University of California
Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
USA
A National Day of Action on November 12th.
The #MillionStudentMarch demands three key things:
1 – Tuition-free public college
2 – Cancellation of all student debt
3 – $15/hr campus-wide minimum wage at every college in the country
The United States is the richest country in the world, yet students have to take on crippling debt in order to get a college education. We need change, and change starts in the streets when the people demand it.
Over 40 million Americans share a total of $1.2 trillion in student debt and over half of that is held by the poorest 25 percent of Americans. While top administrators take home six and seven figure salaries, campus workers are paid poverty wages.
The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education reaffirmed California’s prior commitment to the principle of tuition-free education to residents of the State. This is not happening. The UC is a public university system under attack by predatory lenders, ignorant corporate leadership, and the forces of capitalism that oppress students and promote inequality of race, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status.
We will no longer sit idly by. #MillionStudentMarch will be a day of local actions united to show support for the above demands. Imagine the message we could send to the government and the corporate establishment if we have marches at hundreds of colleges. Education should be a human right and we’re willing to fight for it! Join the march, join the movement! With students, college graduates, and workers united we can build a movement capable of winning debt-free college for all and a $15/hr minimum wage for all campus workers!
If you or your organization would like to sponsor or be part of planning for this action, please contact the organizers at eavporganizing@asuc.org.