UCB (ucbprotest) sur Twitter. Occupied Berkeley: The Taking Of Wheeler Hall. Berkeley Students Shot and Assaulted. UC Berkeley Students Combat Police Repression. Police Violently Break Through Protesters @ UC Berkeley. Making Sense of Senseless Violence at Berkeley - The Chronicle Review. By Aaron Bady When University of California faculty members canceled classes last month to show support for union and student demonstrations, my students had mixed feelings. No one wanted to cross a picket line, and the university's 32-percent tuition increase had left them feeling angry and betrayed. But with finals on the horizon, missing two more discussion sessions would have been a disaster. Meeting at an off-campus pizza place for an optional Friday review session seemed like the right compromise: We could catch up on the class reading, eat some pizza, and still (in some sense) support the systemwide strike protesting the student-fee increase.
But on November 20, about 40 students barricaded themselves inside Berkeley's Wheeler Hall to protest the tuition increase and staff layoffs, and a standoff with the police grew to include a crowd of about 2,000 students outside. I was there most of the day, and what I saw made me sick. I introduced the term "interpellation" to the class. Wheeler Hall Police Raid | The student occupation of Berkeley’s Wheeler Hall has been going on peacefully since Monday. There have been no locked doors, no barricades, no threats or counter-threats, just an open public space.
Earlier in the week it was announced that the university had agreed to let the occupation continue through today. All of which makes this a huge surprise. Reports from two generally reliable sources on Twitter say that police raided Wheeler Hall less than an hour ago, sometime around 5 o’clock Friday morning, California time, arresting those inside. 6:00 am update | In an article published just yesterday on a local TV station’s website, UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof said that the university had decided “to give [the students] a room or two” in Wheeler rather than rousting them. 6:30 am | Confirmation from a news reporter and a student on the scene that students have been removed from Wheeler Hall by police. 7:00 am | I have seen no reports of violence at Berkeley this morning.
Open Letter to… | Earthling Opinion. … Government Officials, Law Enforcement Employees, people of the University of California and Occupy The Farm Community. To all humanity in general. That we live now in an economy and society that are not sustainable is not the fault only of governments, administrations of public institutions, and corporations armed with political power, heavy equipment and police enforcement. We all are implicated. We all, in the course of our daily (economic, educational and social) life, consent to it, whether or not we approve of it.
This is because of the increasing abstraction and unconsciousness of our connection to our economic sources in the land, the land-communities, the land-use economies, and the way we learn. Bellow you will find, first, A) a set of questions, then B) an open letter with my invitation to collectively step-up our love, truth and courage and, finally, at the PS of the open letter, C) a longer and more detailed part divided in the following sections: I.
We are waiting for you. The death of universities | Terry Eagleton. Are the humanities about to disappear from our universities? The question is absurd. It would be like asking whether alcohol is about to disappear from pubs, or egoism from Hollywood. Just as there cannot be a pub without alcohol, so there cannot be a university without the humanities. If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one. Neither, however, can there be a university in the full sense of the word when the humanities exist in isolation from other disciplines. The quickest way of devaluing these subjects – short of disposing of them altogether – is to reduce them to an agreeable bonus.
When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial social role. Ucbprotest : We have the UC police, the... Ucbprotest : The SWAT team has been called...