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[ Article crossposted from can.general,soc.culture.canada,alt.activisim,soc.culture.african.american,soc.culture.american,can.schoolnet.chat.teachers,can.motss,can.schoolnet.chat.students.sr,bc.general,ont.general,alt.discrimination ]
[ Author was Dari Meade ]
[ Posted on 8 Feb 1996 23:47:50 GMT ]


NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION INFORMATION!  

Dear Activist:  Colleges and Universities around the country are now 
mobilizing for a March 14 National Day of Action to Defend Access to 
Education, including Affirmative Action, minority financial aid,
and immigrants' rights. We are writing to ask your campus to participate.
 
In March of 1995, more than 180 student groups across the nation took
action against the 'Contract with America.' Similar actions were taken on
February 7, 1995 in Canada to similar cuts happening there. We built 
North American resistance to the cuts and drew national attention to 
student organizing. However, we have much more to accomplish.  

A toxic atmosphere of scapegoating and intimidation still exists, targeted 
against students and people-of-color especially. Cuts to minority 
financial aid and social welfare programs, laws inhibiting immigrants' 
rights, the elimination of affirmative action and increased funding for 
prisons are still viewed by politicians as ways to gain support during 
this election year.  

Believing that it will again be important to mobilize nationwide, students 
at gatherings in Howard University, UNC Chapel Hill, and UC Berkeley have 
agreed on a unified date for national action. The Center for Campus 
Organizing, in conjunction with other endorsers, is distributing 
resources, including flyers and an organizing packet for March 14 
coalitions. We ask you to join us and hundreds of organizations to 
activate your campus on this date.  

Endorsed as of 1/25/96 by: National Rainbow Coalition, Student Environmental 
Action Coalition, Canadian Federation of Students, Federation of Chinese 
Students and Scholars in Canada, Diversity in Action at UC Berkeley, 
Democratic Socialists of America Youth Section, Speak Out!, Center for Campus
Organizing, and more to come...  

RECEIVING MORE INFORMATION 

To join the national ACTION96 e-mail discussion, send an email message to: 

canet@pencil.math.missouri.edu 

and include only this one line as the body of your message:  
sub action96 Yourfirstname Yourlastname 

Your subscription will be activated within 24 hours and you will receive
detailed instructions on using the list.  Once you are on the list, please
contribute organzizing suggestions so that we may compile and distribute
them to others!  

To receive this message again along with an updated list
of endorsers and organizing information when it becomes available (around
Feb. 8), please send a blank e-mail message to: 

march14@pencil.math.missouri.edu 


Please feel free to give out this e-mail address to others who might like 
to participate in the day of action.  

If you know people with access to the World Wide Web, the same information is
available at:  http://envirolink.org/orgs/cco/march14.html 

This information provided by:  Center for Campus Organizing, Box 748,
Cambridge, MA 02142 Tel. (617) 354-9363 * E-Mail: cco@igc.apc.org