STOP THE EVICTION! - Public Statement of Support for C.H.E. Café and C .H.E. Café Collective

For immediate release:
Press copy of Public Statement of Support for C.H.E. Café and C.H.E. Café Collective.

[The original addressees also received an attachment of the names of online signatures, as of the time of the writing.]

For more information contact:

Monty Kroopkin, (858) 373-7018, C.H.E. Café Support Network.

Susan Wingfield-Ritter, (858) 717-0047, C.H.E. Café Support Network

Please note: forwarded message

From: Susan Wingfield-Ritter <susan@johnhritter.com>

Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 3:57 P.M.
To: chancellor@ucsd.edu
Cc: governor@governor.ca.gov,
Speaker.Atkins@assembly.ca.gov,
regentsoffice@ucop.edu,
president@ucop.edu,
juangonzalez@ucsd.edu,
grratcliff@ucsd.edu,
svanbruggen@ucsd.edu
Subject: Public Statements of Support for C.H.E. Café Collective

Dear Chancellor Khosla

and University and State officials:

Chancellor Pradeep Khosla    chancellor@ucsd.edu

Governor Jerry Brown    governor@governor.ca.gov

State Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins    Speaker.Atkins@assembly.ca.gov

Board of Regents of the University of California    regentsoffice@ucop.edu

UC President Janet Napolitano    president@ucop.edu

UCSD Vice Chancellor Juan Gonzalez    juangonzalez@ucsd.edu
UCSD Associate Vice Chancellor Gary Ratcliff    grratcliff@ucsd.edu
UCSD UCEN Director Sharon Van Bruggen    svanbruggen@ucsd.edu

We are writing to present you the online Public Statement of Support for the C.H.E. Café and the C.H.E. Café Collective, and a link to the online statement. The link url is:

https://www.change.org/p/university-of-california-and-other-state-officials-public-stateme nt-of-support-for-the-c-h-e-caf%C3%A9-and-the-c-h-e-caf%C3%A9-collective#petition-letter

The online signatures number 687, so far. We will be sending you updates of the signatures, as they accumulate.

We also want to remind you of many earlier statements of support for the C.H.E. Café and of opposition to the UCSD administration’s unethical eviction campaign.

These prior statements include two online petitions, with over 11,800 and over 1,800 signatures, respectively:

https://www.change.org/p/assistant-vice-chancellor-gary-ratcliff-save-the-che-from-closing

and

 https://www.change.org/p/board-of-regents-we-hereby-request-that-the-university-immediately-cease-its-eviction-actions-against-the-che-cafe-and-return-to-the-negotiating-table-and-that-the-university-restore-funding-to-the-che-cafe

 and all of the following, which is only a sampling:

San Diego-Imperial Counties Central Labor Council http://newindicator.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Labor-Council-Resolution-in-support-of-Che-Cafe.pdf

UC San Diego Faculty Association http://ucsdfa.org/sdfa-opposes-the-unilateral-eviction-of-the-che-cafe/726

UCSD Graduate Students http://newindicator.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Graduate-Student-Support-Petition-CHE-10-27-14.pdf

Artists’ Boycott of UCSD https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=381173525380791

University Council – American Federation of Teachers (AFT) click on unions

University Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE) and UAW Local 2865 - UCSD Teaching and Research Assistants click on campus

UCSD Alumni click on alumni and click on past president

AFT Local 1931 – San Diego and Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community Colleges Faculty and Staff click on supporters

For your convenience, we provide also a copy of the new Public Statement of Support in this email text, below. Additional endorsements which we received via email as of 9 A.M., March 20, 2015, follow it.

For Justice,

Susan Wingfield-Ritter, MS, MFT
Monty Kroopkin, B.A., UCSD Class of 1981

C.H.E. Café Support Network

Public Statement of Support for the C.H.E. Café
and the C.H.E. Café Collective


https://www.change.org/p/university-of-california-and-other-state-officials-public-statement-of-support-for-the-c-h-e-caf%C3%A9-and-the-c-h-e-caf%C3%A9-collective

Letter to
Chancellor, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Pradeep Khosla
President, University of California Janet Napolitano
Governor Jerry Brown

Signatures Attached


Che Café Support Network San Diego, CA


On March 15, 2015 the collective received a letter from the UCSD administration stating that it will now go ahead and post the final eviction order, the 5-day notice to vacate our home of 35 years, the C.H.E. Café . The UCSD administration did post the order sometime on Tuesday, March 17, 2015. After the 5 days, the administration may bring in law enforcement officers to enact a lock out and/or forcibly remove anybody choosing to not vacate voluntarily.

THE APPEAL THE COLLECTIVE FILED OF THE EVICTION LAWSUIT RULING IS STILL PENDING A RULING FROM THE APPELLATE COURT !

We would like you, University and State officials, to know that we endorse the following points and encourage you to do all you can to facilitate their fulfillment.

1) We support the C.H.E. Café continuing to function as it has for the past 35 years--a unique and invaluable asset to the University, representing diversity at it's finest and most inclusive.
2) We support the C.H.E. Café Collective continuing as the operator of the CHE Café as it has for the past 35 years.
3) We support the "National Register listing" of the C.H.E. Café and the appropriateness of the "historic occupants," the C.H.E. Café Collective, to continue the site's historic use.

Stop this Unjust Eviction!

Sincerely,

Affirm San Diego

United Against Police Terror- San Diego

Black and Pink San Diego

UAW Local 5810, the Union for postdoctoral researchers at the University of California

Susan Orlofsky, President, UCSD UPTE-CWA 9119

John D. Blanco, Associate professor Literature, UC San Diego

Page duBois, Professor, Dept. of Literature, UCSD

Lilly Irani, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego, Communication & Science Studies

Arun Gupta, Defending Dissent Foundation (for identification purposes only)  

Stefan Helmreich, http://web.mit.edu/anthropology/people/faculty/helmreich.html

Rick Jahnkow, UCSD class of 1977, Program Coordinator, Project YANO

Dr. Michael Rancourt, Instructor in Communication at Washington State University Vancouver

Richard Maxwell, Chair & Professor, Dept. of Media Studies, Queens College-CUNY

Francis Feeley, Professor of American Studies, Director of Research, Université Grenoble 3.

KSDT radio, UCSD
Austin M Wasielewski, KSDT radio, UCSD
Chris Collins, Manager KSDT radio, UCSD

Josh Kenchel, GSA Representative from the Division of Biological Sciences

Jason M. Perez, Alumni (c/o 2003) & Current Graduate Student, UC San Diego

Troy Araiza Kokinis, PhD Student, UCSD History Department

Preston Chipps, UCSD alum

Steve Dubb, Ph.D. (UC San Diego, 1996)

Lorna and Alex Zukas <alexzukas@yahoo.com>

Makeda Dread Cheatom, Director, World Beat Center

Sarina Vega, UCSD class of 2019

Tanner Smith, Alumnus '13

William Lapinel, SDSU Grad Student

Joyce Smith, UCSD Undergraduate

Kevan Antonio Aguilar, UCSD PhD Student (History)

Matthew Rothenberg

Henry Rosen, attorney, Revelle grad, class of 1984

Lauren Heintz, Ph.D. Candidate, Literature Department, UCSD

Davide Carpano  ucsd alum and incoming grad student sociology dept.

Dayan Golden, UCSD alum

Jake Mattox, UCSD PhD 2007

Sean Estelle, Class of '13 (B.A., Theatre); National Divestment Campaigner, Energy Action Coalition

Leslie Fisher-Sanders, UCSD alum

Ron Sanders

Zephyr Carlyle

Mary Fisher

Lisa Y. Flores