Call and email these UC administrators and public officials using the talking points, scripts, and sample messages below! Contact them repeatedly! The more you do, the more likely it is to be heard and remembered when decisions are reached and policies made.
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Administrators
Michael V. Drake
UC President
Contact: 510-987-9074 | president@ucop.edu
• Total pay and benefits (2021): $917,881
UC Regents
Contact: 510-987-9220 | regentsoffice@ucop.edu
Cynthia Larive
UCSC Chancellor
Contact: 831-459-4291 | clarive@ucsc.edu | Contact Form
• Total pay and benefits (2021): $473,082
• Has said she is fine with receiving nearly half a million dollars a year in salary while graduate students and workers at the university lack food and housing security. (Video linked)
Lori Kletzer
UCSC Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
Contact: 831-459-3885 | lkletzer@ucsc.edu
• Total pay and benefits (2021): $425,553
Public Officials
Public officials tend to have email forms on their website, and multiple phone numbers for different offices.
CA Governor Gavin Newsom
916-445-2841
CA Senator Dianne Feinstein
202-224-3841
@senfeinstein
CA Senator Alex Padilla
202-224-3841
@senfeinstein
CA Congressperson Mark DeSaulnier
510-620-1000
@RepDeSaulnier
CA Congressperson Mark Takano
951-534-6647
@MarkTakano
DeSaulnier and Takano are both on the Education and Labor Committee, who just passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019 in the House
How to find your elected officials >
Talking Points
COLA – Ask for their support in pressuring the UC regents for a cost of living adjustment for grad students. Demand that admins come to the table to work with graduate students.
Promise non-retaliation – Demand amnesty for striking grads (a public promise that UC admin will not retaliate against striking workers, especially if grads show a good faith effort to negotiate)
Don’t fire grads – Express your anger and disgust at the mass dismissal of TAs. Demand that they rescind the decision to fire approximately 80 graduate student workers. Undergraduate education quality will be severely hurt without TAs.
Don’t effectively deport international students – Express your anger and disgust at the UC effectively deporting international students by removing them from their working positions (losing their TAships mean they lose tuition remission, which means they would have to pay tuition themselves and, as international students, can’t take another job outside the university. If they can’t pay tuition, they lose their student status, which would mean they lose their visa and need to leave the country)
Stop sending cops – Demand that UC admin stop paying $300,000/day to send UCPD cops from across the state to intimidate, assault, and arrest grad strikers and undergrad supporters. Demand that the California Highway Patrol stop using your taxes to intimidate, assault, and arrest peaceful protesters and surveil them by helicopter.
Give public statements of support – Ask your representative to publicly pressure UC administration to negotiate with grads in good faith for something they need to survive and keep the state’s public university system running. Ask them to issue a public letter or tweet.
Help resolve the standoff – Neither side can afford to back down. Ask your representative to offer to mediate between grad students and the regents to reach a solution.
Scripts
For Contacting Elected Officials
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For Concerned Parents Contacting Admin
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Samples
Sample Parent & Alumnus Letter
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Sample Alumnus Letter
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