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Solidarity from Watsonville.
By the way, the Sentinel is harping on a 'students vs. innocent service workers' theme, talking about landscapers who had the windows of their cars broken out and so forth. Just a few incidents like that will require some damage control.
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5:00am: Students out blocking streets at the intersection of High & Western, Hagar and Coolidge, and the western entrance of campus effective shutting it down. Only people on foot can enter campus.
7:00am: Some people have been hit by cars breaking the picket line, breaking someones leg and hitting another 3 or so people.
8:00am: Campus administrators activated the CruzAlert messaging system with the following message “Please avoid both campus entrances due to safety concerns. Check web or 459-INFO at noon for update.” (source)
http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/protest/03-10/
http://occupyca.wordpress.com/
Addendum: UC Regent Live(blog) points out an interesting fact about UCSC's campus:
UC Santa Cruz only has two entrances in and out of the campus. The west entrance and the north entrance. This is a well-known and unfortunate fact for administrators. Students have shut down both entrances, effectively shutting down the campus.
More information at
"Traffic update: High Street is now open in both directions."
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation…want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters…. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
Frederick Douglass, 1857
Noon Due to continuing access issues at both entrances, employees are advised not to come to the main campus for the duration of the day. Continue to check this website for more information.
11 a.m. Photos from this morning's events on campus.
2:50pm: Strikers are now relaxing on the grass at the main entrance listening to a live band. The strike is mostly split up into three locations, Lower Campus (Hagar and Coolidge), Main Entrance (i.e. East Entrance), and the West Entrance.
3:20pm: Earlier story about a prius running into students and driving onto sidewalk at High and Western has been confirmed. At least one student broke some fingers when the car recklessly plowed through the crowd.
If false, please delete it. It's inflammatory and serves no positive or constructive purpose.
If you read up above (or search), you will see that it says, "The car hit the gas and drove into the mass, injuring a student’s leg, fortunately not broken."
I also see a post claiming a protester suffered broken fingers; but I find no links/posts or evidence of such in multiple other media sources.
Please confirm or erase. If false, it's eroding credibility.
2. What's your point? So you read it here first. As with all media, use your own filters to decide what is real in this world and what is made up.
"Believe nothing that you hear and half of what you see."
..that's my point.
Thanks for pointing out the part I missed in the truck picture. When you said there was a post that refuted the claim of a broken leg, I didn't expect it to have been posted before the claim, so I didn't look backwards from the post claiming a broken leg.
The first was a prius heading from Western attempting to bypass a line of traffic. It barreled over a grassy block corner hitting students, cracking its windshields by this collision. Immediately after students attempted to stop the car, the car sped off, rocks were thrown understandably. A cop stood by watching the entire time. A second cop emerged to harass students.
The second incident was a station wagon coming from Empire Grade direction, bypassing traffic to barrel through a group of students (similar to the first incident). Again, rocks were thrown at the car.
Never saw any clubs, knives, weapons etc. I only saw people being hit by cars and having to deal with the injuries while the drivers ran away.
Everyone driving out (away from campus) from the picket line was let out. People driving up empire grade and heading past campus were allowed through the line on High street near Western.
One Volvo that just tried to drive into a line of people got a window broken and a few dents when they literally hit people with their car. They were leaving the picket and would have been allowed to exit peacefully if they would have slowed down and waited for people to move (literally a 10 second extra delay).
At the main entrance, one car that ran over someones foot and injured another person's leg had a windshield broken as well.
Back on High and Western, an idiot in a Prius forced its way through the line got several windows broken and a side view mirror repossessed. Turns out green capitalists are just as heartless as normal capitalists. Have fun paying for your bad decision, fucking fool.
What do you expect when you try to run people over?
Y'all should think a bit more about your attempts at recreating history before you post these pix. Pretty clear from the picture that you guys had this car surrounded. I'd of accelerated to get out of that threatening mess too. Reap what ya sow.
Talk about recreating history. What that picture shows me is a car surrounded by a bunch of pumped-up protesters with their faces covered, banging on a car. And as a result, the driver panics, for good reason, and hits the gas. I'd do the same.
There's not much to be fabricated; there were broken feet, hands, fingers and bruises to prove all this afterwards.
If it was taken after, then how do you explain the two bodies on the hood; one with feet off the ground and the other leaning at a 45 degree angle? If it was taken after, that means they're jumping on the car., which would negate the claim that all damage was done from the driver hitting pedestrians.
If it was taken as it happened, then there was indeed a mob surrounding the car and intimidating the driver.
In fact, I'll say that before of after, there appears to be intimidation going on. A mob surrounding a car, most with their faces covered, and now covered here as well by blurring.
Nope; not adding up at all.
Now I don't know how you would react, but when the Volvo didn't stop and I ended up on his hood, I banged the car with my fists. I understand his anger, maybe panic, but that is not an excuse to assault a crowd with what is in essence a deadly weapon. Several people were hit by this asshole while a city cop watched. I'm sure his car was damaged just because he hit people with it. It was also damaged because protesters saw friends and comrades being hit and got a bit of revenge. You might think differently, but I don't think property damage is quite on the same level as injuring a human being without provocation.
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