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Snehal Sengavi on campus organizing, war, and UCB repression -- part 1 (audio/mpeg 11.1MB)
Snehal Shingavi is one of three student organizers who is facing sanctions for his part in the campus demonstrations against the Iraq war on March 20th of 2003. In this half hour interview, he discusses campus organizing, the war in Palestine and the war in Iraq, and positions the UC Berkeley sanctions within the context of a nation wide crack down on student activism and political speech, and post-September 11th surveilance of immigrant students. 30 minutes...
Posted: Thu, Nov 20, 2003 12:17am PST
snehal: berkeley = center of student political universe
these berkeley fools are lucky they weren't going to some university where other students would've beat them up. try doing this sit-in in mississippi, kentucky...
Posted: Thu, Nov 20, 2003 2:01pm PST
sengavi on campus organizing against war
played this story on killradio.org on saturday at 7pm dec 6
curtis...
Posted: Sat, Dec 6, 2003 7:02pm PST
Berkeley student paper locks out photographers
Six student photographers are fighting exploitive working conditions at the student newspaper....
Posted: Tue, Nov 18, 2003 9:06pm PST
URGENT -- Berkeley 3 Found Guilty; Your Support is Needed for Student Antiwar Activists
Free speech at Berkeley is under attack. Antiwar student organizers need
your immediate help.
UC Berkeley Dean of Students Karen Kenney turned the clock back decades by approving
sanctions against three Berkeley students for their part in a peaceful on campus sit-in on March 20, the day after the War on Iraq started....
Posted: Tue, Nov 18, 2003 1:22am PST
protest=disruptive mess
Excuse me, but you are dead wrong. The "protest" involved barging into classrooms and disrupting teaching, which I assume is still the main function of a unive...
Posted: Tue, Nov 18, 2003 8:12am PST
Alum fact checking
Dear "Berk Alum,"
Apparently you didn't learn how to keep your facts straight at Berkeley. The protest for which these students are being charge...
Posted: Tue, Nov 18, 2003 8:21am PST
Alum must have failed out
Yeah you jackass, there aren´t any classrooms anywhere near Sproul Hall....
Posted: Tue, Nov 18, 2003 10:22am PST
Crime = Time
If they were unwilling to stand by the results of their actions then they should not have committed the activities that concluded with the punishments.
Dis...
Posted: Tue, Nov 18, 2003 12:40pm PST
"at his discretion as chair"
UCB is really a fucked up place - at his discretion? wtf? Isn't the state of California paying his salary? Maybe it's time to take another look at this proce...
Posted: Tue, Nov 18, 2003 1:26pm PST
Bob Jacobsen
"Chair of the Disciplinary Hearing Board Prof. Robert Jacobsen arbitrarily ruled that only 25 members of the Berkeley campus community could attend the hearing,...
Posted: Tue, Nov 18, 2003 1:52pm PST
Karen Kenney
Kenney has headed student services for many years, although technically not as the dean of students. The title, in abeyance for 10 years, was reinstated last ye...
Posted: Tue, Nov 18, 2003 2:16pm PST
University College London still occupied by anti-war activists - latest
About 150 students walked into the Jeremy Bentham room unopposed by UCL security, although security yesterday had been visibly tighter than usual. The activists...
Posted: Tue, Nov 18, 2003 10:04pm PST
SFSU
A diverse group of people organized the UCB protests as can be seen by the three organizers the administration chose to prosecute (one woman, one white male and...
Posted: Wed, Nov 19, 2003 11:26am PST
pics from similar protest at SFSU administration building
At most other Bay Area schools, the administration saw protests as an expression that students were for once paying attention to world events. By singling out s...
Posted: Wed, Nov 19, 2003 11:36am PST
ridiculous Berkeley 3 and IMC's Censorship
(5th repost of this, how many other people are getting their comments deleted?)
I would have to agree with the "berkeley alum" about sproul hall. ...
Posted: Wed, Nov 19, 2003 11:49am PST
Join Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky And Defend Student Rights
http://www.antiwarnetwork.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=53...
Posted: Wed, Nov 19, 2003 11:51am PST
SFSU sit-in
hehe, i'm in that picture! not sitting in though. but i supported.
unfortunately for these peeps doing the sit-in, the school president was doing "bus...
Posted: Wed, Nov 19, 2003 12:07pm PST
sexism?
"And just WHERE is the womyn leadership? I "
Note that SFSU student goes off about "Smith and Snehal" yet never mentions Rachel Odes. Who...
Posted: Wed, Nov 19, 2003 12:25pm PST
stop wasting our time
As a woman who has hit the streets and worked hard for this victory I am insulted by this crap you are spewing. Keep your misogyny to the corner of your local s...
Posted: Wed, Nov 19, 2003 12:42pm PST