Updates On Last Week’s Occupations at Dickinson, Milwaukee, Berkeley
Last week’s March 2 National Day of Action saw scores of protests in more than a dozen states — including two that ended in arrests and one that ended with a bunch of people taking their clothes off.
The big story out of last week, however, was three extraordinary campus occupations — one in the Northeast, one in the Midwest, and one on the West Coast.
In Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, feminist students — fed up with their administration’s foot-dragging on campus sexual assault policy — occupied their administration building for four days. They left on Saturday having won major changes to campus regulations.
At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, an occupation of a theater space on campus is still ongoing, six days