Editor’s Note: This op-ed was previously published in the California Aggie. Here at the University of California, students are living in interesting times. After nearly a billion dollars in state funding cuts and a doubling of tuition in just five years, 2013 looks to deliver at least a moment of Read More…
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…
Does the Occupy movement stand for something positive or something negative? It depends on the purpose and actions of those who are participating. Spring is an image of bringing new things to life. The Arab Spring has been planting seeds of democracy. Community gardens plant seeds of life. In most Read More…
In a truly Orwellian move, last week the UCPD insisted that nonviolence is violence, saying that “linking arms in a human chain when ordered to step aside is not a nonviolent protest.” In fact, that’s exactly what a nonviolent protest is. But this patently false claim is revealing of an implicit Read More…
Although we are “rivals” with Cal students, we are one where it matters — in an interest to create a more just and equitable world than the one we inherited. To that end, we stand in solidarity with students at UC Berkeley, who have continued the legacy of the student Read More…
Agreeing or disagreeing with the reaction of UC Berkeley’s administration to the budget crisis is a matter of political opinion. But after Wednesday night’s events, one thing is beyond doubt: The current administration is acting irresponsibly and can no longer lead our university. On Wednesday, the campus called on the Read More…
“There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part; and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve Read More…
Five students chained themselves to Eshleman Hall Tuesday night to protest the consolidation of some Multicultural Student Development offices at UC Berkeley and what they felt was a lack of communication between students and campus administrators. Read More…
