Please stand on solidarity with our Brothers and Sisters from UCSD....
DAY OF SILENCE
(TOMORROW) Tuesday 2/23/10: DAY OF SILENCE, 8AM-7PM. Please wear all black and wear tape over your mouth to symbolize that our students at UCSD are being silenced and made uncomfortable. Duck/painters tape will be available at the ASU office and ASP/AEP/SHAPE cubicles to pass out and place over our mouth, with flyers that have the facts of what happened on their campus so you have a non verbal way of explaining the tape.
ASU EMERGENCY GENERAL BODY MEETING
Wednesday 2/24/10: EMERGENCY AFRIKAN STUDENT UNION General Body Meeting, 6-8PM in Dodd 146. We will be discussing cross-campus support of UCSD in their State of Emergency.
FACEBOOK
Change your facebook profile pictures to all black and put your status as "REAL PAIN. REAL ACTION....IN SOLIDARITY http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=842662959544&ref=mf"
VIDEO COVERAGE
link to to some videos of Fridays protest at UCSD http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1044600048#!/video/video.php?v=842662959544&ref=mf & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3BwfUmPUag t
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Black Student Union at UCSD: Statement February 2010:
UCSD Black Student Union Address! State of Emergency!
It is with crucial concern and urgency that I write this letter to bring to your attention the state of the campus climate for African-American students at UC San Diego. The University is allowing the African-American students to be racially demoralized by a group of students on this campus. The most recent incident was February 18, 2010 between 11:00pm and midnight a group of students on the UC San Diego Student Run Television Program (SR-TV) making statements in support of the racial "Compton cookout" party That took place this past Monday February 15, 2010. These students insulted the African-American community by stating "you ungrateful niggers...". It is a toxic environment for African-American students on this campus. The SR-TV is funded by the University so in fact, it is using taxpayers dollars to degrade and demoralize the African-American students and other underrepresented backgrounds as well. Again, this is a STATE OF EMERGENCY the University is in direct violation of its "Principles of Community". Students do not feel safe on this campus and it is affecting their everyday lives. We need direct action from the University immediately.
Those students involved in the shameful racist acts should be suspended from the University for spreading such hateful messages about the African-American community to the University campus-wide and with the University's funding and approval. These types of acts will not be tolerated. The Black Student Union calls you to support us in this struggle to heal the underrepresented student community and to create a healthier campus climate at UC San Diego. Students are exhausted and tired of bailing this institution out by developing our own student initiated outreach, retention, and yield efforts and maintaining and sustaining them with our own student fees. When will the University do its part? Time for change is long overdue it's the University's turn to create that change.
Please understand that this tragedy has marked UC San Diego as a racist University and consequently damaged our student initiated yield efforts we worked on this entire academic year. We demand as a result of this dilemma the University take full responsibility for these actions occurring and take direct action to heal a community that has been scarred. Several students and their families are considering transferring out of UC San Diego because of this injustice. We can no longer stand this HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT.
Need more information please email
asu@blackbruins.org
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