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By Chris Hicks, on April 8th, 2011
 On Monday, April 4th, over 200 students from University of Colorado Denver, Community College of Denver, and Metropolitan State College of Denver participated in a walkout and rally in support of labor and education. The action was in conjunction with the April 4th “We Are One” National Day of Action that SLAP, Jobs with Justice, and United States Student Association all actively participated in as a response to the recent attack on workers and students across the country.
In Colorado, two anti-worker bills earlier this February:
Senate Bill 12, by Sen. Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs, would have prohibited public entities from collectively bargaining with a labor union, or an employee association from acting as a bargaining agent for public employees.
Senate Bill 38, by Sen. Shawn Mitchell, R-Broomfield, would have prohibited an employee organization from being officially recognized as the exclusive representative of state employees, barred the state from negotiating with an employee organization to create an employee partnership agreement, and terminated any existing partnership agreements.
At a time when workers’ rights are under attack around the country, many students
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By jwjnational, on October 6th, 2010
Tomorrow, Student Labor Action Project (SLAP) activists will participate in a national day of action to beat back state budget cuts to higher education. The October 7 Day of Action to Defend Higher Education is a follow up to walk-outs last March. Students will join with teachers and other public sector workers to demand state legislators stop cutting funds to public higher education.
List of SLAP actions. List of all actions.
Consider the story of Margaret Bastar, a SLAP student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando:
I worked hard while in high school to earn a 4.7 GPA, and an IB diploma that promised me 100% tuition and books for 4 years. I received 2 semesters of coverage on books before that changed, and every semester I study there seems to be less money, and I pay more. I don’t qualify for the Pell Grant, though I work hard and my mother doesn’t have the money to give me for school. I’ve exhausted every option I have in student loans. I have three jobs right now. In addition to being a student, I’m a Leasing Agent for Campus
Continue reading Tomorrow: National Day of Action to Defend Higher Education
By Maria Escobar, on March 4th, 2010
 Today, March 4th, students and workers wake up to prepare for rallies, walkouts, call in days and many more activities during the National Day to Defend Education and the Jobs with Justice national week of action to save and create jobs .
Students and workers are tired of having the federal and state budgets balanced on their backs and are standing up to these atrocities. Today, we will stand up to demand full funding of higher education, a stop to the corporatization of education, proportionate representation on university decision -making bodies, and good union jobs in our schools. We will demonstrate that students and workers will not stand on the sidelines as education become a privilege available only to the few and while jobs are lost because of state budget cuts and the inaction in the federal government to pass student aid reform.
We are fighting these cuts now, but we also know that we need to look at the root problem and seek ways to fund the public sector through revenue reform and change the ways that corporations continue profiting from our
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