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	Diversity Video Video about diversity funding at UMass Amherst Keywords: diversity, umass amherst, contract campaign, labor union Downloads: 168 Average rating: (0 review)
	Karen Dolmanisth - Life Lines of Connection and Continuity - Jackie Hai Interview with artist Karen Dolmanisth about her work and her installation at the UMass Amherst University Gallery during the fall of 2008. Keywords: artist; interview; umass amherst; fine arts center; university gallery Downloads: 19
	UMass grad union rally 15 Nov 2005 UMass grad union teachers and researchers rally to fund their contract with the university. More info at http://geouaw.org Keywords: UMass Amherst, geo uaw 2322, union rally, mitt romney, fund the contract Downloads: 2,622 Average rating: (0 review)
	Walmart Protest 500+ Workers, students, community and anti-sweatshop activists, Jobs with Justice, SEIU, Teamsters, UAW, and many others converge on the Hadley, MA WalMart for a day of protest against globalization and WalMart in solidarity with the protests in Prague, 9/26/00. Note: ...25 seconds of black at the beginning... Protest features a sweatshop fashion show, with filmmaker and USAS activist Michael Burns on the mic, Karl X reads a Robert Burns poem, Tom Taafe on the dismantling of affirmative action i... Keywords: walmart, labor, protest, union; teamsters, uaw, usas, jobs with justice; hadley, massachusetts, umass, amherst, students, workers Downloads: 828 Average rating: (1 review)
	UMass students protest Chancellor Scott for decline in minority enrollment. 3/13/01 UMass Amherst-students hold silent protest at Chancellor Scott's meeting of education industry luminaries. Students taped their mouths shut to demonstrate the silencing of minority voices through the dismantling of affirmative action and the corresponding decline in minority enrollment at UMass. Keywords: umass amherst; chancellor david scott; students; diversity; racism; affirmative action; black latino enrollment; academic capitalism; corporatization; university massachusetts Downloads: 245 Average rating: (0 review)
	UMass RAs Rally in Boston Pick it up.. Full length version of video is at http://www.archive.org/details-db.php?mediatype=movies&identifier=RARallyBoston This is a video of UMass RA's at a rally for union recognition with UAW 2322. The resident assistants and a hundred or so supporters marched on 1 Beacon Street, President Bulger's office. UMass Resident Assistants became the first undergraduate employees of any university in the US to organize a union... Keywords: uaw; resident assistants; umass amherst; bulger; boston; union; uaw local 2322; labor; nlrb; union recognition; umass arrests Downloads: 5,479 Average rating: (0 review)
	Barbara Ehrenreich speaks at UMass Amherst WALKOUT 4-21-05 Barbara Ehrenreich speaks to students during walkout at UMass Amherst. Jed Murr introduces her. More info at http://www.geouaw.org http://www.takebackumass.org Keywords: barbara ehrenreich; umass amherst; union labor; uaw local 2322; university of massachusetts; protest; march; rally; affordable childcare Downloads: 697 Average rating: (0 review)
	Save UMass Protest 3-7-02 Video of Save UMass protest against budget cuts to higher education. One of the biggest rallies in recent UMass history...students delivered thousands of letters protesting the budget cuts. Keywords: umass amherst, university of massachusetts; save umass, geo uaw local 2322; labor union, student, march, protest, henry geddes Downloads: 90 Average rating: (0 review)
	UMass RA's rally and march for union recognition Video of UMass Amherst Resident Assistants at a May 6, 2002 rally and march for union recognition with UAW 2322. The resident assistants and hundreds of supporters marched across campus. Speakers included labor sociologist Dan Clawson, several RA's, local labor leaders. The RA's fought an anti-union administration for a year and a half, voted overwhelmingly in an NLRB election for union representation with UAW Local 2322, and still UMass refused to recognize the union or negotiate with the Resid... Keywords: umass amherst, president bulger, chancellor marcellette williams; labor union, uaw 2322, protest march, worker's rights, union recognition Downloads: 590 Average rating: (0 review)
	UMass GEO pickets Whitmore 4-11-01 UMass Amherst Graduate Employee Organization UAW Local 2322 pickets Whitmore Administration Building during fight for a fair contract. Keywords: umass amherst, university of massachusetts; graduate employee organization, uaw local 2322, afl-cio; protest, picket, march, blocking traffic, direct action gets the goods Downloads: 896 Average rating: (0 review)
	Students march against dismantling of affirmative action... SCARCE Student Coalition Against Racist and Classist Education and AALANAA African American Latino Asian and Native American student groups march on Whitmore Administration Building at UMass Amherst, 2/27/01. Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Javier Cevallos reads the Picketing Code. Black and Latino enrollment in higher education has declined at UMass as a result of the dismantling of Affirmative Action, in a struggle that saw the takeover of the Goodell Building in a week-long occupation... Keywords: umass amherst students; students against classist racist education alana; labor geo union members scarce alana students of color united direct action Downloads: 346 Average rating: (1 review)
	UMass grad employees stage sit-in at UMass President Bulger's office on Beacon Street Boston 7-11-2001 UMass Continuing Education instructors denied union recognition by UMass: supporters stage sit-in at UMass President Bulger's office at 1 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Continuing Ed instuctors went on to win a collective bargaining agreement with UMass Amherst. UMass by JOHN BUTELL AMHERST, Mass.--Some 75 University of Massachusetts-Amherst graduate students picketed the schools Division of Continuing Education July 18 to protest administrators refusal to recognize their union... Keywords: umass amherst resident assistants president bulger; uaw local 2322 labor union protest sit in sit-in direct action gets the goods Downloads: 241 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	UMass Childcare Rally 2002 UMass student-parents rally for affordable childcare at UMass Amherst, Fine Arts Center, spring 2002. More info at www.geouaw.org Keywords: umass amherst; university of massachusetts; childcare; union; labor; geo uaw local 2322; affordable childcare; low-income students; parents; children; class war Downloads: 247 Average rating: (0 review)
	UMass GEO Diaper Rally and March UMass Amherst Drives Out Working People & Families with its Anti-Union Tactics Fri, 03/25/2005 - 4 years later - same story: The Graduate Employee Organization/UAW Local 2322, has represented workers who teach and do research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for 15 years. GEO/UAW has been negotiating for over a year with the University over the terms of a new contract. UMass insists that its top priorities in these negotiations are raising health insurance fees and childcare fees, whil... Keywords: university of massachusetts, umass Amherst, labor union; uaw local 2322, graduate employee organization; protest, march, rally, save affordable childcare, sue pearson Downloads: 14,107 Average rating: (0 review)
	UMass students and workers march... UMass Amherst- Protest March - 3-31-05 Hundreds of students and grad student employees march and block traffic before delivering more than 350 letters demanding a fair contract for the Graduate Employee Organization (GEO), UAW Local 2322 AFL-CIO. GEO represents 2400 grad employees who teach and do research at UMass and has been negotiating with the University for over one year for a new contract. UMass is seeking major concessions in the areas of healthcare and childcare and is offering low rais... Keywords: UMass Amherst, Graduate Employee Organization, ALANA, Chuck Dimare, Mike Gargano, John Lombardi; UAW Local 2322, SEIU 888, labor union, protest march, direct action gets the goods; patrick higgins, racism, kkk, diversity, affirmative action, building occupation, risking arrest Downloads: 379 Average rating: (1 review)
	UMass arrests 35 in RA sitin for union recognition April 29, 2002 - More than a dozen student activists occupy UMass Amherst Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Javier Cevallos' office, echoing the successful living-wage sit-in at Harvard. Unlike the 3 week occupation at Harvard, UMass felt no compulsion to negotiate and removed the activists hog-tied with plastic handcuffs within about three hours, and down the stairs on stretchers. UMass police have purchased a former INS bus for just such festive occasions... Keywords: umass amherst, bulger, marcelette williams, antiunion, unionbusting, seyfarth shaw, ambash, bottomfeeders; union labor, uaw local 2322, resident assistants, dorms, university of massachusetts; union recognition, labor activists, direct action gets the goods Downloads: 3,342 Average rating: (0 review)