VACAVILLE — Saturday’s leg of the “99 Mile March for Education and Social Justice” took place mostly off road, allowing the marchers to rest up for the 25-mile trek from Vacaville to UC Davis.
The day started off with another official send off, this time by Vallejo Vice-Mayor Erin Hannigan.
“The priorities are way off at the state level,” Hannigan said. “We’re talking about education, the education of our future, so it needs to be a priority.”
The marchers were then shuttled 14 miles to Solano Community College in Fairfield, where they were met by a contingency of students who provided lunch.
From there, the march began on the Fairfield Linear Park Trail, which moved all the way across Fairfield.
The breaks taken by the group were extended by long bathroom lines, which made the march go well into the night when it initially intended to be in Vacaville by 5:30 p.m.
Marchers took another off-road path into Vacaville, following the 80 freeway most of the way. They reached St. Paul’s church at about 9 p.m. to shelter and hot food.
The march set out for UC Davis at approximately 8 a.m. Sunday and will go by bus to Sacramento on Monday for the protest scheduled there.
Christopher Yee covers Berkeley communities.
Comment Policy
Comments should remain on topic, concerning the article or blog post to which they are connected. Brevity is encouraged. Posting under a pseudonym is discouraged, but permitted. The Daily Cal encourages readers to voice their opinions respectfully in regard to the readers, writers and contributors of The Daily Californian. Comments are not pre-moderated, but may be removed if deemed to be in violation of this policy. Click here to read the full comment policy.
These protestors are desecrating the American Flag. The American Flag is a symbol of our freedom and all of the rights that we have in this country. The American Flag should not be disgraced because college is expensive. Higher education is overrated. It is obvious that these people (students, parents, teachers) who are protesting have not learned anything by going to college. God Bless America.
An upside down flag signifies distress
These People are students, parents and teachers, we are taxpaying, voting citizens who believe in sharing and caring for one another.
We are not trust fund babies who want to keep everything for themselves.
Obviously these people are either unemployed, unemployable, or are majoring in the type of fluff where you can take a week doing this type of nonsensical crap and still pass classes.
Obviously Stan has chosen to lead the type of life where he has so much free time that he’s got nothing better to do than spend endless hours searching the internet so he can put down young patriotic students trying to save his country and state from disastrous cuts to public services.
Like a lot of struggling Californians, you are probably under-employed, un-employed, retired, disabled or working while teetering on the brink of poverty with a political future deadlocked by partisan fighting, right Stan?
If that’s not you, Stan, you are probably part of the 1% sitting comfortably, having other people make money for you while the rest of us are gasping for relief… Stan- do you have such low morals that you want to see kids keep losing their opportunities to go to college? Is that the kind of bottom feeder your mother and father really raised?
These are not young patriotic students. They are desecrating the American Flag.
Actually, I went on the march and I’m employed, have a volunteer job, and go to school full time. And I get straight A’s. I’m not atypical as far as the marchers go either. Several of the marchers were walking and reading/studying text books WHILE they marched all the way to Sacramento. If you have any other questions you can just ask me and I’ll provide answers. No need to make assumptions! But thank you for your interest. :)