Join us at Sproul Plaza for a rally and a series of teach-ins featuring the best of Berkeley!
And here is a special message from Rep. Lateefa Simon, CA-12.
Rally Lineup
12:00 to 12:30
Sam Kaplan-Pettus, Students for Freedom to Learn
Robert Reich, Emeritus Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy
Leigh Raiford, Professor of African American Studies
Edward Miguel, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Oxfam Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics
Christopher Kutz, C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law
Aarti Kohli, Executive Director, Asian Law Caucus
Khalid Kadir, Continuing Lecturer of Civil and Environmental Engineering
David Skolnick, UC-AFT Bay Area Co-chair for Unit 18
Pablo Gonzalez, Lecturer in Chicanx and Latinx Studies and Ethnic Studies Department
Zoe Hamstead, Associate Professor, Department of City & Regional Planning
Teach-ins
12:30 to 2:00pm: Cal instructors and students lead teach-ins on the present crisis and the best of our research
12:45 – 1:10
Table 1: Investigating Amazonian Trees Now, How Does the World’s Most Diverse Forest Matter? Paul Fine, Professor of Integrative Biology
Table 2: Trump, Trans, and Queer, Paola Bacchetta, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies
Table 3: Contextualizing the Campus Antisemitism Crisis, Keith Feldman, Associate Professor and Chair of Comparative Ethnic Studies
Table 4: Legacies of Protest at Cal Berkeley,Tony Platt, Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society
1:10 – 1:35
Table 1: Can the University be Saved? Colleen Lye, Associate Professor of English, and James Vernon, Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor in History
Table 2: What is Happening? Dylan Riley, Professor of Sociology, and Cihan Tugal, Professor of Sociology
Table 3: Third World Liberation Front – Then and Now, Harvey Dong, Continuing Lecturer in the Department of Ethnic Studies
Table 4: How (Biological) Diversity Can Save Your Life, Britt Koskella, Associate Professor of Integrative Biology
1:35 – 2:00
Table 1: Immigration Law 101, Leti Volpp, Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice
Table 2: Is This the End of American Democracy? Eric Schickler, Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science
Table 3: Where Does UC’s Money Go: Divesting from Genocide and Apartheid, Students Organizing for Liberation
Table 4: Racial Capitalism and the Maga Movement, Michael Mark Cohen, Associate Teaching Professor of American Studies and African American Studies
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Ways to get involved:
- Attend and encourage your colleagues, friends, family, and community to attend!
- Hold class with us! If you are teaching during this time, bring your students to our open teach-ins … or just teach your class outside on Sproul.
- Spread the word among all your community networks! Anyone and everyone in the Bay with a stake in education is invited.
- Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky
Come enjoy some of what higher education offers California and the world; come help us defend every last member of our community in the widest sense! Rise Up for Education is part of the National Day of Action for Higher Education
