Reprinted from a Facebook post.
We’re writing to let you know about some disturbing actions the Office of Student Conduct at UC Berkeley has recently taken in prosecuting approximately one hundred student activists, including ourselves. Those facing prosecutions are alleged to have participated in at least one of three non-violent actions that occurred on campus...
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Statements
A Letter to the UC Berkeley Community Concerning Ongoing Prosecutions of Student Activists
The Bricks We Throw at Police Today Will Build the Liberation Schools of Tomorrow
by Three Non-Matriculating Proletarians
“If you’re scared today you’ll be scared tomorrow as well and always and so you’ve got to make a start now right away we must show that in this school we aren’t slaves we have to do it so we can do what they’re doing in all other schools to...
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Statement in support of the UC Mobilisation
24 November 2009
We the undersigned declare our solidarity with University of California students, workers and staff as they defend, in the face of powerful and aggressive intimidation, the fundamental principles upon which a truly inclusive and egalitarian public-sector education system depends. We affirm their determination to confront university administrators who seem willing to exploit...
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Communiqué from an Absent Future: On the Terminus of Student Life
Another from anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com
INTRODUCTION: 7 AGAINST POMPEII
WE LIVE AS A DEAD CIVILIZATION. We can no longer imagine the good life except as a series of spectacles preselected for our bemusement: a shimmering menu of illusions. Both the full-filled life and our own imaginations have been systematically replaced by a set of images more lavish and...
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no capital projects but the end of capital
Below is the statement of the group that occupied the Architecture & Engineering building on Wednesday, November 18; the first day of the UC system wide strike.
The University of California is occupied. It is occupied as is the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and the Technical Institute of Graz; as were the...
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Open letter to the Chancellor from UC Berekely Faculty
Uncivpro.com Editor’s note: While I fully agree that the police were brutal on Friday, I do not think that this letter’s prescriptions are correct. Time and time again, law enforcement around the world is used to quell student dissent at strategic times. This will never change, regardless of policy amendments. Currently, police violence...
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An open letter to the Berkeley Law community
An Open Letter from the Berkeley Law Organizing Committee:
Our school stands at a pivotal moment: the cost of attending Berkeley Law is separating this institution from its past as a model of affordable yet outstanding legal education.
We write both to respond to Dean Edley’s email to the student body on November 16, 2009 and...
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