Launch of Student-Worker Solidarity Campaign at the University of Kansas
Documentary Film Showing About Living Wage Campaign at Vanderbilt University
Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center (1204 Oread Ave.) on Monday, May 5 at 7:30 PM
Students and Community Members are encouraged to attend event to obtain more information about how to support labor organizing on campus
What: Event to raise awareness about living wage issues and labor rights on campus. A PBS documentary film illustrating the living wage campaign led by students from Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN) will be shown. Following the film, a discussion will be held about how students can help workers in their campaign to improve working conditions and in their fight for a living wage.
When: 7:30 PM, Monday, May 5th 2008
Where: Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center (ECM), 1204 Oread Ave. in Lawrence, KS
Who Student group KUWatch will co-sponsor the event alongside the Laborers Public Service EmployeeÕs Local 1290.
Why: The University of Kansas has routinely violated the conditions of a 2007 agreement regarding fair labor practices. While administrators and coaches earn six-figure salaries, the laborers who ensure KU operates smoothly earn less than a living wage. Students have a direct role in pressuring the administration to comply with worker demands and to help create a more just working environment.
1 May 2008
KUWATCH
When Adrian Lewis was hired by the History Department at the University of Kansas, KU's direct partnership with Fort Leavenworth took a huge step forward. The program has a permanent office at 318 Strong Hall, and with Lewis' arrival next year, will be sure to advance the plan outlined in this document from 2004. We are currently research this partnership, so more information will be posted soon. Click Here
1 April 2008
KUWATCH
Chancellor Hemenway, We, students at the University of Kansas, appreciate the universityÕs efforts to promote an environment that respects the differences of all people and that cultivates the sharing of progressive knowledge. Beyond mere academics, an institution of higher learning should also be a democratic space where students demand the opportunity to have an impact on administrative decisions that affect themselves and the world. To this end, we wish to inform you about a few of our concerns regarding KUÕs associations with the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and the United States Armed Forces, and how these connections relate to the now six-year-long war in Iraq. Click Here
12 March 2008
KUWATCH
This March marks the 5th year of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Responding to a call by the New Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which was a major force in organizing student opposition to the Vietnam War, we are calling upon the KU and Lawrence community to gather at Stauffer-Flint Lawn at 12 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25 "to come together to send one loud resounding NO to the Bush administration and the Republican agenda, to the Democrats who refuse to carry out the mandate of their constituents, and to the University administrations that so often support war efforts." During this election year it is important that we recognize not only candidates' different positions on the occupation but also KU long-term institutional ties to the military-industrial complex. Click Here
6 March 2008
KUWATCH
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26 Nov 2007
KUWATCH
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Memorandum of Understanding Between the University of Kansas and Ft. Leavenworth
Open Letter to Chancellor Robert Hemenway Regarding the Occupation in Iraq
Action in Response to 5th Anniversary of the Occupation in Iraq
Simon Sedillo, The Road To Hell
November 26th, 2007 - Simon Sedillo writes: The funding is being made available to the Department of Geography by the Foreign Military Services Office (FMSO), based out of Fort Leavenworth in Lawrence, Kansas. Geography professors Jerome Dobson and Peter Herlihy, explicitly acknowledge the security and intelligence ramifications of their project, the Bowman Expeditions, citing the geo-political and cultural effects of the “neo-liberal property regime".