Thursday, June 9, 2011

New Campus Protest in California Yesterday « Student Activism

New Campus Protest in California Yesterday « Student Activism

New Campus Protest in California Yesterday

If you thought the end of the school year meant no more grass-roots student agitation until fall, you thought wrong. Not gonna happen. Not this year. Yesterday students in California and Wisconsin, two of the country’s most active states, held targeted protests, and there’s more on the horizon.

In California, students at UCLA staged a campus march and sit-in to protest plans to suspend free tutoring services at the university’s Covel Commons. The group, who had timed their action to get noisy only during