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Update: Monday November 28 National Student Strike « Student Activism #ows

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Update: Monday November 28 National Student Strike

As I mentioned last week, students at UC Davis and elsewhere have called for a national student general strike this coming Monday, November 28. (Monday is the day that the University of California Board of Regents will be holding their November meeting by teleconference, a meeting rescheduled from earlier in the month because offears of student protests.)

As of now the Occupy Colleges website lists nearly three dozen campuses in fourteen states as confirmed participants in the strike, though their list is likely both overinclusive (because all you need to do to confirm your participation is fill out a web form) and underinclusive (because unless you fill out that web form you don’t get on the list).

I’ll be poking around as the weekend wears on looking for more info about students’ plans for Monday. If you