This is the last of a series of events on Thursday, March 1st, in which people gathered at Frank Ogawa Plaza and gave their blessings to the marchers who will embark on a four day journey on foot to Sacramento to protest for their rights to have access to higher Read More…
Day of Action, March 1st, 2012, marks the first of four days as marchers walk to Sacramento on foot. Berkeley High School also had a walk-out on the same day to show their support of making higher education available to everybody. They want to make sure that college is an Read More…
March 1st, Day of Action, is the first of the four day journey to march to Sacramento and protest against the privatization of higher education. This video covers the marchers leaving Berkeley towards Oakland to convene with other Occupiers from neighboring cities. Jeff Capps filmed the march from Berkeley to Read More…
Watch a video of student reactions to the upcoming rally and march to Sacramento with the occupy movement. Sarah Jedlicka produced this video.
In a world without Robert Reich, where would we be? For starters, probably not out on Sproul that cold November night. Reich’s speech was critical in bringing thousands of students to the Occupy Cal protest last semester and was definitely an important moment for the movement to refund the UC. Read More…
Year after year, semester after semester, UC Berkeley students join together with their fellow Californians to challenge budget cuts and tuition increases and all of the factors they see as an erosion of public higher education in the state. On Thursday, they are again expected to converge on campus. But Read More…
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. Read More…
VALLEJO – The second day of the “99 Mile March for Education and Social Justice” toward Sacramento started off with the same energy that it had on Thursday and was buoyed by visits from the mayor of Richmond and several UC Berkeley faculty members. However, the group of marchers — Read More…
Following protests of varying sizes nationwide on March 1, over 10,000 students are expected to rally and march at the Capitol today in Sacramento in support of public higher education. Additionally, students plan to engage in over 100 lobbying visits as part of the UC Student Association’s annual Student Lobby Conference Read More…
Thousands of students from around the state are expected to converge in Sacramento on Monday to demonstrate in support of higher education. The planned protest follows a national day of action Thursday that saw protests of varied sizes at schools across the country. UC Berkeley’s protest was small, but a Read More…
