building places, and venues for our struggle. Millions of homes and takeovers, disruptions of commerce on a grand scale. It must buildings remain vacant; factories and schools are being closed; look toward ways to bringing food, healthcare, education, joy arable land lies empty. and decision making processes to the people usually deprived Occupy was preceded by countless instances of agitation, direct access to it. Occupy attacked the commodity circulation and in the months to come, Occupy will be followed by more of the aforementioned needs by delivering them for free. "e rebellion. "is rebellion may not carry the Occupy banner, camp as a space for the production and distribution of those but it will certainly carry with it the new strategies of struggle needs is long gone. "roughout the winter police evicted popularized by the encampments.

OCCUPY EVERYTHING!

ON BUILDING OCCUPATIONS

In fall 2009, we faced sizable impending budget cuts and tuition increases, that we, as students, faculty, and workers, feared with good reason, wouldn’t stop unless [photos: Sal Ingram] we stopped it. It was during this period when students at UC Santa Cruz resurrected an old organizing tactic that hadn’t been employed in American universities on a wide scale for some time – the occupation.

It was an overnight hit – the di!cult to describe. It’s an often joyful, way, as windows and doors are left media buzzed, but more importantly intense experience where adrenaline without barricades. "is type of takeover students from across the state, and the courses through your body, as you begin assumes some su!cient political power world, cheered on and emulated UCSC to feel, for perhaps the $rst time in your or movement, meaning you think students. A building occupation— life, what a community can really be. So you can hold onto the space by sheer taking over buildings and spaces with many bodies %ow in and out through popular support. "is is an excellent a group of students, as in the case of these spaces, some collide and form new method if there are large numbers of Kerr Hall here—is used to achieve groups, separate and start over again. At people involved, as it allows for new strategic goals: ranging from concessions its best, its more fun and satisfying than people to come and join the occupation from the university in negotiations, anything else college has on o#er. who might be excited at the prospect to the recovery and “liberation” of an of something actually happening. organizing space for further political TACTICS Insu!cient political power, however, will mobilization. At its most radical, some most certainly result in a situation where sabotage of spaces may inevitably occur "ere are nominally two types of the police will come with the intent of in order to perform essential services. occupations. “Soft” occupations seek arresting as many people as possible. "e "e occupation itself is a little to keep doors open in a literal sort of only o#shoot of this is, of course, when 29 Disorientation Guide there is something else that can be levied against those who might call the cops, typically a threat of intensive property destruction. "e second type, a “hard” occupation, seeks to make it as di!cult as possible for the authorities to enter the premises. "is is done through the usage of c-clamps, truck ties (both are inexpensive and can be found at your local hardware store), and an imaginative utilization of movable furniture in the building itself. "e idea here being to garner support on the outside, while those inside locking the building down create a space for a demonstration to come. It’s important in this circumstance to always plan for support outside—because tactically, those on the outside can make it especially di!cult for police to gain materials, support, barricaded themselves and disciplined a few individuals. Where entry into the building. outside, served as lookouts, sabotaged coercion did not work, they attacked "ese two methods are not exactly cop routes, etc. But instead of looking our bodies with pepper spray, billy clubs mutually exclusive. In fact, the method to expand, to continue facilitating an and brute force. It is deeply symptomatic that was utilized during the Kerr Hall ongoing campus takeover, it was decided of the society in which we live that the Administrative Building occupation to wait and hold the space hostage. "e security of physical property counts for at UCSC was a combination of both sad fact is that this is an unsustainable more than the vibrancy and happiness of types—where a movement of students practice; much like an polar version of human life. Occupations exposed these made it possible. All entryways, the multinational corporation, which fucked up priorities. windows, etc., were barricaded with must expand or die, we too must Occupations also revealed the the exception of the front door, which continue to expand, take over, destroy ambivalent function of universities in allowed for an ongoing %ow of bodies business as usual, and continue to build our society. Universities give students and essential materials. Further, the front a broad-based anti-austerity movement. the opportunity to envision sweeping doors, while not enclosed, were prepared Occupations are acts of transformations of everything from for barricading at the $rst whi# of a disobedience. We discovered that the way the world works to the way problem. creating new friendships and solidarity they make love. At the same time, across di#erence requires installing a universities are tools for socializing STRATEGY new social landscape on the university students, teaching them how to obey campus. We used our bodies—the force orders and conform to norms. "ey Most important to the occupation of our collective physical presence in a equip us with intellectual faculties for is not the occupation itself, but its space—as a barrier to protect this new questioning society, but also reproduce placement in an overall strategy. A social landscape from a hostile outside its structures of inequality, exploitation building occupation is as good as its world. "e administration labeled these and social control. Within the highly overall planning, both the planning that attempts to open spaces to new relational regimented university experience, goes into its execution, and the planning modes as “violent.” "ey criminalized building occupations opened our minds of what to do after there is a successful our friendships. Accordingly, the police to ways that we might of take control of takeover. One cardinal failure of the were called upon to separate us from our situation and transform the world. Kerr Hall occupation of 2009 was that one another. If our arms or hands were Occupations taught us that global it never thought of itself outside of the linked, they tore us apart. If we stood structures of capitalism can be contested Kerr Hall building itself. Hundreds in a cluster, they broke us up into in the here and now with a small group and hundreds of people came at isolated monads. If we made collective of committed individuals deciding that various times, spent the night, provided decisions, the administration blamed inaction is no longer an option. Organizing 30

Workers & Students: Stronger Together UC unions stand with students for quality, accessible education and good jobs for California!

n your $rst weeks at UCSC you will probably do some, if and to keep its doors open to all students who wish to learn. I not all, of the following things: buy books at the Baytree Instead, it edges out more and more students with each fee hike Bookstore; stand in line for a new student ID; eat meals in the and tuition increase. Instead, it denies its employees salaries dining halls; take showers in a regularly cleaned dorm bathroom, that meet the cost of living, and imposes greater and greater and throw last night’s beer cans into the just-emptied dumpster workloads on the same number of workers, directly decreasing outside your building. the quality of education and student life at UCSC. As you do each of these things, take a minute to consider what is happening around you. "is university is sta#ed by thousands of people who do everything from teach your classes to clean your common room. Consider that it is these people who make 2UV^@V\Y<*

An Update on Union Organizing Mary Virginia Watson UCSC Unit Chair, UAW 2865

"is year, several unions representing UC workers will be bargaining their employment contracts with the university. "e outcome of their struggle will have wide-reaching e#ects on the quality of education and campus life for students, as well as for those of us who might work at UC in the future. Management at UC is pushing to consolidate funding and control at the top, while cutting workers’ retirement security and healthcare, and freezing already-low wages at current levels. Worse still, the UC is moving ahead with plans to outsource union jobs to non-union workers. "is means many UC jobs that pay a living wage and come with health and pension bene$ts will be transformed into jobs that pay poverty wages and come with no bene$ts—continuing the trend of rising economic inequality that has created the current economic crisis. In the past, workers and students have joined forces to tell the state and the Regents that the university belongs to those who make it work— students and workers. Together, we’ve blocked fee increases that harm students and won good contracts that bene$t working families.

!is will be an exciting year. UC union workers, the UC student association, and campus activists are more united than ever. "roughout the year, we will be educating and mobilizing the campus community to stand up for each other and the rights of Californians to good jobs and an a#ordable, quality education. We know that when we stand together, we stand to gain more for us all.

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HOW TO GO GREEN TO HOW Sustainability Disoriented Dollars aren’t green SUSTAINABILITY MYTHS // SUSTAINABILITY As a student at UCSC, and as a resident of the Santa Cruz community, you’ll inevitably encounter parts of the lively environmental movement that exists here. You Graham, 2003). might become an active organizer in campaigns to make In other words, the university provides the brains university life more sustainable, or you might participate behind many US war technologies, supporting the by changing some of your personal habits, or you might do military presence that enables globalized oil extraction nothing at all to reduce your impact on the environment. and consumption on an immense scale. "e relationship Commitment to environmental and social justice varies between the University of California and the military is widely between the many di#erent communities that an old one: since 1943, every single nuclear weapon built

The Environment: coexist here. If you’re reading this, you must at least be for the United States arsenal has been maintained by curious about what we, the folks behind the Disorientation a UC-managed laboratory. Even if while we’re on a UC Guide, have to say about sustainability. With that, here are campus we recycle, compost, and bike everywhere, we’re two points to keep in mind any time your hear the words still complicit in the functioning of one of the US military ‘green’, ‘eco-friendly’, or ‘sustainable’. empire’s many research engines. An understanding of this relationship motivates much of the student organizing that goes into campus shutdowns at UCSC. One of the most 1.This university is explicit examples of such student action was in 2003 at the beginning of the second Iraq war ( SEE “UC AND WAR” P.13 ). unsustainable At a more local scale, the physical expansion of the UCSC campus threatens ecosystems, and promises to UCSC is often praised as a leader in advancing exacerbate regional water shortages. Over the next decade sustainability, with some justi$cation. On campus you’ll UC administrators hope to build 2100 new parking notice recycling bins, compost containers, bike racks, spaces, 14 acres of sports facilities, College 11, and more, water bottle re$ll stations, and other forms of ecologically in what are now undeveloped parts of campus. You can’t conscious infrastructure. Organizations like the Student build sustainably in a redwood forest. "e growth would Environmental Center work with administration to be accompanied by the enrollment of 2000 additional increase the proportion of renewable energy and local food students, and a correlated increase in the campus’ water purchased by the school. Compared with other universities, usage. "is issue ties the actions of the university directly to we’re doing pretty well. local politics o# the hill, where city o!cials are considering "e statement that UCSC is unsustainable refers to the construction of an energy-intensive desalination plant operations that are less visible than our food, waste, and to stabilize the town’s water supply (“scwd2,” 2009). One transportation systems. Here at UCSC and on other UC of the most notable examples of student resistance to the campuses, many faculty, graduate students and postdoctoral expansion at UCSC is the 2007 tree-sit, which sought researchers perform lab work for the Department of to block the construction of the new Biomedical Facility Defense and for private weapons manufacturers (Bond- that houses research for a number of pharmaceutical The Environment 34

corporations. "e proposed construction projects were improbable), it would make an insubstantial dent in paid for by bonds backed by your tuition dollars, so humanity’s total greenhouse gas emissions (Hamilton, whether or not you think the expansion is a good idea, 2010). you’re indirectly paying for it ( SEE “LONG RANGE DEVELOPMENT Green consumerism also “transfers responsibility PLAN” P.37 ). from the corporations mostly accountable for the pollution, and the governments that should be restraining them, onto the shoulders of private consumers” 2.Green consumerism (Hamilton, 2010). We should buy “green” products if we doesn’t work can a#ord to, but we should also understand that this is only a minor placeholder as we work to dismantle the institutions that make corporate industrial environmental Within the past decade (especially in Santa Cruz degradation possible. “Individual consumption choices and other relatively a&uent areas), the availability are environmentally important, but... control over of ‘environmentally friendly’ products has increased these choices is constrained, shaped, and framed by dramatically. Organic food is on the shelves of many institutions and political forces that can be remade only grocery stores, biodegradable packaging is starting to through collective citizen action, as opposed to individual appear, and people looking to buy a car now have several consumer behavior” (Alloway & Kochan, 2012). In other hybrid models to choose from. "e environmentally words, an a&uent individual consumer can choose a friendly product is more expensive than the conventional Prius or a Chevy Volt over a gas-guzzler, but can’t choose one, but that’s a small price to pay for a liveable planet, a socialized public transportation system. An individual right? If we all buy green, everything will be okay, right? consumer can choose a locally-grown veggie plate over a "e problem is that many people don’t even have the Big Mac, but can’t choose to end the massive government option of buying green. Millions who are unemployed subsidies that support the livestock industry as a whole. or living paycheck to paycheck can’t a#ord to buy green, Changes on a scale large enough to signi$cantly reduce regardless whether they value sustainability. Even if greenhouse gas emissions can only be e#ected through everyone who has enough money were to do so (highly collective political action.

Bond-Graham, Darwin. “University in Service of the Warfare State: The Baskin Study.” Indybay. Santa Cruz Independent Media Center, 04 June 2003. Web. 05 Sep. 2012. Hamilton, Clive. 9LX\PLTMVYH:WLJPLZ!>O`>L9LZPZ[[OL;Y\[OHIV\[*SPTH[L*OHUNL. London: Earthscan, 2010. Print. “scwd2+LZHSPUH[PVU7YVNYHT¹ *P[`VM:HU[H*Y\a. N.p., 2009. Web. 04 Sep. 2012. Alloway, David, and Leslie Kochan ¸3P[LYH[\YL 9L]PL^! 2L` *OHSSLUNLZ PU :\Z[HPUHISL *VUZ\TW[PVU¹ :[H[L VM 6YLNVU +LWHY[TLU[ VM ,U]PYVUTLU[HS8\HSP[`, 03 Jan. 2012.

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1. Participate in collective action around The Long Range Development Plan (LRDP): environmental issues. "e LRDP is the o!cial plan for further construction on the UCSC campus. If it is implemented, we will witness the In Santa Cruz today there are several large-scale local implantation of another residential college, four major roads, environmental issues which can only be addressed through several large parking lots, and more, within the next eight years. collective action. Each of them is an opportunity for us to make "e development is driven partly by a state law requiring the a far greater impact by working together than we could through UC to admit the top 12.5% of graduating high school seniors individual acts. in California (“Master Plan,” 2004), and mostly by the UC 35 Disorientation Guide

Regents’ use of the university as a for-pro$t, growth-oriented demand even higher than average. As a result, local farms are institution. Reasons to oppose the expansion abound, and pumping more and more water from their wells, so much that are described in some detail on P.37. Every major phase of seawater is starting to get sucked into the pumping area, ruining expansion at UCSC has been met with resistance from students prime agricultural land. What’s more, the expansion at UCSC and community members. For context, the most recent major can only legally take place if city o!cials extend water rights to construction project was delayed for an entire year by tree- the area on which development is proposed. sitters and an encampment blockade. Students repelled police To cope with demands for water coming from all angles, attempts to clear the area several times over the course of the the City of Santa Cruz is pushing for the construction of a year, but were forcefully dispersed in December 2008. Shortly desalination plant. Desalination plants are large industrial afterward, construction began on the new Biomedical Facility. facilities which remove salt from seawater to make usable No major construction projects are scheduled for this year (as freshwater. "e process of desalination is highly energy intensive, far as we know), but if the Regents have their way, expansion which is a problem given Santa Cruz’s dependence on a coal- will continue soon. If it does, there will likely be similar acts $red power plant for most of its electricity. "is means that if of resistance. Keep an ear out. For now though, the fate of the the desal plant is built, we’ll see a massive increase in greenhouse LRDP is tied up in the struggle over the desalination plant. gas emissions from Santa Cruz. To learn more about the Long Range Devlopment Plan, Community members have been working for months to visit LONGRANGERESISTANCE.ORG. create an opportunity for Santa Cruz residents to vote on the desal plant, in hopes that the majority of the town population The Desalination Plant (Desal Plant): will decide against it. Students who oppose the LRDP have been Water in this area is in high demand with commercial farms, highly involved in this campaign because if the desal project the town of Santa Cruz, and UCSC all competing for access to is scrapped, it’ll be much more di!cult for the City to extend limited sources of fresh water. Most of this water comes from water service to the proposed development area on campus. deep wells, the San Lorenzo River, smaller streams, and the Loch To learn more about this campaign, and to get involved, Lomond Reservoir. We’re currently in a drought, which raises visit DESALALTERNATIVES.ORG. The Environment 36

2. Buy nothing On the whole, more than 51% of global RU DV OLWWOH DV \RX FDQ JHW greenhouse gas emissions can be attributed DZD\ZLWK to the livestock industry (Goodland, 2009). Beyond these emissions, production of one It takes a lot of resources to produce pound of red meat uses 170,000 gallons of most of the stu# that we buy. Clothing, water. "at’s enough water for two years body products, electronic gadgets, cars, of showers (HubPages, 2012). Our planet and other consumer goods require a wide simply cannot sustain industrial livestock range of raw material to produce: plant farming at the scale that it currently exists. $ber, metals, petroleum distillates, water, Meat production in general is also and electricity, to name a few. We’ve grown symptomatic of the massive inequality of up in a world where 20% of the world’s resources in the world. population consumes 80% of the earth’s While the world’s poor starve, we use natural resources, and it doesn’t seem to a large portion of our arable land to feed be making us any happier, as evidenced by animals for the slaughter. So in addition to a 400% increase in antidepressant use in ignoring the well being of the animals when the US since 1988 (De Baca, 2012),(Diaz, one eats meat, one also ignores the interests 2008). What if the missing piece isn’t in the of those who are forced to go without. things we buy, but in the way we relate to "ere’s also the moral dilemma of other others? sentient beings su#ering for the whims of our palate. If one ever wonders how human 3. Go Vegan/Vegetarian beings can be so callous and exploitative of each other, look no further than the lunch Eating meat is unsustainable for a menu: we show our capacity for it every day. variety of reasons. Vast quantities of grain A vegan diet is no less healthy than a are farmed to feed livestock, with millions meat eating diet, despite smear campaigns of tons of CO2 produced through the from the dairy industry (Zacharias, 2012). A accompanying fertilizer production and human being can get quite enough protein heavy-equipment operation (Koneswaran, from a variety of other sources like nuts, 2012). Also, as ridiculous as it may seem, beans, and quinoa. Look to vegan MMA cow farts are a major source of greenhouse $ghter Mac Danzig for proof that vegans gas emissions: the digestive tracts of cows aren’t all malnourished. Veganism is a small and other ruminant animals account for lifestyle change: one which can remove you some 28% of the total methane from from the most environmentally destructive human-related activity (“Livestock,” 2007). industrial systems on the planet.

“About UC: California Master Plan for Higher Education.” UniversityofCalifornia.edu. University of California, 30 Mar. 2004. Web. 29 Aug. 2012. De Baca, Suzanna, Maia Szalavitz, and Laura Newcomer. “400% Rise in US Antidepressant Use: Diagnosis Overkill?” Healthland. Time, 20 Oct. 2011. Web. 06 Sep. 2012. Diaz, Phillipe. “The End of Poverty.” *PULTH3PIYL:[\KPVZ. 2008. Goodland, Robert, and Jeff Anhang. “Livestock and Climate Change.” >VYSK^H[JO0UZ[P[\[L. N.p., Nov.-Dec. 2009. Web. 06 Sep. 2012. Koneswaran, Gowri, and Danielle Nierenberg. “Global Farm Animal Production and Global Warming.” 5H[PVUHS*LU[LYMVY)PV[LJOUVSVN` 0UMVYTH[PVU. US National Library of Medicine, 31 Jan. 2008. Web. 06 Sep. 2012. “Ruminant Livestock.” ,U]PYVUTLU[HS7YV[LJ[PVU(NLUJ`, 21 Mar. 2007. Web. 06 Sep. 2012. “Why Everyone Should Be Vegetarian at Least One Day a Week.” HubPages. HubPages Inc., 06 Sep. 2009. Web. 06 Sep. 2012. Zacharias, Nil. “Look Who’s Afraid! Dairy Industry Launches Ad Campaign Dissing Plant-based Milks.” 6UL.YLLU7SHUL[. N.p., 17 Feb. 2012. Web. 06 Sep. 2012. 37 Disorientation Guide Long Range Development Plan

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Rain falls and percolates through the soil of our Campus Natural Reserve. "is water meets subterranean CO( and reacts to produce carbonic acid. "is acid in turn devours the limestone rock upon which the soil lies, carving its own path of holes and caves. "e end product is what geologists term ‘Karstic terrain’. "e endemic Empire Cave Spider clings to the cave’s moist, dark walls. "e bobcat of Red Hill Road seeks shelter in some unknown dry place. "e rain, their lives, the woods, the ground are so elegantly intertwined. A cave collapses under the weight of the Earth and Marine Sciences Building foundation. Construction crews $ll the space with concrete and proceed (Stanley & Weber, 2008). Engineering 2 sits on shaky ground as well, but its gleaming LEED silver certi$cation distracts the observer from its intrusion into both the underground and aboveground natural worlds. "e rain pools inert on the concrete.

The Drama of the LRDP and EIR which expands the campus footprint by over two thirds. He eyes thirstily the northern and western edges of the campus map, "e Problem* is dry in his o!ce, the eco-friendly bamboo seeing the blank spaces which may accommodate College 11, wood paneling shining from a recent cleaning and the fully employee housing, student support facilities, and recreation recycled, hypoallergenic carpet plush beneath his loafers. Smiling facilities (UCSC LRDP, 2006). at the clear commitments to sustainability that so stylishly adorn "e Problem reads on, noting that these amenities his o!ce, he bites into a Hostess Cupcake and opens the latest necessitate expansion too in water capacity, energy production, PDF of the Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) for the UC road connectivity, bridges, playing $elds, sewer service, and up Santa Cruz campus. "e introductory paragraph presents the to 2,100 new parking spaces, and that this construction is not LRDP as the guiding document for physical development on included in the overall construction footprint (UCSC LRDP, campus. "e Problem’s eyes skim over the section that explains 2005: 60, 83). He sees that any sentence which promises how this physical development should happen in response to protection of Campus Reserve Lands or mitigates natural the proposed increase of student enrollment to 19,500 by 2020 resource use is quali$ed by the phrases: “if feasible” and “to the (UCSC LRDP, 2006). He sighs past the graphs showing the extent possible”, e#ectively absolving the LRDP of any actual proposed 2,122,000 square feet of building space: an addition land-use protections (USCS LRDP, 2006: 69, 75). "e Problem

*Dearest Reader, it is important to note here the The Problem is not actually a single, bumbling man, but rather, The Problem is a crackpot medley of the growth imperative embedded within capitalism, population growth, the marketization of higher educa- tion, the question of true sustainability, exploitation of natural resources, the tyranny of rationality and many hitherto unexplored, complicated forces. The Environment 38 glances at the projected faculty growth graph, but focuses most professors worked to point out %aws in the basic science and of his attention on the physical development of infrastructure land-use designation of the the EIR via comment letters during on campus, knowing what we need to support our dynamic, the drafting of the LRDP. Disregarding their critiques, the cutting-edge educational institution are buildings, more Regents approved the Final EIR under all sections (Long Range buildings! He stares out into the rain, mildly exhausted from Resistance, 2008). Since then, a Superior Court Judge has ruled walking the tightrope of bureaucratic ambivalence, knowing the EIR to be inadequate in addressing areas of tra!c, housing, that his task will only get harder as he reads the Environmental and water. Impact Report (EIR). "e Problem’s head spins as he reads the EIR. It considers A Question of Quality of Life a wide range of impacts to campus that would occur under the implementation of the LRDP: aesthetics, air quality, water It is concerns for tra!c, housing, and water that bring Santa availability, habitat destruction, introduction of nonnative Cruz community members and students to "e Resistance. "e plants, tra!c congestion, destruction of archeological sites, and proposed addition of around 2,000 full-time students by 2020 disruption of cultural resources, to name a few. For the LRDP would cause an increase in already congested tra!c, making to pass, the EIR must wait times at several key adequately address areas intersections painfully long of impact and include the (Lipschutz, 2006). "ese measures the UC will take additional students will put to mitigate these impacts. pressure on the housing He also notes that these market in Santa Cruz, protective measures are driving already exorbitant not promised and that rates even higher within the there are many “signi$cant county. While the university and unavoidable counters that adding new impacts” which cannot university housing will keep be mitigated. "ese students on campus, most include the possibility of students prefer to move o# exceeding nitrous oxide campus after their $rst year. emissions standards, and an increase in stormwater runo# and Part of this may have to do with the ungodly rent on campus. erosion (Zwart, 2006). He shrugs at these impacts and thinks: "e expansion of campus housing will likely raise costs for such is the nature of growth! Pleased by the noncommittal, students, as campus housing is funded by residents, rather $nely greased document, "e Problem leans back in his chair than by the state (Isbister, 2006). If College 11 is constructed, and sips his Pellegrino. He spits it out, $nding the water %at and students would be forced to pay more rent to cover these costs. hopeless: a stagnant, tasteless pool, bereft of imagination and the ability to give a damn. Water in Santa Cruz: 7KH5HVLVWDQFH Who Gets How Much? "e rain falls rhythmically through the canopy, slipping slyly through the Douglas-$r and Redwood needles and falling Community members stand with "e Resistance to ensure %at on the broad leaves of the Bay Laurel and Tan Oak. "e that they have an adequate water supply. Santa Cruz relies Resistance sits beneath these trees, dry under their cover. "e on local water sources. Water comes from the Loch Lomond coyote, deer, and brush rabbit listen from their homes, while the Reservoir, from the San Lorenzo River, and from pumping banana slug and California giant salamander slide thoughtfully groundwater. As such, water is especially scarce in the rainless through the damp earth. "e Resistance stands and begins to summer months and in drought conditions. "e Santa Cruz speak: region has seen water shortages in the past, and, because of “We have all come here with a common desire: to stop the this, is hesitant to extend water rights to the service area under expansion of the UC Santa Cruz Campus. "e reasons for our question in the LRDP. "e City of Santa Cruz attacked the feelings may diverge, but we are united by this same thread.” LRDP under this reasoning and in August 2008, the courts Professors and lecturers of UCSC stand at the meeting, reached the decision that UCSC would have to apply to the drawn to the Resistance by their concern for the LRDP’s impact Local Agency Formation Commission, a governing body tasked on ecology and education resources at UCSC. Some of these with controlling urban sprawl and protecting open space, in 39 Disorientation Guide ” 4HW 

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order to gain the rights to extend water into upper campus of Santa Cruz during drought conditions. However, community (Rebagliati, n.d.). As the issue stands in the summer of 2012, the members question the expense, greenhouse gas emissions, and Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO, pronounced e#ects on marine life that would arise with the construction “la#-co”) continues to debate the sustainability of extending of the desalination plant (“Problems with Desal”, n.d.). Many these water rights and questions how much, if any, water they students and faculty oppose the desalination plant too, as its can promise the expanding campus. construction may convince LAFCO that there is adequate water to extend water rights to the proposed LRDP construction area Desalination: A Space of Resistance in upper campus. Students and community members are using the LAFCO public hearings as a space to air these concerns. "e LAFCO’s decision to extend water rights to construction next meeting is on the morning of October 10 at the County in Upper Campus is intimately tied to another issue of local Building (701 Ocean Street). concern: the construction of a desalination plant. Community activists who oppose the desalination plant are seated in the Save Some for the Fishes springy redwood du# amongst the Resistance. Desalination is the process of converting seawater to freshwater and the "e nearby San Lorenzo River and its tributary streams desalination plant in question would provide water to the city hold a few more members of "e Resistance; Coho Salmon The Environment: LRDP 40

and Steelhead Trout pass by "e Resistance’s meeting spot as that carefully sited in-$ll on campus or repurposed buildings o# they swim faithfully upstream to their breeding grounds. "ey campus are viable options if construction is absolutely necessary: are running into problems though, struggling to pass shallow why develop on the ecologically sensitive upper campus region? or obstructed stream channels that were previously %owing Building placement aside, the seemingly admirable goal to with water. Santa Cruz is draining too much water from the educate California becomes less appealing when we question San Lorenzo River and surrounding watershed to support the quality of education. "e type of education that UCSC viable populations of federally endangered Coho and healthy can o#er now is not adequate: there are higher student-TA and populations of federally threatened Steelhead. "e city is thus student-faculty ratios, cut majors and programs, fewer classes, tangled in a legal battle with NOAA $sheries about how much larger classes, and more distant graduation dates. Adding more water they must release into streams to ensure the habitat for students, as is the plan under the LRDP, will only aggravate these $sh species. "e expansion of the UCSC campus will only these problems. Bob Meister, a politics professor on campus, continue to stress water resources: for both citizens of Santa reports that state funding for a UC student in the early 2000s Cruz and for the endangered or threatened $sh species. was $9150, yet the cost of educating a student was $18,000 per student (Meister, n.d.). An increase in the student population, 3K\VLFDO([SDQVLRQ&(GXFDWLRQ combined with decreased state support, amounts to less money available per student (Meister, n.d.). "e regents claim that they $7URXEOHVRPH5HODWLRQVKLS must increase tuition to make up for the di#erence between the cost of educating students and the money available from the Students have hiked, bused, or biked to the Resistance’s state. But what exactly do the regents consider to be the costs of meeting spot. "ey speak of how their tuition continues to rise, education? Under the LRDP, “costs to educate students” include yet their classes get bigger, their TAs disappear, entire majors exorbitant construction projects towards which the regents may vanish, and services dwindle. "ey are skeptical whether the funnel our tuition (for how they can do this, see sidebar on giant lecture halls, recreation facilities, and parking lots suggested next page). Many students are outraged by the prioritization within the LRDP will do much to serve their education. When of construction over instruction. Not only does the LRDP fail defending this kind of growth within UCSC, LRDP advocates to rebuild the faculty, support systems, programs, librarians, often cite the Master Plan for Higher Education, the guiding and TAs that nurture education; it destroys the classroom and document for public higher education within California. One of mentor that is Nature. "e space of development would pave the oft-cited (and now changed) tenets of the Master Plan is that over the classrooms for courses such as ENVS 15: Natural the UC system should o#er higher education for the top 12.5% History of the UCSC Campus, ENVS 24: General Ecology, of California’s high school graduates (“Major Features”, 2007). ENVS 167: Freshwater and Wetland Ecology and ENVS 107 "e Regents and top administrators hold that this necessitates A, B, and C: Natural History Field Quarter. It robs the students infrastructural growth of the UCSC campus. While educating too of a place of solace and calm. California is certainly a valuable goal, there is much controversy over where physical growth should occur, if at all. Many believe "e meeting is coming to a close. Professors, lecturers, TAs, 41 Disorientation Guide How our community members, activists, and students lean back into velvety Redwood bark and listen to the trilling crescendos of WXLWLRQÀQDQFHVWKH bird song. "e Resistance speaks through them: construction projects “Everything is shaking. We are shaking with anger, with grief. "e land is collapsing under the groaning weight of Did you know that your tuition dollars are indirectly construction, its waters and $sh unable to give anymore, paying for the construction projects you see around its forests, grass and shrub lands not empty but rather full DBNQVT  *U XJMM CF FBTJFS UP VOEFSTUBOE IPX UIJT with plants, animals, soils, and people who honor these non- IBQQFOTJGZPVIBWFTPNFCBTJDLOPXMFEHFPGIPX humans. 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In our experience as white students at UCSC, we have as “colorblind.” "is can be well-intentioned, but turns

VIOLENCE + STRATEGY made many, many mistakes. We have blindly bene$ted from out horribly. After the Civil Rights Movement, it became our privilege, and have aided and abetted racist structures, socially unacceptable to be explicitly racist. "is does not // sometimes in ways that we will never fully be able to mean that racism evaporated, on the contrary, it means that

PIC understand. However, as white students we are not bound our society had to come up with coded language to put to this fate. If we ever hope to experience true freedom, it is forth the same racist ideologies. Scholars have named this // our job to unlearn the teachings of this racist society, to do coded language “colorblind racism.” Eduardo Bonilla-Silva our best to educate/re-educate other white people, and to describes how colorblind racism seeks to minimize racism stand in solidarity with people of color. by making it a thing of the past. By saying "is article will attempt to break down Modern day that racism is over, whites and even some how our whiteness has given us unearned oppression people of color can invoke concepts such

ISRAEL-PALESTINE privileges, and what we, as white people, as “equal opportunity,” “individualism,” can do to be conscious allies. continues because and “choice,” in abstract ways to support

// A common misconception these days LW·VFRQVWDQWO\ a racist agenda. “By framing race-related is that racism is over. #"uglife, dressing being compared to issues in the language of liberalism, up as a sexy ‘Indian’ for Halloween, the “real” racism whites can appear ‘reasonable’ and or saying that a!rmative action is even ‘moral’ while opposing almost all reverse racism are just a few examples RIWKHSDVW practical approaches to deal with de

ETHNIC STUDIES that disprove this notion. "ese are, in facto racial inequality” (Bonilla-Silva, fact, subtle ways of reinforcing racial 2003). For instance, many whites have

// stereotypes that are incredibly hurtful. "is is often a hard invoked the “equal opportunity” agenda of the Civil Rights discussion to have because people become defensive, saying Movement to actively oppose a!rmative action because it things such as “I don’t see color,” or “it was just a joke,” to supposedly represented preferential treatment. Similarly, negate that their whiteness is playing a powerful role in that ‘human nature’ and ‘cultural bias’ are used to justify the situation. "is mentality comes from the idea that racism is social, political, and economic standing of minorities in

WHITE PRIVILEGE individualized, one person hating another person because this country. Phrases such as “Mexicans do not put much of their race. While this does happen, racism is a much emphasis on education” or “blacks have too many babies” more complex system of beliefs and behaviors that are both subtly invoke the assumption that people of color are to personal and institutional. blame for their socioeconomic standing. People who try Many people (usually white people) identify themselves and point out the racist nature of these assumptions are Race and Resistance: 43 Disorientation Guide usually accused of being ‘hypersensitive,’ of using race as an Activists at UCSC,” the authors list certain invisible privileges ‘excuse,’ or of ‘playing the infamous race card’ (Bonilla-Silva, that white students on this campus hold. Some of them include: 2003). "rough this individualization of responsibility, racism 1. "e privilege of not being concerned about how stays woven into the fabric of society, even as its visibility their racial group will be outreached and retained in diminishes. Race is not an easy issue to talk about. "ere’s a the university. White supremacy built the university reason most modern $lms about race take place prior to the to institutionalize outreach and retention of white 1970s and usually feature a white lead saving a minority group. students. It is therefore the burden of student of color It’s comfortable and easily digestible for white audiences to see to outreach and retain students of color. racism as something of the past and to see themselves as the 2. "e privilege to believe the town is generally progressive. benevolent saviors who ended it, but that’s not how it works, "e reality that the this belief is extremely harmful to and as long as we keep patting ourselves on the back for the people of color. (1) It leaves local decision-makers o# gains of the previous generation, we will continue to hold the hook, and their false beliefs allow them to think back the current. Modern day oppression continues because instances of racism are bogus claims and therefore it’s constantly being compared to the “real” racism of the past. unworthy of their attention. (2) It deems individual Everything looks good compared to a cross burning, but that acts of internal or institutional racism as the fault of the doesn’t make your racist jokes any funnier. We must instead person of color, and therefore their problem to solve. be diligent about naming and breaking down racist structures (3) When people of color set foot in Santa Cruz, we’re (such as the Prison Industrial Complex, immigration law, UC hit in the face (sometimes literally) with the awful truth admissions policies, etc.), as well as understanding how we have that Santa Cruz is in fact, not “progressive” or “liberal.” bene$ted from and internalized racism. We’re not even allowed to enjoy this fake belief for long because we eventually come across the same racist shit Understanding White Privilege we encounter in other places. 3. "e privilege of being seen as “students” and the No one likes to see themselves as the oppressors, and no one face of the “student movement.” When students of likes to feel responsible for what are seemingly other peoples’ color organize, we’re marginalized into an additional mistakes. However, if you are perceived white, you have received concern, instead of the concern. We’re seen as protesting certain unearned privileges. "is does not delegitimize other trivial issues and not issues of the “typical student.” pain you have felt, or other oppressions you have experienced. (“Privileges,” 2012) We are taught to understand that racism puts people of color at a disadvantage. "e corollary to that is that racism also gives "ese, of course, are just the tip of the iceberg. Ultimately, white people advantages. "ese advantages are invisible to white being aware of your privilege is not about feeling guilty about people, because we have never known anything di#erent. In your identity (although guilt can be crucial step). It is about Peggy McIntosh’s piece Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, she noticing racial hierarchies in this society and doing your best to compiles a list of some of these invisible advantages. break those down on personal, interpersonal, and institutional levels. 1. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented. 2. When I am told about our national heritage or about How To Be An Ally “civilization,” I am shown that people of my color made it what it is. 1. Do a personal inventory - It is helpful 3. I can swear, or dress in secondhand clothes, or not to understand how particular issues like racism, sexism, etc. answer letters, without having people attribute these have played out in your own life. One way to do this is to write choices to the bad morals, the poverty, or the illiteracy about all the times that you can remember when some form of of my race (McIntosh, 1998). oppression a#ected your life. "is could mean that you were the recipient or the perpetrator of oppressive behaviors. It could Now let’s think about this on a more local level. In early also be things that you observed or events with which you were 2012, Decolonizing Education, a group made up of students personally involved. It could be painful memories from school, of color from UCSC, produced a zine called Coloring Outside work, family, etc. the Lines. "is zine takes a critical look at the racist practices of the university and the actions of many white activists on 2. Do your homework - Sometimes people this campus. In a piece entitled “Privileges of White of Student from a dominant culture have a very sincere interest in Race and Resistance 44 understanding people from other cultures, races, genders, or is certainly useful to have a sense of regret for conscious or sexual orientations. One way to do so is to be in conversation unconscious ways that we have personally or communally with those other cultures. However, there is a big di#erence perpetuated oppression, it doesn’t necessarily serve us to dwell between a natural or intentional conversation about oppression in that regret. Oppressed people may not care if people in a and simply asking someone who has experienced oppression dominant culture feel bad or guilty. However, they might very to teach you about it. Asking one person of another culture well care about how you act upon that guilt. If you want to to be your teacher is disrespectful for a couple of reasons. make a di#erence, don’t be guilty, be active. First, experiences of oppression are utterly personal and often painful. When a white person asks a person of color to share 4. Be clear on why you are involved their experiences it could trigger some painful memories. in the struggle (against racism, sexism, heterosexism, Second, this creates a false understanding of entire etc.) - If you do take action it is important to consider why. cultures and people. When we ask one person to speak for Sometimes people from the dominant culture get involved an entire people, we enact a form of tokenism. When we in a struggle in order to “help” or to take up a cause for tokenize someone, we run the risk of reducing a whole group other people, or to alleviate their own feelings of guilt. Part of people into one $xed idea about who they are. Curiously, of privilege is that one can choose to engage in the struggle white people are rarely, if ever asked to represent the ideas and or not. However, for oppressed peoples the choice is not as beliefs of their entire race. simple as being a part of a cause or not, it can be a matter of "ird, it should not fall on the shoulders of people of survival. Do we believe that oppression is a problem for the color to constantly be educating white people. Instead there society as a whole or just a problem for its victims? While are thousands of books, movies, plays, articles, and videos that racism a#ects people of color in very detrimental ways, racism can educate you about whiteness and the experience of people is a problem for white people because it is white people who from di#erent cultures ( SEE “RECOMMENDATIONS” P.78 ). need to act to change it. Also, it is good to consider how oppression bene$ts you 3. &RQVLGHUWKHGLӽHUHQFHEHWZHHQ and what you may get out of ending oppression, as well as guilt and action - Discovering that one has what you may lose. If you’re involved simply to help, get bene$ts that others do not simply because of circumstance a good internship, or take up a cause, you might be doing can sometimes lead to feelings of guilt or shame. While it yourself and your community a disservice.

At this point, dismantling racism may seem like an insurmountable task. Take a breath and remember this is a daily struggle. Each day is an opportunity to act consciously and with intent. You will mess up, and you will get certain things right; so is the nature of being human. However, it is how you deal with this situations that matters. If someone calls you out, do not get o#ended. Listen to what they have to say and take some time to evaluate the situation. And if you are doing a lot of anti-racist work do not expect a pat on the back. Understanding and checking our white privilege is a lifelong process. "is process is painful, it is uncomfortable, and it is hard. We have a responsibility to see race. We need to take it upon ourselves to talk about race—to better understand racism, so we can work to end it. We must do this because our individual liberation is bound up in each others. As long white people are receiving bene$ts at the expense of people of color, none of us are free.

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toxic atmosphere of complacency, ignorance, and racism, UCSC The Fight for risks the distinction of being “the Arizona of the UC system.” "e time is right—indeed, long overdue—for the CRITICAL RACE & establishment of a department of ethnic and critical race studies at UCSC. As a public institution of higher learning, ETHNIC STUDIES the University of California is mandated to serve the people of California. Given the shifting demographics of the state, UCSC must adjust its institutional priorities away from bloated administrative salaries and allocate permanent funding for ethnic and critical race studies as an urgent comparative, local and global, interdisciplinary, and multilingual project—a critical theoretical and political project that articulates with queer, feminist, and labor studies in challenging asymmetrical power relations and fostering emergent and minoritized forms of knowledge production.

WE ACCORDINGLY DEMAND THE FOLLOWING: Reprinted with minor edits from the CRES blog ucscethnicstudies.wordpress.com t
Establishment of an ethnic and critical race studies department with permanent faculty lines, a major and a Over four decades have passed since students in the $rst minor, and a $eld studies component graduating class at UC Santa Cruz took over commencement to t
Increased permanent funding for the Ethnic Resource highlight racism and discrimination towards students of color on Centers the campus. "eir protest was part of a wider grassroots political t
Sustained, fully-funded recruitment, and retention movement to realize "ird World studies at public universities of students from underrepresented and underserved in California and beyond—a movement that would give rise communities. In particular, full-time recruiter in Student to the College of Ethnic Studies at SFSU and the departments Admissions who will outreach to underserved communities of African-American and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Yet, in San Jose and East Palo Alto. whereas its neighboring institutions can claim legacies of t
Protection, retention, and education of AB540/ ethnic studies over forty years old, UCSC, in sharp contrast, undocumented students by developing an Intergenerational remains the only longstanding campus within the University of Immigrant Resource Center that provides support through California system without a formalized ethnic studies program programming, funding, and other resources. Funding of or department. AB540/undocumented education through institutional aid. "e climate at UCSC is notoriously hostile. Despite the t
Increased grant-based scholarships and $nancial aid for historical and ongoing e#orts of students who have continuously working-class students and students of color fought for a department of "ird World, Native American, and ethnic studies, UCSC has failed to address the need for critical CURRENT STATE OF THE STRUGGLE race studies as a dedicated site of intellectual and political inquiry. Instead, “diversity” is managed along tokenistic or PR In July 2012, UCSC administration partially caved to a lines. Lecturers are hired on an inconsistent basis to teach courses steady onslaught of pressure from CRES organizers, publicly in critical race studies which are not advertised to the student announcing the creation of a three-year pilot program for body at large, while student-of-color organizations sponsor ‘Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies’. "e o!cial and teach their own ethnic studies courses, simultaneously announcement (available online through the link below) glossed shouldering the burden of outreach to and retention of over the months of student led teach-ins, town-hall meetings, underserved minority communities. Ethnic resource centers educational forums, and advisory panels which led up to the are chronically underfunded and their sta# overworked, and decision, but contained some good news. faculty of color are loathe to set foot on this campus and depart "e program is to be headed by feminist studies professor in droves. Over the past three years, UCSC has witnessed the Bettina Aptheker, and literature professor Karen Yamashita. suspension of community studies and American studies, the loss "ey will oversee the distribution of a modest annual fund “to of all black studies faculty in the literature department, and the develop undergraduate and graduate curriculum, and to support administration’s downplaying of rampant nativist and Jim Crow research and intellectual life through seminars, colloquium and gra!ti throughout the campus. Complicit in perpetuating a other events.” In the $rst year of the program, students will Race and Resistance 46 be working with UCSC instructors and visiting ;OPUNZ[V2UV^(IV\[+PZJ\ZZPVU scholars to develop curricula and establish the focus of academic initiatives within the program. VM0ZYHLS7HSLZ[PUL'<*:* UCSC administration describes the remainder of the program as follows: Every university has students who are actively involved in discussing the Israeli/Palestinian con%ict; UCSC is no exception. Speaking out on “During the second year of the program the issue can often lead to harassment, silencing, or even violence. Here the directors will initiate and fund two courses: are seven pieces of advice that will help build tolerance and understanding an Introduction to Feminist Critical Race and in the hopes of making UCSC a safe and open space to discuss Israel/ Ethnic Studies at the lower division level, and Palestine. In fact, apply this advice to almost any other political debate, stir an associated upper division lecture class. "e gently, bake at 420 degrees for a few decades, let cool and serve at room- curricular model is conceived of as collaborative temperature. and interdisciplinary in nature. Established faculty from UCSC and elsewhere will be Acknowledge that there is no such thing as involved in teaching these courses. "e graduate 1. neutrality. Any argument, no matter how well-researched or student teaching assistants in both courses analyzed, will ever be apolitical or lack consequences. Acknowledge this will receive sustained faculty mentorship in fact early on, and opinions you disagree with will become much easier to feminist and radical pedagogy speci$c to this understand, and eventually much easier to pick apart. curriculum. Scholars who are public and/or No matter what, someone will disagree with you. creative intellectuals will be invited to take up 2. This doesn’t mean that you or the people you disagree with are residence at Santa Cruz for a period of time unintelligent or a bad person; it just means that your perspectives are different. during the second year. "ey will participate in And if you fail to reach a compromise, this doesn’t mean that either of you the program and give a public lecture. HYLYV[[LU[V[OLJVYLVYZLSÄZO"V\YZVJPL[`OHZUV[`L[ÄN\YLKV\[OV^[VY\U In the $nal year a graduate seminar will a democracy properly, let alone operate on consensus. We have not been be added to the new curriculum funded by the taught how consensus works, so be patient with each other ( SEE “CONSENSUS” program. "e graduate seminar will be taught P.24 ). by a senior visiting scholar in Feminist Critical Document everything you see or hear. Events have a Race & Ethnic Studies. "e elements of the program established in the $rst two years will 3. tendency to get distorted, so if you want to later make a good case continue during the third year. for something, it’s best to have hard evidence handy. A research group in Feminist Critical Know your shit. Be prepared to back up your arguments with Race and Ethnic Studies that is composed of 4. historical evidence. Ask around for a good list of books to read up on graduate students and faculty will be active for [OLOPZ[VY`VM[OLJVUÅPJ[RLLW\W^P[O[OLKHPS`UL^ZHUKYLHKT\S[PWSLUL^Z all three years. "e research cluster will work in sources in order to get a full picture of events. active association with the colloquia and lecture When in doubt, listen. Chances are, you’re not actually hearing series. Resident scholars will also participate in 5 . the other person. And listening doesn’t just mean registering a string the cluster.” of words and then responding; it also means taking in what the other person '&.*/*45456%*&46$4$&%6 says, thinking about why they’re saying it, putting yourself in their shoes, and truly understanding the full extent of what they mean. Most of the time, this is While this is a promising step toward the creation the hardest part of the process. It’s also the part that most of us rush through. of a permanent CRES department, it is still But it’s the most central part of discussion! only that: a step. UCSC has a history of broken promises with regard to ethnic studies, and for this Use sensitive and careful language, especially when program to live beyond its three year expiration 6. [HSRPUN[VZVTLVUL^P[OHKPMMLYLU[WVPU[VM]PL^;OPZJVUÅPJ[PZ date, students will have maintain and increase L_[YLTLS`WLYZVUHSMVYTHU`WLVWSL(JVTTVU[HJ[PJWLVWSL\ZL[VKLÅH[L pressure on administration, through a variety another’s argument is attacking their lack of involvement/insensitivity to the of tactics. Pay attention for meetings and events issue. relating to the development of the program, and Say what you think. Like many other debates involving race, when the classes are $nally open for enrollment, 7. religion and inequality, the weight of the problem and the passions that sign up! Critical Race and Ethnic Studies presents MVSRZIYPUN[V[OL[HISLJHUVM[LULUJV\YHNLZLSMJLUZVYZOPW2UV^PUN^OLU an opportunity to tear down some of the most not to speak is a vital skill that most of us lack, but don’t be afraid to speak oppressive structures: the ones in our minds. out when you confront bullshit. Have your voice heard, in meetings and out. 47 Disorientation Guide

Israel/Palestine Activism @UCSC An extremely abbreviated 6YNZPU]VS]LK! summary of recent Israel/ Palestine activism at UCSC: Olive Tree Initiative (OTI) 7KH2OLYH7UHH,QLWLDWLYH 27, ZDVGHVLJQHGWRDOORZFROOHJHVWXGHQWV In spring 2011, the federal government ZKRDUHDIIHFWHGE\WKH,VUDHOL3DOHVWLQLDQFRQIOLFWWRVWDUWGLDORJXHDQG opened an investigation of anti-Semitism at WRWDNHSRVLWLYHDQGSHDFHEXLOGLQJDFWLRQVWRZDUGWKHFXUUHQWVLWXDWLRQLQ UCSC. "e investigation was prompted by a WKHUHJLRQ27,LVDOVRGHVLJQHGWRJLYHVWXGHQWVWKHRSSRUWXQLW\WRWUDYHO complaint written by UCSC Hebrew lecturer WRERWK,VUDHODQGWKH:HVW%DQNWRVHHWKHGLIIHUHQWYLHZSRLQWVSUHVHQWHG Tammi Rossman-Benjamin. 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YLHZV7KH&-3LVRQO\KHUHWRHGXFDWHDQGKHOSFUHDWHDQXQGHUVWDQGLQJ "e article drew criticism from many students RIWKH3DOHVWLQLDQSHRSOHDQGWKHLUVWUXJJOH for being an unfair representation of Palestinian Santa Cruz Israeli Action Committee (SCIAC) activism on campus and biased in support of the 7KH6DQWD&UX],VUDHO$FWLRQ&RPPLWWHHLVDVWXGHQWOHGRUJDQL]DWLRQ federal investigation. $VDQRUJDQL]DWLRQZHSURPRWHD3UR,VUDHOYRLFHRQWKH8&6&FDPSXV In July, the UC Advisory Council on DQGKHOSFRQWULEXWHWRDWKULYLQJ-HZLVK&RPPXQLW\LQWKHWRZQRI6DQWD Campus Climate, Culture, and Inclusion &UX]&DOLIRUQLD6&,$&LV3UR,VUDHO3UR$ZDUHQHVVDQG3UR3HDFH:H released a report on Jewish experiences on UC SURXGO\EHOLHYHLQ,VUDHOVULJKWWRH[LVWDVD'HPRFUDWLF-HZLVKVWDWHLQWKH campuses, recommending that the UC crack 0LGGOH(DVWZLWKSHDFHIXODQGVHFXUHERUGHUV down on anti-Israel events and activities, which they consider “hate speech”, in attempt to make Leviathan Jewish Journal the UC a more welcoming place for Jewish /HYLDWKDQ-HZLVK-RXUQDOLVDQRSHQPHGLXPWKURXJKZLWK-HZLVK Zionist students. "e report drew a signi$cant VWXGHQWVDQGWKHLUDOOLHVPD\IUHHO\H[SUHVVWKHLURSLQLRQV:HDUH amount of media criticism for silencing FRPPLWWHGWRUHVSRQVLEO\UHSUHVHQWLQJWKHYLHZVRIHDFKLQGLYLGXDODXWKRU Palestinian solidarity groups and Jewish students (YHU\TXDUWHUZHDLPWRSXEOLVKDIXOODQGEDODQFHGVSHFWUXPRIPHGLD who are critical of Israel. A month later, the H[SORULQJ-HZLVKLGHQWLW\DQGVRFLDOLVVXHV7KHRSLQLRQVSUHVHQWHGLQWKH California State Assembly passed a non-binding, MRXUQDOGRQRWDOZD\VUHSUHVHQWWKHFROOHFWLYHRSLQLRQRI/HYLDWKDQVVWDII bi-partisan resolution in support of the Council WKHRUJDQL]HG-HZLVKFRPPXQLW\RUWKH8QLYHUVLW\RI&DOLIRUQLD Climate report, pressuring the UC to silence university-sponsored criticisms of Israel. Hillel For more information on UCSC Israel/ +LOOHOLVDKRPHDZD\IURPKRPHIRU-HZLVKVWXGHQWVRQFDPSXV Palestine activism, get in touch with the :HVHHWRSURYLGHDYLEUDQWDQGZHOFRPLQJFRPPXQLW\UHJDUGOHVVRI organizers of the involved organizations. Here NQRZOHGJHRUEDFNJURXQG+LOOHOVPLVVLRQLVWRHQULFKWKHOLYHVRI-HZLVK are the statements of intent for the orgs that are XQGHUJUDGXDWHDQGJUDGXDWHVWXGHQWVVRWKDWWKH\PD\HQULFKWKH-HZLVK most involved. If you’d like to reach out to them SHRSOHDQGWKHZRUOG+HUHDW6DQWD&UX]+LOOHOZHGRWKLVE\SURYLGLQJ or attend a meeting, google them or $nd them UHVRXUFHVIRUVWXGHQWLQLWLDWHGSURJUDPVLQFOXGLQJVRFLDODFWLYLWLHV on Facebook to $nd out when they meet (times/ HGXFDWLRQDOSURJUDPVUHOLJLRXVFHOHEUDWLRQVDQGVRFLDODFWLRQRXWUHDFK places tend to vary quarter to quarter). :HDUHFRPPLWWHGWRH[FHOOHQFHLQQRYDWLRQDFFRXQWDELOLW\DQGUHVXOWV Race and Resistance 48 The Prison in our What is the Prison Industrial Hearts Complex? It was May 9, 2011. “Occupy the capitol. Take back were straight, their heads high. One by one I saw the police take our education.” Inspirational catch phrases ran through our away the people I loved most, and I could do nothing to help hearts and minds as my closest friends and I boarded buses to them. "e next 12 hours would be chaos as those of us who had Sacramento. not been arrested ran around Sacramento attempting to do jail Weeks before, we had watched as the people of Wisconsin support for the 72 people who had been arrested. Inside Sac %ooded their capitol building, shutting down state government County Jail, my friends were being crammed into small cages, in an attempt to block a piece of anti-union legislation put forth man handled, and injected with unknown vaccines. by their conservative governor. We were hoping to spark a similar "at is the day they made a soldier out of me. movement of bodies. We were still a few months away from the "at day I experienced what Cornel West calls “death”. beginning of Occupy Wall Street, but there was something in the He describes how part of our perceptions must die so that a air. "e day was not what we expected; still, this was a moment new consciousness can be born. From that day on I knew I that changed my perception of the world forever. would devote my life to the abolition of the Prison Industrial As our numbers dwindled, the police closed in, announcing Complex (PIC). that anyone who did not leave the rotunda would be arrested. "e term ‘industrial complex’ refers to an elaborate and Apparently, we needed a permit to chant inside the building. multi-layered industry devoted to surveillance, policing, As I reluctantly left, the doors immediately slammed behind imprisoning, and later patrolling a massive volume of people. me. Pressed up against the glass, I watched as my friends linked As Angela Davis said, the capitalist system has created a arms and chanted. "ey would not be moved willingly. One by means of concentrating and exploiting the unemployed, the one, the police o!cers picked them o#. Some struggled, some underemployed, and other members of capitalism’s “human gave the o!cers lip, some just walked silently. All of their backs surplus” (Davis, 2003). Currently there are 2.6 million people behind bars in the United States, and over 7 million on parole, awaiting trial, in detention camps, or otherwise wrapped up in the Prison Industrial Complex (Chicago, 2011). !e United States has imprisoned more people than any country ever. "is is possible because the PIC is more than an economic institution. It is a cycle that both bene$ts from and recreates domination and harm. "e atrocities that happen within prison are covered up and justi$ed because the people in prison have been labeled as ‘deserving’ of such terrible treatment. Ableism, ageism, classism, homophobia, racism, sexism, xenophobia, and cissexism all intersect to empower the PIC. All of the oppression that may be explicitly or implicitly experienced in our daily lives is violently re-enacted within the walls of the prison. Outside the prison, bigoted legislation, acts of civil disobedience, lack of access to housing, jobs, health care, and education place certain communities at risk of being tangled up in the PIC. Instead of looking at the structural causes for these problems, the mainstream national narrative describes these communities and people as ‘low life criminals.’ By labeling these people as ‘criminals’, both the law and the public cast a blind eye to their treatment. Most people experience varying degrees 49 Disorientation Guide of psychological, physical, and emotional trauma within the have shown that those who commit violent crimes have often prison walls. Once let out, they are disenfranchised from society. been the victim of violence themselves. Why then are cages, Adjusting to life on the outside, sometimes after years or being disenfranchisement, physical torture, and denial of resources separated from family and friends, can be a slow and painful used as forms of ‘rehabilitation’? If public safety is truly the process, compounded with the fact that it is incredibly di!cult goal than continuing the cycles of violence is not the answer. to get job with a felony or misdemeanor on your record. "ese However, when we view those inside as heartless criminals, and other factors contribute to a massive recidivism rate, over we dehumanize them. Prisoners become ‘undeserving’ of the 65% in CA (“Recidivism,” 2012). As Kris Olsson, an ex-prisoner public’s empathy and therefore can be used by the elite for pro$t and the founder of Sisters and power. Inside said, “they put you in What I witnessed was there to learn a lesson, but it is the PIC being used as a tool never the lesson they think you of control. A tool to not only are going to learn” (2011 Panel, suppress political dissent, Inside Out Writing Project). but to send a message to a She explains further that the potential movement. If you prison is a violent institution, choose to speak out, you will and it teaches those inside that be punished. Hindsight has this violence is necessary for shown me that May 9 was only survival. the tip of the iceberg. What I "e media is an essential witnessed that day was only a tool of the PIC, giving us images piece of much larger system, a of what a criminal is supposed system that my race and class to look like. Television shows has protected me from. "at such as Cops, CSI, and Law and day I had the privilege to walk Order all paint a similar picture: that those inside are psychotic, away from arrest. For communities of color, queer people, trans usually men of color, and that brave men dressed in blue are people, poor people, and life long political activists, the PIC is a here to keep everyone safe. "ese images show the public what daily reality. "e PIC was created and has been adapted to target a criminal is supposed to look like, how they think, and where these demographics. they live. "ey separate the world into a binary of good people Take for instance the “school to prison pipeline”. "is term and bad people. A binary that, in reality, does not exist. describes “a disturbing national trend wherein children are "ese images of heartless criminals perpetuate the idea that funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal the PIC keeps us safe. "e question I receive most often when justice systems. Many of these children have learning disabilities discussing abolition is “What do you do with all the rapists and or histories of poverty, abuse or neglect, and would bene$t from the murders?” It is important to additional educational and note that the majority of people These images of heartless criminals perpetuate counseling services. Instead, are in prison for nonviolent the idea that the PIC keeps us safe. The they are isolated, punished o#enses, but more deeply, and pushed out. Public schools there is an assumption behind question I receive most often when discussing are severely under-funded and this question. An assumption abolition is “What do you do with all the consequently have an incentive that those who commit these rapists and the murders?” to push out low-performing crimes are ‘bad’ people, and students who would need that punishment is the only more resources and one-on- way for them to see the error of their ways. "is mentality is not one attention. "is, coupled with the public’s demand for a only found on the TV screen, it comes from ‘tough on crime’ heavy handed response to a series of highly-publicized school politicians on both sides of the isle, prison guards’ unions, private shootings, has pushed schools towards embracing zero-tolerance prisons, prison construction companies, investment banks, law policies that automatically impose severe punishment regardless enforcement, victims’ rights groups, prosecuting attorneys, and of circumstances. Under these policies, students have been DAs. expelled for bringing nail clippers or scissors to school. Rates of "ese people all stand to make huge pro$ts and gain social suspension have increased dramatically in recent years—from and political control by promoting this narrative. ‘Public safety’ 1.7 million in 1974 to 3.1 million in 2000—and have been is a facade, for in reality, the prison does nothing to prevent most dramatic for children of color (“Pipeline,” n.d.). murder and rape, and in fact perpetuates these violences. Studies Once expelled or suspended, students are likely to have Race and Resistance 50 little supervision and often fall far behind in their education. punished. "e school to prison pipeline is just one example of If these children fail to “shape up”, the next step is a juvenile how certain demographics are targeted and coerced into entering detention center. "is disenfranchisement is an essential part the revolving door of the prison system. Abolishing the PIC is of the PIC. "ese zero-tolerance policies limit certain children’s more than tearing down the walls of the prison. It is a process of options. While a&uent white students are pressured to pick a understanding how the PIC is a tool of racial control. "e PIC prestigious college and excel in AP courses, many poor children both depends on, and creates systematic oppression. of color are forced to navigate the complexities and prejudices of I say they made a soldier out of me on May 9th because our criminal justice system. that day broke my heart. "e process of opening our eyes, of While some students have macbooks in their classrooms dying, is a painful one. I began to see the connections between and college recruits walking the halls, many ‘under performing’ the police, the media, our government, schools, and the prison schools have metal detectors and police o!cers. Instead of system. I now understand that police, cages, and surveillance do resources going towards more teachers or new text books, they not keep us safe, but prevent our true freedom. Ultimately, that go to funding a school that looks more like a prison than a place day was just the beginning. It gave me a glimpse of what is a for growth and learning. daily reality for millions of people in this country. On that day "e language of the prison system blames the individual. I found my $ght, and I wish I was over-exaggerating when I say "e individual made bad choices, and therefore must be that it a $ght for our very humanity.

Davis, Angela Y. (YL7YPZVUZ6IZVSL[L& New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003. Print. Chicago 70* ;LHJOPUN*VSSLJ[P]L chicagopiccollective.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2012. “California’s recidivism rate drops but remains one of the nation’s highest.” >OH[;OL-VSS`& N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2012. “What Is The School-to-Prison Pipeline?” (TLYPJHU*P]PS3PILY[PLZ

,QUHJDUGVWRWKH Violence vs Non-Violence'HEDWH

“We are opposed to violence—the violence of hungry piled on top of one another. We were denied telephone use for children, illiterate adults, diseased old people, and the 24 hours, and never given any information about our charges YLROHQFHRISRYHUW\DQGSURÀW:HKDYHDVNHGSHWLWLRQHG (even to this day, none have been $led). My stay was brief gone to courts, demonstrated peacefully, and voted for compared to all those locked inside, but what I experienced was SROLWLFLDQVIXOORIHPSW\SURPLVHV%XWZHVWLOODLQ·WIUHHµ the brutality and dehumanization that is the normal operation 

could provide for each other what this society denies to the vast rejected a Corps of Engineers request for $27 million to pay majority of people. "e free circulation of food, shelter, education, for infrastructure for hurricane protection, and proposed one medical care, and life skills that characterized the Occupy sites for $3.7 million instead. And while it may be tempting to posed a threat to those who pro$t from the commodi$cation of blame Bush, these projects have never been the priorities of such basic human rights. "ese communities are not spaces of Republican or Democratic administrations (“Broken Levees,” charity, though, because they created a forum and framework 2005), especially in poor communities of color. to organize together, to empower one another to determine our Hurricane Katrina exposed the deep racial divides present own futures—and to $ght a system that has long been $ghting in the United States, and the overt racism of the federal us. government—in its lack of response to the disaster, but also Demonizing protest not only justi$es police brutality against in the living conditions of people in New Orleans before the those who resist, but distracts from an analysis that recognizes the levees broke. Residents were “lacking in health care, living-wage violence that makes up our everyday lives under capitalism. We employment... wracked by chronic illness, a terrible education don’t need a pledge of nonviolent purity system, and widespread disability, in our activist spaces—what we need [which] re%ected the tenuous fabric is a deeper understanding of the state’s :HGRQ·WQHHGDSOHGJH of urban culture in the United investment in its structural violence— RIQRQYLROHQWSXULW\LQRXU States—a culture just a disaster away in racism, sexism, heteronormativity, DFWLYLVWVSDFHV³ZKDW from total collapse” (Stabile, 2007). poverty, environmental exploitation, ZHQHHGLVDGHHSHU In the news coverage following the and war. We must understand that we event, discussions about injustice and will not end oppression by morally XQGHUVWDQGLQJRIWKHVWDWH·V displacement were actively avoided. appealing to our oppressors. I do not LQYHVWPHQWLQLWVVWUXFWXUDO Whenever the narrative became so mean to say that violence is necessarily YLROHQFH³LQUDFLVP clearly about government neglect, the only way to counter power, but that policing, and racial pro$ling, a distant restricting ourselves, and others, to a VH[LVPKHWHURQRUPDWLYLW\ news anchor would reel the coverage code of paci$sm is unnecessary and SRYHUW\HQYLURQPHQWDO back to a discussion of lawlessness irrational. H[SORLWDWLRQDQGZDUWe and looting, which framed the police "e main action of that day, led by must understand that we as heroic protectors and the black over a thousand people, was to reclaim men as prone to crime. What does a vacant building in hopes of creating will not end oppression by “looting” even mean in this situation, a much-needed community center for morally appealing to our when the government neglects entire Oakland. "is was an act to combat the oppressors. populations because they are poor violence of capitalism, a system where and non-white? "e media actively the masses are exploited to maximize criminalized people for seeking out pro$ts for the few. And while the media and political elite may resources they needed to live; resources that were kept from describe these actions as “violent,” we explicitly reject that the them to protect potential pro$ts. Framing the victims in this appropriation of property is violent or wrong. We maintain that way took the spotlight o# an unaccountable government. "e property itself is violent: what it takes to make it, get it, and reality is, many of those left behind were “elderly, disabled, or keep it, often includes threats to bodies and entire communities. caregivers for such people; they lived in institutions like nursing Violence is having to sell our labor, being thrown out of our homes, hospitals, and prisons that had made no provisions for homes by banks, and not having access to education or health evacuating chronically or terminally ill patients or those who care. Militarism, imperialist wars, and the ever-expanding had been incarcerated” (Klein, 2007). prison-industrial complex—that, is violence. Resistance to such According to community activists, 20,000 people, all black violent institutions will not always appear “peaceful.” and low-income, remain displaced and separated from their We simply cannot talk about violence without talking about communities since Katrina (Nguyen, 2010). Again, this is not the structural violence that the state creates and perpetuates. because of the hurricane. It’s because the natural disaster was As an example let’s look at Hurricane Katrina, which is often seen as an opportunity for corporate lobbyists and government framed as a “natural disaster” but is also fraught with politics o!cials to re-build a more pro$table and privatized New of race, socioeconomic class, and criminalization. "e thing Orleans. Richard Baker, a prominent Republican congressman, is, the levees never should have broke. Scientists predicted it made this very clear when he remarked, “We $nally cleaned up could happen, that the levees could not withstand a Category public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God 5 hurricane like Katrina. "e Bush Administration even did” (Klein, 2007). As the city’s homelessness rate doubled, the Race and Resistance 52

federal government and private $rms collaborated while still being critical of ourselves to ensure we are in a land grab for the construction of condos and not recreating the violence of the state. charter schools. We must call into question who this We have to question why certain forms of “development” is for; who this vision of a “brighter protest are deemed acceptable by the police, future” bene$ts, and who it shuts out. politicians, and the corporate media. What is the If we want to change the world, we are going to di#erence between a one-day rally and the liberation have to do it ourselves. "e systems of oppression of a building for long-term use? One can be easily we currently live under, and in%ict onto others managed by the ruling class, while the other is a in the US and globally, are too complex and tangible step toward self-determination and our too pro$table to be $xed by asking a politician democratic future. (even a well-intentioned one). If we are seriously dedicated to social justice, our energy should not ´, GRQ·W IDYRU YLROHQFH ,I ZH FRXOG be focused on defending our own innocence and bring about recognition and respect for morality but instead standing in $rm opposition our people by peaceful means, well and to the unrelenting violence of the state. "e state good. Everybody would like to reach will defend itself by any means necessary, so our [our] objectives peacefully. But I am also discussion of violence should not be an argument a realist. The only people in this country over whether rocks should have been thrown. who are asked to be nonviolent are [the We know who is violent and who is struggling to oppressed].” 0DOFROP; defend a vision of a better world; it is in our hearts. We can $ght for liberation with a diversity of tactics

“Broken Levees: Why They Failed.” Rep. Washington, D.C.: Center for Progressive Reform, 2005. Web. 31 Aug. 2012. Klein, Naomi. ;OL:OVJR+VJ[YPUL!;OL9PZLVM+PZHZ[LY*HWP[HSPZT. New York: Metropolitan/Henry Holt, 2007. Print. Nguyen, Tram. “Pushed Out and Pushing Back in New Orleans.” *VSVYSPULZ. Applied Research Center, 07 Apr. 2010. Web. Aug. 2012. Stabile, Carol A. “No Shelter From the Storm.” :V\[O([SHU[PJ8\HY[LYS` 106.4 (2007): 690-702. Academic Search Complete. Web. 31 Aug. 2012. 53 Disorientation Guide

HOMELESSNESS in Santa Cruz DIY SANTA CRUZ SANTA DIY

// DOWNTOWN LAW: Do not sit on the sidewalk— you can be ticketed if you are...

ˆ At a bus stop ˆ Within 14 feet of ANY building ˆ Within 50 feet of an ATM (or any other outdoor coin/money machine) ACTIVIST’S TIMELINE ACTIVIST’S ˆ Within 14 feet of any fence that abuts a public sidewalk // ˆ Within 14 feet of any drinking fountain, public telephone, public bench, public trash compactors, info or directory/map signs, sculpture or artwork displayed in public property, or vending cart ˆ Within 14 feet of any street corner or intersection

OHLONE HISTORY ˆ Within 14 feet of any kiosk

Do not sit on any public bench for longer than one hour Do not sleep in the car or in the park Do not walk a dog downtown Do not politically table or street perform in designated areas

HOMELESSNESS // for longer than an hour

Once you leave campus and enter the city of Santa homeless as well. Some have been known to turn away Cruz, there’s an entirely new set of rules and regulations to some folks on the basis of their moralizing messages. be aware of. If you’re walking out of Urban Out$tters in Homeless are often subject to drug tests as a quali$er to %ashy apparel, carrying a purse, or sporting a back pocket basic human needs, like water, shelter, and food. Imagine Santa Cruz: full of cash, you probably don’t have much to worry about. yourself being drug tested as a precondition to entering But, if you happen to don a scru!er look, police will use your dorm or dining hall. the above laws to keep you out of the downtown area. "is trend of criminalizing the poor terrorizes a "ese laws are designed for the persecution of individuals fragile population and promotes an atmosphere of without the $nancial means for housing: the estimated hostility, a sense of unease. "e city’s extensive police force 2,800 homeless people of Santa Cruz (McCord, 2011). may imply a concern for safety, but its law enforcement Technically, these regulations are supposed to be for priorities re%ect a stronger concern for the property everyone, which would make public space uninhabitable. rights of downtown businesses than for the well-being of "ey are designed to keep people moving, providing no the members of our town’s lowest economic strata. "e free place to sit and take a much needed break, unless reality is that homeless people reduce tourism, and that of course you have a recently purchased cup of co#ee in just can’t be tolerated by those whose priority is a pro$t your hand, or a large shopping bag full of new shoes. margin. Unfortunately the police aren’t the only ones who frequently harass the homeless population. A right-wing Witnesses and photographs of group, ‘Take Back Santa Cruz’ has often capitalized on police harrassment can make local tragedies in an e#ort to stir up anti-homeless hate. a report to HUFF (423-HUFF). "eir members have been known to beat up and brutalize locals who make their homes in Santa Cruz. For a history of local police, visit Many homeless shelters are far from kind to the hu#santacruz.org.

McCord, Shanna. “County’s Homeless Population Soars 22 Percent in Two Years.” :HU[H*Y\a:LU[PULS, 26 July 2011. Web. 08 Sep. 2012. Santa Cruz 54

AnORE Incompletethan 10,000 collecting clamsOhlone and oysters, basic daily History MNative Americans once sustenance of the Ohlone was achieved 1697-1834 lived in the coastal region through the direct use of their bodies stretching from Point Sur interacting with the environment. "e to the Monterey Bay. In fact, earth was seen as a vast and intricate before the advance of Spanish network deserving of respect and awe, THE MISSION PERIOD colonists, Central California had rather than as a simple mass of objects PON the arrival of the somber gray- the most populated community or resources to be exploited. "is more Urobed missionaries, the $rst response of of indigenous peoples tightly integrated relation between the the Ohlone can best be described as fright anywhere north of Mexico. The human population and other forms of and awe. "e stability that existed among Spaniards who came in search animal and plant life, in tandem with the Ohlone for centuries was suddenly of ‘savages’ to ‘civilize,’ as well as the intimacy of the social relationships shocked into a new reality. A member of labor and resources to exploit, within the groups, might explain the the Portola expedition wrote of the Ohlone arrived (literally) millennia after harmony said to have been found in reaction to the Franciscan Monks: “Without the original inhabitants of the much of Ohlone life before invasion. knowing what they did, some ran for their area: the Costanoan, or, Ohlone To further understand the deep weapons, then shouted and yelled, and the people. bonds within Ohlone society, it is women burst into tears.” But this was to be Ohlone is a Miwok Indian word important to recognize that each tribe only a minor hysteria compared to what was meaning “western people,” and both constituted between roughly two to befall the Ohlone in coming years. When Ohlone and Costanoan refer to a or three hundred people. "ere was the Missionaries appeared to intend no grouping of smaller tribes in Central virtually no leaving such a situation harm, the Ohlone treated the new-comers California who shared a similar unless one was cast out completely. quite warmly,” bearing gifts of $sh seed language. Among the 10,000 Ohlone, Such ostracization did occur, but it cakes, roots, and deer or antelope meat.” there were about 40 di#erent groups, was very rare and reserved only for At $rst some people came voluntarily all with their own distinct culture. "e the greedy or aggressive. Malcolm to the missions, entranced by the novelty Hordean Ohlone of what is known Margolin, author of #e Ohlone Way, of the missionaries’ dress, their magic and contemporarily as Santa Cruz, or writes of greed: “Acquisition was not metallurgy, their seeming benevolence. “Holy Cross,” is but one. "ese groups an Ohlone’s idea of wealth or security.” Others were captured through force. inhabited di#erent territory, and had After a hunt, for example, the hunter "e mission project was created with the varying social practices and customs, would not prepare meat for himself, stipulation that the Natives would only as well as largely unique languages. but would rather distribute the bounty be held captive and forced into cultural Still, it is possible to speak generally to family and friends $rst. For this, “assimilation” camps for a period of ten about the Ohlones because the groups the hunter would receive admiration years, after which they would be “weaned held much in common. and respect, as well as a kind of away from their life of nakedness, lewdness "e Ohlone attitude toward insurance that they would be treated and idolatry.” Ten years of captivity and their environment was characterized with similar trust and benevolence. torture were just the beginning for the by respect, fostered by a direct and "is is what would be recognized Ohlone. "eir language was criminalized, unmediated relationship with their today as a “gift economy,” a method they were forced to pray like white people, bioregion. While they too altered the for the distribution of goods without dress like white people, eat like white people, landscape somewhat, their damaging bureaucracy, through a network of to raise cattle, abandon traditional native impact on wildlife was minimal— friends and family. "is world of crafts, farm, etc. incomparable to the wreckage caused collective security and mutual aid was In the Missions, Ohlones were baptized by industrial capitalism. Whether unheard of to Europeans who felt that without knowledge of the implications of $shing for salmon and sturgeon, a strong (i.e., oppressive) government the ritual. "e Spanish believed they had gathering seeds or brome grass, or was the cornerstone of society. title over the Ohlones, could hold them without consent, and deprive them of any vestige of freedom or their previous culture. 55 Disorientation Guide

"e Spanish postulated by torture and imprisonment these ‘heathens’ would be transformed from “bestias” (beasts) to “gente de razon” (people of reason). If they attempted escape, soldiers were deployed to recapture them. Routine escapees were “whipped, bastinadoed, and shackled, not only to punish them but to provide an example to the others.” RAGE AGAINST THE MISSION OME Ohlones acknowledged that the only way they could morale of the Ohlone, were diseases such as in%uenza, smallpox, Spreserve their way of life was through the employment of syphilis, measles and mumps. "ese often were intentionally political violence, also more favorably known as self-defense. spread by Europeans, and were much more devastating to the Certainly (much like today) law had little to o#er the Ohlone, Ohlone due to the lack of immunity to such diseases. Death other than to reinforce their servility to the theocracy of the rates at the missions soared, while birth rates plummeted. "is mission system. As such, along with the consistent escapes from was partially a result of the isolation of women and men into the missions, other more insurrectionary actions were taken by separate facilities (prisons) which were intended to enforce strict the Ohlone. chastity regulations. In just some sixty years, the missionary project left the Ohlone peoples almost completely decimated. As an Ohlone author put it on ( INDIANCANYON.ORG ): Native arts like basket making were all but entirely forgotten. Native dialects became mixed and muddled, or were deserted “They resisted in many ways. The restrictions entirely, forcibly replaced with the dominant language of the that the Padres seemed to think were desirable Spaniards. "e gift and barter economy that existed for centuries for their neophytes, willing or otherwise. Santa at least, along with the intricate network of tribal relations and Cruz Mission was attacked by some indigenous collective responsibilities shared by the Ohlones, had virtually VIWMWXERGI½KLXIVW[LS[IVITYVWYMRKXLIMVVMKLXW disappeared. to life and liberty.” Phil Laverty wrote of the attack on Mission Santa Cruz: THE MEXICAN ERA AND ANGLO ADVANCE “On the night of December 14, 1793, Mission After California was ceded to Mexico from Spain in the Santa Cruz was attacked and partially burned 1820s, the struggling Ohlone were jostled into a new but by members of the Quiroste tribe, an Ohlonean equally disastrous position. "e Missions were turned over to the group [just 20 miles north of modern-day Santa Mexican state in 1834, and the Ohlone who had survived were Cruz]. Based on all available information, this now legally free, but without much of the knowledge or resources SGGYVVIRGIETTIEVWXSFIXLI½VWXERHTIVLETW necessary to make it in the modern world (if this was something the only direct attack on a mission building in that was desired at all). Without a means to sustain themselves, Central California during the Spanish era. Nearly some Indigenous Californians became servants to the Spanish, two years of armed resistance on the part while others formed wandering bands who subsisted by hunting of members of the Quiroste [Ohlone] tribe cattle, horses and sheep. "is was their only option, as the elk TVIGIHIHXLIEXXEGO[LMGL[EWTVSFEFP]XLI½VWX and antelope had almost entirely disappeared. "ese bands of extended resistance against the Spanish in the “outlaws” were themselves hunted and killed. entire San Francisco Bay Area.” At Mission Dolores in 1850, an old man speaks about his people: Ohlone resistance was on too small a scale however, to make the critical di#erence. "e only signi$cant threat in the area, “I am very sad; my people were once around me the Quiroste, were defeated by sheer force in numbers and a like the sands of the shore—many, many. They superior military apparatus. Another large blow to the health and have gone to the mountains. I do not complain: Santa Cruz 56

the antelope falls with the arrow. I had a son—I loved him. When the pale-faces came he went away; I know not where he is. I am a Christian Indian; I am all that is left of my people. I am alone. ”

With California’s incorporation into the US in 1846 and the coming of Anglo settlers, extermination became more overt and publicly acceptable. Indian killing was a favorite pastime, and was at one time subsidized by the US Government. "e 1850 Act for the Government and Protection of Indians led to looser protections for Native children already heavily exploited as young slaves and servants. "is act also ensured that Indigenous People’s were withheld status as legal persons, although the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo already ostensibly secured Indigenous Californian’s citizenship. With the Land Claims Act of 1851, most remaining Indigenous land was expropriated for the coming white settlers. Racism and hatred of California Indians led to the impossibility of their receiving fair trial, as virtually any white man would lie for another. "e new inhabitants of California made their desire clear in this article from the Yreka Herald in 1853: “We hope that the Government will render such aid as will enable the citizens of the north to carry on a war of extermination until the last redskin of these tribes has been killed. Extermination is no longer a question of time —the time has arrived, the work has commenced, and PIXXLI½VWXQERXLEXWE]WXVIEX]SVTIEGIFIVIKEVHIHEW a traitor.” (Yreka Herald, 1853)

Between 1850 and 1870, indigenous Californians experienced perhaps the most bloody and murderous times in their history, with squatters and supposed ‘pioneers’ tracking and assaulting any Native who could be found. In California, the population of 200,000-300,000 California Natives in 1848, was reduced to 15,238 by 1890. As for the Ohlone, all 40 tribes and almost all 10,000 people are gone. "e last full- blooded Ohlone died recently. THE MODERN ERA Despite the centuries of torment and subjugation, the of a current Ohlone project is the Indian Canyon Ranch, Ohlone are not dead. Last year, an energetic movement emerged which serves as an Indigenous cultural center and home for to stop construction of a housing project on a former Ohlone Native Americans of many tribal origins. Hopeful is Quirina village and burial site located near Branciforte Creek. "e group, Luna-Costillas, who has studied the Mutsun Ohlone language known as ‘Save the Knoll’, fought tirelessly for two months, extensively, and started a foundation to research and teach it to raising protests against the development. "e group visited the others. Some have revived the art of traditional basket-making site of construction, disrupting the work and holding a religious and storytelling, and are writing about various aspects of ceremony in honor of the site. "eir tactics of protest worked: Ohlone culture and history. "ese examples serve as a reminder KB homes, the developer, agreed to stop construction. of a living, persevering culture, and as a wake-up call to those of But there is still a lot of work to be done. Another example us who consider the Ohlone to be deceased.

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The ballot measure swept the three years until monkey-wrenching +DWH%LDVUHSRUW spring 2003 student elections with 69% of the vote, setting up “Engaging Education” ÄUHSS`IHURY\W[Z[OLJVTWHU`I\[UV[ f 2QWKHRQHPRQWK or “e2.” before Gamecock Canyon is trashed. DQQLYHUVDU\RI ‹ Chicano Latino Resource Center (El SHRSOHUDOOLHGDW Oct 14- 15 Centro) opens WKHEDVHRIFDPSXVWR As part of the largest strike in UC history, the Coalition of University Employees (CUE, the ‹ Prop. 209 passes, eliminating RSSRVHD86LQYDVLRQRI clerical workers’ union) and the American HMÄYTH[P]LHJ[PVUPU*(:[\KLU[Z $IJKDQLVWDQ Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT, the lecturers’ encircle Hahn Student Services building f $IULFDQ$PHULFDQ \UPVUZ[VWWLK^VYRH[Ä]LKPMMLYLU[ for eight hours. The protest ends with &KLFDQR/DWLQR1DWLYH campuses in response to “unfair labor Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood and the $PHULFDQDQG$VLDQ practices” on the part of the UC. students issuing a statement on how $PHULFDQ3DFLILF,VODQGHU ‹ Santa Cruz City Council weighs in on many the administration will support student 5HVRXUFHFHQWHUVRSHQLQ national/ international issues: efforts to ensure a diverse campus. %D\7UHHEXLOGLQJ 1. First city to pass resolutions against US wars on Afghanistan and Iraq. 2. Joins cities across the country in opposing the Patriot Act, and raises question of impeachment of Bush. 1998 ‹ A coalition of nine student organizations $WHDFKLQRQDIILUPDWLYH 2000 named Standing United for Peace (SUP) DFWLRQSROLFLHVGUDZV becomes active: May 1. Rallies: 700-800 students rally on Oct. Over 1,000 students demonstrate to end 6SHDNHUVLQFOXGH 7; 150 march around campus and once and for all the attempt to remove $PHULFDQVWXGLHV orchestrate a ‘die-in’ on Nov. 20; and evals. 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‹ On the day after the war began, 20,000 people, Apr 18 including many from Santa Cruz, shut down riot police arrest and brutalize students who refuse to leave the San Francisco’s business district with mass base of campus after “free speech zone” hours end. JP]PSKPZVILKPLUJL7YV[LZ[LYZ[HYNL[LKVMÄJLZ Apr 29 of companies such as Bechtel and the Carlyle The DA drops all charges facing students. Group, who stood to make millions off of the war. ‹ The Coalition to Demilitarize the UC forms Spring to end military research at the UC, including Spring elections: the administration co-opts students into paying management of the nuclear weapons labs. for basic services, as a large new fee barely wins to expand the ‹ Students successfully lobby to get fair-trade problem-ridden Health Center. 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Dec MSNBC leaks part of a Pentagon surveillance database that lists SAW’s April 5 counter-recruitment action as a “credible threat” to national security; SAW members work with the ACLU to release the rest of the report. Santa Cruz: Timeline 62 2007 Feb 15 4VUL`MVY>HNLZ5V[MVY>HY rally calls for a reprioritization of resources 2008> to focus on the needs of low-paid Mar 10-14 2006 service workers rather than weapons ;VJVTTLTVYH[L[OLÄM[OHUUP]LYZHY`VM[OL Winter development and war. The rally Iraq War, Students Against War (SAW) holds a TWANAS resumes publication of student corresponds with anti-war student ^LLRHNHPUZ[^HYPU[OL8\HYY`7SHaH^P[OH newspaper. strikes on several other campuses simulated Nuclear Waste Dump, educationals, nationwide. and a rally. 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Gaming Industry” and “Most Homophobic.” May 1 May 7-10 May 20 The Committee for Justice in Palestine 100s of students rally at the base of To end Prison Industrial Complex Awareness organizes Palestine Awareness Week campus in support of immigrant rights Week, Angela Davis speaks to packed events including a mock checkpoint at HUK[OLUTHYJO[V[OLILHJOÅH[Z[VQVPU audiences College 9/10. a community rally. 8\HYY`7SHaH May 27 May 5 May 9-17 Students protest neo-conservative David 45 students and faculty engage in UC Sweat-Free campaign ends in victory. Horrowitz speaking on campus. a nine-day hunger strike, raising the May 18 pressure for UC severance ties with Jun 6 SAW and anti-nuke activists from around nuclear weapons lab. Student & Worker Coalition For Justice and CA disrupt a UC Regents meeting. One AFSCME 3299 workers hold rally and march UCSC student is escorted out of the May 24 calling for a Fair Contract and Protesting YHSS`H[[OL*OHUJLSSVY»Z6MÄJL building for going over his 30 second limit the Inauguration of Chancellor George to protest the proposed three-year during the comment period. Blumenthal, who failed to provide public Z\ZWLUZPVUVM(SL[[L2LUKYPJR:WLHRLYZ support for the campaign. Demonstrators include Angela Davis and members of Spring shut down the intersections of Bay and The Save Our Languages campaign the UC Activist Defense Committee. In Mission for three hours. Graduation speakers demands prioritization of UCSC response, the administration revokes the also refused to speak in solidarity. Language Programs. severe punishment (May 30). Jul 14-18 Jun 6 Jun 21 8500 members AFSCME 3299 conduct ;OL(MÄYTH[P]L+P]LYZP[`*VHSP[PVU <*:*YLOPYLZÄYLKKPUPUNOHSS^VYRLY statewide strike to call for a fair contract and holds mass rally to demand concrete Angela Ruiz after a day of student and an end to poverty wages. infrastructural support for diversity at ^VYRLYWYV[LZ[(UNLSH^HZÄYLKPU(WYPS UCSC. for attending a union-sponsored protest Oct 1 against UC President Robert Dynes, WLVWSLWPJRL[HUKISVJR[YHMÄJULHY[OL Oct 18 even though she had received excellent bookstore demanding justice for AFSCME In response to a UC Regents visit, a evaluations and the protest was during worker. large coalition of students from a variety her lunch hour. of struggles protests in the regents’ Nov 1 comment period. 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Jun SOCC Hunger Strike: The Students of Color Coalition (SOCC) organized a four-day 2009 hunger strike in protest of budget cuts and in Jan-Feb opposition to UC policies, noting that cuts are 2008 2009-AFSCME service workers settled their disproportionately affecting students of color > and marginalized communities within the Nov 18-20 contract with the UC after a year and a half of negotiations and protest. The agreement university. SOCC’s demands included among Regents Meeting in San Francisco- PUJS\KLKZPNUPÄJHU[^HNLPUJYLHZLZHWH` other things making the university a safe AFSCME members, labor activists, Z`Z[LT[OH[YL^HYKZZLUPVYP[`HUKHÄYZ[[PTL sanctuary for undocumented students. SOCC and union leaders gathered in San ever statewide minimum wage for their job also demanded that the university hire a full- Francisco to demand a fair contract JSHZZPÄJH[PVUZ time director of the American Indian Resource for University of California service Center and Women’s Center. workers. Union leaders from around Feb the state were arrested after they ‹ Four local animal liberation activists are Aug refused to leave the public comment arrested by FBI agents who charged them >VYRLYZJHSSMVYH]V[LVMUVJVUÄKLUJLPU period. under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. President Mark Yudof. This leads to an UPTE strike and faculty walkout on Sep. 24. Winter Each faces ten years in prison for attending protests against animal experimentation at Amidst city budget cuts, the Sep 24 the UC and allegedly publishing the names Beach Flats Community, a primarily Hundreds of students and faculty walkout. and addresses of UC professors who Latin community, experienced UCSC garners the attention of students experiment on living animals. major cutbacks to community across California, and much of the world, centerpieces including the ‹ The Project/TWANAS Revival- Two radical, when dozens of students occupy the community garden and community alternative, student-made newspapers Graduate Student Commons for seven center, a wellspring of education and resumed printing in the early months of days. Over the next several months, opportunity 2009 after years of stagnation. occupations follow at UCSC, UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University, CSU Fullerton, Dec 9 Apr UCLA, UC Davis, and more. Alongside Hundreds of Community Members 2PKKPL7PJRL[H[-HTPS`:[\KLU[/V\ZPUN! the demonstration students throw dance and Students march from the Beach Students living at Family Student Housing parties and distribute information. The term Flats Community Center to City Hall IYV\NO[[OLPYRPKZV\[[V8\HYY`7SHaH electro-communism is coined. A real sense [VÄNO[J\[IHJRZ to protest repeated rent increases and of student unity across the state forms. The deteriorating apartment conditions. Dec 14 text, A Communique from an Absent Future, makes its debute. 13-month tree-sit demonstration May ended immediately after students ‹ Walk-Out in opposition to UC-Wide ( OCCUPYCA.WORDPRESS.COM ) left for winter break. Students Budget Cuts: UCSC admins announce had been occupying the trees in major cuts to student services and Oct 15 protest of UC expansionist policies undergrad programs. These cuts were Students occupy the Humanities 2 building and the Long Range Development especially damaging to the social sciences, for several hours. Plan. After threats of legal action, humanities, and the arts, and threatened Oct 24 protesters abandoned their redwood to obliterate the community studies A conference is held at UC Berkeley to unite platforms above Science Hill. department. Two founding Latin American the budget cuts movement across the state, Following the protesters’ descent, and Latino studies professors, Susan Jonas particularly in education. It brings in over a UCSC cut down 48 redwood trees and Guillermo Delgado, were given notice thousand in attendance. and 11 oak trees to make way for that their positions would be terminated the construction of the Biomedical along with other staff and faculty members. Nov 13 Sciences Facility, which opened in Students mobilized in opposition to the Students take over the Science and 2012. cuts and in support of the faculty and Engineering library for 23 hours in protest to community studies department. budget cuts affecting the libraries. ‹ May Day: Hundreds of students and community members braved the rain to Nov 17-22 celebrate International Worker’s Day and (YV\UKZ[\KLU[ZVJJ\W`2YLZNL;V^U speak out for immigrant rights. Students Hall, leading to the four-day occupation of marched from campus to the Beach Flats. 2LYY/HSS[OLTHPUHKTPUPZ[YH[P]LI\PSKPUNVU campus, in protest of a 32% fee increase, among other things. Students at UC Berkeley and UC Davis also occupy spaces. Santa Cruz: Timeline 64 2010 2011 Feb 24 Mar 1 A dance party at UCSC roves around campus 700 students gather on OPERS to spell out the words ‘FREE EDUCATION’ with at night to publicize the upcoming Mar. 4 Strike, [OLPYIVKPLZ^OPSLWOV[VNYHWOLYZÅ`V]LYPUHUHPYWSHUL;OLL]LU[PZJV]LYLKI` attracting hundreds of people from several three TV stations and several local newspapers. colleges as it made its way from Porter to Stevenson. Mar 2 :[\KLU[ZYHSS`PU8\HYY`7SHaHHUKVJJ\W`[OL,[OUPJ9LZV\YJL*LU[LY[VKLTHUK Feb 26 the creation of the long-overdue Critical Race and Ethnic Studies department. A series of disgusting racist imagery is found The action succeeds in establishing an ongoing open forum on the creation of at UC San Diego, resulting in an uproar from such a department. students across the UC, including Santa Cruz. May 9 Mar 4 More than 80 students and teachers are arrested for occupying the capitol Approximately 800 students shutdown both building in Sacramento in protest of the $28 billion in cuts to social services in the entrances to campus in protest of budget latest CA budget. All students but one have their charges dropped. cuts for the entirety of the day, allowing only MVV[[YHMÄJPU:[\KLU[Z[PYLSLZZS`VYNHUPaLK Oct 8 themselves to stop incoming workers being Occupy Santa Cruz sets up camp outside the Courthouse, two weeks after forced to commute to campus despite its the movement kicks off in New York. The camp grows until Dec. 8, when it is closure as early as 4 a.m. However, the KLZ[YV`LKI`WVSPJLH[[OLVYKLYVMJP[`VMÄJPHSZ momentum failed to continue onto the next Nov 9 day despite interest, due to fatigue and poor Z[\KLU[ZYHSS`PU8\HYY`7SHaHHUKTHYJOKV^U[V^U[VQVPU\W^P[OSVJHS planning. Across the state, and the US, millions labor unions for the beginning of ‘Occupy Education’ in Santa Cruz. Wells Fargo of students protest cuts. bank is shut down by blockade for four hours. May 18 Nov 16 Students hold a small walkout and teach-in for At the height of the Occupy movement, the UC Regents cancel a meeting where two days. they planned to vote on a tuition hike, due to concern over massive student Summer disruptions. With the meeting cancelled, around 1000 UC students meet up with The admin closes the Rape Prevention 6JJ\W`:-[VTHYJO[OYV\NO[OLÄUHUJPHSKPZ[YPJ[HUKZO\[KV^UHTHQVY)HUKVM Education program, the last of its kind in the UC. America branch. (Regent Monica Lozano sits on B of A’s board of directors) It is reassigned to SHOP, ultimately reclassifying Nov 30 - Dec 3 rape as a medical issue. Several hundred students and community members reclaim an abandoned Sep 24 bank building (75 River Street) and begin turning it into a community center. The A dance party, reminiscent of the ones during occupiers repel a major police attack, but are forced to leave after heavy legal the occupations is attacked by police and three charges are threatened against anyone found on the premises. After the building are arrested. is cleared, 11 are charged with various charges relating to the occupation. Two succeed in having their charges dismissed, but the others are still caught up in Oct 7 legal proceedings. ( SANTACRUZELEVEN.ORG ) In attempt to mimic the success of Mar. 4, a statewide conference was held in April to organize a day of action against budget cuts for Oct. 7. However, it fails to meet hopes of another Mar. 4. 200-300 attend at UCSC to rally. 2012 >>> ? 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BrazenSquareDancinginthestreets Published by Free Skool Santa Cruz, Spring 2012 Published by Free Gender and Sexuality 66 Yes please: Consent SOCIAL POLICING SOCIAL I have noticed a dangerous trend is a private matter that should not be “normal.” Mainstream porn is the most

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FEMINISM abuse is not “natural” nor is it a part stories of being sexually abused or raped. adults. Straightforward communication of human nature. It has nothing to It’s a heartbreaking reality that for every can feel uncomfortable; being open // do with how monkeys related to each wonderful, healthy sexual encounter and honest with yourself and your other in the wild. Rape and other sexual I’ve had, there were $ve others where partner takes practice. However, the abuses are social issues. "ey are born I felt that my boundaries were not more you do it, the easier it gets. CONSENT from a sick society in which sex and "ere are also other reasons we power are closely intertwined. might pressure someone to have non- Unfortunately, most of us are *VUZLU[PZUV[ZVTL consensual relations with us, subject to the prevailing sexual habits WHZZPUN WOHZL UV[ misread another’s words or actions, or of our culture, and the results aren’t H RP[ZJO` ZSVNHU" P[ be reluctant to say “no.” But we can always pretty. Our habits can lead PZ H ULJLZZHY` Z[LW work to end this harmful cycle. Bringing us to mindlessly pressure others [V^HYKZ LUKPUN [OL consent – mutual agreement, mutual into sexual relations they don’t want to J`JSLZ VM ]PVSLUJL desire – into the picture again will have. Alternately, our conditioning [OH[HYLKHPS`YLHSP[PLZ not only keep sexual assault and rape can make us vulnerable to unwanted out of the picture, it will create space sexual pressure. Most people don’t MVYTHU`VM\Z for healthy, positive, and erotic sexual want to, or mean to, pressure another experiences. person into unwanted sexual relations, So, what exactly is consent? "e

Gender and Sex!uality: yet it happens all the time: every two viewed as stopping points, but as lines short answer is, consent is a “yes”, not and a half minutes a woman is raped of negotiation. Consent is not some the absence of a “no”. in the United States, and one in four passing phase, not a kitschy slogan; it "e long answer is that consent is college women will experience rape is a necessary step towards ending the when a person freely proclaims wanting or attempted rape by the time she cycles of violence that are daily realities to engage in certain emotional or graduates (PAMF, 2012). "is statistic for many of us. As you enter college it physical relations with someone else. doesn’t re%ect the thousands of rapes is essential to take a critical look at how "at the person “freely” agrees means that go unreported, nor does is re%ect rape becomes normalized in our society, no coercion or pressure was used sexual violence against trans and gender and to consider which of our own on them. "at the person agrees to nonconforming people. behaviors contribute to this process. “certain” relations means that consent It is important to recognize that Our habits are not all simple, but should be a part of each new level of most often rape is not perpetrated by some of them can be named. First, we intimacy – asking once is never enough. strangers, but by those who are close have gendered habits. We’ve all been "e word “proclaims” should also be to us—lovers, partners, friends, family raised in a patriarchal world, one in deciphered: any old “okay” to any old members, potential one night stands, which women and men are supposed question doesn’t mean that a person etc. At least 70% of rape victims know to inhabit clearly distinguishable consents. Consent means you must hear their attackers (PAMF, 2012). Survivors categories, and in which women are (and speak) a de$nitive and resounding are taught to believe that being raped to be submissive and men are to show “yes.” Obviously, all involved parties was somehow their fault, and that it their power in order to be accepted as must consent to any action.

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By now, you might have questions. What about body-language Me: Do you want to have sex in the shower today? that says “yes?” If I have to ask for consent several times in order Partner: Not this time, I just want to get clean. to get “yes,” is that okay? What if I hurt someone’s feelings? Me: For sure. What if I feel totally uncomfortable talking about sex out loud? What if I’ve overstepped someone’s boundaries before? What if More about listening: “No” means no, but so do other talking makes it awkward? things, so pay attention. If your date is saying “Maybe”, “I Not all of your questions can be answered in this article. But guess,” “But we’ve been drinking,” “I’m thinking about it,” we can provide you with four essential tools of consent, as some “Later would be nice”, or anything except an adamant “Yes!” tips for making consent more fun and less daunting. then it means no. If you ask several times and badger a yes out of them, it doesn’t count. You might think that this level of dialogue is unrealistic. Tool One: Asking However, it can often feel impossible to say a hard “no.” Always, always ask before making a move. Whether you’d Especially if people are socialized as female. Women are taught like to put your arm around someone’s shoulder, give them to let people down easy, to save face, and to constantly second goodnight kiss, or go down them. Whether it is your $rst time guess their emotions. We are taught that once we get to certain with them or you have done it together a half-dozen times point in the hooking up process that saying “no” makes us a before, ask $rst. Whether they are acting seductive or sweetly tease. Creating a culture of consent means undoing the idea that timid, ask $rst. Whether they invited you to their house or they you have a ‘right’ to anyone elses body. To do this, we must have stayed the latest at your party, ask $rst. Whether you are in love radically honest conversations about where our boundaries are. or not, ask $rst. Ask in words, not with a questioning hand, a raised eyebrow, Tool Three: Checking in with the or a special romantic connection. Ask in a way that leaves room other person for “no.” Ask open-ended questions. Ask before every move you Checking in begins with talking about what each of you make. wants or doesn’t want from your romantic or physical encounter. It can also include letting the other person know that you have Some good ways to ask are: assaulted someone in the past, or that you are an assault survivor. “What would you like to do?” Checking in creates a time to say if you’re feeling awkward, wary, “Would you like to make out more or stop for now?” sad, joyous, expectant or sensitive. Check-ins bolster con$dence, “What is your ideal goodbye at the end of a date?” de$ne boundaries and prevent embarrassment. When someone “How far do you want to go right now?” is checking in with you, take all of their concerns seriously, even “Do you want me to...?” if they sound absurd to you. Okay ways to ask: Tool Four: Checking in with yourself “May I...?” Take moments here and there to check in with yourself. “Is it okay to...?” Are you sober? Are they sober? Are you feeling safe? Are you really asking for consent? Are you saying one thing and meaning Bad ways to ask: another? If you remember to check in with yourself, you are “I want to nibble your ear, okay?” much more likely to $nd yourself happy and healthy in the “Is it alright if I...(begins doing it anyway)” morning. Gender and Sexuality: Consent 68

Now that you know the basics, here are some ways If Your Boundaries to make the consent ride a little smoother. Are Crossed Tip 1. Body language: Body language can augment (though not replace) your use of verbal consent. Body language can let you 'JSTUPGBMM SFNFNCFSUIBUJUXBTOPUZPVSGBVMU know when someone is feeling uncomfortable or %irtatious. An :PVEJEOPUiMFBEUIFNPOwø*UEPFTOPUNBUUFSXIBU ambiguous verbal reply along with positive body language does not ZPVXFSFXFBSJOH IPXNVDIZPVIBEUPESJOL PS equal yes. JGZPVIBETUBSUFEUPHFUTFYZBOEUIFOTVEEFOMZ DIBOHFE ZPVS NJOE 3BQF BOE TFYVBM BCVTF JT Tip 2. Humor: Making things funny always makes them less OFWFS BOEXJMMOFWFSCFZPVSGBVMU5IFBDUJPOTPG awkward. Making fun of your awkwardness also releases tension. UIFQFSQFUSBUPSBSFUIFQFSQFUSBUPSTSFTQPOTJCJMJUZ Remember that working through awkwardness is far better than BMPOF *O UIFTF TJUVBUJPOT  MPPL GPS GSJFOET BOE hurting someone. BMMJFTUIBUXJMMTVQQPSUZPV BOECFXFBSZPGQFPQMF that attempt to delegitimize or minimize your Tip 3. Talk $rst: Check in before you are “in the heat of the FYQFSJFODF moment” to get to know one another’s communication styles, 4FDPOE PG BMM  QFPQMF FYQFSJFODF SBQF BOE preferences and boundaries will streamline your sexual experience. TFYVBM BCVTF EJGGFSFOUMZ  UIFø JNQPSUBOU UIJOH JT IPXZPVGFFMBCPVUZPVSFYQFSJFODFBOEIPXZPV Tip 4. Tough topics: It may seem challenging to bring DIPPTFUPEFmOFJU%POPUMJTUFOUPQFPQMFXIPEP up consent and your personal assault history. Creativity and OPUMFUZPVOBNFZPVSPXOFYQFSJFODFT transitional phrases can help. For example, you might say “So, I was 3FNFNCFS UIBU ZPV IBWF UIF SJHIU UP CF reading the Disorientation Guide the other day and...” or “Hey, can MJTUFOFEUP BOEZPVIBWFUIFSJHIUUPNBLFSFRVFTUT we pause for a second? I need to get some stu# o# my chest... of the perpetrator. Whether or not you have friends UPTVQQPSUZPV UIFSFBSFSFTPVSDFTZPVDBOUVSOUP Tip 5. State your boundaries: If you are feeling bold enough, GPSIFMQ TFFCFMPX  let your crush know what your boundaries are before they need to *GTPNFPOFFMTFBQQSPBDIFTZPVCFDBVTFUIFJS ask. Along with letting them know what you don’t want to do, let CPVOEBSJFTIBWFCFFODSPTTFE MJTUFOUPUIFJSTUPSZ them know you would be into doing. Setting boundaries doesn’t and take their word for it. You are not the person just mean showing your partner where the gate closes, it also mean UPEFDJEFJGUIFBTTBVMUOFFETUPCFDPNFQVCMJD  showing them where it opens. that’s up to the survivor. Whether the survivor OFFETUJNF QSPUFDUJPOPSBDUJPO CFUIFSFUPHJWF Tip 6. Establish rules: Setting up rules with a long-term lover them unconditional support. is practical and still consensual, though the original tools of consent should remain an active part of your relationship. For example: RESOURCES: Person One: I love back massages. You never have to ask me about them again. You can massage my back anytime. Local Groups Person Two: Good to know! ‹ Consensual Liberation through Intimate Time passes, and so do many messages. One day Person One starts Tactics (CLIT) Collective: Based out of Santa to give their partner a message. Cruz; members are radical activists working to Person Two: *twitching* Ouch, that hurts today. engage in grassroots and community-based Person One: I understand. Just let me know when you want a action and response to sexual/intimate violence massage again. (myspace.com/ClitCollective) ÷ Women’s Crisis Support - Defensa de When you practice consent, you learn quickly who you make Mujeres: Latina-based sexual assault and sparks with and who you should just be friends with. Consent makes domestic violence center sex better, whether it is casual or devoted. "ere are a million reasons to practice consent. But you need to believe in the importance of Accountability, Consent, and Survivor Support Zines consent, and act in the spirit of consent, to make it work. You must DorisDorisDoris.com pay more than lip service to consent: internalize it, live by it, ask, PhillysPissed.net listen and check in. ZineLibrary.info/English/interpersonal 69 Disorientation Guide An Introduction Feminism: If you’re dissin’ the sisters, you ain’t "ghtin’ the power.

“Feminism” is not a static women’s movement that is about liberation from sexist oppression, and perhaps can be easily de!ned. “Feminism” should instead be the abolition of gender categories altogether. But for the thought of as an umbrella term which encompasses time being, we must come to terms with the fact that we many di"erent ways of thinking, and arguments live in a misogynistic world, where femininity is devalued between them. Feminism is an incredibly expansive and degraded in various ways. As Jessica Valenti points category that involves theories and activism around out in Full Frontal Feminism, what’s the worst thing you the politics of gender, and envisioning a world not can call a woman? Words like slut, whore, bitch, and cunt fraught with domination. seem to carry the most weight. And what’s the worst To start, let’s debunk a couple popular myths. thing you can call a man (or someone who’s supposed to First, “feminism” does not be one)? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. Noticing a pattern here? translate into “women’s rights.” #is view assumes that the end-goal of Third, feminism is not Radical feminism feminism is the individual rights of women, such as the just for women. opposes patriarchy, not right to vote. When viewed in this way, it is easy to treat men, and recognizes that feminism as a minority struggle or side issue only about gender roles harm us all. It is important that we take women. #ere was a particular moment when I began to collective responsibility for gender equality, and do not see how gender is involved in a lot of situations that are not see it as the burden of women to !x. In the words of obviously about gender. On the !rst day of class for Intro Bell Hooks, feminism is an ideological meeting ground to Feminist Studies, professor Anjali Arondekar began for the sexes, a space for transformation—to transform with this statement: “Gender is a social construction, relationships so that the alienation, competition, and and if you don’t understand that, you won’t understand dehumanization that characterize human interaction anything in this class. So let’s instead begin by looking at can be replaced with feelings of intimacy, mutuality, the war on terror.” She proceeded to draw out some of the and camaraderie. Further, to say that feminism is about gra$ti that showed up after 9/11 depicting Bin Laden “women” is to ignore the multiplicity of gender identities being sodomized by US missiles. She showed how these that cannot be described as either “man” or “woman” ( SEE representations were extremely gendered in nature and ¸8<,,9¹7 ). how gender was intertwined with Islamophobia. While To be e"ective, feminism must operate through feminism is concerned with the rights of women, such intersectionality. Intersectionality is a way of examining as access to reproductive healthcare, it is also concerned how di"erent social/cultural/political categories—such with how gender is involved in much broader structures as race, class, gender, ability, nationality, and other axes of power. of identity—interact on multiple and simultaneous Feminism o"ers us a lens, like a pair of glasses. We’ve levels to create systemic inequality. Multiple forms of been taught to not think twice about gender, because it discrimination happen at once and cannot be teased is normalized in our society through the medical !eld, apart. #erefore, if we are only concerned with gender, education system, conventional parenting practices, etc. we will not be speaking to people’s actual experiences. By using gender as a lens, we can see how sexism has Feminism argues that a false sense of objectivity often been institutionalized through history. We can view erases non-normative viewpoints; instead, feminism history through this lens to see how gender and its social favors the idea that all perspectives are partial. Feminism norms have changed across time and space, and are not a should be thought of not as a concrete set of ideas, but matter of !xed, biological fact. as a lens for viewing oppression and organizing to end it. Why do we need feminism? It allows us to name Second, feminism is not a experiences that we have often been taught are irrational plot to bring men down. To see feminism in this or illegitimate. It’s a !eld of thought that not only explores way is to assume that we have what is happening but why it’s happening. Feminism already achieved gender equality and that now women teaches us that points of paralysis are in fact moments are attempting to dominate or replace men. Feminism in which we can further our understanding of the world. Valenti1LZZPJH-\SS-YVU[HS-LTPUPZT,TLY`]PSSL*(!:LHS7YPU[ Gender and Sexuality 70 Queer! If you’re dissin’ the sisters, you ain’t "ghtin’ the power.

Lesson One

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Lesson Three Social Policing and 8IFOXFUBMLBCPVUUIF2VFFSDPNNVOJUZ PS Queer Resistance UIFBMQIBCFUTPVQPGUIF-(#52*2" -FTCJBO(BZ #JTFYVBM5SBOTHFOEFS2VFTUJPOJOH*OUFSTFY2VFFS "TFYVBM DPNNVOJUZ XFVTFBMPUPGXPSETUPUSZBOE )*+,-./ this: many of our daily practices—where EFTDSJCFQFPQMFTJEFOUJUJFT CFIBWJPST CPEJFTBOE C we work, what we desire, how we interact with NVDINPSF8IFOXFHFUEPXOUPUIFCBTJDT UIF others—are shaped around the idea that there are two DPOWFSTBUJPODBOCFCSPLFOEPXOJOUPGPVSEJTUJODU genders, a binary of men and women that are supposed CVUJOUJNBUFMZJOUFSUXJOFEDBUFHPSJFT‰(FOEFS to use separate bathrooms, shop in their assigned *EFOUJUZ (FOEFS&YQSFTTJPO #JPMPHJDBM4FY BOE departments, and act in di#erent ways. Most people spend 4FYVBM0SJFOUBUJPO their whole lives trying to live up to the gender they’re expected to be. Companies make millions of dollars every :PVSFJODPMMFHF(FUVTFEUPWPDBCMJTUT year o# of products intended to make us more masculine Here’s one you’ll actually use. or more feminine. "is binary is upheld by a deep-seated social policing that restricts what kind of actions, identities Gender IdentityMJWFTJOZPVSCSBJO*UTIPXZPV and practices are appropriate. Cross-dressing and gender- UIJOLBCPVUZPVSTFMG‰BTBNBO BXPNBO  bending are often met with forms of emotional and HFOEFSRVFFS TPNFUIJOHJOCFUXFFO PS physical violence. "e urge to conform to a gender role something entirely different! starts at birth with the $rst question most will ask about a Words like: male, female, genderqueer, gender$uid, child: “Is it a girl or a boy?” From there, you’re forced into two-spirit, non-gendered/genderless, transgender, a track of either blue curtains and Transformers or pink transguy, transmasculine, transwoman, and curtains and Barbies. Media representations and cultural transfeminine are used to describe one’s gender norms further enforce the ‘correct’ patterns of behavior for identity. each gender. "is social policing runs deeper than just gender; it Gender ExpressionMJWFTJOZPVSQIZTJDBMCFIBWJPS also structures the way we sexually orient ourselves, often *UMJWFTJOUIFDMPUIFTZPVXFBS UIFMBOHVBHF along lines of gendered expectations. For this reason, some ZPVVTF UIFXBZZPVNPWFZPVSCPEZ‰ZPVS identify as queer, an inclusive term that allows us to break CFIBWJPSJOHFOFSBM*UJTBOPVUXBSEFYQSFTTJPO and rethink sexual practices. Queer can refer to a wide PGZPVSHFOEFSJEFOUJUZUPUIFXPSME UIFXBZTJO array of gender and sexual possibilities, including many XIJDIZPVCFIBWFBTZPVSNPTUBVUIFOUJDTFMG that don’t $t so neatly into the categories we typically Words like: masculine, feminine, hyperfeminine, use to talk about these things. Queers are “the very many hypermasculine, fairy, androgynous, agender, queer, of us who may at times be moved to describe ourselves butch, stud, femme, dyke, bear, and gender fuck are as (among many other possibilities)” gay, lesbian, bi, used to describe one’s gender expression. transexual, “pushy femmes, radical faeries, fantasists, drags, clones, leatherfolk, ladies in tuxedos, feminist Biological SexMJWFTPOZPVSCJSUIDFSUJmDBUF*U women or feminist men, masturbators, bulldaggers, divas, JTXIBUXBTBOOPVODFEXIFOZPVXFSFCPSO  Snap! queens, butch bottoms, storytellers, transsexuals, XIBUTPOZPVSESJWFSTMJDFOTF BOEJUTCBTFEPO aunties, wannabes, lesbian-identi$ed men or lesbians who your chromosomes as well as your genetalia. sleep with men, or… people able to relish, learn from, Words like: male, female, and intersex are used to or identify with such.” Queer expresses the simultaneous describe one’s biological sex. di#erence and unity of our community, living together against the grain. It acknowledges that gender and sexual Sexual Orientation lives in your heart... and in your identities are far from stable and static—they, much like MPJOT*UJTXIPZPVBSFBUUSBDUFEUPTFYVBMMZ the rest of us, change over time. romantically. As many already know, practicing a queer identity is Words like: straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, almost always met with repression and violence. Following pansexual, and asexual are used to describe one’s are four $gures of “sexual police o!cers” distributing such sexual orientation. repression, followed by a vision for what a queer resistance Gender and Sexuality 72 to social-police violence looks like along the way. The Uniformed Police O!cer

"e uniformed police o!cer is the most ubiquitous of o#enders. First, queer assault victims who seek aid from state police often $nd that their report was never $led, and are frequently met with harassment from within the police force itself. "is is especially true for trans people, who are assaulted by o!cers in countless instances each year. “In May 1959, street queens and hustlers at Cooper’s Donuts in Los Angeles responded to police harassment by throwing donuts and rioting against the o!cers who came for their weekly arrest. Again in 1966, rioting erupted when SFPD tried assaulting queers at Compton’s Cafeteria. Most famous are the Stonewall Riots, where a routine police raid on a gay bar in Manhattan ignited full-blown rioting when a bull dyke resisted arrest and street queens began throwing rocks and bottles at NYPD o!cers. For the nights that followed, thousands of queers %ooded the streets to $ght the police and dance in mockery of their inability to reassert order. "e most violent instance of queer riot occurred ten years later in 1979 following the murder of Harvey Milk; queers in San Francisco attacked symbols of the justice system, smashing City Hall and setting a dozen SFPD cars on $re.” “Each of these incidents, which are hailed as milestones of queer history, were speci$c attacks against police institutions that had previously patrolled the outlines of queer identity. Cooper’s Donuts, Compton’s Cafeteria, Stonewall, White Nights: each names a moment where the routine police violence against queer bodies was interrupted with riotous force” (Eanelli, 23). Marsha P. Johnson (1944-1996) "ese riots did something that traditional political reforms have never been able to do. "ey temporarily interrupted the ongoing their orientation, and nearly one in ten is assaulted. We often campaign of police violence against queers. internalize this violence, learning to hate ourselves and the world which reproduced our alienation. Perhaps that is why we’re twice as likely as heterosexual children to commit suicide. The Queer-Basher It is a good sign that even the mainstream media has begun to focus on queer-bashing as a major concern, but they constantly An equally sinister, though far less apparent, police o!cer is insist that the bashers will eventually go away, if only we wait. Yet, one who doesn’t wear a uniform and never swears an oath. “He for many, it does not get better. It’s important for us to recognize populates our most painful memories and formative moments that the queer-basher doesn’t just disappear, even with age. of our youth. He stands guard over the hallways of my high He must be approached and understood as an apparatus. "is school and rigorously evaluates every aspect of my presentation. means that our e#orts to eliminate queer bashing must account "e queer-basher enforces the laws of gender and sexuality. As for the multitude of social forces that produce it: the insecurities, with any lawman, he is equipped with the threat of justi$able ideologies, and violence that motivates the queer-basher, and the violence and the means to carry it out. He is the antagonist in insecurities, ideologies, and repression that he enforces. all narratives of queer youth” (Eanelli, 24). He is often touted "e queer-basher learns his violence in relative physical as a bully, an expression of a typical adolescent male. He, safety. Queers often don’t $ght back. Creating networks of sometimes she, is often expected to perform in this antagonistic support and self-defense are critical to stamping out the spaces way. "eir violence is written o# as an essential characteristic that encourage queer-bashing. Occupy Oakland has started of Y chromosomes; “boys will be boys.” Ninety percent of to host free, weekly queer-self defense courses. "e Midwest queer youth admit to being bullied in the last year because of birthed Bash Back!, a militant assembly of queers that target 73 Disorientation Guide known bastions of bashers. the walls of family property bound by traditions of marriage. Being gay was about consciously crafting a way of life indi#erent Economic Gatekeeper to the separations that constitute our identities and our world. Marriage equality represents the death of that community. "e economic gatekeeper is subtler than other instruments Homonormativity, the process by which queer identities that of sexual policing. Queer people struggle to $nd a place in an are closest to heteronormative social standards are valued as economy with a constricted demand for labor; there are always more worthy than others of acceptance, is what we stand to more folks looking for work than jobs capitalism can provide. gain from marriage equality. Notice how the justi$cation for Queers are often some of those left out. "e majority of queers in sexual equality is always major metropolitan areas have experienced poverty or $nancial Queer politics, premised on how well hardship over the last year, and over 65% have struggled to secure out of necessity, a homosexual couple basic necessities at one time or another. “Large percentages of the can raise a “normal” transgender population are unemployed and have incomes far orients itself toward child. In this milieu, below the national average. While no detailed wage and income experimentation the precondition for analyses of the transgender population have been conducted to and survival being accepted for who date, convenience samples of the transgender population $nd you are is making sure that 60% of respondents report being unemployed, and 64% tactics: how to get who you are isn’t all of the employed population earns less than $25,000 per year.” by in a world so that di#erent from your (“LGBT Poverty and Hardship”). thoroughly policed average straight couple; Under these conditions, some might turn to their families, while still exploring stay monogamous, raise but for queers who have been ostracized by their relatives, this is a child, play mom and not an option. Poverty can force queers into the world of illicit newfound freedoms. dad. sex work, greatly magnifying the risk of sexual violence. When "e fact remains bosses aren’t comfortable with our practices and identities, that the most e#ective aspect of these practices of policing we’re forced to choose between a life in poverty or a life in the gender and sexuality is their occupation of our own choices and closet. Bash Back! points in hopeful directions here. "e di#use desires. We start to regulate ourselves, spurning and repressing network of queers has worked to make sure that basic needs of possibilities for fear of reprisal. In this sense, to be queer, to its comrades are met. "ey pull together resources to make sure practice queerness with others, is a way of resisting. Queer folks get fed, clothed, and receive health care. "ey steal much- politics, out of necessity, orients itself toward experimentation needed hormones for poorer members of the trans community. and survival tactics: how to get by in a world so thoroughly "ey do what they can to get by. policed while still exploring newfound freedoms. UC professor Michel Foucault put it best in a volume on Ethics: “A way of life can be shared among individuals of di#erent ages, status, The Gay-Marriage Activist and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life "e most insidious and subtle of the sex police is that of gay can yield a culture and an ethics. To be “gay,” I think, is not to marriage activists. "is is ironic, considering that gay marriage is identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of typically seen as the most important (glossary) struggle for queer the homosexual but to try and de$ne and develop a way of life.” rights. "e institution of marriage has a 50% rate of failure; why Gay Pride was once an expression of community. Now it is is it a precondition to our rights and freedoms? another site for the circulation of commodities, as corporations "is is why we aren’t interested in seeing our political use the festivities as a chance to advertise and sell wares. Last struggle end with wedding bells. In fact, for many queers, that year, Occupride took to the streets at pride, chanting “we’re honeymoon seems counter-productive. "ough socially isolated, here, we’re queer and we’re not going shopping” and “we are gay countercultures were a#orded the opportunity for otherwise transfamily/we don’t got the healthcare we need!” Crowds of impossible social exploration. "ese countercultures explored queers tore down the barricades demarcating participants and di#erent ways that bodies could relate to one another, within spectators at Pride, reminding the attendees that being queer and (perhaps more importantly) outside the realm of sex. "ey was not about living a private life, but something to hold in established communities of unconditional care and love beyond common with others.

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If you keep an eye out while walking around campus, Student Media is a small glimpse into the future of what you’ll notice stacks of newspapers and magazines placed a student-run university could look like. It’s one of few in the corners of libraries and cafes, free for the taking. instances where we students have a high degree of control "ese publications include City on a Hill Press, Fishrap over how our resources are used. "e work we do is driven

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RECOMMENDED $7.34 to Student Media Council (SMC), which allocates the e#ective communication that makes other ambitious the money to various student media initiatives over the projects possible. Further, student media publications // course of the year. SMC is composed of representatives cover topics that are intimately relevant to students’ lives, from every student media organization, and uses a but are glossed over in corporate media. Student actions democratic voting process to make decisions that a#ect like last year’s strike are addressed brie%y by the Santa the entire student body. With the $7.34 paid by yourself Cruz Sentinel and a few larger news outlets, but editors and the school’s 14,380 other undergrads every quarter, exclude critical analysis of the crises facing the university SMC is responsible for more than $300,000 annually. and society at large. For in-depth coverage of causes for, ("is pales in comparison to the university’s $595 million and alternatives to the crises, student media is often the total operating budget, but a lot can be done with best outlet. "ere is also a vibrant community that exists THE AUTHORS’ FAREWELL AUTHORS’ THE $300,000 when used carefully.) Student Media dollars within and between Student Media organizations. Keen

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[ a ] lessen trans* people and their experiences; by people to accomplish a goal without the ableism 1 n. prejudiced thoughts and expressing hatred and bigotry towards help of government agencies, corporations, discriminatory actions based on di#erences trans* people or other bureaucratic institutions (e.g., in physical, mental, and/or emotional classism 4 n. attitudes, actions, and picketing, work slowdowns, strikes, building ability; usually that of able‐bodied, able- institutional practices that subordinate one occupations, marches, independent media, minded persons against people with illness, class to a dominant class and guerilla gardening projects) disability, or less developed skills/talents coalition 1 n. collection of di#erent people direct democracy n. democracy in adultism 1 n. prejudiced thoughts and or groups, working toward a common goal which power of governance rests directly discriminatory actions against young colonialism imperialism 4 n. the in the hands of the people, and is not people, in favor of older person(s) extension of a nation’s sovereignty relinquished to representatives; in a direct ageism n. prejudiced thoughts and over territory and people outside its democracy, there are no elections, and there discriminatory actions based on di#erences own boundaries in order to facilitate is more frequent voting on speci$c issues in age; usually that of younger persons domination over natural resources, labor, disenfranchise v. to deprive of any right, against older and markets; also refers to a set of beliefs privilege or power ally 2 n. someone who supports a group other used to legitimize or promote this system, [ e ] than their own (in terms of racial identity, especially the belief that the morality of economic globalization 4 n. the gender, faith identity, sexual orientation, the colonizer is superior to that of the continuing integration of cultures and etc.); allies acknowledge disadvantage colonized markets by way of global trade agreements, and oppression of other groups, take risks colorblind 1 a. the belief in treating such as the North American Free Trade and supportive action on their behalf, everyone “equally” by treating everyone Agreement (NAFTA), trade organizations, commit to reducing their own complicity the same; based in the presumption that such as the World Trade Organization or collusion in oppression of those groups, di#erences are, by de$nition, bad or (WTO), and regional economic blocs, such and invest in strengthening their own problematic, and therefore best ignored as the European Union (EU); economic knowledge and awareness of oppression (e.g., “I don’t see race, gender, etc”) globalization is the subject of heated anarchism 3 n. generally de$ned as the JVTTVKPÄJH[PVU n. the process of turning debate: supporters argue that globalization political philosophy which holds the an object or service into something which generates wealth, increases trade, and state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and can be bought and sold spurs development, while critics argue harmful communism n. a revolutionary socialist that globalization leads to environmental apathy 4 n. lack of interest or concern; movement to create a classless, moneyless, degradation, exploitation of the poor by indi#erence and stateless social order structured powerful states and companies, and does asexual 5 a. describes someone who does upon common ownership of the means not support sustainable development not experience sexual attraction of production; a social, political, and ethnocentrism 4 n. a practice of austerity n. state policy of reducing de$cit economic ideology that aims at the consciously or unconsciously privileging spending by cutting support for social establishment of this social order one’s own ethnic group over others; services like education, healthcare, and communization n. the process of involves judging other groups by the values public housing establishing collective ownership over a of one’s own group [ b ] privately-controlled resource (e.g., building [ g ] bourgeoisie n. upper-middle to low-upper occupations, land reclamations, and factory gender 8 n. a complex combination of roles, class; also known as bougie
CPPtKFF seizures) expressions, identities, performances that [ c ] consensus 9 n. a democratic decision- are assigned gendered meaning; gender capitalism 6 n. an economic system based making process that seeks the agreement can be self-de$ned, but is often de$ned by on private ownership of the means of of all participants; describes both general our larger society, too—it’s really a bit of production and the creation of goods or agreement and the process of getting to an both, with our own chosen practices being services for pro$t. agreement mediated through our place in society; cisgender 7 a. a person who identi$es as [ d ] how gender is embodied and de$ned varies the gender/sex they were assigned at birth deregulation n. the loosening or from culture to culture and from person to (e.g., your birth certi%cate says female and elimination of government controls on person you identify as a female woman) corporate industry gender binary 8 n. the pervasive social cissexism 8 n. attitudes and feelings that direct action n. tactics which can be used system that tells us there can only be cis Resources 76 (2

male and cis female, and that there can be interrelate, creating a system of oppression for sexual attractions or romantic love no alternatives in terms of gender identity that re%ects the “intersection” of multiple toward people of all gender identities and or expression forms of discrimination biological sexes; deliberately rejects the gendered 1 a. having a denotative or intersex 1 n. the condition of biological gender binary; derives its origin from the connotative association with being either intermediacy between male and female, transgender movement; VTUPZL_\HSP[` (traditionally) masculine or feminine or of having both ovarian and testicular WVSPZL_\HSP[` genderqueer 8 n. this term can be used tissue, or of having two ovaries/testes, but patriarchy n. social dominance of women as an umbrella term for all people who ambiguous genitals; applies to those whose by men, where rights, privileges, and power queer gender, as a somewhat similar reproductive and sexual anatomy cannot be are divided by gender term to gender nonconforming, or as a clearly classi$ed as male or female (PIC) abolition 9 n. political vision with speci$c non-binary gender identity; as an [ j ] the goal of eliminating imprisonment, umbrella term, this can include gender Jim Crow laws n. laws mandating racial policing, and surveillance, and creating nonconforming people, non-binary people, segregation lasting alternatives to punishment and and much more; as a speci$c identity, it [ n ] imprisonment can generally be understood as a gender nationalism 4 n. a sense of national plutocracy n. political rule by the wealthy that is neither man nor woman, possibly consciousness exalting one’s own nation polyamory 1 n. the practice of having in-between the two, or seen as a totally above all others and placing primary multiple open, honest love relationships separate gender altogether emphasis on the promotion of its economic poverty 4 n. the condition of being unable [ h ] and political interests and culture over to achieve an adequate standard of living; human surplus n. the portion of society those of other nations the e#ects of poverty are, but not limited which must remain unemployed or neoliberalism n. an economic doctrine to, hunger, homelessness, lack of education, underemployed in order for competition characterized by the removal of and lack of resources to ful$ll basic human for jobs to remain high enough for governmental controls on for-pro$t needs employers to pay low wages or salaries, and industry and the elimination of state Prison Industrial Complex 9 70* n. the in so doing, increase their pro$ts; society support for social services like public overlapping interests of government and has historically eliminated redundant education, health care, child services, etc.; industry that use surveillance, policing, and surpluses by waging bloody wars; more neoliberalism emerged as a driving force imprisonment as solutions to economic, recently, human surpluses are cordoned behind economic policy in the 1960s, and social, and political problems o# to ghettos and slums, which are often has accelerated dramatically in the US since privatization n. the process by which racialized; the mass incarceration of people the Reagan Era; the logic of neoliberalism social services previously supported by a for petty crimes is another way the state can be observed in the decisions behind government are transferred in ownership to deals with human surplus the UC budget crisis, the Market Crashes the private sector [ i ] of 1929 and 2007, and in the policies of privilege n. an advantage to which only indigenous peoples 4 n. people who are global $nancial institutions like the IMF some people have access, due to their the original or natural inhabitants of a land and the World Bank social group memberships; many di#erent (e.g., Native Americans/American Indians are normalization n. the process of establishing categories of privilege exist, and a person the indigenous peoples of the US) a speci$c practice or set of cultural may possess one type of privilege while intersectionality 10 n. the way in practices as “normal”; once a practice is being denied another (e.g., a white woman which various biological, social, and de$ned as normal, any behavior which may bene%t from privileges associated with cultural categories such as gender, deviates from it is considered abnormal, her whiteness, while still denied others on the race, class, ability, sexual orientation, generally with negative connotations basis of her womanhood; a Latino man may and other axes of identity interact [ o ] be denied certain privileges due to his race, on multiple and often simultaneous oppression 4 n. the systematic exploitation while bene%ting from his status as a man) levels, contributing to systematic social of one social group by another for its own [ q ] inequality; intersectionality holds that the bene$t; involves institutional control, queer 1 a. an umbrella term that can classical conceptualizations of oppression ideological domination, and the imposition refer to anyone who transgresses within society, such as racism, sexism, of the dominant group’s culture on the society’s view of gender or sexuality; the homophobia, and religion-based bigotry, oppressed de$nitional indeterminacy and elasticity do not act independently of one another; [ p ] of the word queer is one of its constituent instead, these forms of oppression pansexual 1 a. referring to the potential characteristics: “A zone of possibilities” 77 Disorientation Guide 3;

[ r ] silencing v. the conscious or unconscious prejudice and other forms of unequal racism 2 n. a complex system of beliefs and processes by which the voice or treatment that impact di#erent groups behaviors, often grounded in a presumed participation of particular people or groups [ t ] superiority of the white race; these of people are excluded or inhibited transgender a. general term for groups, beliefs and behaviors are conscious and social / sexual policing v. the behaviors, and individuals seeking to unconscious, personal and institutional, enforcement of rigid social roles through support the wide range of variability and result in oppression of people of color formal and/or informal customs, norms, possible in sex and gender and bene$t of the dominant group, whites rules and laws; social policing often transgendered a. appearing as, wishing rape culture 11 n. describes a culture happens unintentionally to be considered as, or having undergone in which people are surrounded with social justice 4 n. the practice of surgery to become a member of the images, language, laws, and other promoting and protecting human rights opposite sex; transgendered people can everyday phenomena that validate and and responsibilities, with a particular include transsexuals, cross‐dressers, drag perpetuate rape; includes jokes, TV, music, emphasis on the economic and social rights kings/queens, masculine women, feminine advertising, legal jargon, laws, words and of society’s most vulnerable groups men, and those who defy what society tells imagery, that make violence against women social reproduction n. the process by them is appropriate for their gender and sexual coercion seem so normal that which social roles are reproduced; this can transphobia 1 n. the fear or hatred of people believe that rape is inevitable happen in the classroom, the workplace, homosexuality (and other non‐heterosexual recidivism rate n. the percentage of people the home, and any place in which people identities), and persons perceived to be who return to prison after having been are expected to act/interact in speci$c ways transgender and/or transexual previously incarcerated socialism n. democratic control of the transsexual a. identi$ng as a gender other right n. a resource or position to which means of production (e.g., workers and that of one’s biological sex everyone should have equal access or not bosses with control of the means of trigger n. a word, behavior, memory, or availability, regardless of their social group production, distribution, exchange) ; the other psychological marker which can memberships belief that a truly liberated society cannot bring about %ashbacks to a traumatic [ s ] be achieved by the ballot, but must be experience such as rape or other forms of safe space n. refers to an environment achieved through struggle, by working assault in which everyone feels comfortable in people $ghting for the end of oppression, [ v ] expressing themselves and participating exploitation, and racism vanguardism n. in the context of fully, without fear of attack, ridicule or status quo n. the existing state; describes revolutionary struggle, a strategy whereby denial of experience how everyone has a place in society, and an organization attempts to place itself at self-determination 4 n. political how hierarchies are maintained the center of the movement, and steer it in independence of a part of a group without sustainability n. the ability to meet the a direction consistent with its ideology control by people outside of that area needs of the present without compromising [ z ] sex 1 n. biological classi$cation of male or the ability of future generations to meet zero-tolerance policies n. school and female, based on genetic or physiological their own needs; sustainability is a highly law enforcement policies that automatically features; as opposed to gender complex concept in practice impose severe punishment regardless sexism n. attitudes, conditions, or behaviors system of oppression 1 n. conscious and of circumstance; they often bypass due that promote stereotyping and oppression unconscious, non‐random, and organized process, and are key part of the school to based on di#erences in sex and/or gender harassment, discrimination, exploitation, prison pipeline

1 ¸+P]LYZP[`HUK:VJPHS1\Z[PJL!(.SVZZHY`VM>VYRPUN+LÄUP[PVUZ¹ 6MÄJLVM4\S[PJ\S[\YHS(MMHPYZ<4HZZHJO\ZL[[Z3V^LSSUK>LI 2 “Glossary for Racial Equity.” 9HJPHS,X\P[`;VVSZ*LU[LYMVY(ZZLZZTLU[HUK7VSPJ`+L]LSVWTLU[ >LI 3 :SL]PU*HYS“Anarchism.” ;OL*VUJPZL6_MVYK+PJ[PVUHY`VM7VSP[PJZ,K0HPU4J3LHUHUK(SPZ[HPY4J4PSSHU6_MVYK<77YPU[ 4 “Glossary.” ;OPZPZ4`/VTLLI 5 “Overview.” (=,5;OL(ZL_\HSP[`=PZPIPSP[`HUK,K\JH[PVU5L[^VYR >LI 6 ;VYTL`:PTVUAnti-Capitalism6_MVYK!6UL^VYSK 7 “Cisgender.” 8\LLY+PJ[PVUHY`;\TISY(\N>LI 8 “Jess’ Big List of Gender Terms!” [YHUZ[OLVYPZ[;\TISY(WY>LI 9 “What is the PIC? What is Abolition?” *YP[PJHS9LZPZ[HUJL*YP[PJHS9LZPZ[HUJL>LI 10 *YLUZOH^ 2PTILYSt > “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color.” :[HUMVYK3H^9L]PL^ !¶ 7YPU[ 11 “What is Rape Culture.” -VYJL!LI Resources 78 Meet the Authors

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reclaimuc.blogspot.com answer other than a definitive “No,” gather your stuff and leave 79 Disorientationwithout Guide another word. You have the right to end an encounter with a police officer unless you are being detained or arrested. Don’t waste time trying to determine your status. Test whether you are free to go, and then go. If you aren’t free to go, the officer will make it perfectly clear.

Use the Magic Words If you are detained or arrested, use the magic words:  “I’m going to remain silent. I would like to see a lawyer.”  
 
 
 Do not talk to police. Wait to talk to a lawyer who is representing This government’s system of laws exists to maintain the domi- you. Even casual small talk can come back to haunt you. Anything nance of those in power, and the police are its armed enforcers. If you say can, and will, be used against you. you doubt this for a minute, look at who are the selective targets of Cops have numerous tricks to get you to talk. They can and do local laws: People who are homeless, young, poor, black or brown, use fear, solitude, isolation, lies, advice, playing you against others, dissenters. On a global scale, look at who dies and who gets rich and even kindness to get you to cooperate. Don’t be fooled. If you from our wars and other man-made disasters. need to say anything, repeat the magic words. For 250 years in this country, the government and their enforc- Keep in mind the credo: If no one talks, everyone walks. Regard- ers have consistently fought against people working for liberation: less of what you are told by an investigating officer, you have Indigenous resistance, land reformers, slave revolts, abolitionists, nothing to gain by talking to the police… and everything to lose. labor organizers and workers, free-speech advocates, women’s and Police officers will often tell you that your cooperation will make civil rights workers, anti-war and anti-globalization protesters, and things easier for you, and many people hope to be let off easy if recently, animal rights and environmental activists. they are honest and direct with the police. The only thing it makes Your relationship with the police is at heart adversarial. While easier is the officer’s job. Do not let the threat of arrest scare you there may be cops with hearts of gold, the job of all police is to arrest into admitting guilt. Better to spend a night in jail, than years in and prosecute you. As such, it is almost never in your best interest to prison. Ask to speak with a lawyer, and remain silent. cooperate with the police. Refuse to Consent to Searches Keeping yourself safe and resisting the police state comes down Officers seeking evidence will often try to get you to allow them to these simple principles: to search your belongings, your car, or your home. Refuse to con- 1) Non-cooperation: If you talk with the police, you willl likely unin- sent to a search, with the phrase: tentionally hurt yourself, your friends, or others. “I do not consent to a search.” 2) Do not consent to searches: Never give law enforcement the Usually, a search request will come in the form of an ambiguous okay to examine your pockets, car, backpack, or home. statement, such as, “I’m going to ask you to empty your pockets.” 3) Remain silent: Use the magic words and then stay silent. Answer such requests unambiguously. Repeat as many times as 4) Talk to a lawyer: Never take advice from the police, they may try necessary. to trick and mislead you. You are under no obligation to allow a search. The only reason 5) Use trust and intuition: Without being paranoid, work only an officer asks your permission is because he doesn’t have enough with people with whom you have a history of trust. evidence to search without your consent. 6) Mutual Support: Support those who are dealing with cops and Always keep any private items that you don’t want others to see courts. Don’t leave people isolated - show strength in numbers. out of sight. Legally speaking, police do not need consent or a war- rant to confiscate any illegal items that are in plain view. Rights During a Police Encounter Police officers are not required to inform you of your rights In a police encounter these rules will help protect your civil before asking you to consent to a search. If the officer searches you rights and improve your chances of driving or walking away safely. in spite of your objection, do not physically resist. Your attorney can From here on out, we are talking about your “rights” guaranteed by argue to have evidence thrown out of court. law. Though in our view, what you can do and what you can do You are not obligated to identify yourself (except when driving) legally are two different things. Hopefully, these are tools you will in most states. Officers will often tell you otherwise. find useful in your toolbox of resistance. All of these rights also apply to minors and non-citizens. Where to Go For More Help If you feel your rights are being violated, hold tight until you can Stay Cool & Politely Assertive talk to a lawyer. If you don’t have your own lawyer the court will Police are well armed and often unpredictable, so remaining appoint the public defender to defend you. For more information cool and calm will keep you safe. Treat them with the caution with about your rights, law education, and what to do if your rights were which you would treat any dangerous, unpredictable, armed violated, check out: person. Bay Area Legal Resource Network [email protected] Be polite and yet assertive to ensure that your rights aren’t Midnight Special Law Collective midnightspecial.net trampled on. Some officers may come on heavy if you are not National Lawyers Guild www.nlg.org/sf 415-285-5067 absolutely submissive, but standing up for your rights will keep you ACLU of Northern California www.aclunc.org 415-621-2493 safe in the long run, in court when it really matters. There may also be legal help in your community that will specifi- cally help you if you are a senior, low-income, homeless, or an Determine Whether You Can Leave non-citizen. Ask around in your community. You don’t have to talk to the police. As soon as an officer ap- proaches you, ask the officer, “Am I free to go?” If you get an

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