On September 24, students, faculty, staff and alumni at UC schools participated in a day of coordinated walkouts and rallies in defense of public education.
In 2001, Life Lab collaborated with the UCSC Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems to create the Garden Classroom, a model educational garden located on the UCSC Farm.
On May 28th, students, staff, workers, and faculty rallied at the base of UC Santa Cruz campus to protest the administration's decision to cut Community Studies
On November 7, 2007, people took to the redwoods at the site of the proposed Biomedical Sciences building to show their opposition to destroying 120 acres of upper campus and having an additional 4,500 students taking from Santa Cruz’s limited resources.