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Saturday, April 10, 2010

UCSC Fines Activists $944 Each � Student Activism

UCSC Fines Activists $944 Each � Student Activism

UCSC Fines Activists $944 Each

Yesterday I posted about SFSU’s move to charge eleven student activists more than $700 each for costs relating to a building occupation on campus. As I reported, this week also saw a PR blitz from the UC Berkeley administration, which claimed that this year’s protests there have cost them more than two hundred thousand dollars so far.
Today, the blog Occupy CA is reporting that UC Santa Cruz is demanding that an unspecified number of students who participated in November’s Kerr Hall occupation pay the university $944 each in restitution.
Much more detail over at Occupy CA, including the following claims:
  • Those facing fines include three of five student negotiators, who were “uninvolved in the actual