A report that the University of California Office of the President sent a message to students, faculty and staff from all 10 university campuses providing advice for avoiding Tuesday’s May 1 Day of Action protests has been reported as false from UCOP.
The Day of Action, largely organized through members of the Occupy movement and workers’ unions, calls for a general strike from all economic activity in protest of budget cuts, underemployment and unfair wages.
According to a report by The Nation, a message titled “Avoid all protests” warned of transportation and business disruptions as well as possible scuffles with police.
The report stated the message was sent via Connexxus, the UC website that arranges travel accommodations for faculty, students, staff and hosted guests.
But Associate Vice President of Communications for UCOP Lynn Tierney said the office never sent such a message.
Tierney said the message actually originated from iJet, a company that provides corporations and organizations with risk management service and response solutions. iJet sent an email to all of its clients warning that demonstrations planned in cities across the country Tuesday could create travel problems.
“Someone took this message and said that it was directly from President Yudof about Oakland,” she said. “It’s a misrepresentation.”
As part of the international Day of Action, nurses at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in South Berkeley held a rally at 11 a.m. At UC Berkeley, Students for a Democratic University teamed with several other campus organizations to hold a noon rally at Telegraph Avenue and Bancroft Way, followed by a march to the Tang Center and then to the UCOP office in Oakland at 4 p.m.
Christopher Yee is an assistant news editor.
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If the UCOP is doing business with folks who make this advice public, and paying Romney, Bain & Co., then they are just as filthy
Avoid them perhaps because they are prone to violence?
Derp, fail of logic.
The overwhelming majority are not violent criminals, rather you tar the many with the crimes of the very few (knowingly, ie marking yourself as a troll).
Used to be people were enthusiastic about hiring America’s veterans, service in the armed forces used to be taken as an indication of discipline and good character. Not so much nowadays.
See, among those who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, the rate of violence perpetrated against others, and the suicide rate, are higher as compared to the general population in the US (controlled for gender, age, education, etc). This risk, while quite small, is quantifiable. Never mind that the association of a minute increase in propensity to violence absolutely fails to be predictive in any individual case – it is still widely used as a(n) illegitimate basis to give hiring preference to those who have not served.
But of course, you already understood such things, and the disingenuous nature of your own suggestion.
Used to be people were enthusiastic about hiring America’s veterans,
service in the armed forces used to be taken as an indication of
discipline and good character. Not so much nowadays. See, among
those who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, the rate of violence
perpetrated against others, and the suicide rate, are higher as compared
to the general population in the US (controlled for gender, age,
education, etc).
You have sources and cites to back up that accusation? Didn’t think so.
BTW, I’m a veteran myself, and I have no problem with hiring other veterans, something I have done numerous times in my career. How many people have you ever hired, child?
I’m a Navy vet, went to grad school on the GI Bill. I have 6 vets working for me. That’s one of the first things I look for on a resume.
My business associates feel the same…preference given to a vet.
Note how subjects such as Occupy and May Day bring out the foaming kooks. I gather this clown blathering about “violence” learned everything he knows about the military from watching movies.
Whoop, let’s protest so we can tell our grand kids we made our bones at Berkeley….
So the banks didn’t commit history’s most egregious felonious fraud? Or they didn’t shit the bed by purposefully ruining a system of title transfer recording 300 years in the making?
Maybe the politicians didn’t look the other way as all that went down? Surely the FBI didn’t testify to congress in 2004 that there was already evidence of systemic loan origination fraud driven by the secondary market? Maybe the current US AG didn’t claim to be unaware of that testimony from the agency he now heads when asked about in 2010?
Neither the banks – nor the deluded populace at large, of which you consistently stand as a shining exemplar – understand that failure to enforce both property rights and existing criminal law is bad for business.
Its not a matter of ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative’ politics.
Its the collapse of the rule of law.
You’re delusional, bro, and you’ll be lucky to persist in a state of ignorance long enough to croak before admitting to yourself and your progeny just how you got fucked.
A troll says what?
So the banks didn’t commit history’s most egregious felonious fraud? Or
they didn’t shit the bed by purposefully ruining a system of title
transfer recording 300 years in the making?
Thanks for that viewpoint from the wacko perspective – NEXT.
Hey BRO,
I’m doing just fine, working hard, providing a service people need, making good money….too bad your life sucks. Yawn.
Home of the Free Speech movement?
Do you not have better sources than a biased blog piece?
Please try to have some journalistic integrity.
Close your eyes, too, so you can’t read their signs or see their message.
Pinch your nose shut too so you can’t smell the rank odor of the filthy hippies.
Or the smell of the illiterate, gun-toting, confederacy-loving Republican in Mississippi.
Every political group has their smelly people jackass.
Funny, but it’s not the gun-toting rednecks vandalizing businesses and fighting with the cops, but the noseringed, Che Guevara T-shirt wearing junior revolutionary wanne-bes being the violent asses on May 1. But then again, blame conservatives for all the problems of the world – it’s clearly easier than thinking for yourself.