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UCB Wheeler Occupation UPDATES

by solidarity!
Police keep attacking to get in, but the doors are holding strong. Outside a solidarity demonstrator was arrested.
Cops sprayed pepper spray through doors earlier and injured an occupier with a baton.

If you can get to UCB now, please come and show support!


more updates as they come in...
get your butt down here
§Pickets around Wheeler Hall
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Pickets around Wheeler Hall


§Cops charge picket
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Cops charge picket



§Front of Wheeler Hall
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Front of Wheeler Hall



§Rain rain go away, we're taking back our school today
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Rain rain go away, we're taking back our school today



§Students in front of Doe Library
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Students in front of Doe Library



§1:45pm - Wheeler still occupied
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1:45pm - Wheeler still occupied



§UC Berkeley Occupation photos
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§Multimedia message
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§Multimedia message
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Multimedia message

§Just announced new occupation at UC Davis
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Just announced new occupation at UC Davis

§Blockades staying strong
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Blockades staying strong



§Recent reports of cop violence west side
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Recent reports of cop violence west side

Cops sent someone to hospital with disfigured thumb about 130pm
§Crowd as strong as ever ringing Wheeler
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Crowd as strong as ever ringing Wheeler

Crowd as strong as ever ringing Wheeler chanting and in good spirits
§Students coming out within the hour
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Students coming out within the hour

Students coming out within the hour only being ticketed
§Students will be released into crowd
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Students will be released into crowd

Students will be released into crowd. If u know anyone arrested earlier in the day tell them
§Coming out now
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At UCB, Coming out now

Students coming out
§Second batch out
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Second batch out
§UCB protest: Third group released
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At UC Berkeley Third group released

At UCB Third group released
§Only a few left
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Only a few left

Only a few left
§More out. One group to go...
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Via e-mail

More out. One group to go...
§Every last person out of Wheeler Hall
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Every last person out of Wheeler Hall

Every last person out of Wheeler Hall now. Large meeting on next steps soon after students d [msg ends.]
§Breaking News Updates
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11/20 9:30pm: A student takeover is underway at the library at CSUF. About 100 students and supporters are occupying the second floor of the Madden Library.
11/20 8:14pm: Occupiers are out, giving speech.
11/20 7:41pm: Protesters are slowly being released from Wheeler Hall; large crowd still gathered at the scene.
11/20 7:21pm: From Fresno: Over 100 students and supporters occupy the closed library at CSU Fresno.
11/20 6:50pm: Peter Glazer, poli sci professor, was part of negotiations and reports that police will bring protesters out without handcuffs and only misdemeanor charges.
11/20 5:01pm: SWAT team is attempting to enter the blockade in Wheeler Hall.
11/20 4:56pm: Reports indicate police have started using rubber bullets.
11/20 1:45pm: At least 40 students have occupied Wheeler Hall on the UC Berkeley campus and have requested supporters to come to the hall. UC Police have surrounded the building as a "crime scene".
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by @narch.
Be safe!! Keep the doors barricaded! Try to keep it up for the rest of the day! We are all in solidarity with you!
by kpix
video of shoving of students here
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=58301
by LV
A group of us from San Francisco state will be there soon

Solidarity!
by @utonomy
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@'s from the bay are coming!!! Hold on!!~
by c
What are they doing in the library? Is there more study-in at 5pm? I went to Berkeley but am not located nearby right now.
by twitter repost
RT @dailycal: Alameda Cty Sheriffs have arrived in front of Wheeler. Police are donning riot gear with face shields down. #ucstrike
by .
Here is a better shoving video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frr6qPySVak
by .
Here is the scene outside Wheeler after they managed to set up the barricade fence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOI5l2_RghQ&feature=player_embedded

The latest on twitter is that a SWAT team, or something resembling that, is taking the doors off the hinges of the room they barricaded themselves in. It should be clear what happened in a few minutes.
by .
more trawling of youtube

shoving and yelling, one arrest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwA_CKqS_kg

scuffle over fence piece http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frr6qPySVak

calm chanters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzJFWSnhGSY

People in the building speak from window with bullhorn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qODFzQTGjaY
by detail
when they were setting up metal barricades and trying to push them into the crowd
by Dallas
Just a shout out of support from the occupied Library at Fresno State.
by lytom
To K in all
From the east to the west in solidarity.
From the beginning to the end in solidarity.
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