Trigger cuts could indicate higher education low priority for state. Jaime Omar Yassin: "Violence" not used in thi... Aaron Bady: My friend Josh is the nonr...
Punkboyinsf @ Ustream.TV - 36yo #anonymus serendipitous journalist living anonymously with my husband in San Francisco. Currently drafted by the world out. #occupycal police riot, Recorded on my Android phone. punkboyinsf on USTREAM. Citizen Journalist. The Occupy Movement is Coming Home to UC Berkeley. This fall’s wave of “Occupy” actions centered on the Occupy Wall Street encampment in NYC has drawn on many recent movements for inspiration, from the Arab Spring to the mass uprisings of Greece and Spain to the last few years’ campus occupations and street protests in Britain and the occupation of the Wisconsin state capitol in Madison.
But to anyone who has been focused on American student organizing in the recent past, “Occupy ________” has until recently meant one thing above all: California. Since the fall of 2009, student activists in the University of California and Cal State systems have staged dozens of demonstrations and actions, many of them culminating in occupations of campus buildings. Well over two hundred students have been arrested. And now it’s getting rolling again. This Wednesday, November 9, students and staff at UC Berkeley will be launching a two-day walkout and establishing an OWS-style encampment on the Berkeley campus. More soon. Like this: Like Loading... Annie Sciacca: Signs at Sproul #occupycal... PB091136. Malcolm Jackson: LIVE #OccupyBerkeley stude... Occupy berkeley. Berkeley Bound. Berkeley Bound.
BC TEST ADS ON INSTREAM. November 9, Day of Action: Students speak out. UCPD take action against Occupy Cal #1. UCPD takes action against Occupy Cal #2. November 9, Day of Action Raw Footage: Part 2. November 9, Day of Action Raw Footage: Riot Police march in to take down tents. November 9th Day of Action: Occupy Cal Rally. Video Series: November 9 Day of Action “Occupy Cal” Occupy Cal Police Violence. UCPD Beating Berkeley Students 11/9/11. UCPD removes Occupy Berkeley tent. UCPD takes action against Occupy Cal #2. Riot Police Beat Students at UC Berkeley Nov 9. OCCUPY CAL 1. Qik - 20111109 #occupycal 2 by Occupy Berkeley. CalTV News: Occupy Cal and Police, Student Violence Highlights. Aaron Bady: I also see an associate pr... Officer Garcia Threatens a Sitting Protester & a Woman Defends Him Occupy Cal 9 Nov 2011. Police comment on unprovoked assault by police on students. Berkeley Copwatch | HOME. 3,000 in Sproul Plaza stand off against riot police at Occupy Cal.
UCPD forced to retreat, with students cheering! there ain't no power like the power of the people. Image Viewer. Occupy the Mall - Infos. FIRE. Occupy Cal 11/9/11. _lufs933s1X1qhtizro1_1280. Lars Skjerping: Helicopters hovering over... Nader: Proposal for a university-... Reginald James's Photo. Reginald James's Photo. Reginald James's Photo. Sproul Plaza. A March 20, 2003 rally against the War in Iraq on the steps of Sproul Plaza, held by the Berkeley Stop the War Coalition Aerial view of Sproul Plaza from 1978. Zellerbach Hall is on the right, Eshleman Hall in the center, and Sproul Hall is center-left. The student union and Sather Gate are visible in the lower-right corner. Sproul Plaza (pronounced [spraʊɫ]) is a major center of student activity at the University of California, Berkeley.
History[edit] Sproul Plaza as well as Sproul Hall are named for former University of California president Robert Gordon Sproul. Upper Sproul[edit] Upper Sproul Plaza is bordered to the east by Sproul Hall, which was formerly the location of the campus administration, and is today the location of student and admission services. During calmer times, numerous student groups set up tables to recruit and inform other students (a practice known as "tabling," as occurs at many universities throughout the United States). Lower Sproul[edit] Popular culture[edit] OCCUPY CAL: The ga has approved a stat... Caloccupation: Police are confiscating te... Support for Occupy Cal | Occupy Berkeley. Kevin Gosztola: Not surprising university...
At least a couple of thousand on Sproul. Most I've seen. Davey D: Tons of media trucks here... Angus Johnston: UC admin has quieted stude... Annie Sciacca: About 400 people gathered... Nader: Alot more cops #occupycal... Nader: Cops vs students #occupyca... Nader: Behind the police line on... Nader: Bubbles being blown crowd... Nader: Whole lot of Alameda Count... Nader: We're taking back the step... Nader: Alameda County Sheriff car...
Abc7newsBayArea: UPDATE: UC Berkeley has co... OCCUPY CAL: Police are confiscating te... Angus Johnston: CONFIRMED: Berkeley Associ... Occupy Cal solidarity statement and list of events. On November 9th, an outdoor encampment, modeled after the encampments in New York, Oakland, and other cities worldwide, will be established at UC Berkeley in order to protest the privatization of public education. We write to express our support for the project of Occupy Cal, and to state publicly that we view outdoor encampments as a legitimate and potentially transformative form of political activity. The occupation at UC Berkeley—like other occupations established this fall—constitutes an instance of free assembly and should be allowed to persist and reproduce itself free of police interference. We understand that the occupation at UC Berkeley will be organized through daily general assemblies; will enable important political discussion and debate over contemporary social conditions; and will provide for the material needs of students, workers, and wider community members, offering emergency medical care, food, basic supplies, legal support, and a place to live.
Will the University of California Turn Back Before It’s Too Late? For nearly two years now the University of California has been criminalizing peaceful student protest. University officials have arrested activists as they slept quietly in a campus building, resting after a day of hosting workshops and seminars during a pre-finals study period. Campus police have used batons and tasers and pepper spray on protesters who meant them no harm and posed no physical threat. The university has distorted and abused its student conduct policies, deploying judicial sanction to suppress lawful dissent. And all the while the dismantling of public higher education in California has rolled on.
The state’s governor and legislature have at times responded to the activists’ passionate defense of their institution, but the institution itself has not. The administration of the University of California has hollowed out the space at the heart of the university where productive dialogue and robust disputation should reside. I’m not scoffing today. Today I’m worried. On Margo Bennett, “Linked Arms,” and Police Violence at the University of California. There’s been a lot of attention paid to a comment that Captain Margo Bennett of the University of California Police Department gave to a local newspaper late last week.
“The individuals who linked arms and actively resisted, that in itself is an act of violence,” she said of the Berkeley protesters who were beaten by police on Wednesday. “Linking arms in a human chain when ordered to step aside is not a nonviolent protest.” This is, of course, ridiculous, and so it’s been widely ridiculed. Bennett has been the subject of appropriate mockery and outrage all weekend. But if we’re going to understand what’s happening at Berkeley right now, it’s important to see Bennett’s comments in context. Three important pieces of that context follow. First, Bennett’s statement reflects official UC Berkeley policy. Bennett isn’t a rogue cop. Second, This policy isn’t new. The situation at the University of California is bad, and it’s been bad for a long time. Like this: Like Loading... An Open Letter to the Administration of the University of California Berkeley.
An Open Letter to the Administration of the University of California Berkeley Dear Chancellor Birgeneau, Executive Vice Chancellor Breslauer, and Vice Chancellor LeGrande, You should all resign—now. On Tuesday, you sent a message to students informing us that we would not be allowed to set up encampments or occupy campus buildings. You quoted a passage from the student code of conduct that prohibits “[a]ny activities such as pulling fire alarms, occupying buildings, setting up encampments, graffiti, or other destructive actions that disrupt or interfere with anyone's ability to conduct regular activities—go to class, study, carry out their research etc.” In this same message, you claimed that UC Berkeley shares “many of the highest principles associated with the OWS movement” and aims to provide “a model of the right to free speech, assembly and activism.” We could not agree with you more: UC Berkeley does share the principles of the OWS movement.
Signed, Arrested « ox the punx. Yesterday, I was beaten, arrested, and jailed for participating in an act of civil disobedience against the privatization of education and criminalization of dissent in California. I’ve spent the last day trying to process what happened, and writing this is an attempt to get it out of my mind and on to paper (having spent last night on a cement floor, I could use some mental solace). There’s nothing exceptional about my experience, and yet, even knowing that, I write this grappling with a feeling of voicelessness and powerlessness that I have never before experienced. I know that, once you start talking about “police brutality” and “police states”, you enter into a group of wild-eyed conspiracy theorists that most Americans dismiss out of hand.
I can’t control that portrayal, but for whatever reason, I need to talk about what happened, even if I can’t figure out why it has affected me so much. We were wrong to think the same would happen for us. I’d rather end on a practical note. "Message to Campus Community" Birgeneau, Chancellor. Zunguzungu. “The Grass Is Closed”: What I Have Learned About Power from the Police, Chancellor Birgeneau, and Occupy Cal. At about 11:30 a.m. yesterday, a police officer told me and about eight other students that, and I quote, “the grass is closed.” We were going to sit under a tree and discuss things, and two police officers were watching us vigilantly to make sure we didn’t suddenly do something violent like try to put up tents.
As we moved towards the tree, the first police officer stepped up and informed us that we could not walk from the broad concrete steps of Sproul Hall, where about a hundred people were sitting and talking, and sit on the grassy area just to the north of it. “The grass is closed,” she said. If you meditate on these words until they become a mantra, you will learn some profound things about how police authority works.
What could it possibly mean to declare that “the grass is closed”? Who could have the authority to say so? To make things more interesting, it immediately transpired that the other police officer had, in fact, already given them permission to sit on the grass. Occupy Cal: UC-Berkeley Students Rally for Public Education; Are Attacked by Riot Police. Why no media attention ?