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AUPE News & Updates
Member Updates
Member Update: Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004
Students, faculty, AUPE members
take part in U of C political action week
CALGARY — Students, faculty and AUPE members at the University
of Calgary are participating in a “political action week”
in response to the funding crisis at the U of C and other Alberta
post-secondary institutions.
Today, a Calgary Mountain View all-candidates’ meeting is
scheduled to take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the MacEwan
Students Centre north courtyard on the U of C campus.
The U of C political action week kicked off yesterday with a political
carnival that will run all week, student debates and screening of
the film What Democracy Looks Like.
The week’s other events include:
- Wednesday — Students’ Union bake sale to help pay
down the U of C deficit, all day adjacent to the food court; political
carnival continues; Calgary Varsity All-Candidates’ Forum,
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; screening of the film The Corporation.
- Thursday — I-Vote gathering of Calgary students on the
campus of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology; screening
of Wag The Dog.
- Soup kitchen adjacent to the food court; political carnival
continues.
“The Alberta government is failing our university and college
system, and we don’t understand why the richest province in
Canada continues to starve our post-secondary education system,”
U of C Students’ Union
President Bryan West said in a statement.
AUPE Local 052 represents more than 2,200 non-academic employees
of the U of C.
Click here to read the U of C Students’
Union news release.
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