Occupy Education California holds outdoor classroom-style events
Occupy Education California will hold its third event this Saturday at 12 p.m. in Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park in Berkeley.
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UC Berkeley professor emeritus suggests ‘occupying’ chancellor search
A general assembly of UC Berkeley campus members and the surrounding community should “occupy the process” of searching for the next chancellor, according to a blog post published Thursday by physics professor emeritus Charles Schwartz. In the aftermath of Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s Tuesday announcement that he will step down at the end of
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Live Blog: Updates from the March 1 Day of Action
Following the controversial events of the Nov. 9 Occupy Cal protests, March 1 begins another Day of Action in support of public higher education at UC Berkeley. Protest events are scheduled to occur across the state at the UC campuses, and campus faculty and administration have endorsed protesters’ plans to march
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UC Berkeley faculty, administration endorse March protest events
In the final stretch leading up to the protest events scheduled to begin Thursday, both UC Berkeley administration and faculty have indicated support, with some pledging to participate in rallies in Sacramento and even the four-day “99 Mile March for Education and Social Justice” to the state Capitol. In a
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Protesters will begin march from UC Berkeley to Sacramento this week
Beginning March 1, protesters in support of Occupy Education California plan to embark on a “99 Mile March for Education and Social Justice” to the capitol building in Sacramento, after holding rallies at UC Berkeley. About 25 people — many of them students — met at an office on Allston
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