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Updates On Last Week’s Occupations at Dickinson, Milwaukee, Berkeley « Student Activism #WeAreWI #WIUnion

Updates On Last Week’s Occupations at Dickinson, Milwaukee, Berkeley « Student Activism

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