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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Back to the Future at UC-Berkeley and UCLA?


From the Daily Californian:

On Monday, the UC Berkeley administration sent an email to students stating that setting up any encampments on campus property would not be tolerated.

But when Occupy Cal protesters voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to pitch tents on the lawns outside of Sproul Hall despite the warning, clashes with police ensued — the exact result campus officials had said they hoped to avoid…



Full article at http://www.dailycal.org/2011/11/10/occupy-cal-moves-ahead-despite-uc-berkeley-administrations-warnings/

From the Daily Bruin:

Eleven people were arrested and protesters shut down Wilshire Boulevard for two and a half hours Wednesday afternoon in the loudest pushback against tuition hikes and state budget cuts near UCLA since 2009.


The protest was linked to a broader day of action across the state of California, organized through a group called the ReFund California Coalition. The group has emerged in the wake of the Occupy protests and adopted refunding public education as its core concern…

Full article at http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2011/11/protesters_march_to_demand_refunding_of_california_public_education



Note: Two years ago, when there were demonstrations related to tuition hikes, the Academic Council issued a statement: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/reports/ac_uc_protests.11.30.09.pdf

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