People's Inauguration

Note: For a follow up to the 2017 event invitation below, please visit Power and Representation: A Forum for the Kresge Community on Medium.

We invite you to a series of opportunities for action, developing from Monday's celebration of the life of Martin Luther King, and leading up to the Inauguration of our president elect. In Washington D.C., more than 53 years ago, Dr. King delivered a Dream for civil liberty and social justice, and in the decades since generations of students, writers, teachers, and organizers have built on its foundation. Inaugural speeches are, in some way, also a kind of a dream ... and so Porter College and Kresge College have decided to come together to write our own — we'll call it The People's Inauguration.

But we need your help. On Monday and Tuesday evenings (see below) we'll join together for a plan to write together, to speak, hear, and be heard, and more importantly, to collaborate, in building an expression that we can believe, together, represents our democracy, our capacity, as people, to lead.
Here are the specifics:

Monday, January 16, 2017: 5-7 pm — Porter Hitchcock Lounge

WRITING WORKSHOP TO DREAM AND IMAGINE A PEOPLE’S INAUGURATION

Tuesday, January 17: 5-7 pm — Porter College Study Center

WRITING WORKSHOP TO DRAFT OUR INAUGURAL SCRIPT

Please join Kresge and Porter faculty (see above for locations) to hear Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech from the March on Washington, hear some additional literature in the legacy of American civil rights struggle—Leslie Feinberg, Majora Carter, and others—and help us begin a community process of drafting our own dream—a reaffirmation, and an inauguration, of a United States governed by and for us.

Wednesday January 18: 10:30 AM - 6 PM — Humanities Graduate Student Commons | Music Center Recital Hall

DAY OF DEMOCRATIC ACTION / #J18, #J18ucsc — Teach, Organize, Resist.
Please visit <www.facebook.com/J18UCSC> for more info.

Wednesday January 18: 6 - 8 PM — Sesnon Underground | Porter College

PROTEST ART WORKSHOP — make puppets, inflatables, and other preparations for #J18.

Thursday January 19: 4 - 6 PM — Sesnon Underground | Porter College

PRINT — ORGANIZE — PROTEST — make t-shirts, banners, and other preparations for #J18.
We need to come together on Wednesday and Thursday! Please consider being there to build our strength on these crucial days.

Friday January 20: 9 AM - 10:30 AM — Kresge Town Hall | Kresge College

Come together for a day of collective voice and power; join the People’s Inauguration March to Porter Quad.

Thank you for your attention to this important message. We hope to see you at the inauguration.

The Kresge Academic Team
Kresge College Office
UC Santa Cruz
1156 High St.
Santa Cruz, CA 95064