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SLAP SBCC

SLAP the Man!

About Me

STUDENT LABOR ACTION PROJECT
Santa Barbara City College
MISSION: SLAP SBCC has been organized to ensure social and economic justice on campus and in the community. In order to achieve this end, SLAP SBCC will:
o Promote active student involvement in affecting the policies that affect our lives by providing community organizing skills to the student population through building strong ties with community organizations to bring skills trainings to campus and give students the opportunity to gain experience in community activism;
o Facilitate collective action through coalition building to develop inclusive community solutions and win concrete improvements in the quality of life for all students, staff, faculty and other members of the community in which we live;
o Support conscious community building efforts based on the workers’ rights to organize, the immigrants’ right to an equal standard of living, and the human rights to accessible education, universal healthcare, affordable housing, a stable pension, and a living wage, which we as students expect to receive as we graduate and join the labor force.


BIO: After an exciting highschool career questioning authority, SLAP SBCC arrived at City College only to discover that The Man had left the pyramid footprint on the decision-making processes of power. Remembering Martin Luther King Jrs' words, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter," SLAP SBCC stood up and screamed "Injustice!" Teaching the students how to raise our voice, SLAP SBCC spoke of direct action, and the walls of the institution began to tremble. As the student body, we gotta list of demands written on the palm of our hand. It is time to SLAP these demands across the face of the man who forgot about our needs when he the told us how to conform and how to live. We have raised our hands in the classroom. Today our demands will be aired, and if our needs are not met, these hands will become the fists of student power, raised in Solidarity to fight for social change and economic justice!


Curious about what all we do? Check the blog for some of our news coverage, (2 front pages in just 1 semester!) Here are some flyers from two of last year's SLAP-organized events"


My Interests

Leaderhsip Development, Grassroots Organizing Workshops, National Conferences, Coalition Building, Strategic Planning, Direct Action, Workers Rights, Economic Justice, Racial Equality, Environmental Sustainability, Educational Access, Dignity for All Humans and, especially, ACTIVISM!!

I'd like to meet:

SLAP SBCC would like to meet any and all campus activists, student organizers, and individuals willing to step up and be the change that we need to see. Another world is possible, if we are willing to fight for it!

SLAP SBCC meets THURSDAY at 5:00 PM in front of the Student Services Building, (East Campus - Friendship Plaza)

Television:

Telesur -
http://www.telesurtv.net/

Books:

The Port Huron Statement -Students for a Democratic Society Rules for Radicals -Saul Alinsky Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy -Rinku Sen The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School & Get a Real Life & Education -Grace LLewellyn Savage Inequalities -Jonathan Kozol Colonize This: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism -Daisy Hernandez, Bushra Rehman A People's History of the US -Howard Zinn Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World -Rosalind Miles Ishmael -Daniel Quinn

Heroes:

Ella Baker The stuggle is eternal. The tribe increase. Somebody else carries on. Robert Moses Everything starts at your doorstep. Just get deeply involved in something. Fannie Lou Hamer What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember. Gandhi You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. Fred Hampton Let me say Peace to you, if you are willing to fight for it. Mother Jones Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike. Cesar Chavez In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence. Angela Davis Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.' Malcom X You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Lila Watson If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come here because you understand that your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. MLK Jr. In the end, we will remember NOT the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Septima Clark I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift. Saul Williams There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come!

My Blog

Sep 13th - SLAP Action for Peace

CHECK the coverage of the Sep. 13th action from the Daily Sound!We also had coverage in the SB Newspress - Will repost once we find a copy!...
Posted by SLAP SBCC on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:25:00 PST

Check out this event: SBCC Mass Meeting - Tue at 1:00

Hosted By: SLAP SBCCWhen: Tuesday Mar 06, 2007 at 1:00 PMWhere: SBCC West Campus - Outside in front of the library721 Cliff Dr.Santa Barbara, CA 93117United StatesDescription:SLAP SBCC Click Here To V...
Posted by SLAP SBCC on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:34:00 PST

20 Feb 07 - Speak Out for Peace Details, Etc.

20 Feb 07 - Speak Out for Peace Details, Etc.Hey all!Thanks to everyone who came out for the Teach Out for Peace. It came off well given that we weren't allowed to advertise until the day before the e...
Posted by SLAP SBCC on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:42:00 PST

15 Jan 07 - Compañeros en la Lucha: Meet SLAP's Allies

Hey all,I thought every Friday I would put a little post about some of the groups we are fighting with to build a better world. I am going to throw out a little info about one organization or individu...
Posted by SLAP SBCC on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:06:00 PST

NEWSPRESS COVER STORY!!!

'A day without an immigrant'MELINDA BURNS, NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITERSApril 15, 2006 6:53 AMAmid plans for a national boycott on May 1 for immigrants' rights, a coalition of Santa Barbara groups is prep...
Posted by SLAP SBCC on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:55:00 PST

NEXUS COVER STORY!!!

Protesters Oppose UC Actions:Students Ask University to Include Manufacturers In Code of ConductBy Nicki Arnold Staff WriterPublished Friday April 14, 2006 UCSB students joined in a weeklong, UC-wid...
Posted by SLAP SBCC on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:59:00 PST

SB INDEPENDENT NEWS BRIEFS

SLAPDOWN:By Indy Staff, March 30, 2006In honor of Cesar Chavez Week, some 40 students from S.B. City College SLAP (Student Labor Action Project) marched on their campus Monday. Rallying in front of t...
Posted by SLAP SBCC on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:01:00 PST

NEWSPRESS COVER STORY!!!

SBCC students part of nationwide demonstrations Education aid sought by studentsROB KUZNIA, NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITERMarch 28, 2006 1:19 AMAbout 50 students at Santa Barbara City College were among peo...
Posted by SLAP SBCC on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:44:00 PST

SBCC CHANNELS GUEST COLUMN

Honoring Cesar ChavezGuest Column by Joseph WilliamsIssue date: 3/22/06 Section: OpinionGrowing up in the Central San Joaquin Valley makes me no stranger to the works and accomplishments of Cesar Cha...
Posted by SLAP SBCC on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:33:00 PST

SBCC CHANNELS GUEST COLUMN

Student power: Why not here? Guest Column by Shawn TallantIssue date: 3/15/06 Section: OpinionThinking over my educational experience at City College, I came to an unexpected conclusion: Our students ...
Posted by SLAP SBCC on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:37:00 PST