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Sonoma State University - Rohnert Park, California

Sonoma State is getting speakers for noon rallies. We have the chair of our academic senate and the president of our campus union chapter as well as some people who were lecturers but have gotten tenure track jobs, and of course current lecturers. We will be reserving the microphone and amplifier for long enough that people will be able to take advantage of an open mike after the scheduled speakers are done.

Hopefully, the scheduled speakers will be sufficiently thought provoking that people will come up from the audience and share their experiences and feelings. We will have to walk the halls and get people to sign up to come to the rallies and carry picket signs. Experience with these kinds of things suggests that if everyone is walking by, everyone will just walk by, but if there are people standing and listening, people will stay and listen. We will have balloons at the literature table and lots of noisemakers
in the audience.

Contact - Steve Wilson, <steve.wilson@SONOMA.EDU>

Sonoma Report

This is a report on the Campus Equity Week activities at Sonoma State. We staffed a table from 10 - 2 Monday through Thursday and had noon rallies on Wednesday and Thursday. The table resulted in about one hundred postcards to the chair of the Board of Trustees urging the trustees to come to terms with the faculty.

At the rallies we had in addition to balloons, as suggested by David Hawkins, cow bells and air horns which we distributed to the audience. We made a good deal of noise which was heard beyond our circle of participants. The speakers were very well received.

The list of speakers included myself, the chair of the Academic Senate, the president of our local CFA chapter, the chair elect of the Academic Senate who spent many years as a lecturer some time back, the person who does most of the lecturer organizing at nearby Santa Rosa Junior College, the director of Project Censored, a media watchdog group at SSU which publishes a list of the top ten news stories which have been censored by the media, who also spent quite a few years as a lecturer, my immediate predecessor as lecturer rep on this campus, and the newly elected senators to the newly created lecturer seats on the Academic Senate.

Steve Wilson, <steve.wilson@SONOMA.EDU>