The following was originally posted on Occupy California. We are including several videos along with the article. Special thanks to Alex and Maria for the videos.

Adobe Flash Player not installed or older than 9.0.115!

Adobe Flash Player not installed or older than 9.0.115!

The Regents of the University of California voted, at UCLA, on 32% fee increases for students from November 17 – 19. (The CSU trustees are also meeting on these dates). Students through out the state of California are in an uproar.

UC Santa Cruz: over 500 students are occupying the Kresge Town Hall as of 3:45pm, Wednesday.

the details: hundreds of students rallied at the two entrances to campus shutting it down for several hours. Another group of 300 students entered into the Kresge Town Hall to create an organizing space around the budget cuts. Later in the evening, students at the entrances joined the others in the Kresge Town Hall. Currently, the space is being used to plan further actions.

UPDATE: As of 3pm, Thursday, UC Santa Cruz’s main administrative building, Kerr Hall has been occupied. Check out this indybay article!

Thursday 5:45pm: still occupied, discussing the night.

Thursday 6:30pm: Alma Sifuentes, Dean of Students has arranged to not call the police (the time frame is unclear) as long as students remain non-violent and do not create physical barricades.

Thursday 6:50pm: The administrators refused to provide a written-copy of the previous agreement.

Read more...

Special thanks to Fabian from the UST Marxist Study Group for sending this our way! The original flier is available here.

Come join the Marxist Study Group to discuss great Marxist texts by Karl Marx, Mao, Lenin, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, and other Marxist authors.

The study group meets Thursday nights at the University of St. Thomas @ 7PM in Strake, Room 102.

For more information, email: marxistreadinggroup (at) gmail.com

All are welcome to join!

Note: the UST MSG will not be meeting Thursday, November 26th. The campus will be closed for Thanksgiving, so we will be meeting at 11AM Saturday, November 29th instead at Starbucks on Beechnut and 610. We will be studying On Contradiction by Mao Tse-tung and "Mass Line" from the Red Book.

The following is a summation of a series of counter-protests that took place at the University of Houston by Student for a Democratic Society at UH. These demonstrations we the first major demonstrations at UH in a long time, and brought together many new radical students and organizations. Special thanks to SDS and SFO for mobilizing these counter-protests!

This Monday morning the “Genocide Awareness Project” set up a disgusting and dishonest display in Butler Plaza in front of the MD Anderson library in the heart of the University of Houston Campus. The Genocide Awareness Project is put on by the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform their website (which is full of pictures and videos of aborted fetuses, and is also somewhat transparent in posting Tax returns which indicate that the only 4 compensated staff people are men) which is a California based non-profit organization that travels the country putting up photos of aborted fetuses.

They describe themselves as follows:

The Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) is a traveling photo-mural exhibit which compares the contemporary genocide of abortion to historically recognized forms of genocide.

So, they have photos of dead prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp, and a black man hung from a tree surrounded by white folks in the US South and a picture of an aborted fetus, with the caption “ungentile, unwhite, unborn.” This is a gross distortion of what genocide means, a falsehood designed to provoke emotional responses.

Read more...

FIRE Collective members are about to speak on Houston Media Source's GreenWatchTV about the revolutions in Nepal and India. Here are a few helpful links to help viewers explore these issues:

Nepal

• An introduction by the collective: A Revolution at the Brink: Stand With Nepal
• Comrade Rashmi: Mobilising Youth for New Democratic Revolution
• Nepal's Young Communist League Speaks on International Debate
• Comrade Gaurav speaks on Democracy and Cultural Revolution
• Interview with Comrade Basanta
• Nepal’s Maoists: Revolutions Can’t Be Copied, Only Developed

India

• Revolution in India: Lalgarh’s Hopeful Spark
• Arundhati Roy on the Poor, the Armed Struggle & the Failure of India’s System
• Al Jazeera report on Naxalite fight
• India: A Look Inside a Maoist Camp
• New Film: When the State Declares War on the People
• 'Green Hunt will result in genocide of Adivasis'

Many people think that radical change in society is not possible. But the events in Nepal and India are showing that revolutions can happen, and that they can liberate people. The FIRE Collective encourages more people to get involved.

Ernesto Aguilar and Eric Ribellarsi from our collective will be appearing live on the Green Party Houston's television show, GreenWatchTV to discuss revolution in Nepal, the Lalgargh rebellion in India, and the massive state repression in India called "Operation Green Hunt." We invite everyone to tune in and feel free to call in during the show with comments, questions, and criticisms at 713-807-1794.

The show airs Wednesday from 9-10PM in Houston on Comcast 17; TVMax 95; Sudden Link 98; and Phonoscope 75.

The show can also be streamed online live here. After the show airs the video should also be available here.

Special thanks to the Green Party for hosting us, and see you soon!