" No Cuts, No Freeze, Education Must be Free!"
Chanting this slogan, thousands of students, teachers and members of different communities all over California and 31 other states turned out for massive protests in different schools and colleges against education cuts, the most recent attack of the ruling class against the people of the United States.
AJLPP UPDATE
March 6, 2010
NO CUTS, NO FREEZE, EDUCATION MUST BE FREE!
Los Angeles-" No Cuts, No Freeze, Education Must be Free!"
Chanting this slogan, thousands of students, teachers and members of different communities all over California and 31 other states turned out for massive protests in different schools and colleges against education cuts, the most recent attack of the ruling class against the people of the United States.
In Los Angeles, more than 3,000 protestors led by the UTLA and supported by different community organizations like ANSWER-LA and Not In Our Name Coalition marched from Pershing Square/Hill St. to the Federal Reagan building down 3rd and Spring and showed their disgust against the state government.
In UC Riverside, hundred of students marched around the campus condemning the cuts. In UCLA,the KPFK reported that 2,000 students massed at the Bruins Plaza and later 600 of them occupied Murphy Hall- the chancellors office. Also in CSULB, hundreds of students and community members walked out
In Northern California
Students and faculty from Berkeley also walked out and UC Sta Cruz did the same. Buses filled with hundreds of demonstrators went to Sacramento to bring the protest to the state capitol. But as usual,the governor and the state legislator played deaf and dumb to people's demand.
In San Francisco, The San Francisco Labor Council and other groups area led the protest at the San Francisco Civic Center.More than 10,000 people filled the Civic Center. The crowd most high school and college turned out and showed their disgust to the system
In Oakland, more than 150 protestors were arrested by the police for shutting the freeway. The same thing happened in UC Davis when police fired pellet balls at hundreds of students who blocked the 880 freeway. One student was arrested.
The KPFK has described the latest attacks on education "unprecedented because it seeks to gut the UC system. The UC system is said to be the jewel of US public education but the ruling class wanted to turn it to a privatized for profit pool.".
The KPFK also described the California mass action as the " first of its kind in being massive nationwide since the Immigrant Upsurge in 2006 where more than 2 million people marched to the
March 6, 2010
NO CUTS, NO FREEZE, EDUCATION MUST BE FREE!
Los Angeles-" No Cuts, No Freeze, Education Must be Free!"
Chanting this slogan, thousands of students, teachers and members of different communities all over California and 31 other states turned out for massive protests in different schools and colleges against education cuts, the most recent attack of the ruling class against the people of the United States.
In Los Angeles, more than 3,000 protestors led by the UTLA and supported by different community organizations like ANSWER-LA and Not In Our Name Coalition marched from Pershing Square/Hill St. to the Federal Reagan building down 3rd and Spring and showed their disgust against the state government.
In UC Riverside, hundred of students marched around the campus condemning the cuts. In UCLA,the KPFK reported that 2,000 students massed at the Bruins Plaza and later 600 of them occupied Murphy Hall- the chancellors office. Also in CSULB, hundreds of students and community members walked out
In Northern California
Students and faculty from Berkeley also walked out and UC Sta Cruz did the same. Buses filled with hundreds of demonstrators went to Sacramento to bring the protest to the state capitol. But as usual,the governor and the state legislator played deaf and dumb to people's demand.
In San Francisco, The San Francisco Labor Council and other groups area led the protest at the San Francisco Civic Center.More than 10,000 people filled the Civic Center. The crowd most high school and college turned out and showed their disgust to the system
In Oakland, more than 150 protestors were arrested by the police for shutting the freeway. The same thing happened in UC Davis when police fired pellet balls at hundreds of students who blocked the 880 freeway. One student was arrested.
The KPFK has described the latest attacks on education "unprecedented because it seeks to gut the UC system. The UC system is said to be the jewel of US public education but the ruling class wanted to turn it to a privatized for profit pool.".
The KPFK also described the California mass action as the " first of its kind in being massive nationwide since the Immigrant Upsurge in 2006 where more than 2 million people marched to the