The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, And Hope
“After a year of sequential budget cuts, faculty and staff dismissals and furloughs, and the elimination of entire academic departments, the 32 percent fee increase proved to be the trigger for statewide actions of an unprecedented scale. With President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan war strategy—which, according to one leak, will include a surge of 35,000 troops—soon to be announced, the juxtaposition of education cuts and military increases is incensing many, and helping to build a movement.As I t...raveled throughout California this past week on a book tour, I was, coincidentally, in the midst of the regents’ vote and the campus protests. At UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, Cal State Fresno, UC Davis, and Cal State Chico, students approached me with stories of how the fee increases were going to price them out of school. Students were occupying buildings, marching, and holding teach-ins. At UC Davis, several young women, among the fifty-two arrested, described to me how they had been attacked by campus police, shot with Tasers.MoreLess
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