Education Rights Funeral for the EARN Scholarship: Video, Photos and Press Wrap-up

Here are links to news coverage of the event, to which we will add as more articles become available:
“Students hold funeral for scholarship benefitting low-income people” – Asheville Citizen-Times
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20091110/LOCAL/91110030
“National Day of Protests for Education Rights” – Fight Back! News
http://www.fightbacknews.org/2009/11/13/national-day-protests-education-rights

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November 10: Funeral for the EARN scholarship

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 4, 2009
CONTACT: Katie Sue Cambell – (814) 482-0775, Sarah Buchner – (828) 674-4928
Students to hold funeral for scholarship benefitting low-income people

On November 10, 2009, Students for a Democratic Society will hold a “funeral for the EARN scholarship” on UNC-Asheville’s campus as part of a national day of action for education [...]

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Gender Dance Revolution

~featuring DJ Anwar Brown
You can win fabulous prizes for:
“best dressed”
“best moves” and
“most genderific”

Date: Saturday, October 24, 2009
Time: 8:00pm – 11:00pm
Location: UNCA Alumni Hall (In the bottom of the Highsmith Student Union)

Party starts at 8pm, but we’ll be bending genders all night!
*come as you are, from fabulous to frumpy–bend your own gender or someone else’s!
Check out [...]

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November 10 – National Day of Student Action for Education Rights

On October 3 in Chicago, IL, the We Say Fight Back! Conference drew hundreds of trade unionists, community organizers, leaders of housing struggles, students, and many others to talk about how to fight back against the savage cutbacks now afflicting workers, students, the poor, women, and oppressed minorities across the United States.
A student and youth workshop [...]

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Students Protest 8 Years of War in Afghanistan

The following article is from Fight Back! News:
By Kati Ketz | October 10, 2009
In a day of action organized by Students for a Democratic Society, October 7 saw dozens of protests across the country against the Afghanistan war on the 8th anniversary of the U.S. invasion. Students marched, conducted die-ins and skits, and some were [...]

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UNCA SDS’s response to the elimination of the EARN Scholarship

This statement is in response to the elimination of the North Carolina EARN Scholarship.
by UNC at Asheville Students for a Democratic Society
Description of the Scholarship:
EARN was established by the 2007 North Carolina General Assembly to provide grants to eligible students to enable them to obtain an education beyond the high school level at community colleges, [...]

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“Money for jobs and education, not for war and occupation!”

On the 8th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, voices shouted “Money for jobs and education, not for war and occupation!” across the quad on the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Over 50 students and members from the Asheville community gathered to speak out and rally against the war.  UNCA Students for a Democratic Society [...]

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Oct. 7th: Protest 8 years of US Occupation in Afghanistan

For Immediate Release
October  — 2009   
                  
For more information, contact:
UNC-Asheville Students for a Democratic Society   
UNCASDS@gmail.com       
Asheville  – October 7th, 2009 will mark eight years of U.S. military occupation in Afghanistan.  Originally initiated by the administration of George W. Bush, this brutal war is based on lies. While having virtually nothing to do with fighting terrorism, it is instead [...]

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Film Screening – Tuesday, Sept 29th @ 7pm: Rethink Afghanistan

The videos are available online here: http://rethinkafghanistan.com/videos.php

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Protest 8 Years of War on Afghanistan!

UNC-Asheville Students for a Democratic Society is organizing this rally as part of the national day of action called by the national SDS Antiwar Working Group

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