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Originally Posted by Corkey
Did you read the one I posted AtLast? There were others involved.
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Hey, Corkey- now I have seen them and also (finally) I have picked-up more on the local TV here. Also a short phone interview with the UCD Chief (a "sister). Two of the officers involved are on admin leave and it is being investigated. i saw the holding up of a hood and spraying. Then the chancellor's statements.
What the hell is going on? I would think that that the admin and the Chief would go over what is going too far against students that are not armed and not challenging anyone physically at all. Yes, they were blocking a pathway and 60,000 people use the campus, but they could have been removed without spraying them. We would go limp and be carted away back in the late 60's and 70's. They posed no immediate danger to anyone.
I am wanting students to get some small groups together and meet with boards, however, and push for what the Peralta district has done. getting the entire U of C, state colleges and universities and community college districts to move bank accounts out of big banks and into smaller community banks would be millions of dollars - even billions. These are the kinds of things that will make a difference and are aimed at some of the real culprits. The movement needs to proceed with organized goals aimed at all of the institutions that contribute to income disparity- camping isn't going to do this. In fact, that aspect of the movement ends up taking public funds away from the very programs and people that are always suffer cut-backs. And there will be more of these unless we take back our political system and get the right-wingers out of office.
There was a point in my student activism that I realized that things needed to be more focused and all the marching in the streets was not going to effect change. And my generation brought about a lot of change. But we also has a US Congress that became over 65% Democrat at the time as were most of the states.