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Victim of Hate Crime on UC Berkeley campus On April 21, I was the victim of a hate criminal threat on the UC Berkeley campus. I identified the suspect who threatened me, and yet no arrest was made....
Posted: Tue, Apr 22, 2014 1:08pm PDT
Students Plan Walkout Due to Fee Increases at San Jose State Students at San Jose State University are planning to walk out of classes on April 29 to protest fee increases....
Posted: Tue, Apr 22, 2014 11:12am PDT
We Refuse to Accept That Violence Against Us Is Necessary to Our Education We recognize that violence is not always a meeting between bullet and body — or baton and body — a bruising of the flesh, a scarring of skin. Criminalization is a form of violence. It is an expulsion from society, a removal of the protection of “us.” When Chancellor George Blumenthal wrote, in his email to the UCSC campus, that the administration’s decisions to arrest 22 students “were reasoned, balanced, and in support of the entire campus,” he was consciously excluding those students from t...
Posted: Mon, Apr 21, 2014 10:36am PDT
Thousands Attend Annual 420 Celebration at UC Santa Cruz 
Thousands of people, though not as many as in previous years, returned to Porter Meadow at UC Santa Cruz on April 20, 2014 (also Easter Sunday) to celebrate 420, the unorganized annual counterculture holiday. All these people have at least one thing in common; a love for smoking cannabis.
Although cannabis is widely consumed throughout California, only medicinal use is legal under state law. 420 (pronounced "Four Twenty") celebrations at UC Santa Cruz, and cities throughout the world, are ...
Posted: Sun, Apr 20, 2014 9:23pm PDT
Class Size and Class Struggle: Organizing Lessons from the UCSC Strike 
“I appreciate the calm and professional manner in which UC police handled this morning’s challenge,” wrote Executive Vice Chancellor Alison Galloway in an official email about our April 2-3 strike at the University of California. This was just after one of us was dragged to the ground and forcibly arrested after publicly announcing an intention to legally picket, and complying with police demands to turn around....
Posted: Tue, Apr 15, 2014 2:38pm PDT
Official Justice For Josiah Public Statement by Laurie Valdez (4-3-2014) 
This is the statement as it was originally written, it was read in both English and Spanish, with some impromptu additions by Laurie....
Posted: Sun, Apr 13, 2014 8:51pm PDT
Riot Squads Return, Police Shut Down UCSC Campus on Second Day of UAW Strike 
Graduate and undergraduate student demonstrators at UC Santa Cruz continued to face university intimidation during the second day of the UAW Unfair Labor Practices strike on April 3. During both days of the strike, riot police were outfitted and deployed at the west entrance of campus. Two individuals were arrested on April 3, which followed the 20 arrests that were made the previous day by University of California police. Additionally, the university continued to video tape legal strike acti...
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2014 3:23pm PDT
Janet Napolitano: Drop the Charges Against the UCSC 22 From April 2nd-3rd, twenty-two students at UC Santa Cruz were arrested while peacefully picketing and protesting against intimidation of student-workers represented by UAW 2865 at the University of California....
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2014 2:22pm PDT
UC Homeland Security: Does Janet Napolitano Dream of Electric Trees? (video/x-ms-wmv 91.6MB) Janet Napolitano's presidency over the University of California raises concerns. Napolitano has no background in education, and comes to the UC directly from leading the Department of Homeland Security, a department known for bloated budgets, inefficiency, and lack of oversight. Janet Napolitano helped organized the arrest of over 7,000 Americans during the Occupy protests. In Berkeley, protesters suffered broken arms and ribs during the police and DHS attacks on Occupy; citizen reporters ...
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2014 7:02am PDT
UC and Qualcomm Make First Cuts To Redwood Grove, Police Enfence Trees 
Today (April 6th), UC Berkeley cut down the support foliage, including oaks, at the redwood grove behind Soda Hall. As well, the larger redwoods have been severely pruned and smaller redwoods have been removed entirely. Paul Jacobs of Qualcomm wants the lot for a $20,000,000 privatized tech design institute, named after himself. The UC and Paul Jacobs have been ignoring overwhelming public demand to save the trees. Furthermore, by cutting down a protected species, the design institute goe...
Posted: Sun, Apr 6, 2014 8:56pm PDT
Marching on the UCSC Police Station on April 3 
When riot police were going to bust up the rally on the second day of the UCSC strike, this group marched around campus and to the police station....
Posted: Sun, Apr 6, 2014 3:40pm PDT
Community Farm Day at the Gill Tract GILL TRACT FARM, corner of Marin and San Pablo, Albany
entrance on Jackson St., 1 block west of San Pablo...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 26, 2014 11:00am PDT
Posted: Sun, Apr 6, 2014 12:50pm PDT
Resolution in Support of UAW Strikers and Student Protest Climate at UC University of California Student Association had a meeting and passed a resolution in support of student activists at UC Santa Cruz....
Posted: Sat, Apr 5, 2014 2:44pm PDT
UCSC 20 Becomes the UCSC 22 (video/x-flv 52.7MB) Two more students were arrested by police at UC Santa Cruz on April 3 during the Graduate Student Workers strike. 22 Students in total were arrested while trying to maintain a picket line across the west entrance of campus over the course of the two day strike held April 2-3. The arrests on April 3 occurred as police in the street ordered demonstrators to keep a space open for traffic to pass through. [Top video: arrests]...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2014 2:58pm PDT
IBEW Wildcat Honors Picket-Line in Solidarity with UAW Strike at UC Berkeley 
UAW strike at UC Berkeley was expanded as various groups of workers respected picket lines....
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2014 11:07pm PDT
UCSC Faculty Letter to EVC Galloway and Chancellor Blumenthal on April 2 Arrests We don't understand why these students were arrested while picketing. Neither do we understand why UCB police with riot gear were brought to our campus. This is a draconian approach to student political actions and labor actions, and represents a dramatic escalation of confrontation on the part of the administration....
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2014 8:30am PDT
In Solidarity with UAW and the UCSC 20 We, as Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlan (M.E.Ch.A) de UCSC, a student run, student led organization that is committed to the advancement of civil and human rights of the Raza people, strives for the educational, gender, cultural, sexual orientation, economical, political, racial, and social equity of the community; and who supports the struggle of other progressive movements on our campus and in our communities, stand with our fullest solidarity with UAW Local 2865 and the University ...
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2014 3:51am PDT
Interviews at UCSC Graduate Student Workers ULP Strike after Arrests (video/x-flv 63.4MB) Interviews at the UAW 2865 ULP strike at UC Santa Cruz on April 2: UCSC Chief of Police, Nader Oweis; Director of Public Information, Jim Burns; a student who witnessed the arrests; Josh Brahinsky speaks when returning to the strike after being arrested....
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2014 12:57am PDT
Emergency Picket Line @ 6 AM Campbell Hall UC Berkeley! Campbell Hall UC Berkeley:
https://goo.gl/maps/VuoZI...
Event Date: Thu, Apr 3, 2014 6:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2014 3:46pm PDT
20 Demonstrators in Support of UAW Strike Arrested at UC Santa Cruz City on a Hill Press, the student newspaper at UC Santa Cruz, as well as other sources, are reporting that 20 people were arrested this morning. 6 are UAW members and the rest include undergraduate students....
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2014 10:14am PDT
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