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Thu Mar 6 2008 (Updated 03/07/08)
SFSU Fee Hike Protest
San Francisco State Students Reclaim the Quad, Protest Fee Hikes
On Wednesday, March 5th, 2008, several students at San Francisco State University came together to Reclaim the Quad in protest of the fee hikes. Since 2002 fees, have gone up 94% -- making education inaccessible and unaffordable to working class students. The latest fee increases and budget cuts have caused students to pay more for less, and as a result students on campus have been organizing to demand an end to the fee hikes using direct-action and educational outreach.
It began around noon when students occupied a space in the grassy quad right in the center of campus. Food not Bombs was serving free food to anyone who came to the gathering and it was an opportunity for students to create a space for artistic expression against the fee hikes and budget cuts to the CSU system. Since the fee hikes have been imposed, the cost of enrolling in school has gone up each semester. This has made it more and more difficult for students to attend school. The reclaim the quad action followed a teach-in the night before. More than 100 students attended the discussion and lecture on how the fee hikes are affecting students.
In reclaiming the quad, students brought drums, made a free-speech platform, and handed out free literature. All of this was an attempt to outreach to students about the severity of the fee hikes and the problems of higher education in California (and in general). While students and faculty shared words about why it is important to create student solidarity and make noise, drums raged on throughout the day. The students then marched around the quad and ended in front of the administration building where they demanded "No more fees! No more cuts!" Afterwards, students started yelling and entered the building, where they started another drum circle in the second floor of the administration building. They proceeded to march into the quad and continued to spontaneously inform and educate people through guerrilla style tactics about the privatization of higher education.
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In reclaiming the quad, students brought drums, made a free-speech platform, and handed out free literature. All of this was an attempt to outreach to students about the severity of the fee hikes and the problems of higher education in California (and in general). While students and faculty shared words about why it is important to create student solidarity and make noise, drums raged on throughout the day. The students then marched around the quad and ended in front of the administration building where they demanded "No more fees! No more cuts!" Afterwards, students started yelling and entered the building, where they started another drum circle in the second floor of the administration building. They proceeded to march into the quad and continued to spontaneously inform and educate people through guerrilla style tactics about the privatization of higher education.


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