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Celebrating 200 Days of Tree-Sitting Resistance to UCSC Expansion
On June 2nd, UC Santa Cruz students were joined by the legendary Raging Grannies of Santa Cruz and other community supporters in the celebration of 200 days of tree-sitting resistance to UCSC's 2005 Long Range Development Plan (LRDP). The gathering was called to fortify spirits, resupply the tree-sit, and plan for summer. Activities included a native plant workshop, songs by the Raging Grannies, discussions and a piñata.
People reflected on the past and made proposals for future resistance to the LRDP.
For more information, please check out the announcement and follow the link to learn more at the LRDP Resistance website:
Gathering at tree-sit
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/01/18503417.php
For more information, please check out the announcement and follow the link to learn more at the LRDP Resistance website:
Gathering at tree-sit
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/01/18503417.php
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Good work resisting the destruction of nature, as well as the scientific fraud of vivisection. At UCSC, UC Irvine, and here at UC Berkeley, there are vivisection laboratories under construction. Thousands of animals die each year for UC greed and lies.
For more information:
http://www.pixelexdesign.com/stopcalvivise...
I'm sympathetic to both issues. No vivasection. But ya know what, cover your own issues. Write up alternatives to vivasection and post. Write about the fact that using cells from tortured animals is fraudulent science. There's a number of topics to cover and educate on. At any issue involving UC, you leach about the vivasection issue. Its old.
I never saw something like this against Greenwood, Denton or anyone else. But building an effigy of Blumenthal and beating is seems like Anti Antisemitism.
Shame!
Shame!
Common. Anti-semitism? They are protesting the man not the race/religion. I don't agree with the beating but that is like saying any dislike of any person who belongs to a certain race/religion is a dislike of the race/religion. An asshole is an asshole and race/religion has nothing to do with it.
You couldn't meet a nicer guy.
I used to like IMC but now it seems like a pulpit for posers and borderline personalities (smashing ATMs, businesses and churches to kill God). And don't get me started on the tree sit.
Weak.
I used to like IMC but now it seems like a pulpit for posers and borderline personalities (smashing ATMs, businesses and churches to kill God). And don't get me started on the tree sit.
Weak.
I wasn't trying to say Blumie is and asshole. I was making a broader comment about how people are so quick to pull the race/religion card when someone is being villified. Never met the man. Seems nice enough from what I have heard. He inherited all this mess and the LRDP so to blame him personally seems a bit misguided.
This happened twenty days ago.
Charming photos, great subject matter
Since November 2007, the UCSC tree-sit has thwarted plans to build a planned Biomedical facility. Supported by students, faculty, staff, and the Santa Cruz community, the tree-sit stands in direct opposition to UCSC expansion plans. Historically, UCSC has begun logging during student breaks. If you care about the upper campus forest, come help the tree-sitters.
We stand to lose a lot. Destruction of 120 acres of lush upper campus forest. Addition of 4500 more students to a town that can barely support the last increase of 5000 more students. All this to expand an institution that is already devaluing its own environmental values and commitment to an undergraduate liberal arts education.
Right now, all that stands between the UC administrators and the upper campus forest is you and I.
The UCSC tree-sit needs support in the form of food, water, donations, ground support, publicity, documentation, and legal support. Contact stopucsc [at] riseup.net to see how you can help.
If you want to support the greater resistance movement to UCSC expansion, plan your own solidarity action collaborating with allies with similar passions.
We can and will win. The forest depends on it.
Love,
The Ground Squirrels
stopucsc [at] riseup.net
We stand to lose a lot. Destruction of 120 acres of lush upper campus forest. Addition of 4500 more students to a town that can barely support the last increase of 5000 more students. All this to expand an institution that is already devaluing its own environmental values and commitment to an undergraduate liberal arts education.
Right now, all that stands between the UC administrators and the upper campus forest is you and I.
The UCSC tree-sit needs support in the form of food, water, donations, ground support, publicity, documentation, and legal support. Contact stopucsc [at] riseup.net to see how you can help.
If you want to support the greater resistance movement to UCSC expansion, plan your own solidarity action collaborating with allies with similar passions.
We can and will win. The forest depends on it.
Love,
The Ground Squirrels
stopucsc [at] riseup.net
For more information:
http://stopucsc.org
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