Almost exactly one year later, a walkout planned for Thursday on campus hopes to rekindle the spirit of 2011′s Occupy Cal protest. Read More…
On Nov. 9, an outdoor encampment, modeled after the encampments in New York, Oakland, and other cities worldwide, will be established at UC Berkeley in order to protest the privatization of public education. We write to express our support for the project of Occupy Cal, and to state publicly that Read More…
The ASUC Senate passed a bill Wednesday night that supports the Occupy Cal movement, which includes a Nov. 9 walkout and noontime rally on Sproul Plaza, and finances buses to transport students to the upcoming UC Board of Regents meeting at UC San Francisco. The bill, co-authored by Cooperative Movement Senator Elliot Goldstein and CalSERVE Senator Andrew Albright, provides support for the protest through Read More…
About ten students gathered outside of Dwinelle Hall at noon Wednesday for a flash mob to bring awareness to the possible 81 percent fee increase of UC tuition over the next four years.
This summer, following the July Regents Meeting — at which student fees were raised by another 9.6 percent — a group of students, workers and faculty began meeting to renew our shared fight for public education and against the evisceration of the UCs. Since then, we’ve held large social gatherings Read More…