A CALL TO PROTEST: 50 Years, Camp Matthews Given to UCSD SAVE THE CHE CAFE! NO WARS FOR OIL! DEMILITARIZE OUR UNIVERSITY! Monday October 6 at 9 a.m. UCSD Town Square (by flagpole) The Chancellor of UCSD has announced a public ceremony to observe the 50th anniversary of the federal governments transfer of the Camp Matthews Marine base to the University of California. See the official email below. Heres a photo of the transfer ceremony, 50 years ago. ucsdspecialcollections.tumblr/post/19457164371/camp-matthews-land-transfer-ceremony-1964-robert The Marine Corps will be on campus for the anniversary ceremony. The press will be all over it. The whole campus population has been invited. The Che Cafe Collective is calling for a broad community protest. Protest UCSDs attempt to evict the Che Cafe and level the building. The Che Cafe building is the LAST of the original Camp Matthews buildings still in use. It has historic importance to our community and our country and should be protected. Starting in 1966 the building served as the first UCSD student center and is still one of the few buildings students control and maintain with self-assessed student fees. In the late 1970s UCSD administrators wanted to turn the building into a faculty club. The student body said no and it has been the Che Cafe ever since. The Che Cafe is a non-profit, student-worker owned and operated community center, vegan cafe, and a safe & sober all ages concerts/events venue. Now UCSD has trumped up an eviction lawsuit to kill the Che Cafe. Administrators have stated in writing that they may save the murals (if its not too expensive)! SAVE THE CHE CAFE! Protest the new WAR FOR OIL! The perpetual war? Protest UCSDs hand-in-glove relationship with the military and with what President Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex. Military spending is bankrupting our economy and the fossil fuels our wars are fought for are destroying our environment. Nearly 60 cents of every federal tax dollar is being wasted on military spending while public services, such as education, are repeatedly cut and grossly under-funded. Millions of people have been displaced by Americas wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Syria. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed. UCSD has been, since its beginnings, a center for military-funded research. It has long ranked in the top 5 universities for the amount of military research money it gets each year. STOP THE WARS FOR OIL! DEMILITARIZE OUR UNIVERSITY! We ask everyone to bring your own signs and banners. Big banners! In Solidarity, The Che Cafe Collective ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Chancellor Khosla [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 8:51 AM To: All Academics Staff and Students at UC San Diego Subject: Commemoration of Camp Matthews Land Transfer to UC San Diego UC SAN DIEGO CAMPUS NOTICE University of California, San Diego OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR September 29, 2014 ALL ACADEMICS, STAFF AND STUDENTS AT UC SAN DIEGO SUBJECT: Commemoration of Camp Matthews Land Transfer to UC San Diego In honor of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps transfer of Camp Matthews to UC San Diego, we will hold a special ceremony at 9 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 6, in Town Square. The campus community is invited to attend. Leaders from the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego will participate in the anniversary commemoration, as will the Marine Corps Band and Color Guard, and members of the UC San Diego Veterans Association and UC San Diego leadership. The observance will take place near the monument to Camp Matthews, which is adjacent to the main campus flagpole, where a transition ceremony took place in 1964 to honor the land transfer. For nearly 50 years preceding UC San Diego’s founding, Camp Matthews served as a Marine rifle training camp for more than one million Marine recruits. The commemoration is being hosted by the Marine Corps League San Diego Bulldog Detachment 835 and the UC San Diego Veterans Association. For more information, contact Billiekai Boughton at [email protected] or (858) 822-5450. Pradeep K. Khosla
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