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Nelson Lichtenstein: nelson@history.ucsb.edu
Eileen Boris: boris@femststudies.ucsb.edu
Donna Moore: moore@msi.ucsb.edu
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RUTH GILMORE is a professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, and Geography, at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California and numerous other essays and booksthat analyze causes and consequences of the rise of a prison complex in California and the rest of the United States. She is a founding member of the California Prison Moratorium Project and Critical Resistance, and past-president of the Central California Environmental Justice Network. She is president-elect of the American Studies Association.
STANTON GLANTZ is the world-famous UC San Francisco Professor of Medicine who has done more than any other single individual to uncover the nefarious role played by tobacco companies in marketing their carcinogenic products. His many publications, including The Cigarette Papers, have played a major role in curtailing smoking in the United States and in forcing the tobacco industry to pay billions of dollars in compensation to government and consumers. In more recent years Professor Glantz has turned his investigative skills to the administration and financing of the University of California. With UCSB’s own Chris Newfield, he served as Co-Chair of the UC Budget and Planning Committee.
LENNY GOLDBERG is executive director of the non-profit California Tax Reform Association where he has been a leading critic of Proposition 13, the California tax reform which has severely constrained state and local revenues. He is the owner of Lenny Goldberg and Associates, a public interest consulting and lobbying firm.
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SENATOR LONI HANCOCK represents the East Bay in the California State Senate where she chairs the Committee on Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments. Before her election to the Senate last year she served for three terms in the Assembly where she was active in advancing a progressive environmental and educational agenda. She has been mayor of Berkeley and has served in both the Carter and Clinton Administrations.
GEORGE LAKOFF, UC Berkeley, is one of the world’s best-known linguists. He is widely recognized for his research on metaphorical thought, the embodied mind, and the structure of language. In recent years, his application of cognitive science and linguistics to politics has brought him to national attention. His most famous book is Don’t Think of an Elephant! What Every American Should Know about Values and Framing Wars. This year he has been an outspoken critic of privatization at UC and the state’s defunding of the University.
NELSON LICHTENSTEIN teaches history at UCSB where he directs the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy. An organizer of this event, he has written extensively on labor, management, and public policy during the last several decades.
ROBERT MEISTER is Professor of Social and Political Thought at UC Santa Cruz and the director of the Bruce Center for Rethinking Capitalism. He is a political philosopher who has published widely on American constitutional development and on global human rights. For a decade Professor Meister has been an active critic of the privatization impulse at the University of California and a champion of the shared governance tradition. He has served on the UC Budget and Planning Committee and is currently the president of the Council of UC Faculty Associations.
CHRISTINE PETIT is a graduate student in Sociology at UC Riverside. She is president of UAW Local 2865, the state-wide union for teaching assistants, readers, and tutors.
ROBERT SAMUELS teaches writing at UCLA and publishes extensively on academic labor issues. His books include Computers, Composition, and Academic Labor, Teaching the Rhetoric of Resistance, as well as New Media, Cultural Studies, and Critical Theory after Postmodernity. He has been the President of the University Council for the American Federation of Teachers and the California Federation of Teachers for the last six years.
KENT WONG is director of the Center for Labor Research and Education at UCLA. He has served as president of the United Assocation for Labor Education and founding president of the Asian American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO. His most recent books are Underground Undergrads (on UCLA undocumented students), Miguel Contreras: Legacy of a Labor Leader, and Women’s Work (on the Los Angeles home care worker organizing victory).
FRANK AIELLO is currently an undergraduate completing his forth year as an Ecology and Evolution major and Music minor at the University of California Santa Barbara. Frank was born and raised in Oxnard, CA. He spent the entirety of his primary and secondary education in low-income Title 1 schools. Since his father was a community college teacher and his mom was a part-time elementary school librarian, he was exposed to the administrative dilemmas that often compromise the quality of education in California public schools. He supports himself with two campus jobs. Frank's younger brother just began his first year at UCSB and will begin working to support himself.
ARMANDO CARMONA is a third year Sociology major and co-director of the Student Initiated Recruitment and Retention Committee
JOEL MANDUJANO graduated from Paloma Valley High School, was first in his family to attend a 4-year university, parents immigrated from Mexico. Joel is a recipient of the Gates Millennium scholarship, the Rotary scholarship, RIMs AVID scholarship, and the CHCI scholarship. Joel is the on campus representative of the Associated Students Legislative Council and Political Chair of QSU.
JANELLE MUNGO is a 4th year undergrad who is heavily involved in campus. She has been working along side her peers concerning the budget issues for almost a year now, and is happy to see many more people getting involved. She is an active member of the undergrad student collective HEIST (Higher Education Involves Student Triumph) and welcomes all undergrads to join the movements. She is also a member of the Human Rights Coalition via Human Rights Group, Take Back the Night, and Womyn's Commission. Janelle says, "I hope everyone, including myself, gains much needed knowledge about the budget issues at this teach-in and we again begin to take pro-active steps against the injustices to our education!"
ERICA STENZ is a senior Communications major with two minors, one in Exercise and Health Science (ESS) and a second in Fitness Instruction. Erica is involved in leading a campaign to save ESS department from being terminated, due in large parts to budget cuts, at the end of this school year.
AMANDA WALLNER is a senior political science major, president of campus Democrats at ucsb, the co-chair of the California Young Democrats Queer Caucus, and an enthusiastic member of HEIST (Higher Education Involves Student Triumph).